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- 06 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
How to Thrive in an Unstructured Environment
incredible learning opportunity. 1. Have a north star. Recalibrate towards it daily. Before this internship, I chatted with an HBS professor with enterprise sales expertise to come up with a tentative game... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Christine Fairchild to Head External Relations
External Relations as assistant director of alumni relations in 1988, after spending nine years at the Harvard University Art Museums. She was promoted to associate director in 1992 and was named director in 1993. Under her leadership,... View Details
- 16 Jan 2018
- Blog Post
How Can I Prepare to Apply for Financial Aid at HBS?
programs require a satisfactory credit history. If needed, we have arrangements that will allow international students to take out loans without a US co-signer. Want to learn... View Details
- 12 Apr 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Productivity Suffers When Employees Are Allowed to Schedule Their Own Tasks
tends to erode [the] radiologists’ productivity,” Ibáñez says. “This productivity decline lessens as doctors learn from experience, but is large enough to suppress the View Details
- 09 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace
diversity and inclusion can connect back to goals of effective collaboration that produces exceptional products and services. Furthermore, setting the stage is also about reframing failure. Organizations that are afraid View Details
- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
quantitative strategy, digging into numbers many ignore; others look deeply into industries or countries they are familiar with that many analysts don't understand. Successful investors learn how to put... View Details
- 06 Dec 2006
- Op-Ed
India Needs to Encourage Trade with China
things they would like to learn from, most notably in recent years in software, they are quick to send delegation after delegation to Nasscom's... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
is very human—frail. And, in fact, very few people graduate these days with any training of how to make a software package hard. There are people who learn how to do that and... View Details
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
from the core business who has demonstrated a record of success? An outsider who has started and grown a successful company? The school-of-experience view suggests that both of these managers might be risky hires. The internal candidate would have View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- Jun 22 2018
- Tout
The HBS Difference
- 06 Apr 2016
- News
Raising a Glass to Life-Long Entrepreneurship
Courtesy of Flatiron Books Courtesy of Flatiron Books When Jim Koch (JD/MBA 1978) sat down to write Quench Your Own Thirst, published this month, he realized he had told these stories many times before—usually over a beer, preferably a... View Details
- 25 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Why I Almost Didn’t Apply to HBS
visit, and I instantly knew that there was something special about this place. The case method, current students, and focus on making a difference in the world matched well with my learning style and outlook on life. Over the next few... View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
Introducing LivelyHood, A Volunteer Nonprofit Founded in Response to COVID-19
stores were sold out of fresh food. I first learned of this from a classmate, Shyamli, who reposted the story and asked if anybody had ideas about how to help. But then more stories and experiences started... View Details
- 20 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks
principles in a way that matches the context of the particular company, industry, and supply chain. EE: How would you summarize the program's takeaway value to participants? Or stated another way, how will this View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 09 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
How to Communicate your Organizations’ People-Centered Values
conduct focus groups with staff. Key lessons learned from staffing culture and climate data, as well as organizational next steps for continuous diversity improvement, should be shared with both employees and candidates. Partnering with... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 06 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Right Way to Manage Customer Churn for Maximum Profit
the example of an online retailer who suddenly sees a monthly shopper stop buying for two months. “Customers just stop using the service but don’t have to tell the company.” In order to manage churn,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
combines academic and experiential learning and involves students in activities as diverse as constructing solar panels, producing maple syrup, and delivering emergency medical care in search-and-rescue situations. "Our educational goal,"... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
leverage this source of demand to learn from these experiences and design and develop innovative products. What should GM do? It must aim to achieve a clear transition with the... View Details