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Cait Haught

endowments and foundations. "I loved the job," Cait says. "I learned something new every day: capital markets, how to talk to clients, how to lead teams. They give you a lot of autonomy and responsibility; I managed a team... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

07 Dec 2022
Blog Post

2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together

Commercializing Climate Tech; The Future of Food. When asked about the experience the co-chairs hoped to cultivate during the Symposium, Angela Son explained: “I hope that our attendees not only learned something new about their field of... View Details

16 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 16

http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/kuziemko%20norton%20saez%20stantcheva_45dd17c7-a8fa-4b91-9ba2-51d5e7349750.pdf December 2014 Organization Science Team Scaffolds: How Mesolevel Structures Support Role-based Coordination in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 7

in press Academy of Management Annals Scaling: Organizing and Growth in Entrepreneurial Ventures By: DeSantola, Alicia, and Ranjay Gulati Abstract—Entrepreneurial ventures face unique challenges related to growth, particularly in the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 May 2020
Blog Post

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

of the things they think you need to know about the HBS/HKS joint degree. It's a three year, integrated program Taniel: Coming to HBS/HKS was an easy choice when I learned that my experience would not be bifurcated. Instead, it truly is... View Details

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Demonstration Policy | About

clarifies, the USRR "guarantees the right of students to learn and study and to make a residential campus their home; the right of faculty and instructors to teach, research, and mentor; and the right of staff to do the vital work... View Details

March 2023 (Revised March 2025)
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Accelerating AI Adoption in the U.S. Air Force

By: Maria P. Roche and Alexander Farrow

In August 2022, the Pentagon tasked U.S. Air Force Captain Victor Lopez to launch a new office for AFWERX, an Air Force innovation unit that leveraged commercial developers and military talent to acquire advanced technologies. This task was particularly arduous because... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Organizational Design; AI and Machine Learning; Adoption; Technology Adoption; United States

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09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

When Benchmarks Don’t Work

product, or service against the best-known similar activity, so that challenging but attainable goals can be set and a realistic course of action implemented to efficiently become and remain best of the best. In one dramatic benchmarking example, General Motors, in the... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service

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Prineeta Kulkarni

organization that had worked since the early 2000s on "changing the paradigm of how HIV was seen in Africa. AIDS did not have to be a death sentence, but something people could manage and live with." Pursuing a more formal study... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech; Nonprofit/Government/Education

26 May 2016
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Mary Callahan Erdoes, MBA 1993

carry with me what I learned at HBS every day.” She also met Philip Erdoes, a classmate, while working out at Shad. She pursued him, and it worked out: the pair married four years later. Her eyes light up when she describes their life... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance

31 May 2004
Research & Ideas

How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not

for testing home health aids). Q: What did you learn from the two "extreme teams" you followed out of a total pool of twenty-six? One, which you call the "Vision" team, received the highest rating for daily perceived... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

organizations to flexibly respond by devising new arrangements and renegotiating the old ones. Salient examples requiring some truly complex negotiations include the convergence of computing, telecommunications, and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Sep 2014
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Keeping Education in Check

100,000 kids have learned the game in the classroom through the joint efforts of Chess for Change and these other charities. And if he has his way, students all over the world will someday be advancing pawns and attacking bishops as part... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online

deadline October 9 View weekly calendar Enroll Now No documentation required All learners must be at least 18 years of age, proficient in English, and committed to learning and engaging with fellow participants throughout the course.... View Details

23 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Arla Foods: How Sustainable Can A Dairy Company Be?

essays posted on the HBS Business and Environment Initiative’s Blog that highlights their reflections. Learn more about this IFC course on Decarbonization and Sustainable Production by watching this five minute video summary. Visit Date:... View Details

24 Oct 2018
Blog Post

The Energy & Environment Club

Green Bank to operations at Tesla. The 40+ first-year MBA students in attendance were eager to learn what to expect from the internship search cycle, from generating a list of target companies to nailing the interview and accepting the... View Details

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Self-environment relationship and its effect on decisions under risk and uncertainty

My research seek to better understand the main cognitive and social abilities that guide our judgments, and the ways they interact with aspects of the situation to shape humans' decisions. It is currently comprised of three related... View Details

07 Aug 2013
What Do You Think?

Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?

contradictory to sound judgment. It only emphasizes it . Judgment is an encapsulation of all those elements data, facts, processes, etc that go into decisions from which we have learned in the past." Joe Schmid said: "Our... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

08 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Recalling My First Cold Call: A Conversation with Second-Year Students

experience for me. In college I studied computer science, and those classes usually don’t have much participation—just a lecture and individual exercises to complete. All of my previous schooling was in Israel, so I was used to a learning... View Details

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