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- 11 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
reports in the news and on social media. Even if gestures of kindness and compassion were not woven into business as usual before the pandemic, they are essential now and going forward. Unfortunately, the... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971
than quantitative analysis. Cases and business are also about human beings, and I always keep that human element in mind." ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "As you set out on your careers, take a long-term view and have a sense of direction... View Details
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Value Measurement for Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
value measurement system. In the process, you will learn how to use the Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) method, which will enable you to more accurately measure costs for individual patients View Details
- 13 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
5 Worries I Had about Applying to HBS
considering getting an MBA and worried about similar issues, I hope you will find this post helpful. Here were my major concerns: 1. I wasn’t interesting enough I studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Lagos, then spent... View Details
- 02 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors’ Prison
fang nu—slaves to their house.” Forget the notion of the home as "castle," protecting the owner from greedy landlords. Forget too the expectation that a physical nest will morph into a nest egg. For 22 percent of people who hold... View Details
- 04 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Getting Accepted to HBS through the 2+2 Program
As I wind down my two years at HBS, it’s hard to believe that this journey started for me almost seven years ago—when I first heard about the 2+2 Program in the fall of my junior year at MIT. I hardly even understood the concept of... View Details
- 10 Nov 2015
- Op-Ed
Authentic Leadership Rediscovered
difficult decisions, terminating people and going against the will of the majority, as required to meet the situational imperative. These difficult actions can be taken while still retaining their... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
in anxiety-inducing ways. Perhaps they would benefit if you made yourself more available for meaningful conversations, or if you offered more flexibility so that both work and personal demands can receive... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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Funding Opportunities - Business & Environment
students may be eligible for project-related expenses during their second year of study. HBS Leadership Fellows (login required): Second-year students entering the nonprofit or public sectors may apply to the Leadership Fellows as a... View Details
- 04 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks
live your daily life. "We have better theories about how you formed a group with your immediate coworkers, friends, and neighbors than we do for those connections that are outside the circle." Spanning Ties Yet those... View Details
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
fellow board members said you could do to be more effective as a board member or as a CEO," Kaufman says. More Comprehensive Assessment Metrics Historically, a board... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips
while, everyone else in the ground-coffee market had done something similar, and it’s been going on ever since. You tend to see this happen at times of increasing costs of raw materials, wages, and energy... View Details
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
also shows how nontransferable certain business ideas are when you take them to contexts without key institutions. In fact, part of Vizio's global strategy is to only go to those markets where Costco is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
You remember stories of leadership, failure, and decision points—facts, figures, and theories, less so.” (Sityodtong now serves as a guest lecturer and entrepreneur-in-residence at INSEAD in Singapore.) He... View Details
- 11 Jul 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Deconstructing 'Customer Experience'
customer-centric. Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain LayoffsCutting the wrong employees can be counterproductive for retailers, One suggestion: Pay special attention to staff who handle mundane tasks such as... View Details
- 07 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President
Pundits love a political horse race, parsing the latest polls to predict who might win an election. And in the final runup to the US presidential contest, these forecasts can influence markets and shape public opinion and policies. But as... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 30 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup
are told that great entrepreneurs are persistent. So, if you throw in the towel, you must not be a great entrepreneur.” It’s hard to let others down. Letting go of an... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 14 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
LOVE At HBS
in my life; expose my vulnerability, share my genuine self, and make them feel loved, accompanied and empowered. Carlos Marin, Class of 2020 You never know when you’re going to meet the love of your life.... View Details
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
information is being used and being sold?" As we show in the case they’re being profiled right down to minutiae. They can pretty much identify who you are. Kenny: Let's go... View Details
Keywords: Re: Liangzong Ma
- 22 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can Amazon Remake Health Care?
How are they going to use it? What safeguards will patients in this new Amazon/One Medical health care have on how their data will be used? I would like regulators to think about and wrestle with that issue. “Amazon is good at selling... View Details