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Tommaso Ruggeri

memory? As a kid, I loved dinosaurs! I had a whole collection of dinosaur toys, and my favorite thing was go to my grandma's house and play with them for hours. I used to meticulously line them all up with my mom, based on their actual... View Details

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Resources - Creating Emerging Markets

conference papers, and graduate level research. Stories of Corruption CEM has started a blog series featuring personal accounts of corruption in emerging markets as a means of fostering transparent data collection on the topic. We invite... View Details

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FAQs - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

our archive. The Center retains recordings for reference during our long-term relationship with clients. They are helpful in multi-year comparisons, but most importantly, they are incredibly helpful for our work with new faculty. Periodically we review the View Details

03 Oct 2017
Sharpening Your Skills

7 Effective Ways to Lead Teams

Affirmation Improves Team Performance Why are teams often unable to capitalize on their collective potential? Research Paper: Diversity and Team Performance in a Kenyan Organization Does team diversity lead to better results? What do you... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 May 2020
Research & Ideas

The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

witnessing firms developing and experimenting with much more radical risk-mitigating technologies. These include developing new products and processes that mitigate contagion risk. For example, in China, robots have been designed to deliver medicines, meals, and to... View Details

Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso

30 Nov 2023
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College Students, Take a Sneak Peek at the HBS MBA

in between. At Peek you’ll have the opportunity to attend multiple sessions that include a career workshop, mock case sessions, an alumni panel, and a current student panel! You’ll have the chance to interact with students from around the world to View Details

08 Feb 2024
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees

electromechanical device, and learned about AI-integrated hardware from my classmates. What has been the highlight of your HBS experience thus far? Every year each HBS section hosts a flag day, where we celebrate the countries that the HBS class View Details

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Published CSV Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

settings. CVS had to navigate a rapidly shifting competitive environment. Discovery Limited by Michael E. Porter, Mark R. Kramer, and Aldo Sesia Discovery Ltd. is a South-African based insurance company. Started in the early 1990s, Discovery used behavioral economics... View Details

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Dean Nitin Nohria | About

collectively they could shift perspectives from “us and them” to “we,” to present realities about “what is,” and to spur ideas and actions to bring about “what could be.” 2019 Schwartz Common & Pavilion Opens Made possible by a gift from... View Details

02 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters

We know surprisingly little about mergers and acquisitions, despite the buckets of ink spilled on the topic. In fact, our collective wisdom could be summed up in a few short sentences: Acquirers usually pay too much. Friendly deals done... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower

04 May 2020
Blog Post

6 Things You Should Know About the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

Give yourself a few months to really pour over the essay questions and find the anecdotes and experiences in your life that you think will allow you to portray your most authentic self. Consult with family, close friends, and colleagues – those who know you best - to... View Details

31 May 2004
Research & Ideas

How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not

Steven Kramer) and I were doing an exploratory study of daily diaries we had collected from 238 people in twenty-six teams working on creative projects in seven different companies. The diaries were in the form of answers to a brief daily... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Tethys | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

became part of the Fogg Museum collection but was never installed. Nearly three decades later, in 1967, the museum transferred the Tethys mosaic to Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, DC, where it was on display in the garden courtyard for two... View Details

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Vicarious Learning in Organizations

To advance the study of how individuals learn through their interactions with others, Professor Myers has adopted a vicarious learning theory lens. Vicarious learning allows individuals to learn from the outcomes of others’ experiences, rather than solely their own... View Details

Keywords: Learning And Development; Learning; Health Industry

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How to Be Bold: The Surprising Science of Everyday Courage

By: Ranjay Gulati

What leads people to speak truth to power, share bold new ideas, or put their lives on the line? Most of us chalk it up to personality, presuming that our heroes are naturally fearless. But what if courage isn’t simply a matter of personality? What if it’s something... View Details

Keywords: Personal Characteristics; Personal Development and Career

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Automotive Product Development

At present, my primary research focus is studying product development in the auto industry. I am working with Stefan Thomke (HBS) and Takahiro Fujimoto (University of Tokyo) on the 4th Round of the Global Automotive Development Study. The first round of this... View Details

24 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention

future.” Cavallo is actually the source for his own data. A decade ago, while a PhD student at Harvard’s Economics Department, Cavallo began collecting pricing data to prove his home country of Argentina was lying about its inflation... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail

20 Jan 2023
Blog Post

The Importance of Mentorship: A Conversation With Professor Ting Zhang

collecting data and writing papers), and I simply could not have gotten through the process without the support of my family and the many grad students and faculty who supported me along the way. I’m in this field and study mentorship... View Details

21 Aug 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

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

Administration at Harvard Business School. “Used well, it changes the basis of competition in industry after industry.” The problem is that, in many cases, big data is not used well. Companies are better at collecting data–about their... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Statistical & Data Services - Research Computing Services

individuals supporting or collaborating with them are provided at no cost for two to three hours per month . Consultations longer than two to three hours and project work for faculty are charged to faculty research budgets at a rate of $40/hour. See our View Details

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