Personalized Learning - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Career Advancement Without Experience

technology so I learn something It's like playing pool You hit the green ball with the white ball, and the point is to place the white ball to get the next shot. So I take that job in order to learn skills... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Motion Pictures & Video; Technology

18 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

If it's one lesson the individual investor learned the hard way from the collapse of Enron, it is that the recommendations of Wall Street stock analysts can be influenced by much more than purely objective research. Just look at the large... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

09 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

The Manager in Red Sneakers

casually dressed person is a big shot and why do we do it? What's going on psychologically?" Bellezza says. Keinan and Bellezza, teaming with HBS Associate Professor Francesca Gino, conducted a series of studies to gauge how people react... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

19 Nov 2019
Op-Ed

Gender Bias Complaints against Apple Card Signal a Dark Side to Fintech

Twittersphere that they would investigate. Technology is undeniably transforming the financial services industry. Fintechs, Big Tech, and banks are using increasing volumes of data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to build... View Details

Keywords: by Karen G. Mills; Financial Services

30 Mar 2017
News

Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest

approach to these unique negotiations, why they were so successful in the face of such great odds, and what the experience taught him. READ MORE Dan Morrell: When the average person thinks about negotiation, they usually think of it in... View Details

11 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

When Business Competition Harms Society

enduring problem." Testing The Testing Facilities To learn whether increased competition was associated with a greater likelihood of testing results being fudged, the researchers looked at pass/fail results in micro-markets... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

18 May 2021
Book

Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.

times—get started on the right foot. “It really is possible to bottle up life experience and tacit knowledge and deconstruct it to accelerate the learning curve,” he says. Ng says that unlocking the best career opportunities requires job... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

20 Sep 2013
News

Connections Add Up

personal finance curriculum to 5 million students, who range from kindergartners to high school seniors across the country. Morrison says her charge is to prepare the organization for the future. "I need to make sure we're doing the right... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Personal Services; Personal Services; Personal Services; Personal Services

01 Mar 2004
News

High Brow

select retailers. Of T&H’s prospects, Cartwright observed, “We know there’s a big learning curve among consumers. But that means more of an opportunity, too.” View Details

Keywords: men's grooming; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores

01 Mar 2005
News

Last Look

you on what we have learned in the next issue. Thank you! Last issue’s LAST LOOK: Readers Joe Kaminski (MBA ’71), John Rees (MBA ’72), Paul Restaino (MBA ’71), and Jim Stanton (MBA ’73) wrote to inform us that the dramatic scene depicted... View Details

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

01 Dec 2017
News

2017 in Finance: Helping Consumers Improve Their Financial Life

their financial lives, high tech is not enough. In our business, we also have to be high touch. Consumers love the convenience of a digital platform, but there will always be circumstances in the financial services sector when the consumer wants to talk to a View Details

Keywords: Omer Ismail (MBA 2007), chief commercial officer, Marcus by Goldman Sachs, the firm’s digital consumer financial services business; Finance

27 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad

Rationalization The American workers were sympathetic yet relieved that the situation wasn't reversed, with the Americans having to learn Japanese. They also engaged in what Neeley calls status rationalization—expressing the feeling that... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

01 Mar 2005
News

Campaign Passes Goal, Continues

and events that are directly relevant to their personal and professional lives,” Salter said. “Alumni are a crucial part of HBS. Whether they are serving as recruiters, advising students, participating in our travel programs, attending... View Details

Keywords: Personal Services; Personal Services; Personal Services; Personal Services

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders

knowledge (KNOW) and skills (DO) are highly perishable. If you don't use them today, they're gone tomorrow. And, with the world changing at breakneck speed, the knowledge and skills we learn today may be irrelevant tomorrow. Hence, our... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2025
News

Origin Story: Ricky Cordova (MS/MBA 2025)

making music in our free time.” “My first exposure to HBS was through Tom Eisenmann’s course Tech Venture Immersion. That’s where my mind was really blown. I knew I had to be here.” Bioengineering 101: “At Stanford, one of my professors posed a question: Which organism... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

20 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

the consequences of their actions. Koehn: We should ask ourselves, How do we incite the best in our students? How do we help them learn that they're responsible for other people? One expectation our students have when they come here is... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

04 Nov 2020
News

The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises

sectionmates, your classmates for help—and by all means, do attend those reunions. This is Aarati Rajwade, MBA Class of 2010. I was too hard on myself and my definitions of success when I graduated. I had goals with years in a spreadsheet. Life was not a spreadsheet. I... View Details

22 Nov 2011
News

A Storybook Beginning

Valley. At the same time, Worldreader is busy raising money and working with publishers to expand the list of titles that can be downloaded via Africa’s cell phone network. As the organization scales up, Risher says he is relying heavily on lessons View Details

Keywords: Personal Services; Personal Services; Personal Services; Personal Services

Profile

Jamira Cotton

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? My undergraduate education in engineering shaped my ability to think analytically about solving rigorous problems. Additionally, while serving clients at McKinsey I constantly learned to... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Entrepreneurship