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Europe - Global

Europe Paris HBS opened the Europe Research Center (ERC) in Paris in 2003, to help HBS develop and strengthen relationships with European business and academic leaders. The ERC enables HBS faculty to study more effectively one of the world’s most important economic... View Details

09 Feb 2024
HBS Case

Slim Chance: Drugs Will Reshape the Weight Loss Industry, But Habit Change Might Be Elusive

while Ozempic and Mounjaro have been approved to treat diabetes, but are sometimes used to lose weight. These medications are likely to profoundly alter the $76 billion weight loss industry, largely, Herzlinger says, because people have... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Health; Pharmaceutical

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: Kohavi, Ron, and Stefan H. Thomke Abstract—In the fast-moving... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Jul 2024
In Practice

The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities

approach It is time for US businesses to accept that the US-China economic relationship, the largest trade relationship between two countries on the planet, has been permanently transformed and will not... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing; Retail; Fashion; Industrial Products; Consumer Products; Steel; Transportation; Telecommunications

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Skydeck - Alumni

Alumni share life-altering lessons from the labor force The Making of a Streaming Sensation Author and producer Jeff Norton (MBA 2003) on how his show Geek Girl became a Netflix hit—and what it tells us about success in the streaming era... View Details

09 May 2021
Blog Post

Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year

family and rely on air travel. The silver linings were in the extra time that we got to spend with our little ones – those in-between moments and mini milestones that we might not otherwise have been present for. While the MoMBA group... View Details

30 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2013

presentation or job interview? Holding one's body in "high-power" poses for short time periods can summon an extra surge of power and sense of well-being when it's needed, according to Amy J.C. Cuddy. Why Unqualified Candidates... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

27 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

Political connections and family control are more common in Asian businesses than in the United States. In addition, says HBS professor D. Quinn Mills, American CEOs tend to use one of five leadership styles: directive, participative,... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

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HBS - The year in Review

pandemic travel restrictions, the program pivoted to focus on US challenges and opportunities, taking more than 1,000 students to one of 15 domestic locations. With a lens on the course’s three modules—contextual intelligence, team... View Details

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The Women in the Relay Assembly Test Room – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us A New Vision An Essay by Professors Michel Anteby and Rakesh Khurana Introduction The Hawthorne Plant Employee Welfare Illumination Studies and Relay Assembly Test Room Enter Elton Mayo Human Relations and... View Details

01 Feb 2001
News

What Makes a Good Leader

remarkable time for business," he says. "The challenges and opportunities that face managers today require extraordinary leadership abilities." Concludes Kotter, "Any institution that can help us understand... View Details

Keywords: Management

06 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

financed them—declared such brick-and-mortar businesses were dinosaurs on their way to extinction. The success of Bluemercury proved the critics wrong. “We’ve always had a hard time being able to identify the skills and behaviors of... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge

24 Oct 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?

team.” Izzy Azeri & Dan Belcher, co-founders, Mabl They may also be too used to having teams of people and systems in place to cover the more mundane duties of running a company and don’t want to get their hands dirty. On the flip... View Details

Keywords: by Julia B. Austin

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General Management - Faculty & Research

Klarnet and Leemore S. Dafny Private equity (PE) ownership of physician practices is increasing, with owners targeting sales, or exits, in 3 to 7 years. Little is known about the association of exit with physician retention and subsequent employment. View Details

12 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

COVID Tested Global Supply Chains. Here’s How They’ve Adapted

chains will have on US businesses and consumers, with worrying signs that it could result in higher costs and prices, say Alfaro and her coauthor Davin Chor, an associate professor at Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business. Yet,... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

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Venture Capital Advisors - Entrepreneurship

their idea, business models, and other core aspects of their new ventures. They come to campus 1-2 times per year to meet with students 1:1, to judge the NVC Finale, and to provide pitch feedback to students. To schedule an appointment... View Details

03 May 2004
What Do You Think?

How Much Is Enough?

security," Aamir Rehman commented that "the lifestyles of some executives make them unstable despite their wealth." Fernando das Neves Gomes diagnosed the problem in this thoughtful way: "I think much of the time the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Japan - Global

studies and course materials for use in business education programs around the world. Since opening, the JRC has supported most of the Japan-focused cases and HBS research projects on the region. Location Japan Research Center Tokyo,... View Details

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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

access pushes decisions down, as it allows for superior decentralized decision making without an undue cognitive burden on those lower in the hierarchy. Better communication pushes decisions up, as it allows employees to rely on those above them in the hierarchy to... View Details

16 Feb 2024
Research & Ideas

As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers

Artificial intelligence is changing the nature of work on a scale some predict will be as transformative as the Industrial Revolution. It’s also exposing the yawning gaps in a fractured US employment system that many companies and workers... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology

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