BEST Practices - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Oct 2007
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

innovative solutions? Can Innovation And Creativity Be Managed? High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet Many managers in business experience difficulty dealing with their best creative thinkers. So how does violinist Paul Robertson,... View Details

19 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

The Landscape of Integrated Reporting: An E-Book

make great progress in society. How can we get started down this path? One way is to introduce progressive ideas and practices that demonstrate to the world we care about more than profits. It's not that profits aren't important; no... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria; Accounting

13 Nov 2020
News

Countdown To Remote Learning

intangible qualities that make the HBS classroom such a magical place.” He led additional work over the summer, based on extensive feedback, to further enhance teaching and learning. The School is sharing what it learned with educators worldwide. “We documented all of... View Details

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Contacts & Resources | Information Technology

faculty, staff, and Doctoral students can login to the HBS IT Services and Support Portal to search IT services and documentation, check service status, or submit a help ticket. Let us know if there are other topics on cybersecurity best... View Details

11 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

The New International Style of Management

very ecumenical, flexible, and open to new ideas and people. It learns from best practices in other countries, and it adapts accordingly. A prime example is America's absorption of Japanese manufacturing... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2005
News

Do You Speak Business?

an added feature that enables it to remain powerful even as it is transformed. “When it’s advantageous,” Quelch explains, “the U.S. system can be very ecumenical, flexible, and open to new ideas and people. It learns from best View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

25 Feb 2020
News

Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy

destructive to all parties.” With the students’ assistance, Sucher wrote two background notes on best practices for layoffs. They also produced a series of video interviews with laid-off employees to capture... View Details

Keywords: April White; Telecommunications; Information

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Ahmed Eldemerdash

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I think it is a great opportunity for both learning and personal development and also to boost my career aspirations. The people here at HBS, the case method and the different ways to learn and View Details

Keywords: Technology

Student-Profile

Elliot Tobin

Accountants aren’t typically distinguished by their athletic prowess—unless that accountant is Elliot Tobin, HBS doctoral student and former captain of MIT’s football team, where he was named an all-conference offensive lineman. “I played lots of sports in my youth,”... View Details

03 Mar 2017
News

Big Blue’s Big Bet

yes, Watson is a big deal. Perhaps the best place to start to understand it all is in 2007, in the Semantic Analysis and Integration Department at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. There, a team of... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

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Educating Business Administrators - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

The Competition McKim, Mead & White The Campus Emerges Concrete Symbols The Dedication Building the Campus Research Links Bibliography Archival Collections Digital Resources Site Credits Educating Business Administrators “The future of business at its View Details

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Using Cloud Storage & Services at HBS | Information Technology

Using Cloud Storage & Services at HBS Using Cloud Storage is a great way to collaborate with others, or simply to access your files from multiple locations. But what do you need to know to keep your data safe? The following best View Details

20 Jan 2017
News

Beating Pain with Brain Power

help patients at the time, in a procedure, how to cope with pain while they have a chance to still get drugs, to practice that while you guide them, it changes the way they process pain. “If you look at the uses of hypnotic interventions,... View Details

01 Dec 2004
News

Emmons Heads Christensen Center

In addition, the center will conduct and disseminate research on best practices and innovations in case-method pedagogy, and serve as a convener for symposia on teaching and learning. Funding for the center... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2011
News

Breaking Free from Fear of Change

corporations today. But in my view, vulnerability is the ultimate professional strength, because it is the process of being open to learning. It’s admitting that you don’t have all the answers. Just as the best organizations make space... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Naiyya Saggi

strongly believe core aspects of best practices can be shared: between the private and the public sector, between geographies and among governments. In an increasingly globalized world, I can't wait to... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Consulting

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Kevin Nazemi

the Harvard Kennedy School “is the best of both worlds. I’m interested in the intersection of business, public policy, and technology, especially in health care. I see HBS as a place where you can dream big, and build the tool sets and... View Details

11 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

Guts and Bliss: The Entrepreneur’s Journey

intelligence, persistence, fun, humanity, and courage. Many people may say that career paths should be straight and perfectly planned, Applegate added. "Forget it! The best careers are those that kind of weave and bend." Out The... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

03 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts

flavijus For the first time, a link has been drawn between public sentiment about a company’s sustainability practices and how that company is valued in the market. The results are important both for investors searching for under-valued,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

03 Feb 2003
What Do You Think?

Can Business Schools Teach the Craft of Getting Things Done?

Summing Up Implementation or "execution" can be taught. Whether business schools are the best places to do it remains a question with the readers responding to this month's column. For many, the requirements for teaching the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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