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01 Mar 2024
News

The War Within

organization has the benefit of being in the right place at the right time, with the right team of people behind them. They plan to spend the next several years supporting Ukraine through this critical juncture and hope to eventually apply their View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar

Research Summary

Great Negotiator Study Initiative

By: James K. Sebenius

What can be legitimately be learned from closely studying great negotiators at work? Since 2000, the Program on Negotiation (PON)—an active inter-university consortium mainly comprised of numerous faculty from across... View Details

2023
Book

Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia

By: Meg Rithmire

Developing Asia has been the site of some of the last century's fastest growing economies as well as some of the world's most durable authoritarian regimes. Many accounts of rapid growth alongside monopolies on political power have focused on crony relationships... View Details

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Systems; Crime and Corruption; China; Indonesia; Malaysia

26 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

How Paid Promos Take the Shine Off YouTube Stars (and Tips for Better Influencer Marketing)

course of the year. The researchers found that influencers and marketers have a lot at stake if they don’t handle the relationship carefully. Influencers lose about 382,500 views a year, or $1,530 in annual income, related to reputation cost when viewers feel they’re... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Technology; Media & Broadcasting

01 Sep 2023
News

History Matters

University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, where he remains university professor emeritus and dean emeritus. Recently he spoke with the Bulletin about teachable moments from the previous century and why the events of 1907 remain relevant today. What are some... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

02 Sep 2020
Blog Post

My MBAid Story: Christine Keung (MBA 2020)

when she was three years old and grew up in Los Angeles, where she helped her parents in their tiny Chinese restaurant after school. She reflects on what made HBS such an incredible experience, how she took full advantage of the opportunities available to her, and how... View Details

Portrait Project

Janie McDonough

else it might have been just a messy whiteboard. As a kid, I worked at Flexo-Graphics—my dad’s small printing business—every weekend. Over time, I realized that his whiteboard wasn’t just a lesson in operations, but also an agent of... View Details

15 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

Looking For a Job? Some LinkedIn Connections Matter More Than Others

floor interacting with people every single day,” says Bojinov. “You really need to focus on getting yourself exposed to novel information.” Lessons for job seekers and recruiters The study demonstrates the usefulness of cultivating a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

19 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Birth of the American Salesman

Influence People, published originally in 1937, remains one of the most popular and draws in part on lessons the author learned working as a salesman for Armour. Q: You trace the world of selling in America and the salesman from the... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

09 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

to win? You can think about this in terms of technology standards, and those lessons are likely to have insight for creating standards in other domains like labor and environment. For instance, we learned how networks of firms have... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

09 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

wonderfully in the past no longer suffice. Drawing on the work of a number of thoughtful researchers as well as our own work, we are exploring a set of theories that can help managers respond to the ever-changing circumstances in which they find themselves.... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor & Scott D. Anthony

22 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees

get work done." Just how flexible should companies be? That’s a question many business leaders are wrestling with as they try to balance the needs of the business with the preferences of their employees. Applying lessons gleaned from... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

11 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK

Management lessons for empathic leaders Since the research team studied workplace interactions between co-workers, more research is needed to evaluate how emotional acknowledgment works in hierarchical interactions like those between... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

Web

Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

became one of the nation’s leading investment banks. [ 14] Mark T. Williams, Uncontrolled Risk: The Lessons of Lehman Brothers and How Systemic Risk Can Still Bring Down the World Financial System (New York: McGraw Hill, 2010), 25. [ 15]... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Made in Italy

after the immersion. Styslinger, who studied art history and political science at Yale, delved into the history of capitalism as seen in the art of the Renaissance. For Segel, the art and culture of Italy are inseparable from the business View Details

Keywords: April White

25 Apr 2024
News

Origin Stories

Canadian province of Manitoba, working at the elbow of his entrepreneurial father from age 10. Years later, Schwartz credits the values and lessons absorbed from those formative years for shaping his long-view, relationship-based approach... View Details

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Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023 - MBA

stay true to who I was helped me stand out during the application process. Often, we fixate on trying to be the complete package, however, some of the greatest lessons I have learned come from my weaknesses and failures. It is not if you... View Details

16 Oct 2015
Blog Post

HBS and the Arts

major talent agency with the launch of a new art division. While consulting on the build out of a platform connecting visual artists to licensing and branding opportunities I was able to hone my strategy and marketing skills. I called upon View Details

13 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 13

PublicationsRegulation and UK Retailing Productivity: Evidence from Microdata Authors:Jonathan Haskel and Raffaella Sadun Publication:Economica (September 2011) Abstract We explore the effects of planning regulation on the UK retail sector between 1997 and 2003 using... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

2022
Report

The First Four Healthy Building Strategies Every Building Should Pursue to Reduce Risk from COVID-19

By: Joseph G. Allen, Emily Jones, Marissa V. Rainbolt, Linsey C. Marr, David Michaels, Leslie R. Cadet, Shelly L. Miller, Meira Levinson, Lidia Morawska, Richard L. Corsi, Nira R. Pollock, Yuguo Li, Alasdair P.S. Munro, Kelly Grier, Qingyan Chen, John D. Macomber and Xiaodong Cao

Understanding of the most probable transmission routes and identifying the risk environments for disease spread should always be among the first critical steps in the response to future disease threats. This is one of the most vital public health lessons of the... View Details

Keywords: Health Pandemics; Buildings and Facilities; Risk and Uncertainty; Health Industry; Education Industry; Real Estate Industry