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26 Jul 2017
Blog Post

“Uncertainty Makes It More Interesting.”

willing to consider a variety of sectors in a wide range of locations. After weeks of reviewing internships posted in Career Hub, Felipe found his big break through a friend who had graduated from HBS five years earlier. “He had an... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

12 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53182 September–October 2017 Harvard Business Review The Surprising Power of Online Experiments: Getting the Most Out of A/B and Other Controlled Tests By:... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2024
News

3-Minute Briefing: David Perpich (MBA 2007)

I interned at a lot of different places in high school and college—a hospital, a retail store, a magazine, an ad agency. At Duke, I was part owner of a student-run food-delivery service. In Clay Christensen–speak, it was the “emergent strategy,” exploring as I went and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; sports reporting; digital media; strategy; management

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Competitiveness Recruit Alumni Recruiting MBA Recruiting Recruiting Resources Alumni Bulletin Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Business History Review Harvard Business Publishing Harvard Business Review HBS... View Details

01 Sep 2003
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The Levitt Brand

A consultant and professor with a Ph.D. in economics from Ohio State University, Ted Levitt had already published two articles in the Harvard Business Review when he joined the HBS faculty in 1959. One year later, observed HBS marketing... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

07 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

Fall 2017 Business History Review The Alternative Business History: Business in Emerging Markets By: Austin, Gareth, Carlos Davila, and Geoffrey Jones Abstract—This article suggests that the business history of emerging markets should be... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Application Process | MBA

will help us assess your qualifications. Remember, all materials must be submitted to HBS online by the application deadlines. The following serves as a preview of what you need to prepare. What You Need to Prepare Transcripts GRE / GMAT... View Details

15 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

estimates of real consumption across countries without the need for consumer price index extrapolations. We discuss advantages and limitations associated with the use of online prices for PPPs, including issues of representativeness and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2017
News

Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence

there’s so much talk around automation, but I would encourage people to pause and reconsider that. It’s actually much more about growing the business. I think of AI as, first and foremost, increasing productivity and driving revenue. For... View Details

Keywords: April White

26 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?

for end users, and can generate an infinite number of ideas quickly, Lane says. But are the ideas any good? To find out, Lane and her fellow researchers asked people to come up with business ideas for the sustainable circular economy, in which View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology; Information; Technology

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Using the Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

Finding Resources Baker Library Historical Collections maintains numerous tools for locating photograph holdings. Detailed finding aids outlining the contents of individual photograph collections are available in the de Gaspé Beaubien Reading Room and View Details

12 Apr 2012
News

HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups

Lema21.com.br will offer fashionable, quality eyewear products for a revolutionary price via an online retail channel. We also will focus on social sustainability to empower less fortunate individuals.... View Details

Keywords: Bulletin Staff; Alumni New Venture Contest

01 Mar 2013
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Getting Smart About Philanthropy

Advisory Board. Ted Turner, Eli Broad, Pierre Omidyar, Michael J. Fox and Deborah W. Brooks, Jennifer and Peter Buffett, Melinda Gates, and Jean and Steve Case also participated. In tandem with the project, Bridgespan has teamed up with Harvard Business View Details

Career Coach

Rich Schneider

Rich (HBS’74) has been a Career Coach since 2009 and works with both students and alumni. He retired from a 35 year career in management consulting that year and is presently active in several capacities: Partner in Sage Partners, a consulting/venture development firm;... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products

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IT Strategy: Helping Leaders Grow Their Skills | Information Technology

specific needs based on identified competencies. Various development resources, such as workshops, online courses, mentoring programs, and direct project assignments will be provided. These options will support leaders in prioritizing... View Details

18 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’

organizations with reputations for being highly innovative, then found 16 leaders within those organizations and studied how they worked. Determined to feature a global perspective, the authors include narratives of executives within India-based IT company HCL... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

21 Nov 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

platforms. We explore this "rating aggregation problem" and offer a structural approach to solving it, allowing for (1) reviewers to vary in stringency and accuracy, (2) reviewers to be influenced... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Training Course in Personnel Administration - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

has created an unprecedented demand for trained personnel workers," the 1943-1944 course catalogue noted. "It therefore becomes imperative to obtain maximum production from the available manpower through effective personnel policies." 7... View Details

01 Jun 2020
What Do You Think?

Will Challenged Amazon Tweak Its Retail Model Post-Pandemic?

ablokhin SUMMING UP Is the Amazon Organization Losing Its Ability to Learn? There was little sympathy for Amazon’s loss of online retail market share at the outset of the current global pandemic among respondents to this month’s column.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

15 Aug 2016
Blog Post

Prepare for Your Interview with Research

experience, they will also most certainly be interested in assessing your knowledge of their company as well as the industry and its trends. A review of the company’s web site is a basic starting point, but this research will only help... View Details

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