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MBA Program - Alumni

ensure that the School continues to develop and offer transformational learning experiences is by giving to the HBS Fund . As our annual fund, the HBS Fund supports core priorities and new initiatives, and donors have the option to direct... View Details

05 May 2011
What Do You Think?

How Ethical Can We Be?

that, under the circumstances, "we should be as ethical as the situation around us can determine while at the same time be mindful of the consequences ." Turning to the core issue of the column, why do we so often regard... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Sep 2023
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End Game

the list. They could sell the company and donate all the money, for example, but then there would be no way to guarantee a new owner would maintain its core values. They could sell a minority stake to a like-minded private equity firm but... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

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Frequently Asked Questions - Research Computing Services

running and pending, and the order in which the scheduler is going to dispatch them. Note that this list/order will change frequently as resources become free and jobs finish sooner than expected bhosts will show all the nodes in the cluster, include max and used View Details

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Request more information | HBS Courses | HBS Online

correctly. Topics of Interest Business Essentials Leadership & Management Entrepreneurship & Innovation Strategy Finance & Accounting Business in Society I am interested in the for-credit version of CORe I am interested in the for-credit... View Details

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Attract additional Black talent to all parts of the HBS community. - Advancing Racial Equity

partnerships with Historically Black Colleges and Universities that allow students with financial need to take core HBS Online courses at a significantly reduced price and continue a mentorship program launched in summer 2020 for HBCU... View Details

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Agents of Change: The Founding of the African-American Student Union

Baker Library Special Collections Exhibits More Exhibits Explore the Exhibit Student Pioneers The Value of Business Education The Golden Age of Black Business AASU Early Years & Influence AASU Founders Core Demands & Proposals Early Years... View Details

11 Apr 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy

pricing.' The notion of a pivot is to make a change, and ideally, after you pivot, you have a new set of assumptions and hypotheses that you're going to test. And what we're learning in the course is that pivoting is really hard." There's a View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Computer

24 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

communicating the strategy, aligning the resources (financial and human) to achieve the strategy, and managing the execution of the strategy. · Board performance of core functions has not been stellar. The performance of many boards has... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu

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Value Measurement for Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Care explores the best practices for reorganizing and coordinating care, improving process efficiencies, implementing new reimbursement approaches, and integrating care delivery across practices. You will return with the frameworks and skills to make rigorous value... View Details

30 May 2024
Blog Post

PRIDE at HBS

Founded in 1981 as a student club at Harvard Business School, PRIDE is a home for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning MBA students and their partners. Our goal is to make PRIDE a safe space where students and their partners can build their... View Details

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Team - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

by Professor Michael E. Porter and is based in the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School. Faculty and staff engaged in research and education in value based health care form the core team at HBS. In... View Details

17 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

Why a Blended Workforce May Be Key to Lasting Competitive Advantage

In recent years, companies have been anxious about the lack of skilled workers to fill pivotal jobs. But then came COVID-19 and a subsequent recession. The ensuing business turmoil and record-high unemployment may have temporarily distracted companies from their... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller

30 Oct 2017
Blog Post

How My Engineering and Manufacturing Background Prepared Me for an MBA

peers who come from more traditional business backgrounds in terms of having an appreciation of the fundamentals of business thinking. I found the HBX CORe program, that is delivered on the HBX online platform, to be a valuable resource... View Details

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Software Tools - Research Computing Services

defaults 1 core and 5 GB RAM) the instructions in my_submit_job.sh are run, and the module load will happen as the first command during the job. For this last example, more experienced users might note: The bash my_submit_job.sh can be... View Details

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It

thought of as "a business plan for a key commodity." Although supply chain cost-efficiency measures can increase risk, says Rawlinson, "cost efficiency can also reduce supply chain risk," provided that "cost-efficient processes focus on View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

12 Mar 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Firing the CEO

hesitant. Yet sometimes, this is necessary. But when? You should fire your CEO under two of these three conditions: (1) there is a weak and unfixable fit between the CEO's skills and the needs of the company, (2) the CEO disrespects the View Details

10 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Do You Have Change Fatigue?

bottom-up approach to change. Employees choose their jobs, titles, places, and hours of work, and even pay. Everyone in the company has a 360-degree evaluation every six months; these evaluations form the core of any needed change.... View Details

Keywords: by Nick Morgan

26 Nov 2001
Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

exceeding. But the price for his little white lie was extremely high: The company based its demand planning on his sales forecast and consequently ran out of its core product in one of its largest markets at the height of the holiday... View Details

Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen

01 Aug 1998
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High Honors

corporate and strategic matters. Under Marram's leadership, the company has attained a prominent position in the worldwide premium juice business. Her skill in promoting growth without losing sight of her company's core competencies has... View Details

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