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22 Mar 2017
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Don’t give up your power

Author, singer, and Morgan Stanley vice chairman Carla Harris (MBA 1987) advises people—women in particular—to take lessons from mistakes and move on. In this interview she offers advice on respecting oneself and taking advantage of... View Details

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Films & TV | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content Exhibition Homepage Exhibition Introduction The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography Documenting the Wartime Effort Labor Practices Post-war PR Campaigns Reaching Wide Audiences... View Details

29 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles and Research Papers of 2014

work prestige. And in Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men, we discover, with regret, that VC prefers to give money to men—and good looking men at that. But sometimes business glory goes to those who succeed the old-fashioned way: they earn it. The View Details

13 Jan 2021
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Stress Test

Andrew Kelley, III (MBA 2002) Andrew Kelley, III (MBA 2002) 2020 was the year everybody learned what a supply chain is. The first lesson came in the form of a toilet paper shortage in the earliest days of the pandemic. The most important... View Details

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How to Drive Company Performance and Employee Sustainability

Learn how to empower your teams in a way that encourages both high performance and sustainability, from Carolyn Everson, VP of Global Marketing Solutions at Facebook. View Details

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Shaping the Corporate Image | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content Exhibition Homepage Exhibition Introduction The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography Documenting the Wartime Effort Labor Practices Post-war PR Campaigns Reaching Wide Audiences... View Details

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Learn With Baker Library: Introduction to Capital IQ | Baker Library

Help Center Learn With Baker Library: Introduction to Capital IQ Learn With Baker Library is a library service that provides customized e-learning modules covering topics from in-depth database overviews, library resource tutorials, and View Details

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Lucasz S. Babiarz

together." In fact, Lukasz's clinical rotations are themselves lessons in both clinical care and business operations. At Cambridge Hospital, Lukasz worked largely with a poor and medically underserved population. Later, he served a... View Details

15 Nov 2020
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How Scholarships Helped One Student Achieve Many Firsts

took full advantage of the opportunities available to her, and how her formal business education complemented the informal lessons she learned from the small-business owners in her family’s restaurant plaza. View Details

01 Jun 2015
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The Military and the MBA

rerouted, another mission was scrubbed to assist near Abu Ghraib, and both convoys returned safely. To learn more about these five HBS alumni, click on their photos below: Maura Corby Sullivan Taking lessons learned in Iraq to HBS and... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; National Security and International Affairs; Government

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Myoung Cha

To be changed by the world around me. Many people come to HBS to "change the world." I was one of those people. But I have come to realize that it is HBS that has changed me. I have learned how to optimize a cranberry factory, absorbed life View Details

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Kyle Angelo Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Simple Lessons, Shared Values, and Unlocking Organizational Potential Kyle Angelo 07 Dec 2017 I’ve learned this simple... View Details

11 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?

training courses to help people track their own negotiating experience. "A book is very linear," he says. Negotiation 360, by contrast, "is a template or matrix a user can make his or her own. It becomes their negotiating buddy." Lessons... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

30 Sep 2020
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Reflecting on my service

$4,000,000 of equipment and challenged to become fluent in Pashto. By twenty-two, I was part of a small team leading hundreds of men on the battlefield, conducting dozens of raids and capturing Taliban leaders to destabilize the insurgency. Unfortunately, the most... View Details

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Field Course: Value Creation in Small and Medium Firms - Course Catalog

lessons are taught through the lens of Entrepreneurship through Acquistion (EtA), but the lessons learned can be applied to many career paths and jobs. While not a prerequisite, many students who take VCSME... View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores

Raymond Burke of Indiana University took on the broader question of how to evaluate new retail technologies, uncovering insights in past technological successes and failures. Here, in an excerpt, Burke offers ten lessons retailers should... View Details

Keywords: by Raymond Burke; Retail

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13 Sep 2019
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Stephen Schwarzman on What It Takes

The Wall Street Journal interviewed Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman (MBA 1972) about his new book, “What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence,” which was released this week. The article includes scenes of Schwarzman’s early life... View Details

18 Sep 2014
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Room to grow: global expansion in the middle ground

Israeli companies have pursued novel and successful growth strategies that provide valuable lessons to others. In his research, Elie Ofek, the T. J. Dermot Dunphy Professor of Business Administration, explains how these firms have... View Details

25 Apr 2014
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Raising the bar for financial literacy

before joining CEE, says that some financial lessons about choices and tradeoffs aren't about money: "An economist in my network in Memphis was asking kids what they had learned, and one said, 'I learned not to join a gang,'" she recalls.... View Details

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