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23 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

and the DNA of innovators. What they have to say might surprise you. Clayton Christensen Can people learn to be more innovative? I don't want to... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

13 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

The Subconscious Mind of the Consumer (And How To Reach It)

to advertisers. Is this an expanding advertising strategy, or something different? Many researchers tell us that one-on-one interviews are superior to focus groups.— Gerald Zaltman A: Probing the unconscious... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Mahoney

30 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

might apply to earning a degree or learning a new skill, some entrepreneurs value persistence to an excess, Eisenmann says. “Founders hear about other entrepreneurs who pulled... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

Blog

Making the Decision to Attend: Our Participants Share Their Stories

Applying to an HBS Executive Education program can be an important step in your development as a leader—a step you don't want to take lightly. When you are trying to decide... View Details

01 Dec 2016
Blog Post

4 Reasons College Students Apply to 2+2

critical to learning both inside and outside the classroom. While it may be true you can’t come to HBS straight out of college, you can apply to... View Details

02 May 2023
Blog Post

From Harvard Business School to Spotify: Four Lessons in My Journey to Land My Dream Job

your MBA experience From the first day of my MBA, my classmates knew that I loved music and wanted to explore careers in Entertainment and Media. On the professional front, I joined the Entertainment & Media Club, became the VP of... View Details

11 Oct 2024

Applying to HBS: Reapplying with Confidence

Join a member of the Admissions Board to learn how to navigate the MBA application process as a reapplicant and approach your application with confidence! View Details

21 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

learning job-relevant information from the news or social media." Employees get the news first. Nothing erodes trust for employees like learning job-relevant information from the news or social media. Think... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden

2023
Article

Exploiting Discovered Regression Discontinuities to Debias Conditioned-on-observable Estimators

By: Benjamin Jakubowski, Siram Somanchi, Edward McFowland III and Daniel B. Neill

Regression discontinuity (RD) designs are widely used to estimate causal effects in the absence of a randomized experiment. However, standard approaches to RD analysis face two significant limitations. First, they require a priori knowledge of discontinuities in... View Details

Keywords: Regression Discontinuity Design; Analytics and Data Science; AI and Machine Learning

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03 Dec 2015
Blog Post

4 Things You Need to Know About Independent Projects

help them identify metrics to help them measure patient access. Independent projects can be an extension of not only what you learn in the HBS classroom, but also help you develop career aspirations beyond... View Details

March 2014 (Revised January 2017)
Case

From Beijing Jeep to ASC Fine Wines: The Story of an American Family Business in China

By: William C. Kirby and Erica M. Zendell

In 1985, Don St. Pierre Sr. became President of Beijing Jeep, the troubled joint venture between American Motor Corporation and the Chinese government to build Jeep Cherokees in China. Just over a decade later in 1996, leveraging contacts from his time in the... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship In Emerging Markets; China; Joint Ventures; Wine Industry; International Entrepreneurship; International Business; Exports; Chinese Manufacturing; Business And Government Relations; Ownership Stake; Strategy; Operations; Auto Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; China

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07 May 2015
Blog Post

Career Change: From the Military to Consulting

the long term. Did you come to HBS with the plan to go into a different career after graduation? I left the Army before coming to HBS, and I was sure I wanted View Details

31 Oct 2014
Op-Ed

Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness

desperate need of that slack. With public health, however, efficiency should not be the chief goal. Rather, the goal should be to optimize to mitigate catastrophes while managing routine concerns without... View Details

Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda; Health

13 Nov 2020
News

Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students

supplement lower-paying internships (for example, at nonprofits and startups). In a typical year, about 250 first-year students are awarded summer fellowships. This year, some 750 first- and second-year students received them. “I got to... View Details

17 Nov 2015
News

How to Prepare for Shark Tank

soon as you agreed, you couldn’t talk to anyone about it," Stolar told the BostonInno news website. In fact, after agreeing to appear before the Sharks, the Unshrinkit duo did three months of intensive prep,... View Details

Keywords: Chemical Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2005
News

Health-Care Initiative to Leverage Ongoing Efforts

Dean Kim B. Clark has announced the formation of a faculty initiative in health care, with HBS professor of management practice Richard G. Hamermesh serving as chair. Technology strategy, the design of care delivery, consumer-driven health care, team View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

22 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate

data, the algorithm learns to predict the outcome from the input data. Unsupervised learning. In this case, using unlabeled data, the algorithm learns the inherent structure... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 Mar 2018
Blog Post

Applying to HBS in Round 3?

engineering roles to product and brand marketing ones, I realized that I wanted to learn about skills and perspectives I couldn’t learn on the... View Details

14 Dec 2016
Blog Post

Career Paths: From Finance to Social Enterprise

packed my bags for a two-year life-changing adventure in Chile. As I sought to learn the language of business and get a sense of what potential career paths could be for me, business school still summoned... View Details

01 Jun 2003
News

Batten Gift to Support Residential Campus

Batten’s generosity will enable us to continue the tradition of creating a seamless experience from learning to living.” Presently, Harvard University owns 240 acres of land in... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank

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