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16 Feb 2023
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The Rituals of Case Method Teaching

him to every class he has ever taught at the School. It’s a tool that helps Norton center himself before he digs into a lively case discussion—a reliable ritual that ensures a successful session. View Details

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

Nowitzki described, during a recent address to an executive education class at Harvard Business School: “I was never satisfied... I wanted to get the max out of my talent, out of my potential. After View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

07 Jun 2018
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Sowing the Seeds of Leadership

As the second president of the Costa Rica–based EARTH University, Arturo Condo (DBA 2000) is following his passion for education that has a demonstrable impact on the world.... View Details

2016
Hidden Processes

A conversation with Lisa Lahey at the 2016 Gender & Work Symposium: Talking the Walk

06 Aug 2019
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Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism - Discovering the Business of Storytelling

classes we took, I did write a case on Raj Kapoor, one of the early entrepreneurs in Bollywood, for Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism, a class taught by View Details

01 Sep 2013
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Case Study: A Place at the Table

several professors who never called on a woman in class "unless it was a discussion of a 'woman's product.'" A Class of 1973 alumna recalls professors "who, in the View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

07 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits

we're in the middle of a changing understanding of what these firms do and how they should be taxed. As I mentioned, most of the world has moved to exemption systems, which is... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

14 Jan 2014
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Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship

men resolved to set up a program in their rural county that would bring in students from each district high school for a daily class in entrepreneurship. Dubbed CEO (Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities) by its first group of students,... View Details

Keywords: CEO (Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities); Educational Services; Agriculture; Manufacturing

30 Nov 2016
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How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?

recommended) being attentive to the changes in the external environment communicating with middle managers and leading by example, motivating employees to speak, listening to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 May 2010
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Commencement and the Winds of Change

To give peace a chance, unleash the power of business. That’s Sir Ronald Cohen’s (MBA ’69) idea for one of the world’s toughest neighborhoods: the View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Finance

16 Nov 2017
News

The Business of Social Justice

Committee. “You are only a student at HBS for a couple of years, but you are an alum for the rest of your life,” Brooks says. “Our class was very special; we were there together when 9/11 happened and we... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

2021
Book

The Power of Trust: How Companies Build It, Lose It, Regain It

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

Trust is the most powerful force underlying the success of every business. Yet it can be shattered in an instant, with a devastating impact on a company’s market cap and reputation. How to build and sustain trust requires fresh insight into why customers, employees,... View Details

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Leading in the Classroom - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Providing Assessment & Feedback Sample Class The extensive preparation carried out by case method instructors prior to a class session culminates in View Details

14 Apr 2010
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The First African-American MBAs at HBS

School was a member of the Class of 1915: Wendell Thomas Cunningham, the son of a former slave.” Information about Cunningham is hard to come by (let us know if you know more... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

14 Dec 2018
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The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS

at the DoubleTree Hotel. E – EC. EC stands for Elective Curriculum and represents students who are in their second year of the MBA program. In the second year, students can... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Dec 1997
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A Piece of the Action

HBS student clubs. The trek brought 150 second-year students to the Valley to explore career opportunities during winter break. Darwall, who notes that fewer than twenty members of her View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

13 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas

approach." To estimate a patent’s value, the authors looked at how a company’s stock price fluctuated after receiving approval, comparing filings within the same technology View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

17 Mar 2011
News

Make or Break for the USA?

General Georges Doriot and his legendary class in Manufacturing (a thinly disguised guide to life), went on to produce some of the 20th century’s leading industrialists and manufacturing executives.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Manufacturing

15 Jun 2021
News

The Value of Difficult Conversations

particular people: Do the descendants of those who died or lost property deserve reparations? The relative recency of the Tulsa Massacre and the... View Details

Keywords: April White; Tulsa Massacre

23 Jan 2019
News

The Promise of Personalized Medicine

has risen significantly. The productivity out of the pipelines has decreased significantly over time and so that begs the question of where do we go next for treating mankind’s... View Details

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