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01 Sep 2023
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Case Study: The Home Team

tools and functionality than do citrus farmers or stone fruit growers: Andersen questioned whether the company should try to build everything or just focus on its core mobility platform as a base layer and then invite others to build on... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate

09 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

Five Steps to Better Family Negotiations

instead, compromise across the board in order to avoid being perceived as greedy or overly self-interested. This makes it incumbent on family members to encourage others to identify their core interests and concerns. 4. Avoid Single-issue... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra

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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online

Finance offered the perfect opportunity to refresh my core finance skills and interact with a global group of colleagues in an online format that was ideal for my schedule. Praveen Jayakumar Medical Director & Co-CMO at Culinary Health... View Details

02 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters

farther you get from your home base, the harder it is to be confident of that knowledge. Be aware that processes you consider core may turn out to be very different from those used by the target company. Cultural differences and... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower

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Funding Opportunities - Business & Environment

year, generous support is available through this program to students who wish to explore career opportunities in roles or regions where compensation is generally lower than the traditional MBA level. Reimbursement Grants: Where environmental sustainability is a View Details

28 Nov 2005
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Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

Unilever's business in the United States. There was also a culture change as Unilever shifted from a company that tolerated underperformance to one that did not. The implementation of this culture change and of the core business strategy... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

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Monitoring CPU usage of your jobs on the HBSGrid - Research Computing Services

machine (replace EXEC_HOST with the actual machine name, e.g rhrcsnod05 ) bsub -q interactive -Is -W 24:00 -R "rusage[mem=1000]" -m EXEC_HOST /bin/bash (This command gets a bash shell on the named machine with 1 core for 24 hrs with 1000... View Details

09 Apr 2014
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Visualizing and Measuring Software Portfolio Architectures: A Flexibility Analysis

Keywords: by Robert Lagerstrom, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack & David Dreyfus; Video Game; Web Services

January 2010 (Revised August 2010)
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Advanced Leadership Note: An Institutional Perspective and Framework for Managing and Leading

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Rakesh Khurana

Large-scale societal issues increasingly appear on the agenda of business leaders, including poverty, health, education, business-government relations, and the degradation of the environment. These problems are not entirely new, but the forces of globalization and the... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Framework; Global Range; Leadership; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Social Enterprise; Social Issues; Complexity

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Design of Field Research Methods (DFRM)

Field research involves collecting original data (qualitative and/or quantitative) in field sites. This course combines informal lecture and discussion with practical exercises to build specific skills for conducting field research in organizations. Readings include... View Details

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The Gift of Global Talent

continues to grow, the three core approaches taken by corporations so far offer a playbook for companies that find themselves outside the action in today’s concentrated innovation geography. How can companies most effectively harness the... View Details

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African American 9% 4% — — Hispanic / Latino / Latinx 8% 4% — — Multi-Race / Non-Hispanic 2% 1% — — Native Hawaiian / Other Pacific Islander 0% 0% — — White 43% 22% — — Did Not Report / Unknown 26% 64% — — HBS Online 2022 2021 2020 2019 Enrollment 40,667 38,725 29,192... View Details

28 Sep 2023
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Meet the New HBS Team Helping Alumni Clubs and Associations to Thrive

the development of HBS Online, and leading the HBS CORe team. Her primary focus is supporting the Alumni New Venture Competition (ANVC), the Global Networking Night (GNN), and faculty-clubs programming, as well as serving as a liaison for... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; community service

21 Jun 2022
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Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams

When COVID-19 forced companies to send employees home two years ago, newly remote workers largely reconnected on two collaboration apps: Slack and Microsoft Teams. The pandemic propelled Slack beyond its core following in the technology... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Information Technology; Technology

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Research - Private Capital Project

By: Falk Bräuning and Victoria Ivashina Revolving credit is at the core of the banking business. Corporate revolving credit lines are demandable claims; thus, similar to a traditional bank run on deposits, sudden widespread drawdowns on... View Details

02 Oct 2006
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Negotiating in Three Dimensions

is an essential skill, and where the science of negotiation is headed. Negotiation is a core competence for life, "not merely an important skill to be wheeled out for special occasions," they argue. James K. Sebenius is the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Apr 2022
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Product Management at HBS: Roll Up Your Sleeves and Learn by Doing

helped me to develop a new vernacular, get my “hands dirty” with product management, and grow the confidence to explore new horizons in the video game industry. My key takeaways: Coming to Terms with Terms. Clarity in communication was a View Details

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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

capstone project during the year-long program. Upon successful completion, participants will earn a Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business. CORe is a business fundamentals program that combines Business Analytics,... View Details

25 Sep 2023
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HBS Latino Student Association Spotlight: Ana Barrera (MBA 2024)

led me to my pre-MBA career roles at Morgan Stanley and Harlem Capital, in which I worked on talented, diverse teams helping close the funding gap for underrepresented founders. Additionally, I care deeply about building a strong community and giving back. This is a... View Details

25 Apr 2024
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Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details

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