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academic credit. Student Summer Internships Consider hiring an MBA student as a summer intern. HBS can help to cover the costs. Make a Green Career Transition (login required) If you’re interested in launching a career transition into green business or other... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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A Continuum of Innovation

As senior associate dean and chair of the MBA Program, Matt Weinzierl has a running list of questions that he and Jana P. Kierstead, the executive director of MBA and Doctoral programs, always keep in mind. They range from the curricular (How can we ensure that the MBA... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

03 Mar 2003
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Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

subject to vesting. As partial consideration for their shares, each founder should be required to assign to the new corporation all inventions and works related to the company's proposed business. Incorporating early—before significant value has been created and well... View Details

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22 Feb 2023
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Meet the Disability Advocacy and Affinity Group (DAAG)

startups focused on Climate Tech and Future of Work. Prior to HBS, I was the program manager of the NextGen Initiatives at Disability:IN, the leading nonprofit resource for business disability inclusion worldwide. In that role, I... View Details

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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details

December 2024
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM): The AI Journey

By: Shikhar Ghosh

In early 2024, Bill Fandrich, Executive VP and CIO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM), faced a critical decision about AI adoption within the organization. Fandrich had championed AI implementation at BCBSM. After successfully developing three AI... View Details

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06 Sep 2011
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Cheese Moving: Effecting Change Rather Than Accepting It

With more than 23 million copies in print, Spencer Johnson's allegorical tale Who Moved My Cheese? is one of the best-selling business books of all time. Even 13 years after its initial publication, the book, whose characters include mice... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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About the Center - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

About the Center The C. Roland Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning was established in 2004 to promote and support teaching excellence and innovation within Harvard Business School. It also provides leadership and expertise about... View Details

08 Oct 2020
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Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership The COVID Two-Step for... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

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Online Business Essential Courses | HBS Online

completing the three-course CORe curriculum. Learn More About What You Earn What Learners are Saying I feel like now I can speak more high-level about where we want to take the company and what strategic initiatives we want to put in... View Details

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Recognizing Our Donors - Alumni

and offerings for donors who choose to give at leadership levels or to particular areas. 2024 Report on Giving Read what inspires our donors and see giving by degree and class year. View the Report Donor Societies Our donor societies... View Details

09 Jan 2012
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Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place

them." Alcácer advises companies to consider sending an advance team to live in a target locale to research the market and business models before expanding. Another problem with following competitors: an increasing risk that those... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

20 Oct 2008
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The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs

connected to the company. Implications For Ceo Leadership Taken together, the seven surprises carry some important and subtle implications for how a new CEO should define his job. First, the CEO must learn to manage organizational context... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria

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Polaroid: At The Intersection of Science & Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details

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Online Business Strategy Courses | HBS Online

5-9 hrs/week Apply by September 10th, Enroll by September 13 $15,000 (four installments of $3,750) Credential RECOMMENDED LEARNING PATHWAYS Do you want to dive deeper into strategy to advance your career? By taking three courses in this... View Details

02 Oct 2006
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Negotiating in Three Dimensions

terms. Assuming that they face an interpersonal or tactical barrier, suppliers often seek training on the principles of persuasion, joint brainstorming, how to make advantageous initial offers, body language, and so on. Yet apparent... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Jun 2020
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Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

Health Care Club, Co-President, PRIDE Club, Soccer Club, Tech Club, Management Consulting Club Christina Byrd “While working on cross-functional and strategic initiatives at Uber,” says Christina, “I realized how important it was to speak... View Details

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The John H. McArthur Fellowship for Canadian MBA Students - Global

The John H. M c Arthur Canadian Fellowship for Canadian MBA Students The John H. McArthur Canadian Fellowship provides financial assistance to Canadians to enable them to attend Harvard Business School and thereby acquire the leadership... View Details

06 Feb 2020
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What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents

inventor We were surprised to find that Bezos was named in 154 of Amazon’s published patents (see figure). Of those patents, he was named as first inventor in 35 and was the sole inventor of 11. In the course of our research, we asked sell-side analysts to describe... View Details

Keywords: by Tricia Gregg and Boris Groysberg; Retail

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internship positions, please contact Career and Professional Development . Are there other Initiatives at HBS? Yes, we have several other Initiatives such as: Business and Environment , Entrepreneurship ,... View Details

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