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Klarman Hall | About

basis of health and disease, supporting the Jewish community and Israel, expanding access to services and... View Details

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impact on any graduate school admissions panel. However, PRIMO is a high-profile program that supports summer research, and PRIMO fellows will benefit from the opportunity to develop an interdisciplinary... View Details

01 Jan 2011
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Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977

Council on Foreign Relations 2007 Becomes chair of Maine's Council on Competitiveness and the Economy 2009 Named administrator of the US Small Business Administration... View Details

04 Apr 2023
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How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?

doing a terrible job of it, with little preparation and training for middle managers primarily responsible for the success of the process. Also, the impact of remote work on organization culture has yet to be determined. We can assume... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Benefits | Predoctoral Researchers

a variety of discounts and perks, including subsidized public transit. Research Staff Services Office We are here to support you throughout the duration of the program,... View Details

11 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

are you working on next? A: Given the success we've had with the structure of this novel in classrooms and with readers so far, with the support of our talented Harvard Business Press team, we're extending... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

2018
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Show or Tell? Improving Agent Decision Making in a Tanzanian Mobile Money Field Experiment

By: Jason Acimovic, Chris Parker, David F. Drake and Karthik Balasubramanian

When workers make operational decisions, the firm's global knowledge and the workers’ domain-specific knowledge complement each other. Oftentimes workers have the final decision-making power. Two key decisions a firm makes when designing systems to support these... View Details

Keywords: Employees; Decision Making; Training; Performance Improvement; Money; Mobile Technology; Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Services Industry

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01 Jan 2013
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Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960

Hewlett-Packard, Financial Analyst 1974 Named Assistant Administrator, Federal Energy Administration 1981 Cofounds Applied Energy Services 1991 AES goes public 1991 Establishes The Summit Foundation 1994... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

09 Nov 2023
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From the Brink

people of Puerto Rico were potentially grave.” Looming ahead was a major payment due for the island’s general obligation bonds, which, by law, would have to be paid even if it meant cuts to essential services such as police View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

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Is AI Coming for Your Job?

prudent approach for knowledge workers is to harness the potential of AI as a complementary tool, amplifying their capabilities and adapting to the evolving landscape of work. Iavor Bojinov is an Assistant Professor of Business View Details

06 Jul 2023
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Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations

of other companies would want to take advantage of that scale as well. We did the same thing with our streaming product. And so we built a third-party business, we started to offer that service to other... View Details

28 May 2020
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How to Fit in at HBS

and conversational mind. The cases used in each course are challenging and support the foundation of the academic rigor at HBS. But the section—the incredibly diverse group of... View Details

20 Jan 2023
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The Importance of Mentorship: A Conversation With Professor Ting Zhang

collecting data and writing papers), and I simply could not have gotten through the process without the support of my family and the many grad... View Details

01 Mar 2023
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How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?

(iStockphoto/PeopleImages) An organization’s mission is widely recognized as its reason for being. Enlightened leaders have long known and believed that the heart of an organization’s culture is described not just by “how we do things... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

09 Nov 2023
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The No. 1 Character Trait You Will Need to Succeed in Business

Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and the author of Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies (Harper Business). Listen... View Details

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Indoor Spaces | About

Indoor Spaces Many indoor spaces inside the buildings of the Harvard Business School campus have been named in honor or in memory of donors, alumni, faculty, and friends of HBS. Anderson Classroom The Franklin R. Anderson Classroom,... View Details

07 May 2013
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First Look: May 7

and the concentration of the certification industry. We also analyze the possibility that certifiers opt for a quick turnaround time at the expense of a lower accuracy. Finally, we investigate the opportunity of regulating transparency. ... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

29 Aug 2018
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What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?

overseas components.” There were concerns that the Company could become involved in politics and lose its needed focus on new markets. Supporting the plant in Thailand, Erich Almasy suggested that, “Politics... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto

01 May 2020
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5 Reasons to Join a Club at HBS

85 active student clubs, with new clubs created every semester. As elected Senators, we have the privilege of representing our Sections in the HBS Student Association. Part of our job includes sitting on the Clubs committee. We support... View Details

01 Dec 2019
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Bridging the Gap

there was zero budget to promote awareness of the effort and encourage completion of its online survey. “Thanks to YALP, we were able to have the support and engagement of many... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs

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