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19 Feb 2016
Blog Post

4 Updates About Peek Weekend at HBS

Peek has changed a lot since its founding in 2015! Please visit the Peek website for the most up to date information on dates, registration, and program events. In 2015 Harvard Business School launched its inaugural Peek Weekend. Peek was... View Details

24 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers

small and still relatively poor—it can't compare to the Chinese market, say, or to Brazil. But it has a very stable government, a solid financial and physical infrastructure, and a welcoming investment climate. It has vast potential as a... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

17 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers

Recent events in Orlando underscore an important marketing truth: consumer safety and security are mission critical. A popular nightclub, Pulse, known as a safe place for the LGBT community, is put out of business at least temporarily by... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Entertainment & Recreation

07 Dec 2022
Blog Post

2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together

production is incredibly resource intensive and that even a small shift in consumption and production can have a massive impact on greenhouse gas emissions. From there, Karen Skelton, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Energy at the... View Details

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Becoming an Entrepreneur - Alumni

National Business Incubation Association (NBIA) Find an incubator near you, using this tool from the NBIA. + – Organizations for Women & Multicultural Entrepreneurs Urban Entrepreneurs Network Networking group for Women & Multicultural... View Details

30 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 31, 2006

small open economy, final goods production is carried out by foreign and domestic firms, which compete for skilled labor, unskilled labor, and intermediate products. To operate a firm in the intermediate goods sector, entrepreneurs must... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

success over the top. You may be immune to the grosser forms of celebration—how many really believed Dennis Koslowski's financial excesses at Tyco were a sign of good business leadership?—but culture is a strong shaper of worldview. These... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson

19 Jan 2022
In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details

Keywords: by HBS News

25 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

The Dark Side of Fintech Borrowing

Small Business Using Fintech to Disrupt Eastern Bank from Within Gender Bias Complaints against Apple Card Signal a Dark Side to Fintech Are fintech loans good for consumers? Share your insights below. View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking

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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

Baker Library / Bloomberg Center Harvard Business School’s first benefactor, George F. Baker & Michael R. Bloomberg (MBA 1966) Baker Library is named after Harvard Business School’s first benefactor, George... View Details

09 Oct 2020
Blog Post

4 Things To Know About the MS/MBA Biotech

myself, did come from a biotechnology company, but there were also people from life sciences consulting firms, research laboratories, medical device companies and larger pharmaceutical companies. This diversity is especially important for our View Details

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS

When Dean Nitin Nohria stepped onto the Burden Auditorium stage on the morning of October 1 to welcome a standing-room-only reunion crowd back to Harvard Business School, his audience was as attentive as any he had experienced in his... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

IBM Finds Profit in Diversity

company's Small and Medium-Sized Business Sales and Marketing organization from $10 million in 1998 to hundreds of millions of dollars in 2003. Another result of the task forces' work has been to create... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

01 Jan 2011
News

Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977

Administrator, US Small Business Administration Download Mills profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1953 Born, Boston, Massachusetts 1977 Joins General Foods 1981 Joins... View Details

07 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

The Quest for Better Layoffs

A few years ago, Sandra J. Sucher received worried emails from two MBA students in her first-year Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA) class at Harvard Business School. Elana Green (now Elana Silver) and David Rosales (both HBS... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

27 May 2022
Blog Post

Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023

The Armed Forces Alumni Association (AFAA) is a student-led club on campus for service members and veterans from all military branches and nations. The AFAA mission is to help talented veterans transition out of the military to Harvard View Details

February 2009 (Revised July 2012)
Case

Jieliang Phone Home! (A)

By: Willy Shih, Ethan Bernstein and Nina Bilimoria

At Precision Electro-Tek's mobile phone manufacturing facility in southern China, thousands of operators—bright and capable young men and (mostly) women like Jieliang Hao—are motivated to improve line productivity through small innovations for faster assembly and have... View Details

Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Job Design and Levels; Business Processes; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Manufacturing Industry; China

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31 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher

the more eclectic business careers of the last few decades. His entrepreneurial journey culminated (at least temporarily) in the sale of his electric toothbrush company to Procter & Gamble for almost a half-billion dollars. Not bad... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Consumer Products

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Negotiation Course Online | HBS Online

Concepts Understand negotiation dynamics and how to prepare for uncertainty Learn to craft agile strategy and be quick on your feet in changing circumstances Resolve small differences before they escalate Secure maximum value for your... View Details

21 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Leveraging Academic Opportunities to Attain My Post-HBS Job

of my HBS recommendation letters, was now Plaid’s Head of Finance, so I reached out to him to set up the project. Next, I asked Karen Mills, professor of The Entrepreneurial Manager (TEM), to supervise. As the previous Administrator of the View Details

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