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  • 14 Sep 2021
  • Blog Post

Top 5 Myths About HBS

your question, is an HBS interview hard to prepare for? I would say yes in the sense that you can't go to the internet and download the 10 questions that HBS is going to ask you. If you googled "HBS View Details
  • 27 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance

collected. The students were charged with conducting semi-structured phone interviews with company managers, asking each a series of 18 questions divided into three categories. The first dealt with the monitoring of their production... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 24 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 24

and the Americas. Through interviews with key Siemens executives and supporting internal materials, this multimedia case takes a look at how one of the world's largest companies faced corruption head-on. Purchase this View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Feb 2024
  • News

The Sound of Success

deaf, became the first person to receive gene therapy for congenital deafness during a clinical trial at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. “There’s no sound I don’t like,” he said through interpreters during an interview in... View Details
  • November 2021
  • Case

Steve Schwarzman on Dealmaking II: When They Hold All the Cards (A)

By: James K. Sebenius and Alex Green
Blackstone Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO Stephen A. Schwarzman, whom Forbes has called “Wall Street’s Greatest Dealmaker,” played a major role in the negotiations that transformed Blackstone from a fragile startup in 1985 with $400,000 in capital into a dominant... View Details
Keywords: Dealmaking; Bargaining; Conflict Resolution; Negotiation; Private Equity; Entrepreneurship; Conflict and Resolution; Problems and Challenges; Negotiation Tactics; Financial Services Industry
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  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Does Who Helps You Impact Your Behavior? Examining the Effects of Social Interactions on Knowledge Sharing in Online Communities

By: Eunkwang Seo, Frank Nagle and Sonali K. Shah
Online communities provide vibrant forums for knowledge sharing and are increasingly being used by individual users and firms to source knowledge and create and capture value. Yet, there is much to learn about how the actions of community members affect other members,... View Details
Keywords: Online Communities; Knowledge Development; Innovation; Reciprocity; Knowledge Sharing; Networks; Innovation and Invention; Interpersonal Communication
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    Mastering the VC Game

    Entrepreneurs who dream of building the next Amazon, Facebook or Google have the opportunity to take advantage of one of the most powerful economic engines the world has ever known: venture capital. To do so, you need to woo, impress, and persuade venture... View Details

    • 12 Jan 2022
    • Blog Post

    How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Cecil Alfaro-Mora

    This spring we’re speaking with current MBA students who were admitted through 2+2 to learn what they did during their deferral years. Here’s an interview with Cecil Alfaro-Mora (MBA 2022): Why did you decide to apply to HBS via the 2+2... View Details
    • 31 May 2016
    • First Look

    May 31, 2016

    June 2016 Medical Care Vaccination Rates Are Associated with Functional Proximity but Not Base Proximity of Vaccination Clinics By: Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Gwendolyn I. Reynolds Abstract—Background: Routine annual... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • June 2016
    • Article

    Managing the High Intensity Workplace: An 'Always Available' Culture Breeds a Variety of Dysfunctional Behaviors

    By: Erin M. Reid and Lakshmi Ramarajan
    People today are under intense pressure to be “ideal workers”—totally committed to their jobs and always on call. But after interviewing hundreds of professionals in many fields, the authors have concluded that selfless dedication to work is often unnecessary and... View Details
    Keywords: Risk Management; Working Conditions; Work-Life Balance; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture
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    • Summer 2014
    • Article

    Designed for Workarounds: A Qualitative Study of the Causes of Operational Failures in Hospitals

    By: Anita L. Tucker, W. Scott Heisler and Laura D. Janisse
    Frontline care providers in hospitals spend at least 10% of their time working around operational failures, which are situations where information, supplies, or equipment needed for patient care are insufficient. However, little is known about underlying causes of... View Details
    Keywords: Supply Chain; Health Care and Treatment; Failure; Business Processes; Health Industry
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    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    The Diseconomies of Queue Pooling: An Empirical Investigation of Emergency Department Length of Stay

    By: Hummy Song, Anita L. Tucker and Karen L. Murrell
    We conduct an empirical investigation of the impact of queue management on patients' average wait time and length of stay (LOS). Using an Emergency Department's (ED) patient-level data from 2007 to 2010, we find that patients' average wait time and LOS are longer when... View Details
    Keywords: Pooling; Queue Management; Strategic Servers; Social Loafing; Empirical Operations; Health Care; Fairness; Management Practices and Processes; Service Delivery; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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    • Web

    Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

    Communication (42) Investment Activism (12) Investment Banking (6) Investment Funds (12) Investment Portfolio (8) Investment Return (12) Investment (78) Job Cuts and Outsourcing (12) Job Design and Levels (7) Job Interviews (3) Job Offer... View Details
    • 30 Aug 2023
    • Blog Post

    I’m From the South and Going Back: Why HBS Was the Best School for Me

    It was February of 2021. I had just joined the Zoom interview from the guest bedroom of our townhouse in Smyrna, Georgia, struggling to fight off the imposter syndrome that had lived rent-free in the back of my head since I had been... View Details
    • Web

    Research & Teaching - Creating Emerging Markets

    impressive model for multilingual collections.” We encourage use of the CEM interviews to support a diverse array of research projects and questions. For academic works, we ask that you credit CEM using the citations provided on the cover... View Details
    • 18 Aug 2022
    • Op-Ed

    Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent

    plan. Consulting firms and media outlets have conducted surveys and interviews about return-to-office policies and future work. Leaders should leverage easily accessible data to understand their employees better. Second, employees want... View Details
    Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson
    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    Mobilizing Culture for Public Action: Community Participation and Child Rights in Rural Uttar Pradesh

    By: Akshay Mangla
    Community-based initiatives that work to empower the poor and promote their participation have gained strong support among scholars and practitioners of development. Yet the questionable assumptions about culture and development that inform these initiatives render it... View Details
    Keywords: India; Culture; Child Rights; Caste Relations; Child Education; Child Health; India
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      Productive Tensions: How Every Leader Can Tackle Innovation’s Toughest Trade-Offs

      How leaders can recast innovation’s toughest trade-offs—efficiency vs. flexibility, consistency vs. change, product vs purpose—as productive tensions.

      Why is leading innovation in today’s dynamic business environment so distressingly... View Details

      • 25 Jan 2016
      • Research & Ideas

      When Negotiating a Price, Never Bid with a Round Number

      interviewed 10 senior investment bankers at the managing director or executive director level who each had several years of M&A experience. None of the bankers was aware of the academic literature on bid precision. The bankers were... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
      • Web

      Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

      Learner scrolls through video interviews from prominent business leaders About the Professor V.G. Narayanan Financial Accounting Thomas D. Casserly, Jr. Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. "Financial... View Details