Year Up - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2022

amazing people in business school, but I had no idea I’d meet Weston. Weston and I met in October of our RC (first) year on a singles’ boat cruise. Despite the brisk Boston weather, Weston warmed me up... View Details

14 Feb 2019
Blog Post

LOVE At HBS

supposed to be a 6-week project. I ended up staying for almost 10 months. I decided to lose those months in Toronto, my home city at that time, without thinking twice about it. After a year together, Andrés... View Details

10 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

High Commitment, High Performance Management

last twenty years my colleagues at TruePoint and I have asked leadership teams to define a strategic direction (business strategy and values) and then commission a task force of their best performers one to two levels below them to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2023
News

End Game

percent of sales or 10 percent of profits every year to fight the environmental crisis. As he approached age 80, “Yvon wanted to up the ante even more,” Conn says. The result was a new mission statement: We... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

12 May 2020
Blog Post

Leaving a Career in Tech for Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship

I’m Gaurav Bhogale, from the HBS class of 2021. While I grew up in Mumbai, before HBS I spent 8 years at Google in San Francisco and Sydney, helping drive product engagement and growth for apps like Google... View Details

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

Repeated and, as of this writing, ongoing revelations of corporate wrongdoing over the past two years have eroded public trust in business institutions and executives to levels not seen in decades. A recent Gallup poll indicates that... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

03 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?

hiring net, Choudhury points out. “There was a recent report that the diversity of [Twitter’s] workforce has gone up because of work-from-anywhere. If a company allows working from anywhere, then you can hire from anywhere,” he says.... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

25 May 2021
Research & Ideas

White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?

travel industry. People eager to shake off their COVID-19 cabin fever are gearing up to take vacations, raising Airbnb bookings by 52 percent last quarter from a year earlier. Harnessing artificial... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology; Accommodations

01 Dec 2022
News

My First Job

Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Ross MacDonald Here’s the humbling truth: no matter how high your career soars, how many awards you win or companies you sell or differences you make in this world, everyone has to start somewhere. And in those first... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

25 Jan 2017
HBS Case

How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?

about how the ads may affect the perceptions of young consumers. “The advertising industry has to stand up for what is right,” she says in the case. “Our young people are already being bombarded with several messages that cause self-doubt... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Beauty & Cosmetics

13 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Career Journey: Karan Khimji, Co-Founder of 44.01

Tell us a little about your background. I grew up in Oman, an incredibly beautiful country blessed with mountains, oceans, and deserts. I spent weekends going on treks in the mountains, scuba diving, or just spending time at the beach.... View Details

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

to set up their Mission Related Investment Program. Key Themes: Knowing how much to ask for and when can sometimes be as important as the ask itself. Making large institutional changes towards MRI is challenging, though significant... View Details

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

cost performance of IT technologies over the first forty years changed by roughly 107, and for the foreseeable future will continue to evolve at the same rate. That is in sharp contrast to a train, which after eighty View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

29 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

The $1 Trillion Link Between Mental Health and Economic Productivity

significantly less likely to suffer from symptoms of anxiety and depression, like crying more than once a week, waking up several times a night, or feeling worthless,” Ashraf says. The reason? People feel more mentally healthy when they... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

02 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 2

gross margin for retailers using historical data. We show that sales forecasts from this model are more accurate than consensus forecasts from equity analysts. Further, the residuals from this model for one fiscal year are used to predict... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Nov 2010
First Look

First Look: November 9, 2010

job. Read the paper: http://hbr.org/2010/11/which-of-these-people-is-your-future-ceo/ar/1 Are Lagging Regions Catching Up with Leading Regions? Authors:Lakshmi Iyer, Ejaz Ghani, and Saurabh Mishra Publication:In The Poor Half Billion in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Nov 2017
Blog Post

5 Worries I Had about Applying to HBS

The first time I thought seriously about the Harvard MBA was after work colleagues suggested I apply. It sounded daunting, but I like challenges and I had little to lose. I wanted to test myself at this new level, get an international world-class education, and explore... View Details

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How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Sam Perez Diarte - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st... View Details

07 Jan 2002
Research & Ideas

How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty

spur agriculture. Or the supermarket going up in the inner city. What can a marketing background say to you when your goal is not to sell Coca-Cola, but to offer a better existence to people on the edge? That's the puzzle facing HBS... View Details