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- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
professor at Harvard Business School who coleads the WMS with Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University and John Van Reenen of the London School of Economics. "If you really want to be convincing, it's important to have large-scale... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 24 May 2017
- News
Angie Hicks, MBA 2000
newsletter he’d used in Indianapolis. The idea sounded risky, so Hicks consulted her conservative grandfather. “‘What’s the difference between looking for a job when you are 22 and when you are 23?’ he... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Europe Business Conference Forecasts the Future
memory of war on one's home soil. We know how tragic history can be, and we understand the fragility of society." A native of France who relocated to New York last summer, Hannezo recalled John F. Kennedy's famous declaration, "Ich bin... View Details
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Choosing the Right Student Loan | MBA
private loan options, you may want to start with your current bank or credit union, or (for international students) loans in your home country. Many domestic students borrow both federal and private loans,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
(Baldini & Castoldi) Forchielli offers sardonic advice to Italians, as seen in the book’s blurb in the Italian Amazon: If you are young, quick, just emigrate. Read a lot, especially the foreign press. If you... View Details
- 29 Nov 2017
- News
Inbox: From Das’s Desk
address the other two Ws–work and wisdom–and an evolving vision of alumni engagement. By raising your hand as a volunteer, you are strengthening the HBS brand by embodying the pay-it-forward spirit—whether to current and future students... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
think about those movies. Hanna: Oh. I bet. Do you still go to movies in the theater or do you mostly watch at home now? Lin: No. I actually really believe in the theatrical... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
clinical trials, and unabashedly forces cooperation, collaboration, and openness in and among fields that are sometimes traditionally slow to do that. “We work to see the big picture and then invest our capital in ways that will best... View Details
- 15 May 2015
- Blog Post
How to Get a Global Perspective at HBS
month we spoke with Elizabeth Chertavian (MBA 2015) and Elliott Davis (MBA 2016) to find out how they’ve broadened their global perspective at HBS both inside and outside the classroom. 1. Your classmates come from all around the world and will alter the way View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Turning Point: Living History
helped. One Hindu woman we interviewed kept a Muslim gentleman in her home who didn’t want to migrate to Pakistan. A neighbor found out and accused the woman and her sister of hiding him. But she said, “No. Don’t View Details
- Blog
What's the Right Fit for You–An In-Person or Virtual Program?
people who might not be able to be away from work or home for two months. While executives in Asia might be concerned about how they will manage the time difference with Boston, it can actually be an advantage if View Details
- 05 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
The MBA Response: A Calling to Leadership & Service
consider how involvement with The MBA Response can boost your resume and enable you to be interview ready with powerful stories of helping business owners. You get to pick the project(s) View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- News
Voting for Optimism in Baltimore
If you had asked Calvin Young (MBA 2015) what he’d be doing after his graduation from HBS, he wouldn’t have answered “politics.” But earlier this month, the mechanical engineer and newly minted MBA announced his candidacy for mayor of... View Details
- 29 Jun 2016
- News
The Latest Local Motor: A Self-Driving Bus
haven't used an idea from a 6-year-old yet, but I bet you in the next decade, there will be an idea from a young person that ends up in one of our cars." What the designers get in return are royalties: a winner's payment, plus, if the... View Details
- 13 Jun 2013
- News
Learning Curve
giving the mayor partial control of the city's schools was ruled unconstitutional by a Superior Court judge. Luckily, Tuck was unfazed. "The schools still needed to improve, right?" Tuck says by phone. "So you take a blow, get up the next... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Double Vision
kinds of ads, Teixeira says, boosted web traffic but don't have much effect on the actual purchases. "The audience does what you are telling them to do—they go online. But it doesn't persuade them enough to buy more than the other types... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- Profile
Olivia Melendez
Why did you choose this path at this point in time? I had always planned to get an MBA to complement my engineering education and experience. After working for 3+ years in roles that were increasingly self-directed and broad in scope, I... View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
States, Neeley argues that an organization’s lingua franca is the catalyst by which all employees become some kind of “expat”(someone detached from their mother tongue or home culture). Through her unfettered access to the inner workings... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
We asked Harvard Business School experts who study well-being to share strategies for coping with this unsettling period to prevent the coronavirus blues from taking a huge toll, both personally and professionally. “You're not going to be a good [business] leader... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 31 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Marketing’s Conventional Wisdom
attributes. You see that with the success of the airline JetBlue, for example: It has no meals and no round-trip airfares, but it does have leather seats and personal entertainment centers that delight and surprise its passengers.... View Details