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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

profit planning Identify critical performance variables and develop goals, measures, and targets corresponding to them Analyze a range of incentive types and identify the most useful ones for different contexts 5-6 hrs Module 5... View Details

Portrait Project

Brian Kreiter

servant. I will pray to be husband, parent, and friend. I will not confuse the two. I will never settle, nor be consumed by greener grass. I will leave no path of carnage in my wake. I will have nothing to hide. I will balance artistic, domestic, intellectual,... View Details

10 Mar 2021
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Key to Doing Your Best at Work? Be Yourself

how do we truly show up at our best and bring our ideas forward no matter what the context is? Boz [Bozoma Saint John] has really done that, loudly and effectively. Gazette: What does it mean to be a badass? Gino: It means having the... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

16 Dec 2022
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Why Technology Alone Can't Solve AI's Bias Problem

fair-ranking algorithms can be helpful in increasing the number of underrepresented candidates selected. However, their effectiveness is dampened in those job contexts where employers have a persistent gender preference,” the researchers... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

09 Jul 2007
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Five Steps to Better Family Negotiations

their relationships, relatives struggle between openness and caution in their statements to one another. Family members also tend to have difficulty listening to one another without judging what they hear in the context of countless prior... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra

28 May 2019
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Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets

We asked Srinivasan, the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration, to explain. Martha Lagace: What is the context for the research you are doing? Suraj Srinivasan: Auditors play a key role in capital markets because... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Accounting

09 Nov 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Securities Litigation Risk for Foreign Companies Listed in the US

Keywords: by Beiting Cheng, Suraj Srinivasan & Gwen Yu

10 Dec 2009
Working Paper Summaries

State Owned Entity Reform in Absence of Privatization: Reforming Indian National Laboratories and Role of Leadership

Keywords: by Prithwiraj Choudhury & Tarun Khanna

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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

for "The Value of Descriptive Analytics: Evidence from Online Retailers" with Ron Berman ( Marketing Science , 2022). Shunyuan Zhang : Nominated for the 2022 John D. C. Little Award for “Frontiers: Can an AI Algorithm Mitigate Racial Economic Inequality? An Analysis in... View Details

13 Jun 2019
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Expanding My Worldview Through FIELD Global Immersion

companies to expand their brands. FGI teaches you how to grab a blank sheet of paper and innovate in the globally competitive 21st century economy. You will exercise your leadership skills and 200+ cases of classroom experience in a View Details

30 Jan 2019
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The Life and Role of a CEO

competition vs. collaborative culture). Becoming a CEO requires increasing flexibility when facing situations one may not know how to handle with constant context switching (e.g., subject matter; the level of detail; kinds of tasks;... View Details

06 Aug 2021
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Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO

dropped in 2000. In the years from 1997 to his death in 2011, Steve became an icon of the business world—the man who defined charisma in the context of enterprise. Four reasons stand out: the creation of Apple Retail, the iPod, the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Outdoor Spaces | About

Outdoor Spaces The founders of HBS created a unique context for management education—one in which the physical environment reflects and reinforces the School’s participant-centered learning model through a residential campus. Outdoor... View Details

24 Jun 2002
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Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win

"Keeping your eye on all four balls is tremendously important," he said. Strengths that don't satisfy your emotional needs; failing to act differently when the context changes. Placing activities in the wrong domain. "Are... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Mar 2001
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Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

public companies, which enabled family ownership and control and most of the past traditions of the former partnerships to continue with little hindrance. This was not exceptional in the corporate context of Britain of this period — the... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

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Demonstration Policy | About

intellectual honesty, respect for the dignity of others, and openness to constructive change. The rights and responsibilities exercised within the community must be compatible with these qualities. In the context of a University, reasoned... View Details

13 Nov 2017
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5 Worries I Had about Applying to HBS

rooted in real-life examples solidified my understanding. It is one thing to listen to a professor explain the intricacies of, say, deferred tax assets, but it stays with you longer when you learn it in the context of a real-life business... View Details

11 Apr 2024
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Mission Control

that’s the process that I went through in the first year or so when I was at HBS. DM: Take me through that process. What did you reflect on and were you surprised by the result? PP: The process starts with really getting in context of... View Details

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Vicarious Learning in Organizations

To advance the study of how individuals learn through their interactions with others, Professor Myers has adopted a vicarious learning theory lens. Vicarious learning allows individuals to learn from the outcomes of others’ experiences, rather than solely their own... View Details

Keywords: Learning And Development; Learning; Health Industry

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