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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

for a Certificate of Completion from Harvard Business School Online. Participants are expected to fully complete all coursework in a thoughtful and timely manner. This will mean meeting each week’s course module deadlines and fully... View Details

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Domestic Students - MBA

because it usually carries a lower interest rate and loan fee. Students then apply for the Graduate PLUS Loan to make up the difference. Private Student Loans Private student loans come from financial institutions such as banks or credit unions. Interest rates are... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Turning Point: Listen to the Music

Marnie Tattersall: (MBA 1972) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Marnie Tattersall: (MBA 1972) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and came to the United States in 1958 with my parents and my brother because my parents thought it was... View Details

Keywords: music; film; purpose; career

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Online Management Course | HBS Online

complete all coursework in a timely manner. This will mean meeting each week’s course module deadlines and fully answering questions. This helps ensure your group proceeds through the course at a similar pace and can take full advantage... View Details

09 May 2023
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Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 1)

aspects of my Asian heritage and to embrace what it means to be Asian American. My culture has instilled in me the values of determination, resilience, hard work, and community, which serve as the bedrock of my identity and the foundation... View Details

12 May 2023
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Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps

installation/repair is $3K/home [16,17]. Electrical paneling: Electrification of the home requires 100-200A of electrical service, meaning most homes will need some type of electrical infrastructure upgrade. According to a study conducted... View Details

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Moving Beyond Direct-to-Consumer

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger

Changing consumer behaviors have redefined what it means to be direct to consumer ("DTC"). What once began online a decade ago as a distribution and disintermediation strategy has since evolved into a multifaceted approach for the modern-day brand.

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October 2019
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Street Symphony: Making Human Connections Through Music

By: Rohit Deshpandé

To Vijay Gupta, music was sacred. A highly accomplished and renowned violinist with The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gupta believed the act of making and performing music was a deeply spiritual practice — one that had the power to heal audiences and musicians... View Details

Keywords: Arts; Cultural Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Issues; Business and Community Relations; Music Entertainment; Human Needs; Music Industry; Los Angeles; California; United States

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Avaya (A)

Avaya's top management wants to improve demand generation. This requires an improvement in the relationship between Sales and Marketing. This case series (Avaya (A)-(D)) walks the student through each phase of this process. The (A) case begins with background on the... View Details

Keywords: Marketing; Demand and Consumers; Performance Improvement; Relationships; Sales; Cooperation

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01 Nov 2012
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Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota

31 Aug 2021
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Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

insensitivity to others.” Power fallacies According to the authors, “three pernicious fallacies” surround the topic of power. People often assume that power is something a person possesses, such as monetary fortunes and personality traits; or that it’s “positional”... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

12 Dec 2005
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Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

substantially when the managers and lawyers work as partners both to craft the objectives and to devise the means of accomplishing them. Fifth, every firm should have a general counsel or chief legal officer—one person either in-house or... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services

10 Mar 2021
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Key to Doing Your Best at Work? Be Yourself

increasing diversity and inclusion, encouraging everyone to bring their individuality and unvarnished opinions with them is a good start. Gino, who studies innovative leadership and wrote a 2018 book on successful rulebreakers, Rebel Talent, spoke with the Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

30 May 2005
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Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible

made its threat credible. This may be more than enough of an incentive for you to decide not to bid after all. As the CEO's strategy illustrates, increasing the costs you will incur by not following through on your threats can persuade others that you View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

11 Apr 2022
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A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive

and they’re watching you choose not to do it. Inclusion is an urgent goal, and it is so achievable. I don’t mean that it’s easy. It’s complicated. It’s messy. But if you fold your cards after one attempt, you’re never going to get there.... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint

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Geography of Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

performed every procedure in an aim to provide a full set of services in every location. While that strategy was effective when hospitals had little to offer, the ever increasing complexity of medical care today means that every hospital... View Details

04 Jun 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Prosocial Bonuses Increase Employee Satisfaction and Team Performance

Keywords: by Lalin Anik, Lara B. Aknin, Michael I. Norton, Elizabeth W. Dunn & Jordi Quoidbach

01 Dec 2023
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A Continuum of Innovation

on five cases written specifically for the course that involve companies ranging from Microsoft to Sweden’s Northvolt electric battery maker. These cases, designed to help students think about what it means to make a difference, look at... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

21 Sep 2020
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Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

our work, especially during the current global health crisis. Just because we’ve been doing things a certain way for a long time doesn’t mean we should keep doing it.” About the author Dina Gerdeman is a senior writer at Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

08 Feb 2022
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Silos That Work: How the Pandemic Changed the Way We Collaborate

organizations. The authors saw an increase in turnover within communities, meaning silos were less stable after employees began working more regularly from home. “The observed changes suggest that serendipitous, in-person interactions... View Details