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- 27 Nov 2006
- What Do You Think?
What’s to Be Done About Performance Reviews?
'surprise.'" Terry Ott suggested, "performance reviews should be but one part of a continuous loop of planning, coaching, providing spontaneous feedback ." "Much of the problem," according to Rowland Freeman, "is the lack of View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- Web
Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
of training we had given ourselves in the field of polarized light had endowed us with a competence we had not sought and did not know we had," Land wrote. "It was as if all that we had done in learning to make polarizers . . . had been a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Fostering Diversity
training the next generation of leaders.” They appreciate how the Black Lives Matter movement has shined a light on both the overt and hidden racism in society. Victoria says, “It is upon all of us to do the work required to be... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
Derek T. Ferguson (MBA 1990) could be mistaken for a minister by fellow commuters on the train from Connecticut to Manhattan. Yet his calling is not to the pulpit, but to the midtown headquarters of Bad Boy Worldwide Entertainment Group,... View Details
- 01 Nov 2019
- What Do You Think?
Should Non-Compete Clauses Be Abolished?
organizations to make investments in employees in the form of training and education. What may surprise you is how far down into the organization NCCs can legally extend. Some states only disallow them for workers making less than $13 per... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
at the firm, served as a director of a number of its portfolio companies, and became one of the leading women in the US venture capital field. A steady stream of individuals who trained at HBS entered the Quartermaster Corps, and Doriot... View Details
- Portrait Project
Rishi Chandna
that I have. I will wake up every morning and say thank you for my life blessings. I will have confidence in the future. I will welcome failure. I will demonstrate my character and conviction when I stand tall and try again. I will always be the father I envisioned. I... View Details
- 13 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely
expressing an interest in studying its shift to a remote model. In a typical year, the organization, which the researchers didn’t identify, brought in about 3,000 undergraduate and MBA students to work for eight to 10 weeks at one of the firm’s locations. The interns... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 12 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association
others. I sought one of the greatest honors I will ever experience: leading a platoon of Marines. REFLECTION ON SERVICE: My favorite memories happened during training events in the field with my Marines. We would be short on sleep,... View Details
- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
through the learning curve? Are there regulatory hurdles to overcome? Develop your data strategy from day one. Training machine-learning models to improve based on experience often requires large amounts of high-quality data, so it’s... View Details
Keywords: by Rocio Wu
- 05 Sep 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Making the Right Technical Hire
new engineers at once is not going to accelerate development overnight. Each time a new person comes on board, it’s disruptive to a team’s flow, and this is not just about training them. It disrupts the whole dynamic of the team. If... View Details
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Rafaella Sadun | About
and across countries, and how this affects productivity at the micro and macro level. Sadun currently co-leads the Digital Reskilling Lab at HBS, where she studies the effectiveness of large-scale digital training investments made in... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
1943, when Martin V. ("Marty") Marshall arrived at Harvard Business School for wartime training to become a naval supply officer, he had no idea that he was beginning an association with HBS - as a student, academic, and administrator -... View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
Why I Chose to Pursue an MD/MBA at Harvard
effectively managing teams, compared to medical school, where there is no formal training around these skills. I think this is really important and part of why MD/MBAs will be well poised to address many of the challenges facing American... View Details
- Portrait Project
Phil Black
compassionate family is no small accomplishment. HBS's mission is to train business leaders who "contribute to society's well-being," but mine will start at home, where Accounting, Negotiations, Leadership, and Investment... View Details
- 19 Mar 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’
second phase involved bringing in lecturers to discuss with employees how to study and manage learning the language. The last phase was encouraging workers to use English in meetings. In line with a do-it-yourself culture, one early problem was that Rakuten offered... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 24 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti
clocks, with a large display, that were placed throughout the five sites for all employees to easily see the time.” Training the locals was very important, Shah says. “Our role on the business side was to equip trainees with the concepts... View Details
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Fool vs. Jerk: Whom Would You Hire?
comes to getting a job done, of course competence trumps likability. "I can defuse my antipathy toward the jerk if he's competent, but I can't train someone who's incompetent," says the CIO at a large engineering company. Or, in... View Details
Keywords: by Tiziana Casciaro & Miguel Sousa Lobo
- 10 Sep 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Branding Yoga
name, Bikram's Yoga College of India. In 1994, he began offering intensive courses, training 200 teachers per year, according to the case. Worried that competitors were copying his teachings and techniques, Bikram decided in 2002 to... View Details
- 02 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?
things and keep what works.” It is not by chance that nearly all of their private sector examples come from high tech, where employees are being trained in large numbers to routinely conduct experiments that appear to provide enterprise... View Details