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Skydeck - Alumni

Duhigg (MBA 2003) on the rules of real talk On the Job Recipients of the 2024 Alumni Achievement Award share takeaways from early experiences in the working world Origin Stories Recipients of the 2024 Alumni... View Details

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Detour: My Unexpected, Amazing, Life Changing Journey With OnStar

By: Chet Huber

Detour is the story behind the launch of OnStar’s now well known blue button, as told through the eyes of its founder and CEO of over fourteen years, Chet Huber. It’s a personal narrative that describes the events that led up to General Motors’ unexpected choice... View Details

Keywords: General Motors; OnStar; Technological Innovation; Business Startups; Transportation; Safety; Personal Development and Career; Creativity; Success; Business History; Auto Industry

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29 Jul 2019
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How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely

examiners also benefited financially by bringing their Greater Washington, DC, salaries to less costly regions, effectively increasing their real incomes. Early- and mid-career workers tended to choose locations based on future career... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Leadership Initiative - Leadership

a book, Genius at Scale: How Great Leaders Drive Innovation, that will be published in early 2026, which introduces the 3 roles of leading innovation at scale across organizations and ecosystems: architect, bridger, and catalyst. Hill’s... View Details

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About - Business & Environment

materials about business & environment More on Curriculum Leadership Michael Toffel Faculty Chair; Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management Professor Michael Toffel has been interested in how companies can reduce their environmental impacts since the... View Details

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Rafaella Mazza

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? An internal feeling of inquietude regarding my career path and future opportunities and a desire to “go back to school” as a growth platform. Also, the support of mentors who believed I... View Details

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Mollie Breen

an MBA program because I was kicked off a reality TV show!" but her entrepreneurial experiment did inspire her to explore. On the HBS MBA website, an ad for Harvard's joint MS/MBA program (Harvard John A. Paulson School of... View Details

Keywords: Tech; Nonprofit/Government/Education

01 Jun 2023
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3-Minute Briefing: Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966)

company went bankrupt. I wrote up that experience as an investing principle for a quarterly newsletter: It’s always good to have a mother to buy your bad stocks. After business school, I went into management consulting, which is quite a... View Details

Keywords: climate change; finance; sustainability; prediction; Finance

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Value Creation Through Effective Boards

accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries across the globe Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions Who... View Details

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Organize Care Around Medical Conditions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

focuses on the care of all of these children with cardiac surgeons, cardiologists, anesthesiologists, intensivists all of whom are supported by specialized nurses, perfusionists, respiratory therapists, social workers and others who have accumulated vast View Details

03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008

Implementing Patient-Focused Care (A) (Abridged) Harvard Business School Case 608-070 Reading Rehab Hospital has experimented with a popular concept in health care—patient-focused care—intended to increase quality and reduce costs by... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

April 2022
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Banorte Móvil: Data-Driven Mobile Growth

By: Ayelet Israeli and Carla Larangeira

In mid-2019, Carlos Hank was deliberating over the results for Banorte Móvil—the mobile application for Banorte, Mexico’s most profitable and second-largest financial institution. Hank, who had been appointed as Banorte´s Chairman of the Board in January 2015, had... View Details

Keywords: Data Analytics; Customer Lifetime Value; Financial Institutions; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Growth and Development Strategy; Customers; Technology Adoption; Communication Strategy; Banking Industry; Mexico; Latin America

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Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy - Recruiting

didn’t plan out a career in beauty. Instead, she tested out different hypotheses and followed her curiosity. Some early stops in her career included internships at Merrill... View Details

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Information Dissemination in Capital Markets

Seeking to bridge economic theory and the role of individuals, Professor Brochet researches the transmission of information in capital markets. He has investigated the effects of information... View Details

30 Jun 2022
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Peloton Changed the Exercise Game. Can the Company Push Through the Pain?

Critics in a New York Times article called the ad “sexist and dystopian,” and The Atlantic published a piece with the headline: “Peloton Doesn’t Understand the People Who Love It Most.” ‘A pretty hard fall’ By early 2021, equipment... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Media & Broadcasting; Health; Bicycle

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Case Method Teaching - Case Method Project

About Case Method Teaching 0ms What is the Case Method? The core pedagogy of Harvard Business School since the early 20th century, the case method boasts a unique ability to make complex concepts accessible and develop students’... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees

marriage license or death certificate. “It’s a sense of euphoria,” he says. As he constructed a family tree that stretched back to the early 18th century, Diamond also began to think about how the process could be improved. His own search... View Details

Keywords: April White; Illustrations by Fabio Consoli; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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Online Business Courses & Certifications | HBS Online

to ignite their careers with a combination of vital and forward-looking business skills, self-reflection, and an immersive cohort-based learning experience with a diverse global network. 1 year, 5-9 hrs/week... View Details

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Finance - Faculty & Research

Finance Finance May 2014 Article Dynamics of Demand for Index Insurance: Evidence from a Long-Run Field Experiment By: Shawn A. Cole , Daniel Stein and Jeremy Tobacman This paper estimates how experimentally-manipulated View Details

27 Jun 2005
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Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

publicity and so seem more numerous than they are, that hire CEOs directly from the outside, with no previous experience with the firm. These CEOs are driven by a need to excel in a competitive environment (they want to win), and they... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

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