Reaching Your Potential - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2004
News

Working the Street

the gang symbology that’s so visible to potential employers, so provocative to other gang members, and such a strong reminder of one’s troubled past,” says Henry H. (“Kurt”) Timken II (MBA 1992). A police detective and anti-gang... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; tattoo; removal; program; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

Portrait Project

Shardule Shah

“Daddy! Where’s my magic wand?!” screamed Siyona, my four-year old daughter. “I’m sorry. I’ll be back,” I told a potential investor on a videoconference. Previously, I would have lamented this interruption. But we live in a new world.... View Details

28 Apr 2022
Blog Post

Harvard Team Wins Second Place in MIINT Impact Investing Competition

students’ due diligence. The Kumulus team was ultimately selected as runner-up in the competition and won a $25,000 investment in Kumulus. Students chose to participate in MIINT to gain hands-on experience in impact investing, strengthen their skills and explore it as... View Details

18 Dec 2017
Op-Ed

Why Employers Must Stop Requiring College Degrees For Middle-Skill Jobs

Credit: Pixsooz American companies have a problem. Over the past decade, they have begun to demand a bachelor’s degree in hiring workers for jobs that traditionally haven’t required one. This uptick in credentialing, or “degree inflation,” rested on the belief that... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller

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Payment and Financial Aid - HBS Online

Payment Methods Loans Grants Federal Financial Aid Payment Methods We accept payments via credit card, wire transfer, Western Union, and (when available) bank loan. We also allow you to split your payment across two separate credit card... View Details

09 Jun 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge

laws are not a cure-all. And the scope of industries considering adopted patent pools has also grown. While the patent pools have been well established in basic manufacturing and electronic industries for decades, they have been seen as a View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

01 Jun 2023
News

In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental

new, for big, and that’s what the United States embodied to me.” As a college student majoring in economics and finance at Bentley University, outside Boston, she interned and later worked full-time at Merrill Lynch. “They said, ‘Sometimes we don’t understand View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; investment; exports; infrastructure; life experience; finance; Finance

02 Apr 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Making the Move to General Manager

when they have to recreate themselves as generalists. In this new generalist role, they end up knowing less and less about more and more. This is an extremely difficult and potentially very risky transition, and it can easily derail a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands

run the risk of not extracting the full financial value from these partnerships and co-branding opportunities that they deserve. Q: Do you have advice for aligning brand with mission? In particular, your case on Habitat for Humanity shows... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

01 Aug 1998
News

High Honors

five years the channel lost money, but Batten stuck with it, ultimately convincing cable providers and advertisers that it was a viable service. Today, The Weather Channel reaches over 70 million subscribers in all fifty states. At the... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Support - Business & Environment

entrepreneurship, 2. test potential start-up ideas, 3. develop your start-up while at school, and 4. access funding for their start-ups. If you're a climate entrepreneur, you can learn more and access more... View Details

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

innovative new financial derivatives or special-purpose vehicles, even if they serve on boards that are required to approve such potentially risky transactions. In fact, data on enrollment in executive education programs offered by... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

13 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely

that are starting to do this,” Choudhury said. “It’s a phenomenon that is catching on.” Building ties remotely During the early weeks of the pandemic in 2020, when many businesses were scrambling to cope with COVID-related lockdowns, the leaders of a global company... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

07 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism

smart people of that time believed that technology had reached its limits and capitalism had passed its peak. Schumpeter believed the exact opposite, and of course he was right. Q: Schumpeter introduced the term “creative destruction” and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

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HBS Global Initiative & Research Centers - MBA

working with local entrepreneurs. WHERE ELSE DURING THEIR TIME AT HBS MIGHT STUDENTS COME IN CONTACT WITH THE GLOBAL INITIATIVE? That contact might take place right at the beginning of your relationship with HBS. Prospective students from... View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

Generation Next

"It was an expensive way to learn about the realities of business." Nisa says that her next move, entering business school, was an attempt to outpace critics. "When you're in a family business, you walk around with a big nepotism sign on View Details

Keywords: Mark Bergen; Godrej Group; Management

16 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making

lot more weight than inexperienced outsiders, potentially outweighing the other defects in the list’s construction. To find out, Luo and her co-authors took the list of approximately 700 films listed between 2007 and 2014, and examined... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Motion Pictures & Video

17 Aug 2021
Op-Ed

Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally

connections to acquire licenses in multiple states. Unfounded fears of a marijuana frenzy Despite these potential benefits, the legislation proposed by Schumer and his colleagues has faced lukewarm support and pushback. People worry that... View Details

Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson

10 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

High Commitment, High Performance Management

people by holding out the potential for creating a better organization and world. Q: Your vision is very ambitious. What change strategy do you recommend? A: Transforming an underperforming company into a... View Details