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2.15 Field Based Learning/ Independent Projects | MBA
created, and shared during field activities, Clarify ownership rights and non-disclosure agreements for students, faculty, and company sponsors in company-sponsored field-based learning projects. The policies governing Field Based... View Details
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Commencement 2019 Address | About
today: As you move into leadership roles, and as your duties call on you to make decisions that test your integrity, imagine yourself as the protagonist in a case study. Imagine a future generation of students sitting in Aldrich, debating... View Details
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
and I was trying to make a decision whether to leave this particular company or not. And he just blurted that out, sort of. And it has always stayed with me and helped me make a lot of decisions in my... View Details
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Cynthia Samanian
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? There were many reasons why I knew HBS was the right fit for me, both in the classroom and in my career. First, I was thrilled to experience the unique and engaging classroom dynamic... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Multimedia Simulation Provides Real-World Reality Check
four of these teams are then aggregated into an industry. Team members study data and collaborate on beer design, pricing, and packaging, as well as on decisions concerning manufacturing and marketing. After each round, reports are... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’
This statute also tells directors that they may delegate the actual running of the company to its officers. Court decisions related to director conduct are largely focused on matters of process-that is, on how boards are to carry out... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Lorsch
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
I joined the company. The company's long history of success had led to a soft underbelly that manifested itself in a lack of discipline. The company was extremely values-centered, but its internal norms of consensus decision making,... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 28 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Minimum Wage Hikes Drive (Lousy) Restaurants Out of Business
and this is one piece of the puzzle,” Luca says. “Our hope is to add nuance and a little more context for other economists and policymakers researching and making decisions about the minimum wage.” Case in point: the San Francisco Bay... View Details
- 07 Apr 2011
- What Do You Think?
When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?
argues for the "public's right to know," but suggests two other questions in assessing the need for a takeover: "What's the cause of the problem? And what are the public interests at stake?" Gerald Nanninga suggests... View Details
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Managing and Innovating in Financial Services - Course Catalog
navigate and shape an environment in which competition, technology and regulation are constantly changing. We will look at a variety of financial institutions and financial service providers including banks, nonbank financial intermediaries, insurance companies and... View Details
- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
or where they are crossing ethical boundaries for the good of their own group.” Gino and colleagues write about this paradox in a new paper forthcoming in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes with a decidedly... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
commitment dedicated to online marketplaces. In Greylock's view, 2014 was a special moment in time for online marketplaces, the beginning of a boom in the space that was being catalyzed by mobile technology and social identity. Rothman was the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
nothing going right fast enough. The company’s iconic founder and CEO, Fred Smith, had done everything he could think of to save the organization, including gambling the only capital he had left in a desperate trip to Las Vegas... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2022
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June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
potential? Do you want to empower yourself and discover how to manifest your definition of success regardless of your background or the specific obstacles holding you back? Shift Your Paradigm is a step in the right direction. Your... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
responsible for a jump in their pay. In fact, the new system had simply cut out the middlemen, who once took what they saw as their rightful piece of the pie. Related Content: Case: Roshan: Light at the End of the Tunnel in Afghanistan... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 1
on the tradeoff between adaptation and coordination in determining delegation within firms. Empirical evidence, however, is limited. Using establishment-level data on decision rights over information... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 18, 2008
company statutes and shareholder lists, reveals that the addition of voting rights to their bylaws, particularly maximum vote provisions and graduated voting scales (which stipulated that less-than-proportional votes increase in parallel... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions
After Donald Trump won the US presidency in 2016, many Americans who hadn’t voted for him wondered: What exactly motivated so many other voters to choose him? It was a question right in the research wheelhouse of Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Turning Point: Getting to Giving
was also very practical: After I graduated, my husband and I would be living on one salary while he went to business school. When he graduated, we decided to continue to manage our money as if only one of us was working. I didn’t realize it then, but that View Details
- 08 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy
(with Sumantra Ghoshal), Michael Porter, and Pankaj Ghemawat. “I enjoy the variety and intellectual challenge of the problems that managers confront” More seasoned managers seeking pragmatic guidance on day-to-day decision making can turn... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna