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01 May 2024
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Working Past 65 Redefines Portfolios and Retirement

22 May 2020
Podcast

How Catalant helps align workforce and work

Large firms aiming to innovate or achieve a degree of agility increasingly look for outside help. Catalant has placed itself at the crux of this dynamic by offering a project management software platform and staffing marketplace for harnessing the skills of internal... View Details

27 Jan 2021
Podcast

Reorienting work and learning around skills building

As work life morphs into an expanding series of limited engagements, education and training need to be retooled for the long haul. Workforce training expert Michelle Weise, author of the new book Long Life Learning: Preparing for Jobs That Don’t Even Exist Yet, says... View Details

24 Mar 2021
Podcast

Spotify’s talent play: distributed, flexible, and diverse

Going into the pandemic, Spotify was well positioned for the increase in demand for streaming music and podcasts. To accommodate the surge and expand its podcast presence, the 15-year-old Swedish company with offices in more than 70 countries increased its staff by a... View Details

28 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 1)

However, I still dream that one day, I will open my own restaurant chain! Sebastián Cisterna, Class of 2023 Being FGLI at Harvard is both a challenge and an opportunity. I often feel that I don’t belong here. I feel uncertain about the... View Details

28 Sep 2023
News

What Ray Dalio Can Teach Us About Global Venture and Startups

Ray Dalio (photo via Bridgewater Associates) and Alex Lazarow (photo by Lindsay Upson) In a recent conversation with Bridgewater Associates Founder Ray Dalio (MBA 1973), Alex Lazarow (MBA 2010) gleaned three insights (and one bonus) from the global hedge fund leader on... View Details

17 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women

access to birth control and health care. Those of us striving to advance gender equity must continue to join with the leaders and thinkers working to advance the rights of other disadvantaged groups to forge... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely

24 Oct 2023
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Pity the Modern Manager—Burnt-Out, Distracted and Overloaded

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Total Cost Control in Project Management via Satisficing

By: Joel Goh and Nicholas G. Hall

We consider projects with uncertain activity times and the possibility of expediting, or crashing, them. Activity times come from a partially specified distribution within a family of distributions. This family is described by one or more of the following details about... View Details

Keywords: Project Management; Time And Cost Control; Robust Optimization; Satisficing; Linear Decision Rule; PERT; Management; Cost Management; Projects

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07 Jul 2023
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Fostering Candor in Teams and Organizations

up and show them respect instead of vilifying or ignoring them encourage future participation. This seemingly simple practice goes a long way in creating an organizational culture that achieves excellence... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Jul 2021
News

Readers Ask: Which Companies Are Transforming Work?

20 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs

If there were a Mount Rushmore for technological innovation, Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs would be the faces looking outward. The longtime CEOs of Microsoft, Intel, and Apple have done more than... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Computer

01 Feb 2001
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Advisory Boards Help HBS Assess and Attain Its Goals

which direction it should proceed, and what the future may bring. The Alumni Association Board of Directors The Alumni Association Board of Directors serves as an important link between alumni View Details

Keywords: Elena N. Berg; boards; alumni; planning; leadership; advice; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

25 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

The Class of 2021 is facing a time unlike any other in human history. In these unprecedented times, we at HBS are so grateful that these students will lead us into a better future filled with possibility, inclusivity, innovation, View Details

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Stata Temporary Files and Stata Tmp - Research Computing Services

remedied by making the /tmp volumes larger. We have, for the most part, increased the size to 1.7 - 2 TB (from 0.5 TB). This is not a sure guarantee of future problems. Another approach is adjusting one's code View Details

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CSV in Practice - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

to working capital Shared Value Initiative Please visit the Shared Value Initiative for more case examples and to learn how practitioners are shaping the future of shared value. Shared Value Initiative View Details

2022
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Creating 'Smart' Policy to Promote Entrepreneurship and Innovation

By: Karen G. Mills and Annie Dang

Entrepreneurship is a key to unlocking innovation and fostering regional and national economic productivity. Extensive studies demonstrate that small and young firms contribute to innovation and employment growth. But which of the many types of small firms are... View Details

Keywords: Economic Policy; High-growth; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Business Startups; Economic Growth; Policy; United States

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01 Mar 2023
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March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books

the inside, in their hearts and minds, they are all just like you and me. The Island of the Fours Ps: A Modern Fable About Preparing for Your Future By Ed Hajim (MBA 1964)... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

26 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

negotiate over the future of the family business. Should the business be sold to a strategic buyer, or should the family retain control? If the business is sold, how should the proceeds of the sale be distributed among family members? If... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Antitrust & Competition Policy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Research Areas Research Areas Antitrust & Competition Policy CEO Leadership Environmental Quality Innovation & Innovative Capacity Philanthropy Social Progress Index Antitrust & Competition ... Antitrust & Competition Policy Innovation View Details

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