Enhancing Work Life - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007

in the mining industry. Villarzu envisioned moving to a robust IT architecture, enhancing the solutions that were available, identifying further needs in the company and deciding how to fix them, and working... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Fast Facts - Health Care

related to health care since 1997 Executive Education 600 Over 600 participants in 11 health care programs Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Sciences $ 500M Amount raised for 35 companies by Blavatnik Fellows since 2013 Perspectives in Health... View Details

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Alumni Career Guide - Alumni

Update your Alumni Directory Profile Respond to student requests for a phone conversation within five business days. If you often receive more than five requests a week, a staff member in Career & Professional Development or Alumni Relations will View Details

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Software Tools - Research Computing Services

are being used, but this may unintentionally introduce problems or incompatibilities as modules and software evolve over time. It is good documentation and a best practice for research data management to include module loads in your (Bash) cluster submission scripts or... View Details

04 Jun 2018
Blog Post

Reapplying to HBS

dinged. Life went on and, following graduation, I started working for Worthington Industries—a manufacturing company based in Columbus, Ohio. After a few years at Worthington, and a recent promotion to a... View Details

13 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands

face is that they must appeal to a broader array of stakeholders. Nonprofit brands have a dual objective: to enhance fundraising and to ensure the implementation of the organization's mission. In addition, nonprofit organizations tend to... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

21 Aug 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively

to reshape their companies, and explored how they can put data to work for them in ways that create value for their own businesses. The data advantage in sports Big data is already being used heavily in the sports world, students heard... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2001
News

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

“Discovering different cultures is a way of life for me,” says Monsignor Frederick M. Dolan (MBA 1978), the Vicar for Canada of the Prelature of Opus Dei. After several years working abroad, Dolan settled in... View Details

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

07 Jan 2002
Research & Ideas

How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty

associate Arthur McCaffrey. It's also one they are passionate about and determined to solve. As they write in a new working paper that they're preparing for an academic journal, there are more than three billion people in the world who... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education

Chicago, where he worked for the Cook County Department of Weights and Measures. Travis Herndon Brown Jr. HBS 1919–1920 Culpeper, VA Randolph-Macon College, 1914 Travis Herndon Brown entered HBS following his military service in France... View Details

27 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured

proprietary processes, and methodologies. Both types of expertise are clearly valuable. While general experts add greatly to team outcomes—often because so much of knowledge-based work is "learned by doing"—contributions from... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

12 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association

to work on the mission at hand. It has not always been fun, and it’s never been easy, but it has honestly been worth every ounce of struggle. All this hardship has made me the person I am today. I gained perspective from all walks of... View Details

05 Sep 2014
News

Keeping Education in Check

help of a PR company hired by Berman. Their campaign worked. Other charities popped up as a result of Chess for Change. Moves for Life now coaches more than 12,000 students a week in South Africa. ChessKIDS Academy is also coaching 12,000... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Oct 2021
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Furthering the Legacy of Whitney Bowman (MBA 2006)

of 20 years and the mother of their six children, endowed a fellowship in Whitney’s honor on the occasion of what would have been his 15th HBS Reunion. “The School meant so much to Whitney,” says Brittanie, noting he had dreamed of attending HBS from a young age and... View Details

01 Oct 2002
News

Michael F. Cronin

that needs our capital and strategic advice but also has a solid organization and lots of operational know-how.” As a scholarship student at Harvard College, Cronin was president of the Harvard Student Agencies (HSA). “Unlike most of my classmates, I had to View Details

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Shardule Shah

“Daddy! Where’s my magic wand?!” screamed Siyona, my four-year old daughter. “I’m sorry. I’ll be back,” I told a potential investor on a videoconference. Previously, I would have lamented this interruption. But we live in a new world. View Details

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Philippe Rival

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? After six years of working as a civil engineer, the importance and value of adding management skills to an existing engineering and technical base became apparent to me. The MBA was the... View Details

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Introducing One-Step Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

A RESEARCH & MANUFACTURING COMPANY Commercialization of the Polarizer Innovation and the War Effort A Rewarding Working Life INSTANT PHOTOGRAPHY The Idea of Instant Photography Research and Development,... View Details

09 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 9

Publications December 2014 Academy of Management Journal Harnessing Productive Tensions in Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Work Integration Social Enterprises By: Battilana, Julie, Metin Sengul, Anne-claire Pache, and Jacob Model... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Sep 2018
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Optimizing the Coaching Experience for Midcareer Professionals

issue, the loss of a job." The midcareer professional may have a desire to go deeper. Or may recognize that their accumulated knowledge and experience can open previously unavailable options. Whatever the motivation, Butler believes, coaching can help participants... View Details

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