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15 Oct 2019
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Bridging Business and Engineering

Erez Perelson (MS/MBA 2020) hopes to build on his technical background and hone his entrepreneurial and management skills in the new joint degree program. (photo by Susan Young) Erez Perelson (MS/MBA 2020) hopes to build on his technical... View Details

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Value Measurement for Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

with health care partners Increase operational efficiencies: Match clinical resources to clinical processes and improve resource utilization Optimize costs over the full cycle of care Manage reimbursement and payment challenges Expand... View Details

24 Apr 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

April 2018 Management Science Offline Showrooms in Omni-channel Retail: Demand and Operational Benefits By: Bell, David R., Santiago Gallino, and Antonio Moreno Abstract—Omnichannel environments where customers shop online and offline at... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2023
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From Big Pharma to Startup

investment. “That was the point at which it was abundantly obvious that this was the best career opportunity for me,” he says. “It’s when I fully committed to entrepreneurship.” Today, Transcera has four full-time employees including... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jan 2011
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Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977

loan when the credit crisis hit, small business owners inspire Mills daily with their determination, she says. "The people we work with are tightly woven into the fabric of their communities," notes Mills, whose career has been influenced... View Details

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Joiner - Entrepreneurship

of HBS to global startup regions. FALL Is becoming a joiner right for me: Attend Rock/CPD career panel What does a startup job search look like? Meet with a Career and Professional Development (CPD)... View Details

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Judges - Alumni

at Launch Angels, a Boston-based seed stage VC firm, where she managed the Where Funds investments in 13 early stage companies. She co-founded BuysideFX, where she led Product and was a member of the View Details

11 Apr 2024
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Mission Control

professor recounted how a colleague's career was completely derailed when the rocket carrying his experimental instrument exploded at launch. Platzer decided to put his dream on hold and pivoted to a career... View Details

09 Jun 2024
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The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back

I. She will join Ayala Corporation, the oldest conglomerate in the Philippines, as a corporate strategy manager, where she’ll be charged with active portfolio management across its business units and investments. During your EC year, what... View Details

22 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies

reinforce human relations. Q: What influence do organizational structure, management hierarchy, and physical space have on an organization's internal communication network? A: Huge influences! Although every leader at some point in their... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

10 Sep 2020
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The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

[This is the fifth installment in a monthly series on management issues in the time of COVID-19.] We have asked approximately 600 CEOs to share with us the most pressing challenges that are keeping them awake at night in the midst of the... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

June 2010
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Are You a High Potential?

By: Douglas A. Ready, Jay A. Conger and Linda A. Hill

Some employees are more talented than others, and nearly every company has its method for identifying their high-potential managers. So how can you get on your company's high-potential list? Douglas A. Ready, of the talent-management research center ICEDR; Jay A.... View Details

Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Employees; Leadership Development; Personal Development and Career; Personal Characteristics

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18 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive

typically unstructured time and allows people to feel prepared for the day ahead. (It’s effective in the same way other rituals, like exercising before work, can help people transition between their home and job roles, the researchers say.) Business leaders can help... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Research - Race, Gender & Equity

Africa, has to decide what titles and authority to give to a daughter who is being courted to leave a promising career in Europe to come back and join the business. The choices of role range from an... July 2024 View Details

April 2022
Teaching Note

Gender Equality in Business: 100 Years of Progress?

By: Boris Groysberg and Colleen Ammerman

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 422-066, "Gender Equality in Business: 100 Years of Progress?" The case traces the history of women in management from the early 20th to early 21st century through analysis of Harvard Business Review's coverage of women and gender. The... View Details

Keywords: History; Business History; Gender; Management; Employees; Leadership; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Work-Life Balance; Prejudice and Bias; Social Issues; Diversity; Equity; United States

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01 Aug 1998
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High Honors

closely identified with the Owner/President Management Program (OPM), Marshall's career was varied and full, both at HBS and beyond. He taught in almost every program at the School, helped set up View Details

04 Jun 2018
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Reapplying to HBS

dinged. Life went on and, following graduation, I started working for Worthington Industries—a manufacturing company based in Columbus, Ohio. After a few years at Worthington, and a recent promotion to a Product Manager role, I again... View Details

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Kristin W. Mugford | About

investment committee. Bain Capital Credit is one of the leading corporate and distressed debt managers, managing over $40 billion in offices around the world. Kristin began her career at the Walt Disney... View Details

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A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations While Mizuho Kanai (MBA 2018) was fulfilling her summer internship at NPR, her manager recommended that she read an HBS case study about how the Sesame Workshop CEO, Jeff Dunn (MBA 1981), was changing the... View Details

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John H. McArthur | About

launching his remarkable career as a scholar, teacher, and administrator and culminating with his appointment as the School’s seventh dean. McArthur’s vision, passion, and unparalleled gift for building consensus transformed the School.... View Details

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