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14 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

When a Vacation Isn’t Enough, a Sabbatical Can Recharge Your Life—and Your Career

could be systematically scrutinized. He found that sabbaticals tend to follow one or more three distinct phases: Recover: Participants almost always started with a period of relaxation and unplugging to recover from their workday selves. “They do yoga retreats or spend... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

January 15, 2019
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Is Your Company's Strategy Aligned with Your Ownership Model?

By: Josh Baron

The legacy of Vanguard founder John Bogle has brought attention to the transformative influence of ownership structures within the business world. Bogle's revolutionary insight into the limitations of active fund management led to the widespread adoption of index... View Details

Keywords: Ownership Type; Business Strategy; Organizational Structure; Strength and Weakness; Competitive Advantage

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Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship - Health Care

Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship Building Businesses around Breakthrough Science 24 AUG 2017 Harvard Business School The Science of... View Details

07 Oct 2020
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7 Coming Out Stories from the HBS PRIDE Club

National Coming Out Day is October 11, 2020, and HBS will be supporting and participating in events that celebrate the LGBTQ+ community all week long. Some students come out before business school, and some students wait until they arrive... View Details

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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

result, there are meaningful externalities in the mutual fund industry due to cash management. A fund family may coordinate the liquidity management efforts of its funds in order to minimize volatility spillovers from fire sales. Related... View Details

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Strategy Faculty - Faculty & Research

Business Administration Eric J. Van den Steen Royal Little Professor of Business Administration Andy Wu Arjun and Minoo Melwani Family Associate Professor of View Details

18 Jul 2023
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The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)

eye-opening glimpse under the hood of an industry I love. Coupled with my time on movie sets and in production offices, I saw the industry’s huge potential for innovation. During business school, I also noted that some entertainment had a... View Details

Keywords: Robert Bochnak

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Entrepreneurial Management Faculty - Faculty & Research

Administration Joshua Lev Krieger Høegh Family Associate Professor of Business Administration Todd A. Lensman Assistant Professor of Business Administration Josh Lerner Jacob... View Details

Apr 13 2015
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Creating Value as an Entrepreneur

Apr 25 2012
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The Power of the OPM Network

05 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

Why People Crave Feedback—and Why We’re Afraid to Give It

most people don’t,” says Francesca Gino, the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “People overestimate the negative consequences... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research

longtime workers will balk at learning these new skills and end up quitting, causing the company to lose hundreds of years of cumulative experience. The CEO is now unsure of how to proceed. August 2025 Article Revenue Collapses and the Consumption of Small View Details

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Finance Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Ruback , Royce Yudkoff Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Field Course: Field X (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) Randolph Cohen Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Field Course: Field Y: Projects in Business Management (also listed under Entrepreneurial... View Details

29 Jul 2019
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How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely

Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School, and fellow researchers compared the outcomes of flexible work arrangements at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The team found that employees with liberal “work from... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Connect with Clubs - Recruiting

Moreno imoreno@mba2026.hbs.edu Jose Alvarez-Pallete jalvarezpallete@mba2026.hbs.edu Apostolos Lempidakis alempidakis@mba2026.hbs.edu Niels Agterhorst nagterhorst@mba2026.hbs.edu Club Email euro@studentclubs.hbs.edu Family View Details

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Fatima Albassam

In 2017, when Fatima Albassam was working in her home country of Saudi Arabia as a business development analyst for Saudi Aramco, she began making volunteer service trips to Jordan to support Syrian refugees. “While there,” Fatima says,... View Details

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Latin America - Global

greatly increased the volume of in-depth research and course materials that focus on business management issues specific to Latin American companies. This has also enabled HBS to strengthen its relationships with important companies and... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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Thinking Ahead

As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We... View Details

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Alan Tabourian

Alan Tabourian, Chairman of Interbrand S.A.L., discusses the dynamics of his family’s business and the strategy to overcome competition in their water business, Sannine. View Details

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Recent Advances in the Empirics of Organizational Economics

By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen

We present a survey of recent contributions in empirical organizational economics, focusing on management practices and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization across industries... View Details