Training - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

28 Apr 2022
Blog Post

Harvard Team Wins Second Place in MIINT Impact Investing Competition

Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School joined together in teams of 5-6 students, sourced investments in high-impact startups, and conducted due diligence on the business opportunity, financial returns, and social and environmental impact. The MIINT program... View Details

17 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?

Training the cars to handle a wide variety of driving scenarios and testing them both in simulation and on real roads is key, De Freitas says. AVs, for example, should be able to handle possible situations like navigating around large... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Auto

01 Dec 2022
News

Full Court Press

decades thereafter, the NBA’s activity on the continent focused on grassroots development. Its international Basketball Without Borders program, which launched in Africa in 2003, featured athletic development and training as well as... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

30 Oct 2017
Blog Post

How My Engineering and Manufacturing Background Prepared Me for an MBA

This outlook has served me well, not only at work or at HBS, but also in life. That said, there are challenges that I have had to overcome. As an engineer, I have been trained to be risk-averse and to seek substantial amount of... View Details

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Selected Digital Historical Resources – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

3 Operator No. 4 Operator No. 5 From 1928 to 1932 Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger oversaw the process of conducting more than 21,000 interviews and worked closely training researchers in interviewing practices. Interviews, which... View Details

09 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government

strategists, rather than inventors and builders," says Weiss, who hopes his course can help change that. "One reason we didn't have them is we weren't training them. At policy schools we had not been View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

16 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense

“Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.” The best entrepreneurs are taking this slower moment to re-examine their key business processes and make sure that they’re running them more effectively and efficiently. Train your interviewers (Who has... View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang

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Student Spotlight: 2023 HCC Co-Presidents Reflect on Their Time at HBS and the Current Health Care Systems - Blog: Health Supplement

reducing the disparities and injustices that we see in healthcare, which will require enormous systems change. What industry of health care are you most interested in? I will be continuing my training as a medical doctor for the next... View Details

01 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

A Bank That Takes Parmesan as Collateral: The Cheese Stands a Loan

wheels of cheese. MGT's warehouses sport state-of-the-art climate controls and a staff of trained inspectors. (The case notes that MGT also offers a profitable warehousing service for non-collateral cheese aging.) During the maturation... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Food & Beverage

13 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding

installed four porcelain Buddha figures for inspiration at the club's training ground before starting in 2008. The Spanish superstar manager Pep Guardiola redesigned the playing philosophy to the successful “tiki-taka-style” as he started... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Sascha L. Schmidt, and Sebastian Flegr; Sports

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Entrepreneurial Support - Business & Environment

topics. The course also tackles career questions for students who wonder how to spend time making a difference in both the private and public sectors. For the full listing, click here . iLab Training - How to Create a Climate Venture “How... View Details

18 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive

might not take much effort to train ourselves to engage in thoughts during the commute that prepare us for the role ahead. Knowing that a long commute can make or break the job for some workers, the research team hopes business leaders... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

do to train knowledgeable, principled, and skilled leaders. Against this backdrop of problems, business schools are poised to take advantage of exciting opportunities to cooperate and innovate, argue HBS professors Srikant M. Datar and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

29 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

capitalism, a manager's moral obligation is put aside his or her own self-interest in order to preserve the interests of the system as a whole. Of course, that's not an easy sell to someone in a highly competitive market trained to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

30 Nov 2016
What Do You Think?

How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?

hit to Lululemon’s bottom line was reasonably immediate and significant. It cost the CEO his job. There is a real pay-off from building pride among an organization’s employees. It can result in greater loyalty, higher productivity, and lower recruiting and View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Artful Leadership | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

“Data-driven decision-making, executive-level synthesis, insight, and communication are all part of the MBA skill set, in addition to quick time-to-output. The training that leads people to take a complex and somewhat amorphous problem... View Details

25 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout

of lost hours—as well as the search, hiring, and training costs of filling vacant positions—to arrive at a total price tag for burnout from turnover. A not insignificant number Their final estimate, $4.6 billion annually, “is a decent... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

04 Jul 2005
What Do You Think?

How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?

"professional" models? Or will it increasingly be achieved in the institutions created and run by large business enterprises to train not only their own employees but those of other organizations as well? What do you think? View Details