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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
Liang and her team built filters that would spit out a list of the top-rated options available. Meanwhile in the evenings, to blow off steam, Liang took to her lifelong passion, which is dance. But finding new classes meant cross-checking... View Details
- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
not commercialize the innovations. It was Steve Jobs and his Apple team that saw the possibilities during visits in 1979 and made them the cornerstone of the Macintosh. In other words, while Xerox may have invented many wonderful things,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
arena.” Related Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-Ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters In the process of teaming up with fellow students to write business plans, working with their... View Details
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
renewal. This change process involves disciplined conversations, actions, and associated learning by the senior team, diffusing these learning capabilities to the extended senior leadership team and, over... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Jeremy Andrus
huge amount of unglamorous business activities behind the scenes that is critical to Skullcandy’s survival. Let’s talk about the glamour for a minute—the celebrity sports endorsements, team sponsorships, promotions featuring models and... View Details
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The Campus Emerges - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
the deliberate movement of the long crane as it dipped downward. With a huge gulp the steam shovel swallowed it first scoopful of earth on the site of the new business school.” Harvard Business School Bulletin, 1925 Construction of Weeks Bridge. As work commenced, the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger
John Batcha (MBA '54) was ready to grow his own organization. With a $50,000 grant from the Kellogg Foundation, he teamed with Partners of the Americas, the largest private volunteer organization in the Western Hemisphere, to develop a... View Details
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action
alone do not a learning organization make. The necessary complement is a mind-set of inquiry and experimentation, plus a knowledge-sharing process that enables everyone in a company to act in an informed way upon what's been learned... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
fixed through better coding or inputs. “There is no more biased instrument than the human brain,” she observes. At HBS, Polli says she witnessed a recruiting process that was rife with bias and bad data. Employers screened job seekers... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
There Are No HBS People, Just People Who Happen to Go to HBS
I came. I interned two more summers, and I just knew I’d work there full-time. However, my second summer I brushed shoulders with P&G’s brand team and started to realize I enjoyed customer clinics much more. I wanted more influence on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
makes it much more efficient. By moving negotiations online, the process happens much faster; what used to take months, can now take weeks. Due to the complexity of shipping large quantities of materials worth millions of dollars between... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
Business School Press), a new book by HBS professor Dorothy Leonard and Professor Walter Swap of Tufts University. The authors not only disprove the stereotypical perception of group creativity as an oxymoron but show how the group creative View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
ask for legal help and being able to process that help effectively are teachable managerial skills. Managers also need to understand the importance of keeping their lawyers in the loop, not just on discrete legal queries but on an ongoing... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 21 May 2020
- Blog Post
Creating a World with Trusted Leaders: An Open Letter from MBA Students
reminded us of the importance of remembering this in the future. Sarika and Steve, who are also my section-mates, were on the same call. They too believe that fair employee treatment is something companies should make a top priority and that’s how our View Details
- 20 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee
previously been employed, was now the director of the newly-formed Airbel Innovation Center, an internal team focused on bringing human centered design and innovation to the humanitarian space. With the help of Harvard’s Summer Fellows... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
mathematics. Yet they often struggle to fit the profiles sought by employers. A growing number of companies, including SAP, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Microsoft, have reformed their HR processes in order to access neurodiverse... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
Health in Mirebelais, Haiti. A project team mapped the clinical processes for use in estimating the direct costs of personnel, equipment, and facilities for obstetric and breast cancer care. The accurate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset
own credibility and discerning the interests of other key players. Their three stories illustrate different elements of the process of building your bargaining endowment: (1) grab someone's coattails, (2) foster a reputation for... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
wouldn't face the domino effect that many people face when they don't have savings accounts or other resources that my classmates and I had." Emotional Costs And Worst Practices And so the students teamed up with the professor on a... View Details
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
existing, entrenched systems and processes of the larger enterprise. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/816048-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 816-042 Clover Food Lab: Building Out the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel