Rigor And Relevance - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

explains it like this: "If you and I went to the same page of the same Web site at the exact same moment, we would likely see different ads—yours relevant to your areas of interest View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

01 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

Team Success Starts with the Individual—and with Love

why we do what we do. When and if we find a higher purpose, we become much more focused and directed in our efforts. When a coach helps us align a personal sense of purpose with an organization’s reason for... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Sports

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Alumni Engagement | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

education, problem solving, and support. Our goal is for alumni to share their latest thinking and practices on issues of critical relevance to the sector, to come together to... View Details

Research Summary

Overview

Having grown up in a developing country, Professor Sikochi’s research focus is driven by a desire to understand how capital flows to firms and entrepreneurs with the ultimate goal to help build capital markets in the developing economies. To this end, he conducts... View Details

08 May 2020
Blog Post

Building a World of Trusted Leaders: Taking the MBA Oath

In 2009, students at Harvard Business School mobilized to create a social contract: the MBA Oath. The MBA Oath has since been adopted by 1000+ MBAs worldwide and counting. In this new era, the MBA Oath feels more relevant than ever View Details

09 May 2017
What Do You Think?

Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?

Summing Up How Do We Encourage CEOs to Manage for Sustainability? Important forces encourage short-term perspectives among managers as well as investors today. These include governance biases, tax policies, faster turnover among leaders, View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Jan 2016
Blog Post

Is HBS Too Big?

the class size at HBS impacts the alumni network. With 900+ students graduating each year, it’s vast. This is something that I completely overlooked when applying to schools and deciding where to go. I didn’t understand how the alumni... View Details

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Alumnae Circles - Alumni

Alumnae Circles to a new region requires strong, motivated volunteer leaders and enough alumnae interested in joining. If you are interested in learning more, please email circles@hbs.edu . Tip: Keep your Alumni Profile updated with your... View Details

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Women at HBS - Alumni

change in business and society. This site has been designed to provide you with information and access to programs, resources, recent articles, and View Details

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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

10-week cohorts to extended 17-week cohorts. However, the course content and program requirements are identical regardless of the program length. Our goal in offering different program lengths is to give learners different options to... View Details

01 Dec 2015
HBS Seminar

Nicola Lacetera, University of Toronto

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C. Roland Christensen - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

energetic and rigorous discussion. The process involved much more than subject matter. It was an education in analysis and good judgment. Outside of class, he was dedicated to... View Details

17 Feb 2022
Book

When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

to the specific content of their cultures, shaping them to inculcate specific behaviors relevant to strategic execution. Eager to support goals like innovation, quality, growth, and excellence in customer... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

24 Nov 2015
Blog Post

What is an HBS MyTake?

MyTakes this past year was to select students with a diverse array of stories and experiences. Our hope was to allow audience members to find something relevant for them in the student talks. What have you... View Details

13 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis

Ask jazz fans the world over to name their favorite compilation, and chances are their response is Kind of Blue. With music that is sophisticated and sublime, spare yet complex, trumpeter View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

02 Apr 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Making the Move to General Manager

to address idiosyncratic development needs. While the program's core content address issues, ideas, and theories relevant to the typical new general manager, the program actually involves eighty individual... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 May 2023
Blog Post

Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps

Hawaii, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts (Figure 3) [9]. Figure 2: TCO of electric heat pumps mostly lower or on par with natural gas furnaces, while much lower than propane / oil furnaces Source: my analysis Figure 3: Residential natural... View Details

17 Jan 2019
Blog Post

MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)

Now in its second year, Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) are no credit, no fee elective courses for MBA students. SIPs are open to first and second year MBA students. They offer a great opportunity for students to think about career... View Details

02 Mar 2016
News

David Moss is Rewriting History

enthusiasm for the course may have been motivated in part by current events: The first year there were 30 students; a year later, after receiving a top student rating, Moss faced significant overenrollment. But Moss’s enthusiasm was for the method as much as the... View Details

Keywords: April White

04 Feb 2010
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?

decision goes wrong." Luis X. B. Mourao opined that " while (a model) helps to diligently collect and analyze relevant data, it only gets you so far. Add experience View Details