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- 06 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
How to onboard recently graduated MBAs
uninitiated. Brennan suggests that employers look beyond their formal policies to “inventory the expectations that have not been officially codified” and that, once identified, can be shared with newcomers. Look View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
cattle ranching. To learn the value of his crop, a farmer could turn on the radio for regular market updates from commodity exchanges. But prices of the seeds and chemical fertilizer used View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 21 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to Sink a Startup
Wasserman realized that he wanted to learn more about the dilemmas inherent in launching ventures. He returned to HBS, first to earn a PhD (in... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 22 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Agreeing to Disagree Is a Good Beginning
Learning and the Harvard Alumni Association. "What can we all do so that disagreement turns out to be productive rather than damaging?" Gino opened the evening with an example of such constructive sparring.... View Details
Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette
- 10 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
What I Did Differently Before Reapplying to HBS
data analytics group at Control Risks, a smaller, more niche consulting firm, he offered to bring me on as his first hire. I jumped at the opportunity to learn how a team is... View Details
- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
writes in "What Have We Learned from Market Design?" "Among the general tasks markets have to perform, difficulties in providing thickness, dealing with congestion, and making participation... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Entrepreneurial Unit Travels to China
professionals, and 77 corporate and government officials — contacts that will be helpful in future research and course development activities at the School. The group learned that government at all levels is supportive of... View Details
- 18 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Coming to HBS after Military Service
industries. The value add of my experiences to the HBS classroom is something I doubted at the outset of RC year, but as time progressed I began to recognize how lessons I View Details
- 04 Feb 2010
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?
learned that it is helpful to host a 'conversation' between my rational/analytical side and my intuitive side." Phil Clark's advice provides a useful close: "If you are seeking the perfect... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
effectively discuss race, but if they approach it with a sense of openness and learning, they can play an important role in advocating change.” Managers must learn to create safe spaces at work View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Career to Smile About
prices.) "Or how," she continues, "do we apply to Asia - which today has significant macroeconomic issues to resolve - what we learned in Latin America in the 1980s when that... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 20 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness
ecosystem of partnerships and collaborations." Three panelists outlined some of those collaborations. Mary L. Fifield, president of Bunker Hill Community College, described that school's partnership with a consortium of local businesses View Details
Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
but also be really effective. I learned so much at Google about this. I want to tell you the story about getting criticism from my boss because I learned a lot from this... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Fast Lane to Country Lane
TOGETHERNESS: Mark and Kim Lackley based their furniture business in Vermont. Learn on someone else’s dime. That’s a lesson from HBS that served Kim Alley Lackley (MBA ’94) well as she made the leap from software and Internet start-ups... View Details
- 21 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Artificial Intelligence Isn't a Sure Thing to Increase Productivity
turns out that long before robots replace workers en masse, if ever, workers will be using AI-based tools to do work, as is already seen with radiologists who employ such tools to interpret X-rays and... View Details
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How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace - Recruiting
productivity and safety. In a psychologically safe workplace, when mistakes are made and learned from, the company can move forward instead of repeating them in the future. Psychological safety is also closely aligned with a company’s... View Details
- February 2024
- Case
More than Optics: Olympus's Vision to Become a Leading Global MedTech Company
By: David J. Collis and Haisley Wert
In August 2022, CEO Yasuo Takeuchi reflected on Olympus Corporation’s recent transformation from being known as a Japanese consumer camera company to becoming a leading global medical technology (MedTech) company. Over the past dozen years, Takeuchi and prior... View Details
Keywords: Global Human Resource Management; Medical Technology; Corporate Strategy; Transformation; Globalization; Business Model; Leading Change; Organizational Structure; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Japan; United States
Collis, David J., and Haisley Wert. "More than Optics: Olympus's Vision to Become a Leading Global MedTech Company." Harvard Business School Case 724-426, February 2024.
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
Photo courtesy Xiao Wang Photo courtesy Xiao Wang Thirty years ago, at the age of three, Xiao Wang (MBA 2014) came to the United States from Nanjing, China, to join his parents in Los Angeles. The couple had... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 27 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Religion in the Workplace: What Managers Need to Know
leaders to follow: Companies can’t discriminate against protected classes, and they have to provide reasonable accommodations for people’s religions. But a subtler lesson can also be View Details