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- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Navigating Uncertainty: Dean Datar on HBS’s Path Forward
With Harvard navigating an array of pressures, Jana Kierstead, Executive Director of the MBA and Doctoral Programs and External Relations, spoke with Dean Srikant Datar about how HBS is responding to new challenges while maintaining its focus on strategic priorities.... View Details
- 11 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #2: Sam Steyer, Greenwork
for free. The platform helps programs address problems of staffing and budgetary constraints for career placement, as well as data management to connect students to jobs. Greenwork’s platform also gives trainers the ability to track... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
you're the president, but our differences about how to run it are getting bigger, and our relationship is deteriorating quickly. I think the best thing is for me to leave." The elder Pellegrin, 58 years old, was momentarily stunned. His mind flashed View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
such as, "How do we deal with family relying too much financially on the business, because family dependence can drain the very life out of the business if we give in to it too much?" "How do we develop the next generation... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
DOWNLOAD Flighty “It’s a premium app for frequent-fliers that gives you the fastest, most granular data on your flights. I jet between meetings in NYC and SF a few times a month, so Flighty is my welcome wingman!” —Alex Taussig (MBA... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
commission rates. Strategic planning was the newest and the best management tool. A young HBS professor named Michael Porter was giving fascinating lectures on competitiveness. In those days before the kinder and gentler CEO came into... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 21 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect
competitors' scores are increasing faster it should be a cause for alarm. Acquisition rates may be robust, but if old customers are abandoning ship as fast as new ones are coming on board, strong acquisition can give a deceptive picture... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Celebrating our Student Fathers
your experience is the result of how you choose to prioritize them. As a new dad, I have decided to prioritize time with family at the very top of my list and it has been great! I am confident that I will look back years from now and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
Business and the Business of Science,” these and other ideas were batted back and forth by academics and scientists from across Harvard University, along with HBS alumni and other business practitioners. Much of the science discussed will... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping the Beat
semester at HBS began. She decided she could do both, which mostly meant going to class during the week and touring on the weekends. But there was one week in November when Gandhi had to fly back and forth between Boston and New York... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
“aims to give students a competitive advantage.” How can understanding happiness, both that of our colleagues and our own, make one a more effective leader? One of the big problems that we have is that when people don’t understand... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
will they initially tighten standards only to loosen them again as memories of the crisis fade and pressure from industry mounts? Continued vigilance—both now and over the long term—is absolutely essential to prevent another crisis. The financial reform legislation... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
giving a subsidy as a lump sum to offset capital costs is more effective. This has different regulatory implications for urban and rural settings where the environmental objectives may differ. Bouncing Out of the Banking System: An... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2018
- News
How to Win the Kentucky Derby
impact and the number of people. I'll give you an example. In New York state, the horse racing business, they employ over 40,000 people. And the economic impact is above $5 billion every year. So it's an engine that really, I think,... View Details
Keywords: horse racing
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
Houston back to her hometown in 2007. “People in Dallas are truly captivated by this venture,” she notes. The facility, to be named the Perot Science Museum, will be located near the city’s sports arena, a few blocks from the new Dallas... View Details
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behavioral, and contextual. While we will analyze a number of traditional case studies, the heart of the course is a series of interactive negotiation exercises. These exercises will give you hands-on negotiating experience. You will... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
HBS classroom experience and use HBS Online’s platform, giving the participants flexibility to fit the weekly coursework into their schedules. Those who take all four courses will earn a certificate of completion from HBS/HGSE. “We have... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
technology: the desire to signal to others. We present a field experiment where participants can choose to give up money if they do not follow through with an action. When commitment choices are made public rather than kept private, we... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
customize products and respond to customers. Regional managers take responsibility for sales, product development, distribution, and manufacturing. As a consequence, the spans of control for managers back at the head office are relatively... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 19 Aug 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #8: The Role of Solar and Wind Farming (and Other Tools) in the United States’ Clean Energy Future
energy projects, Diana is equally stimulated and frustrated by the challenges of slowing climate change, before it’s too late.* “The U.S. electric grid is the largest machine on the planet. Our grid is holding back the United States’... View Details