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served with distinction in various... Paul A. Gompers Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration Paul Gompers, Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, specializes in research on financial issues... View Details

11 May 2022
Blog Post

MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

Olivia’s early years was really hard. Being in a very different life chapter from the majority of your classmates can be pretty isolating at times. HBS mama memory? My section threw an incredible baby shower for Olivia (in December 2019; I deferred 2020-2021 due to... View Details

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

reason that the issue of trust arises is that these individuals are expected to exercise judgment—based on specialized knowledge and methods of analysis that they alone are thought to possess—in areas in which their decisions affect the... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

10 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Key to Doing Your Best at Work? Be Yourself

Frances X. Frei, UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management. Too often, people are advised or feel pressured to bury the special or quirky aspects of their personalities, recalibrate their speaking or personal styles, or think twice... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

15 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

strategy of the last decade has been to foster areas of specialization within its subsidiaries around the world—small cars in Europe, subcompacts in Asia, trucks and SUVs in North America—and this has started to yield great results. Now... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

28 Sep 2023
News

Screen Time

iStock/ST.art MBA 1982’s Section B had already formed a close-knit group that gathered often in the decades following their time at the School, when the pandemic appeared in the spring of 2020. Unable to enjoy one another’s company in person, the group didn’t miss a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

Mavrck What You Earn Certificate of Completion Boost your resume with a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online Earn by: completing this course Certificate of Specialization Prove your mastery of leadership and management Earn by:... View Details

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Loeb House | About

House, which once served as the home of Harvard presidents, today houses Harvard’s governing boards including the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers. The first floor is decorated in 19th-century style, forming an elegant, light-filled backdrop for View Details

24 Nov 2015
Blog Post

What is an HBS MyTake?

MyTakes, and the JCD ultimately selects and helps coach those students prepare to tell their story in front of an auditorium full of their peers. We had 10 MyTakes in the 2014-2015 school year. They happen at least once a month, and also around View Details

20 Apr 2021
Book

A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success

some of its suppliers. For example, shop-ping malls give Apple a special break. The company pays no more than 2 percent of its sales per square foot in rent, compared with 15 percent for a typical tenant. Why are mall owners so generous... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

07 Dec 2022
Blog Post

2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together

awarded to Active Surfaces and second place went to WereWool. Rounding out the day was an interview of Tom Steyer, Co-Executive Chair of Galvanize Climate Solutions, by Jim Matheson, Special Advisor at BEV and The Engine, & Senior... View Details

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HBS Cases | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content Lehman Brothers Collection Resources Baker Library Collections Corporate Reports Collection R. G. Dun & Co. Credit Reports HBS Cases Baker Old Class Collection Related Archival Collections Bibliography Site Credits Baker Library View Details

06 Sep 2022
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment

and advanced systems. Launched by MIT, The Engine bridges the gap between discovery and commercialization by empowering disruptive technologies with the long-term capital, knowledge, network connections, and the specialized equipment and... View Details

08 Feb 2024
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees

New Jersey. What was your pre-MBA industry and role? I explored several different roles prior to attending HBS. My post-MIT career began at Microsoft, where I spent several years as a Product Manager working on Artificial Intelligence, eventually View Details

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Competitiveness of States & Regions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

growth at the microeconomic level. More about Michael Porter’s competitiveness frameworks Clusters & Regional Competitiveness Clusters are groups of interconnected companies, specialized suppliers, service providers, and associated... View Details

05 Feb 2019
News

The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)

Omega and Blancpain and then Hublot, was present in the classroom and his energy, passion, and curiosity for new things made this case study a special experience. While Biver had been a harsh and complex leader, his vision and drive built... View Details

01 Jun 2007
What Do You Think?

How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?

performance." Generally speaking, respondents favored schemes designed to reward long-term as well as short-term performance, encourage retention, recognize special needs of an organization, be based on the achievement of both... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

according to Forrester Research, a consulting firm specializing in e-commerce. Industry observers are shy to predict just what the future of advertising will look like, but they agree that the pace and enormity of changes that have come... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

29 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

February 2018 Journal of Accounting & Economics Bank CEO Materialism: Risk Controls, Culture and Tail Risk By: Bushman, Robert, Robert Davidson, Aiyesha Dey, and Abbie Smith Abstract—We investigate how the prevalence of materialistic bank CEOs has evolved over time... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

scale; it's specialization. And that doesn't have to be central at all. Maybe you want to specialize the sourcing of your components in Taiwan, supplying regional assembly operations worldwide. But maybe you want to View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

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