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01 Dec 2019
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Developing Leaders Who Bridge Business and Engineering

knowledge and skills, and prepare them to be entrepreneurially minded leaders who will address societal problems and develop value-creating enterprises. Designed to train future leaders of technology ventures, the program will provide a... View Details

October 2020
Case

Michael Phelps: 'It's Okay to Not Be Okay'

By: Boris Groysberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Michael Norris

In 2020, Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, with 28 medals in various swimming events, was now retired. As he looked back on his 20+ year athletic career, he considered what had gone into making him the greatest of all time—the highs and lows,... View Details

Keywords: Mental Health; Talent and Talent Management; Training; Health; Success; Performance Improvement; Personal Development and Career; Family and Family Relationships; Sports; Competition; Sports Industry; United States; Baltimore; Arizona; Sydney; Athens; Beijing; London

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19 Sep 2013
Working Paper Summaries

U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence

Keywords: by William R. Kerr

02 Aug 2017
What Do You Think?

Summing Up: Why Can’t Organizations Engage Their Employees?

anything less than excellence; treat everyone with respect; provide training and role models; and reinforce the right behaviors and hold people accountable for the wrong behaviors. David Wittenberg offered advice on measurement: “It’s... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

14 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World

change—business leaders have entered a new era requiring new ways of leading. Traditional management methods seem no longer sufficient to address the volume of change we are seeing. I label this VUCA 2.0. In a 1998 report designed to View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

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50 Years of Women in MBA

Program. In August of the following year, eight women had been accepted and were preparing to begin their studies. For them, for the hundreds of women who took part in earlier training courses and programs, and for the thousands of women... View Details

18 Dec 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Grooming Next-Generation Leaders

Finding and nurturing future leadership talent is a primary concern for most organizations. How can they identify top people, train them, and—here's the catch—retain them? And do so in the face of ever-increasing global challenges?... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Information Technology | Harvard Business School

Information Technology AI Enhanced Learning: HBS IT and Faculty Collaborate on Research Navigator Bot Professor of Management Practice Joseph B. Fuller and HBS IT's Instructional Design team worked together to build a custom chatbot that could be View Details

30 Aug 2018
Blog Post

My Difficult Decision to Leave Google for HBS

opportunity to solve the real issues faced by case protagonists through hundreds of repetitions. Debating these issues as a section—and noting that my “great” analysis often fell short—helped me recognize personal blind spots. It also View Details

03 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First

Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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RCS Cheat Sheet - Research Computing Services

have questions. Self-Paced Training Training materials from previously held training sessions are available online, along with videos of our cluster View Details

08 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Recalling My First Cold Call: A Conversation with Second-Year Students

like training a muscle, and it’s exactly what we are training here. VARUN NAGARAJAN (MBA 2022) Nagarajan is a member of the HBS Show Club, Entrepreneurship Club, and the South-Asian Business Association. He... View Details

13 Jun 2017
Blog Post

4 Things You Need to Know about the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

coursework during August at the beginning of the program and during both January terms. You can see a breakdown of the program’s courses here. You’ll have the summer between years one and two of the program to work on your own venture or pursue an internship. 4. The... View Details

13 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?

by the same firms from 2008 and 2017. They then trained a machine-learning algorithm on the text, letting it independently decide which words were most highly associated with eventual violations. The words that rose to the top ranged from... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

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Why HBS? - Doctoral

graduation, 2018 100 % Placement upon graduation, 2024 “ Students should know that HBS offers the best possible training and research resources. We have access to the field, we have access to organizations, and students work on and solve... View Details

28 Apr 2015
Blog Post

3 Reasons Engineers Thrive at Business School

brainstorming and idea generation. I am also often able to be the “voice” for other functions, such as Manufacturing and R&D, during case discussions. Guy: Being an engineer helps in several way in the classroom and at HBS in general. The engineering View Details

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Wyss House | About

with a Swiss company run by four doctors who had developed a new process to help bones heal more quickly and with better results. In 1977 Wyss became president of Synthes USA, where he was responsible for expanding the company’s manufacturing operations, sales force,... View Details

23 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

All Those Zoom Meetings May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness

remote work. “There’s a huge value to real interactions even if they are occurring virtually,” says Goldenberg, who is a psychologist by training and an assistant professor at HBS. To test online experiences, the group took advantage of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster

to Climate database, and Earth Warriors offered a free teacher training to all Subject to Climate teachers on how to teach climate change to young children which was attended by over 100 teachers. Earth Warriors is now partnering with the... View Details

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

movies. Another success is how airlines have trained us all to take part in cleaning the plane before landing. During the final approach, a flight attendant asks over the P.A. that we pass our trash and unused items to a crew member in... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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