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15 Jul 2020
Blog Post

From Teacher to Student: The Important Ways HBS Professors Showed Me How to Lead

leadership. They both require being deeply committed to and supportive of the development of your people, making the extra effort to get to know them fully, and showing care even in the smallest moments. My professors were not only teaching us how to be leaders; they... View Details

30 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators

curious or wrong in their environment.” Related Reading: The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations Henry Kissinger's Lessons for Business Negotiators Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations What do you think of this research? Have... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2023
News

Engaging Students More Deeply

fully capture the passion Moskowitz and her team have for every detail of their schools, realized Greenwood. It also couldn’t effectively show how focused the young students are on their lessons while sitting in their designated spots.... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Our Values | About

alumni—is complete, we then will develop an action plan outlining specific steps we might take to address antisemitism at the School. The lessons we learn from this effort will help us examine other hidden forms of discrimination that... View Details

16 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.

Lessons from Chinese Companies’ Response to Covid-19 (Harvard Business Review) What Quarantine Can Teach You About Spending and Happiness (Wall Street Journal) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge What principles should your firm... View Details

Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim; Retail; Service

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

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

Teaching Interest

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By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang

Launching Technology Ventures
Launching Technology Ventures (LTV) is designed for students who are actively working on their own startups or who will work at early-stage startups. The course material is, in particular, focused on new businesses in the... View Details

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Commitment to Teaching - MBA

individual case review, writing notes and lessons plans, and collaborative analysis among colleagues. While instructing classes, teaching takes priority over every other obligation including research, writing, and administrative duties.... View Details

30 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

The Future of IT Consulting

key to its robust development. Q: What lessons can operations managers take away from your research? A: There are a number of lessons we think are important for operations managers: Many functional and... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Consulting

20 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

Steps to Help You Get Out of Your Own Way

Work Isn't Enough: How to Find Your EdgeLife isn't fair, especially in the workplace. Laura Huang offers a new strategy for uncovering and showcasing your unique value in the face of obstacles. A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading Thomas... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Careers: Cloud Kitchens Are Now Serving

tougher, especially when there is no opportunity for in-person interactions. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) Lessons... View Details

Keywords: by Lena Ye and Geoffrey Jones; Food & Beverage

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Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content Exhibition Homepage Exhibition Introduction The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography Documenting the Wartime Effort Labor Practices Post-war PR Campaigns Reaching Wide Audiences... View Details

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Negotiation Course Online | HBS Online

concepts and techniques. At the end of the program, you will receive a PDF compilation of all of the module summary documents. In addition, you will also receive a personalized workbook that tracks your own performance, your lessons... View Details

15 Feb 2024
News

Startup Shepherds

By their count, Catalina Daniels and Jim Sherman (both MBA 1991) listened to approximately 300 startup pitches in 2016, the first year the HBS classmates worked side by side as angel investors in New York. “You meet a lot of very smart people, with what sound like good... View Details

Keywords: April White

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

15 Jun 2021
News

Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock

Illustration by Lincoln Agnew Pete Stavros (MBA 2002) got his first lessons in labor relations as a kid at the dinner table, when his father, who operated a road grader at construction sites, told the family about his day. The elder... View Details

Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

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

01 Sep 2022
What Do You Think?

Is It Time to Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports?

basic lesson in comparative advantage that we learned years ago in Economics 101. Would elimination of tariffs on Chinese product, much of it better suited for production in China, make at least a small contribution to the needed... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

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

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

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