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30 Oct 2014

HBS 2+2 Information Session at University of Maryland

Join us to learn more about the 2+2 application process to the MBA program at HBS. The event will include a presentation and an opportunity to ask questions to an Admissions Officer. Registration is not required but encouraged. The... View Details

27 Oct 2014

HBS 2+2 Information Session at University of Chicago

Join us to learn more about the 2+2 application process to the MBA program at HBS. The event will include a presentation and an opportunity to ask questions to an Admissions Officer. Registration is not required but encouraged. The... View Details

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Trade Cards - The Art of American Advertising

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

10 Dec 2021
News

New NYC Law Restricts Hiring Based on Artificial Intelligence

21 Feb 2014
Blog Post

Cautious Optimism: A Recap of the Harvard India Conference

Indian politics. For HBS students looking for career opportunities in India, this was a rare chance to meet and interact with many senior leaders of Indian industry in a relaxed setting. The networking... View Details

13 Jun 2014
Op-Ed

World Cup Soccer: 770 Billion Minutes of Attention

Toyota's 333,000 global workforce. “FIFA has the potential to generate $23 billion in revenue in a month” Most of the attention-getting opportunities the World Cup offers both on and off the field are sold... View Details

Keywords: by Thales Teixeira; Sports

15 May 2013
Research & Ideas

From McRibs to Maseratis: The Power of Scarcity Marketing

years, when he "drove exuberantly." Car-sharing companies like Zipcar provide customers with a similar opportunity for exuberance by turning driving back into a treat. Whereas traditional car rental companies choose standard... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael I. Norton

12 Jan 2004
What Do You Think?

How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?

Summing Up The exportation of jobs "will create bigger markets and opportunities to sell goods and services from the developed economies," says reader Suman Das. "This is indeed very... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Aug 2019
Blog Post

A Summer of Peaks and Swells: Interning at Patagonia

practices and calling on businesses to join 1% for the planet, the fair trade movement and to become a B Corp. I am immensely grateful to have had the opportunity to be at the forefront of innovation and... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products / Retail

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark

process stalled in reverse. This study suggests opportunities for future empirical research. Future studies could analyze the evolution of once-comparable clusters such as the financial centers in Paris and... View Details

Keywords: by Donald Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

December 2022
Article

Divergence Between Employer and Employee Understandings of Passion: Theory and Implications for Future Research

By: Jon M. Jachimowicz and Hannah Weisman

There is an increasingly prevalent expectation in contemporary society that employees be passionate for their work. Here, we suggest that employers and employees can have different understandings of passion that potentially conflict. More specifically, we argue that... View Details

Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Human Capital; Performance Effectiveness; Management Style

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18 Aug 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

extraordinary” "As long as students really dig hard and ask questions about themselves and the opportunity at hand, the contest is a terrific part of the MBA experience that has only gained strength over the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

15 Jun 2018
News

Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life

to be happy on a daily basis. But the way that we achieve happiness, the way that we find the precondition of meaningfulness that let's us be happy is that we in some ways do the opposite of this. We look... View Details

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Bringing a Taste of Japan to the World - Global Activities 2020

opportunities for me in terms of learning and contacts in Boston,” he shares. Sasago also found support in Boston’s Japanese business community and from fellow ramen enthusiast Masato Nakamura (MBA 2020),... View Details

11 Mar 2024
Blog Post

ClimateCAP and the Bonus of Climate Educator Collaboration

about all of the above and more. Working together to share ideas, pain points, and successes is critical. There are several examples of collaboration in addition to ClimateCAP that I have the View Details

02 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market

Market categories—SUVs, smartphones, hip replacement surgeons—help facilitate commerce and other "market exchanges" by providing a basis for comparison and valuation. If I am hunting for a new SUV, for example, I can quickly research that category View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2000
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

maybe even required by nonprofits for their board members. Both were smashing successes. These challenging programs — along with faculty presentations at the reunions and the annual Global Alumni Conferences — offer us a key opportunity... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Jun 2001
News

Monsignor Frederick Dolan Finds a New Calling at HBS Club of Montreal

club. But I was reminded that there is a great openness here and a wide diversity of backgrounds.” He looks upon the role as an opportunity to interact with new people and a new culture. “Montreal is a city... View Details

Keywords: Elena N. Berg; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

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Achieving Value in Highly Complex Acute Care: Lessons from the Delivery of Extra Corporeal Life Support

By: Michael Nurok, Jonathan Warsh, Erik Dong, Jeffrey Lopez, Mayumi Kharabi and Robert S. Kaplan

We applied a value (outcomes and cost) analysis to extracorporeal life support (ECLS), a relatively rare but very expensive ICU therapy with highly variable outcomes. To address the outcome component of the value approach, we created guidelines for ECLS delivery; to... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management; Value; Analysis