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    Jill J. Avery

    Dr. Jill Avery is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator in the marketing unit at Harvard Business School. She is a respected authority on branding and brand management, customer relationship... View Details

    Keywords: consumer products; arts; advertising; automobiles; retailing; fashion; hotels ＆ motels; food; beverage
    • Program

    The Women's Leadership Forum

    and leadership skills to the next level. By focusing on your leadership potential, sharing experiences and insights with peers, and trying out new ideas in a supportive environment, you'll prepare to confront the key challenges in your... View Details
    • April 2011
    • Article

    Strategies for Learning from Failure

    By: Amy C. Edmondson
    Many executives believe that all failure is bad (although it usually provides lessons)--and that learning from it is pretty straightforward. The author, a professor at Harvard Business School, thinks both beliefs are misguided. In organizational life, she says, some... View Details
    Keywords: Learning; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Leadership; Business Processes; Organizational Culture; Failure; Opportunities
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    • 21 Apr 2016
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Perils of Building Democracy in Africa

    Keywords: by Benjamin Marx, Vincent Pons, and Tavneet Suri
    • 2013
    • Book

    Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending

    By: Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton
    If you think money can't buy happiness, you're not spending it right. Two rising stars in behavioral science explain how money can buy happiness—if you follow five core principles of smarter spending. Happy Money offers a tour of new research on the science of... View Details
    Keywords: Happiness; Spending; Personal Finance
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    • June 2009 (Revised January 2011)
    • Case

    Target Corporation: Ackman versus the Board

    By: Krishna G. Palepu, Suraj Srinivasan and James Weber
    After 15 years of great performance, Target's faltering performance during an economic downturn led an activist shareholder to initiate a proxy fight. Target Corporation, the second largest discount store retailer in the U.S., had competed successfully against industry... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Investment Activism; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business Strategy; Value; Retail Industry
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    • 2010
    • Chapter

    Women and Leadership: Defining the Challenges

    By: Robin J. Ely and Deborah L. Rhode
    We use the experience of Carly Fiorina as an introduction to the continued challenges faced by women in top leadership roles. Although Fiorina, on becoming CEO of Hewlett Packard in 1999, asserted that "there is not a glass ceiling," her memoir eight years later... View Details
    Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Leadership; Perception; Behavior; Attitudes; Gender
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    • 11 Feb 2021
    • Blog Post

    2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Ali Evans (MBA 2019)

    student business manager within HSA, I gained valuable business and leadership experience managing teams of up to 25 employees and helped launch a startup that was venture funded and is still growing today. As I approached my final year... View Details
    • October 2018 (Revised February 2020)
    • Case

    Commonwealth Bank of Australia: Unbanklike Experimentation

    By: Ryan W. Buell and Leslie K. John
    Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.

    In August 2017, Commonwealth Bank of Australia was looking for ways to differentiate itself from competing banks and was also trying to improve the financial well-being of... View Details
    Keywords: Transparency; Experimentation; Banks and Banking; Credit Cards; Customer Focus and Relationships; Competitive Strategy; Banking Industry; Australia
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    • 07 Nov 2017
    • Blog Post

    Women and the MBA: 6 Important Aspects of the HBS Program

    At Harvard Business School, 42% of the MBA Class of 2019 are women, and the Women’s Student Association (WSA) is the largest club on campus. Women can face unique challenges in the workplace, and we often hear questions from prospective students about how women View Details
    • July–August 2023
    • Article

    What Smart Companies Know About Integrating AI

    By: Silvio Palumbo and David Edelman
    AI has the power to gather, analyze, and utilize enormous volumes of individual customer data to achieve precision and scale in personalization. The experiences of Mercury Financial, CVS Health, and Starbucks debunk the prevailing notion that extracting value from AI... View Details
    Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Customization and Personalization; Integration; Technology Adoption
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    Summer Venture in Management

    greater impact. An MBA degree gives you the leverage make the most out of every opportunity that comes your way.” OLAMIDE OLOWE (SVMP 2017) SVMP Stories 24 JAN 2023 MBA Voices Dispelling Myths About HBS Through My Summer Venture in Management View Details

      Jon M. Jachimowicz

      Jon M. Jachimowicz is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches the Leadership and Organizational Behavior course (LEAD) in the Required Curriculum. He studies... View Details

      • 21 Aug 2019
      • Blog Post

      Leveraging Academic Opportunities to Attain My Post-HBS Job

      been able to through an ordinary interview preparation process. Exploring the academic side of the job search also opened me up to experiences I would have never imagined. Professor Mills had been writing a book about the FinTech... View Details
      • 31 May 2015
      • News

      The trend towards board term limits is based on faulty logic

      • Career Coach

      Pamela Harder

      Pam (HBS / HKS ‘13, Stanford ‘08 Economics) has spent the last 12 years working at the nexus of business and government. Currently, she runs Virginia's state-wide economic development talent investment strategy. As a Managing Director within state government's economic... View Details
      Keywords: Consulting; Education; Emerging Markets; Government; Social Enterprise; Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Energy; Consumer Finance; Financial Services (All); Impact Investing; Financial Services (All)
      • 26 Jun 2000
      • Research & Ideas

      Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia

      Why have various countries of the former Soviet Union taken such dramatically different economic paths since the Union's breakup? This has been a lingering puzzle of the post-Cold War period. Lithuania, for instance, has turned its attention westward, pursuing economic... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace
      • 02 Jun 2016
      • News

      Harvard researchers have concluded that not all women should “lean in” for salary negotiations

      • 23 Jul 2018
      • Blog Post

      Summer Snapshot: Interning at a Robotics Start-Up

      and Co-Founder. I didn’t have prior experience in agriculture space, therefore I have conducted many interviews with industry experts, academics, potential customers, and attended the nationwide United Fresh Show to learn more. I have... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology

        Allison H. Mnookin

        Allison Mnookin is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management (TOM) Unit at the Harvard Business School.  She currently is the co-chair of the first-year MBA Technology and Operations Management course. In addition, she... View Details