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07 Nov 2023
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Get to Know the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association

service birthday celebrations. Who leads the club? Nicholas Hanson (MBA/MPP 2024), Co-President (Admissions) "I was incredibly clueless about the MBA admissions process when applying to HBS. I never spoke to anyone in the AFAA or realized... View Details

01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008

the students' was 0.60. The students estimated that between 21% and 42% of U.S. jobs are potentially offshorable. Echoing Blinder, the student data suggested a positive correlation between offshorability and education. The student data also revealed a positive View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Oct 2016
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From Product Development to Business School

The torpedoes kept coming. Not to be dramatic or anything, but for any product developer this is the most painful moment of their career. The moment when the fledgling idea you’ve spent months, maybe years, cultivating, testing,... View Details

12 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs

history of green-industry pioneers, a captivating collection of heads-down individualists—often "quirky eccentrics," as Jones characterizes some of them--working not to make a buck, but to make a difference in improving the environment, View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Compute Cluster and Data Storage - Research Computing Services

Compute Cluster and Data Storage If your computer is overheating when trying to work with your data, taking days to run a program, or you are running out of space to store your data, consider moving your data processing and storage to the... View Details

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Online Leadership and Management Courses | HBS Online

negotiation preparation techniques from the course in different aspects of my job. Overall, I feel more confident in situations that might have once felt intimidating. Sara Simon Pioger Business Owner, TILT Langues Negotiation Mastery... View Details

01 Oct 2021
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Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner

London in the 1960s. The Whitehall researchers attributed shorter life expectancies among lower-level civil servants, who tended to die at younger ages than their bosses, to the psychological stress of working in subordinate positions. Who’s more stressed: managers... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

August 2007 (Revised September 2007)
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Gome: Bidding for China Paradise

Gome, China's largest electronics retailer, has the opportunity to acquire China Paradise, the number three player in the Chinese electronic retailer industry. This happened in the general context of a great market development and potential consolidation of the... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Trade; Market Entry and Exit; Performance; Opportunities; Competition; Consolidation; Corporate Strategy; Electronics Industry; Retail Industry; China

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01 Dec 2023
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Rounding the Bend

Illustration by Fernando Cobelo To help people visualize what a circular economy could look like and bring the challenges down to a closet-sized scale, Emily Bolon (MBA/MPA 2007) recommends the following exercise. First, make a mental tally of the number of garments... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

09 Nov 2023
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The No. 1 Character Trait You Will Need to Succeed in Business

in a thriving business when a job offer comes from a company you’ve always admired that’s on the brink of bankruptcy. The risks are tremendous but so are the potential rewards – to you and society. This situation brings to mind the... View Details

September–October 2024
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Boards Need a New Approach to Technology

By: Tarun Khanna, Mary C. Beckerle and Nabil Y. Sakkab

The boards of too many publicly traded companies are downright timid when considering matters involving science and technology. More often than not, they focus on security and digitization—a defensive posture that fails to consider the bigger opportunities emerging... View Details

Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Opportunities; Technology Adoption

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31 Jan 2011
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Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies

on the benefits of a diverse organization will lead to workplace policies that embrace diversity, instead of grudgingly accepting it or pussyfooting around it. "A lot of policies in the workplace about diversity are based on research... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

29 Aug 2011
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Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums

situations as well.” The decision to study alumni connections was borne of the professors' personal school ties: both received their PhDs in finance from the University of Chicago. In 2007, each landed a position in the Finance Unit at... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

06 Oct 2008
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Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan

so entails committing to paper a vision of the factors that will affect the success or failure of the enterprise. People take the exercise very seriously and get emotionally invested in what they produce. In that context, the article was... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Apr 2007
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Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

"Self-regulation" increasingly rings like a mantra in business. Just think of topics in the news over the past couple of months, such as the Italian fashion industry's move toward self-regulation to discourage the hiring of dangerously thin models. View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 May 2010
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First Look: May 11

entrepreneur or as an investor. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810072-PDF-ENG U.S. Healthcare Reform: International Perspectives Arthur A. Daemmrich and Elia PineiroHarvard Business School Case 710-040 The... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Jun 2021
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Cruising in Crisis: How Carnival Is Riding Out the COVID-19 Storm

management, accepting the reality of the situation and taking big actions relatively quickly." Carnival’s success has been due in part to investors’ faith in the company’s ability to right itself, but corporate leaders also made some... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Travel

19 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 19

entry of new female candidates, no change in female or male voter turnout, and no spillover effects to neighboring areas. Further analysis points to a reduction in party bias against women candidates as the main mechanism driving the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni

the workforce, supplement your current role, or take on projects following retirement. We recognize that each situation is unique and encourage you to meet with an HBS career coach in order to take a... View Details

22 Mar 2017
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