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Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online

learn an overarching framework—People, Opportunity, Context, Deal—to evaluate opportunities, manage start-ups, and finance ventures. This course also introduces participants to the idea that entrepreneurs run structured experiments to... View Details

30 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Are You Supporting Your B Players?

By day, managers run themselves ragged worrying about their A players: their stars, their rainmakers, their top 15 percent. By night, the same managers fret over their C players—their bottom 15 percent of staff. The C players are those... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2022
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Future Vision

D^3, getting the labs up and running will be key. For our educational programs, we’re now ready to leverage the space we’ve created for curricular innovation in the Required Curriculum and to look at how we might better support... View Details

Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

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News - Research Computing Services

receive notices when they are running compute-intensive jobs on the login nodes. For more information, see our previous news item . We thank you for your anticipated cooperation as we make improvements to our HBSGrid environment. Our next... View Details

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Ellen Mahoney | About

University, where she contributes as a member of a variety of committees and task forces. Ellen’s previous experience at Harvard University includes running a career and professional development office that served Harvard’s 12,000... View Details

09 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Building Community: Meet the HBS Latino Student Organization Leadership

transition from the workforce into a hectic RC (first) year. I subsequently joined LASO's leadership team as the VP of Career Development and helped plan our annual Adelante Conference. With my classmate’s encouragement, I decided to run... View Details

24 Jul 2017
Blog Post

Transitioning to Product Management at HBS

plethora of tech-focused courses in EC year), to student clubs (the Tech Club is ones of the largest student clubs and does a phenomenal job organizing an annual tech conference and treks to tech companies on both coasts and many in between), to the numerous programs... View Details

29 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

Most of us tend not to think of capitalism as a moral system. The prevailing view of the free market, among laypeople and economists alike, is that it's one step removed from the law of the jungle. But the fact is that capitalism has always had an explicit moral... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Selected Digital Historical Resources – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

the Depression The studies monitoring the output of relay assembly workers, which began in 1927, continued until 1932, becoming the longest running Hawthorne experiments. The six operators studied in a separate test room were single women... View Details

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Bridgette Slater

is where my roots are, where my family is, and the land to which I feel most spiritually connected. It is a special place full of tight-knit community and Southern hospitality – plus you can’t go for more than 10 minutes without running... View Details

18 Apr 2016
Blog Post

Meet the HBS Family Business Club

businesses and have run their own family businesses prior to HBS. They are also a great resource for students at HBS. While most members intend to return to their family businesses in some capacity in the future (board member, operating... View Details

26 Nov 2001
Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

truth. It turns business decisions into elaborate exercises in gaming. It sets colleague against colleague, creating distrust and ill will. And it distorts incentives, motivating people to act in ways that run counter to the best... View Details

Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen

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Emily Schlichting

participating in the joint degree MBA/MPP program with HBS and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Why the joint degree? "If you're running a health care business, you can't succeed without understanding government policy. If... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech; Nonprofit/Government/Education

01 Oct 1996
News

Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)

time for family activities. "I've eliminated most of my overnight trips," he notes, "and I try to arrive home on weeknights in time for dinner." His involvement in athletics these days is limited to running four to five miles on weekends... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

14 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need

of delivering effective patient care. Then you need to make sure that the incentives physicians face do not run counter to their using the most effective approach for a given patient. Making all of this happen may require physicians to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

01 Apr 2000
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Student "Treks" Lead to Jobs and Opportunities

With interest running high in areas such as entrepreneurship, technology, new media, and the Internet, HBS student career "treks" to venues like Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, and London have become all the rage during the holiday break.... View Details

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

After all, employees are worried not just about keeping their jobs and how their business is faring, but about the welfare of their families and friends, their personal finances, and even the logistics of squeezing in a germ-harrowing run... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

12 Feb 2021
News

How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World

He recalls this moment in his new book, Around the Corner to Around the World: A Dozen Lessons I Learned Running Dunkin’ Donuts. “Up until that point,” he writes, “the only thing I had managed were a couple of donut shops—replacing... View Details

Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

04 Feb 2021
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Andy Jassy Named Amazon’s New CEO

Amazon announced this week that Andy Jassy (MBA 1997) will take over the role of CEO from founder Jeff Bezos later this year. Jassy has been with Amazon since 1997 and currently runs Amazon Web Services, which the Wall Street Journal... View Details

29 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas

One might expect first-time entrepreneurs to pick up speed as they churn out more products, but new research finds that nascent firms typically launch second products six weeks later than originally planned. What’s more, with each successive product, delays continue to... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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