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12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 07 Oct 2015
Webinars: Career

Stand Out: How to Develop your Breakthrough Idea

Too many people believe that if they keep their heads down and work hard, they'll succeed. But that's simply not true anymore. In an increasingly competitive marketplace, ideas matterand it's become essential for both companies and individuals to innovate. In this... View Details

21 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Leveraging Academic Opportunities to Attain My Post-HBS Job

Plaid’s Head of Corporate Development on our research. By taking advantage of these academic opportunities, I was able to learn about Plaid’s products, their customers, growth vectors, and much more. In... View Details

06 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

Cut Salaries or Cut People? The Best Way to Survive a Downturn

eugeniek Companies looking to shed costs in an economic downturn rarely cut compensation—typically, they slash jobs instead. New research confirms the wisdom of that decision. The study concludes that when a company cuts employee pay the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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4 Things You Need to Know about Immersive FIELD Courses at HBS - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

05 Nov 2024

Harvard Business School Visit to Imperial College

Wondering where an MBA can take you? Explore the flexible career opportunities at HBS, including the 2+2 Program, which lets current students gain two years of work experience before starting their MBA. Join us to View Details

12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 16 Mar 2017
Webinars: Trending@HBS

Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools

In this webinar, Michael B. Horn and Heather Staker will discuss the themes from their Amazon-bestselling book, Blended. Using the theories of disruptive innovation, Horn and Staker reveal a practical guide for designing an education system that can help all students... View Details

02 Jun 2015
News

Pointing the Way to a Better World

problems and how people are coming up with solutions,” WuDunn says. “We invite everyone to learn and act in some way.” WuDunn, also a former New York Times reporter, and Kristof won a Pulitzer Prize for... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2012
News

Chao Family Donates $40 Million to HBS

Chu Chao. The Chaos, émigrés from Taiwan and a remarkable immigrant success story, are the only family ever to have four daughters attend HBS. "Because Ruth devoted her life to promoting excellence in... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

One by one, connecting veterans to opportunities

Faw. Through social media and word of mouth, the service he provides has made Faw a go-to guy for veterans seeking career advice. At HBS, he fields up to 10 emails and five phone calls a week from veterans interested in making the... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

From a ‘blank slate’ to ‘Mr. China’

Against the advice of many, Jack Perkowski (MBA 1973) ditched his high-flying investment career and relocated to China in 1992 to build his own company. Through trial and error, Perkowski View Details

01 Mar 2004
News

Take 2: From Ad Copy to Cuneiform

even clay envelopes,” she explains. “What we can learn from the tablets is that not very much has changed. People still have the same yearnings, the same emotions, and the same little things in life to... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; archaeology; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment

24 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day

conditions possible for students to learn and perform well in their school activities and tests,” Gino says. “Often these debates do not carefully consider the influence of external factors that teachers or... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

01 Mar 2018
News

Research Brief: A Path to Moral Management

people with good intentions do things that look, for a lack of a better word, stupid,” he says. Finally, Soltes suggests creating opportunities for norm reinforcement throughout careers, allowing people to really live what they View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

20 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

Steps to Help You Get Out of Your Own Way

That Brings Peace and ProductivityJoseph Badaracco studied classic works and interviewed 100 managers in 15 countries to learn how busy men and women find time for reflection. Want View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2006
News

Whitehead Urges MBAs to Become Lifelong Leaders

way in one sector, you can move to the other rather easily. You’ve learned a style and a way of operating that is very useful in the other sector.” Whitehead concluded by saying, “The world cries out for... View Details

12 May 2016
Research & Ideas

When Mass Shootings Lead to Looser Gun Restrictions

More broadly, “The Impact of Mass Shootings on Gun Policy” raises the general question of what factors drive policy changes—and what factors don’t. “Our findings suggest that while much attention has been rightfully devoted to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2020
News

Take Time to Transition (If it’s Time)

She filed away what she learned and took a job working at IBM in downtown New York. “My colleagues were the sons and daughters of firemen, policemen, and this was the first white-collar job in their families,” recalls Burton. “The word... View Details

31 Aug 2021
Book

Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

lives, in part because they didn’t understand the nature of power, but many of them learned along the way,” says Battilana. "Having once been wary of power is no guarantee that you will be immune to abusing... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

13 Jan 2023
Blog Post

Video: Introduction to the Harvard MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences

engineering prototyping, even a little bit of software and algorithm development. So eventually, when they go to launch their own venture or run their own team, they have an awareness of all the different parts that go into that. Tom... View Details

05 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research

behavioral research from CEOs, policymakers, and high-stakes decision makers." —Francesca Gino "It's always been obvious to social scientists and business scholars that there are lots of things that you can't View Details