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Certificates, Credentials, & Credits | HBS Online

own schedule, there are deadlines to ensure you’re progressing through the course in step with your peers and taking full advantage of all networking and social learning opportunities. To earn a Certificate of Completion, you must complete all coursework in a View Details

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Global Business Course | HBS Online

Certificate of Completion from Harvard Business School Online. Participants are expected to fully complete all coursework in a thoughtful and timely manner. This will mean completing each course module and fully answering questions posed... View Details

Portrait Project

Sonakshi Bose

“I’m going to be mean.” This was the thought that entered my 8-year old mind, as I felt my eyes well up. It was September 2001, I had just moved to New York from Singapore, and I stuck out – dressed in ponytails in an Abercrombie world.... View Details

17 Aug 2021
Op-Ed

Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally

Management Educator at Harvard Business School. Tabatha Robinson (MBA 2020) is a New York-based lawyer who studies the cannabis industry. [Unsplash/Roberto Valdivia] Are you in favor of legalizing cannabis more widely? Why or why not? Share your View Details

Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson

31 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

American Idle: Workers Spend Too Much Time Waiting for Something to Do

quickly.” In order get a better handle on how employees react to being idle, Brodsky and Amabile conducted several experiments. “We had people do what we thought was one of the most boring tasks imaginable—copy sentences,” Brodsky says.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Jun 2018
Blog Post

Reapplying to HBS

getting "work experience" in between. Why not just front load the formal education and then jump into the work force, armed and ready for the challenges ahead? At least, that was my thought process at the time. I decided to apply for the... View Details

29 Aug 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?

US as part of what some thought might become a global trade war. A trade conflict was a concern to the management of a company whose percentage of motorcycle sales (in units) outside the US had reached 40 percent. All of this had brought... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto

12 Feb 2021
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How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World

about what to do and whether or not my ideas and hunches that I had in business school might well in fact apply, decided that the problem with the business really lay with strategic decisions being made at the top of the business. And I View Details

Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

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Comments on my health

February 22, 2010

The doctors have been pleasantly surprised that I have responded to therapy better than they would have imagined. I have been greatly blessed through the miracle of medical science. I also attribute doing better to the faith and prayers... View Details

01 Oct 1998
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Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War

Vietnam is to incorrectly assess market size," says Hoa, citing an example of one U.S.-based manufacturer that came to Vietnam in the early 1990s. "They saw the city streets crowded with motorbikes and made a heavy investment in what they View Details

Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)

08 Oct 2021
Blog Post

8 Stories from PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

and cheerful. It was not a big deal. But for the rest of the semester, every time we stepped into her classroom, I felt anxious. I sensed that this teacher knew I questioned my feelings for women; and these thoughts felt unsafe. To this... View Details

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

sales of course materials for participant-centered learning in business education were up 8 percent from fiscal 2020. With mastery of hybrid teaching now a critical skill, the group continued to expand its thought leadership through... View Details

Portrait Project

Shardule Shah

in. The lines between parenting and working are increasingly blurred, but I am here for all of it. It took me a while to realize that having kids adds value even in business. I had thought that the guiding light for my biotech startup... View Details

01 May 2017
Research & Ideas

Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault

any job to succeed, the supply of resources available to the worker must be in balance with the responsibilities of the job, says Simons. It’s a simple supply-and-demand lesson that should ring true for anyone who has taken an economics course, “but we’ve never View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

27 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

When Rights of First Refusal Are a Bad Deal

(That's a line of thought that has led me and my colleagues to study many failed markets—some of which we've helped fix.) Q: Your work demonstrates that before and after rights actually work to the disadvantage of the holder. Why is this... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Construction; Real Estate; Entertainment & Recreation

14 Jan 2020
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The Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades

the Strategic Management Journal this past September, Nagle and fellow researcher Florenta Teodoridis, assistant professor of strategy at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, set out to find out. “We thought... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

22 Dec 2022
Blog Post

TOP 10 MBA VOICES BLOGS OF 2022

intimidated, and I almost did the same for HBS. I thought it’d be a waste of time, effort, and money because I’d get rejected anyway. But I am so glad I did apply! I’ve never been in such a diverse, stimulating, and inspiring environment.... View Details

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

for exceptional contributions to the experience of the graduating class. Ryan W. Buell : Recipient of the 2024 Wyss Award for excellence in doctoral student mentoring. Amy C. Edmondson : Recognized in Time Inc.’s inaugural Charter 30 list of Future of Work View Details

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Industry Information - Alumni

for every state in the US + – Consulting Top-Consultant.com An aggregate of all the most recent news in the consulting industry. Consulting The primary news publication for the consulting profession featuring the latest information on consulting careers, View Details

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer

and the Canadian manufacturer Bombardier, which has yet to be settled by the World Trade Organization. Conference participants offered a variety of predictions on how they thought the dispute could and should pan out. According to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing

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