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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

This course is part of the CLIMB program and Leadership & Management track. Introduction to Organizational Leadership ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! Organizational Leadership... View Details

07 Apr 2022
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Product Management at HBS: Roll Up Your Sleeves and Learn by Doing

Weston Ruths is enrolled in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program Class of 2022, and is a member of HBS Section D. After graduating from Rice University in 2016 with a degree in Computer Science, he joined the Marine Corps and served... View Details

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Digital Innovation - Alumni

new ways. HBS for Life HBS supports alumni in their professional development and personal growth at every age or career stage through extensive online resources and programs and events. How You can Help The easiest way for donors to... View Details

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 Jun 2024
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Leveraging Generative AI

learning. Last year, the MBA Program introduced ChatGPT as a component of the required course Data Science for Managers and the elective Launching Tech Ventures (see below). Faculty members have integrated it into other courses as well,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Redefining Capitalism - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

creation Shared value thinking will drive the next wave of innovation, productivity, and economic growth A transformation of business practice around shared value will give purpose to the corporation and... View Details

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K–12 Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

invest in a new company-owned and operated techn... Helping Children Catch Up: Early Life Shocks and the PROGRESA Experiment By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Theresa Molina, Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo January 2024 | Economic Journal Can... View Details

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Business Insights Blog | HBS Online

Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Topics Topics Accounting Analytics Business Essentials Business in Society Career Development Communication Community ConneXt Decision-Making Digital Transformation Earning Your MBA Entrepreneurship &... View Details

03 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?

drain from the suburbs, and redefine demographics in many locations, says Choudhury, the Lumry Family Associate Professor at HBS. In The Changing Geography of Work: Priorities for Policy Makers, published recently by the Organisation for View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

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After the Opium War: Treaty Ports and Compradors - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive... View Details

08 Mar 2022
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Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders

cases taught through the School’s four comprehensive leadership programs had a female protagonist. Among courses that focused on a specific topic, such as innovation or strategy, 19 percent of cases featured a female protagonist. What do... View Details

Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg

01 Dec 2022
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Future Vision

about what we can do post-pandemic. We’ve already begun to experiment by inviting alumni to the hybrid classroom as participants in case discussions. Professor Karim Lakhani, for example, led a Short Intensive Program (SIP) last January... View Details

Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

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Faculty - Private Capital Project

Faculty Faculty Co-Directors Victoria Ivashina Lovett-Learned Professor of Business Administration Victoria Ivashina is the Lovett-Learned Chaired Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School. She is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of View Details

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The New Role for Government & NGOs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

kind works against it and even makes tradeoffs between economic and social goals inevitable. Traditional Roles New Roles Philanthropists Donate to charitable causes Partner with companies and NGOs to catalyze shared value initiatives NGOs... View Details

11 Jul 2006
First Look

First Look: July 11, 2006

tolerating poor quality and irregular delivery. Economic changes in the last decade of the twentieth century introduced an outlook in Russian business which might be viewed as a form of "market orientation," particularly among... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 May 2022
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Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023

Military Academy (USMA) Why did you decide to pursue an MBA? I decided to pursue an MBA because I wanted to immerse myself in a challenging program that would further me personally and professionally. By taking a temporary step back from... View Details

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Research - Private Capital Project

deposits, sudden widespread drawdowns on credit lines can be destabilizing to the banking sector. However, we... Spring 2024 Brookings Papers on Economic Activity The Evolution of Banking in the 21st Century: Evidence and Regulatory... View Details

07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

systematic program for identifying and serving its key clients, developed in collaboration with Cranfield School of Management. It is these clients that will be the focus of the efforts for the CDC. In addition, the firm has co-developed... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Jan 2011
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Being the Boss

manager," Hill says. "What I've come to understand is that many of them never really made the psychological transformation from being an individual contributor to being a manager, and it really resonates with them when they read... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

15 Jun 2021
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Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock

recalls his father asking. That question stayed with Pete Stavros. There had to be a better way. Early in his career as an investor, Stavros was part of a deal with a company that had an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), an employer-funded, stock-based retirement... View Details

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

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