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Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

the business aspect of their problems. Gaurang Manjrekar Technology Consultant Gain confidence in your ability to understand financial statements and communicate financial results. My job is project-based, and I'm currently leading the operational functions of a... View Details

08 Nov 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Business School’s Armed Forces Alumni Association

willingness to help, whether that's through career advice, networking, or simply being a shoulder to lean on. It’s an ethos deeply ingrained in those who've served—to always have each other’s backs and lift each other up. I'm honored to be able to View Details

07 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

How Teams Work: Lessons from the Pandemic

more senior people assume that the more junior people understood the meeting because they were there.” In reality, while technology makes it possible to invite more and different people to virtual meetings, the lack of spontaneous “huddle... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

09 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Insights From Harvard Business School’s Peek Program

Specifically, Professor Delong underscored the importance of choosing an optimistic attitude in the face of adversity and finding the courage to move forward despite uncertainty. I have already found ways to apply these strategies to my... View Details

01 Sep 2021
Op-Ed

How Women Can Learn from Even Biased Feedback

LinkedIn. Follow Francesca Gino on LinkedIn to read more of her posts. About the Author Francesca Gino is the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She's the author of Rebel Talent: Why It View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

26 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

to retain the Yakult Ladies, paying them 80 percent of their typical pay. Once delivery of Yakult products resumed, it took just five months for sales to reach the same level as the previous year. “Our HBS... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

18 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Are Banks the ‘Bad Guys’? Overdraft Fees Are Crushing Low-Income Customers

bouncing and charging the account another $70 in overdraft fees. Failing to pay those multiplying fees can lead the bank to close accounts—a stain on a consumer’s record that can have lasting ramifications. ChexSystems, the main consumer... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

01 Feb 2021
Blog Post

Choosing the Right Student Loan

wisely, you can minimize the amount you owe and the time it takes to pay them off. There are tons of student loan options out there, so how do you choose which one is right for you? Here are five important... View Details

13 Mar 2023
Op-Ed

How Leaders Should Leave

Even the most loyal, long-serving employee may consider resigning from a job once or twice in a career in order to reboot or get ahead. Large organizations can offer more lateral opportunities to further your development, but the higher up the executive pyramid you... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

02 Nov 2020
What Do You Think?

Is Antitrust Just a Quaint Notion in the Digital Age?

to be as much as $12 billion, or 21 percent of Apple’s profits. The larger point is that Google pays Apple large heaps of money to help it preserve its 92 percent share of the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail; Technology; Telecommunications; Communications; Consumer Products; Service

09 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

experimentation. Uncertainty in this sense refers not to scientific questions about the coronavirus, but to what effect the virus will have on the future. What new realities will it generate? What will recovery look like? How long will... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

05 Jun 2023
What Do You Think?

Is the Anxious Achiever a Post-Pandemic Relic?

observing something they wouldn’t be seen doing, and asked him, “What are you doing, Tony?” He would reply, “Nothing,” and delight in observing the expressions on one “anxious achiever” after another. It was Tony’s way of poking fun at... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

30 May 2024
News

How to Have Effective Conversations

your own words what you heard them say. Show them that you're not only listening to what they're saying, you're paying attention, you're also processing what they're saying – you're trying to make sense of it. Finally, once you've done... View Details

22 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Meet LASO: The HBS Latino Student Organization

community and friendships LASO members made at HBS. During my first year, I served on LASO’s Admissions Committee because I wanted to encourage more diverse candidates to apply and to pay it 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

18 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

The Cost of Leaning In

or female, when workers did choose to negotiate, they typically succeeded by convincing the firm to give them more than the suggested wage they would have received if they hadn’t negotiated. Based on that finding alone, it may seem... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

restructuring process be managed and the many barriers to restructuring overcome so that as much value is created as possible? 3. Marketing. How should the restructuring be explained and portrayed to investors so that value created inside the company is fully credited... View Details

Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson

09 Apr 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

The Dark Side of Performance Bonuses

changed how those loan officers perceived reality. The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator Money isn’t always the most powerful work motivator. In this field experiment participants were willing to pay money to be ranked higher. Why? How to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most

workers’ subjective well-being,” the researchers write. How can companies ease the commuting pain? While Wu is quick to note that some “knowledge work” depends on in-person collaboration, including medical and biotech research, he says business leaders and managers... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Andres Sarmiento

graduate committed to work full time in my startup and take it to the next level. What are you most looking forward to in your career? For a technical person, it's odd to say that what I look View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology; Services

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