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Career Support - Business & Environment
Fellowships & Internships HBS Summer Fellows The HBS Summer Fellows Program (login required) enables students to explore career opportunities in roles or regions where compensation is generally lower than the traditional MBA level. The... View Details
- 27 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams
you have effective teamwork when you can't have the traditional structural features of effective teams, [and so] I shifted my emphasis from teams to 'teaming,'" Edmondson says. Valentine shared that interest in "messy"... View Details
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Rights of First Refusal Are a Bad Deal
the traditional ultimatum game and reverse ultimatum game help explain the dynamics of BA-ROFR? A: You might as well ask how experiments helped explain the BA-ROFR. Contracts exist in a complicated world, and there's a lot more going on... View Details
- 29 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism
obligations?" The traditional free-market answer to that question is that your obligation is to increase profits for your shareholders, period. If that means undermining accounting standards in order to achieve short-term gains, then... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
PhD in deep learning. It’s hard for startups to attract top AI talent, but even harder for Fortune 1000 companies. However, attracting domain experts from the traditional industries you are trying to disrupt is even more important. They... View Details
Keywords: by Rocio Wu
- 04 Jul 2005
- What Do You Think?
How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?
substantial costs to faculty and institutions alike in fostering any changes as basic as these. Costs include large investments of time and money as well as risk of personal and institutional reputation (at least in the "academy"). Which among View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career
apprenticeships, internships, or work-based learning. That figure pales in comparison to other OECD countries like Germany or Switzerland, where 40-70 percent of students split their time between traditional school settings and learning... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson
- 30 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
How My Engineering and Manufacturing Background Prepared Me for an MBA
peers who come from more traditional business backgrounds in terms of having an appreciation of the fundamentals of business thinking. I found the HBX CORe program, that is delivered on the HBX online platform, to be a valuable resource... View Details
- 21 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Tipping Point: Investing in the Women of Kenya’s Coffee Farms
to pick the coffee cherries in the cooler morning air. Then they spend days tending to the drying beans, meticulously sorting them for sale. To ensure that more of the value produced in the supply chain is returned to the farm laborers themselves, Kahawa 1893 cuts out... View Details
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Introducing One-Step Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
February 21, 1947, at a meeting of the Optical Society of America in New York City, Edwin Land introduced the one-step photography process. "Land's introduction of the concept of instant photography was not a traditional commercial... View Details
- 01 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Bank That Takes Parmesan as Collateral: The Cheese Stands a Loan
Wharton School, and Emer Moloney, a research associate at HBS. The case describes the traditional production process for Parmigiano-Reggiano, commonly known in dairy circles as "The King of Cheeses." The supply chain begins with... View Details
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Inside the Learning: Boston By the Season
skies, a gentle breeze, and a lot of people enjoying the outdoors. Choose between gelato and cannoli in the North End. Boston's traditional Italian neighborhood is fun any time of year, but there's something special about enjoying a pasta... View Details
- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
the latest battle between two traditional foes in which the smaller player tried to win market share through innovation, while the industry leader continued by marketing an upgraded version of the existing technology.6 Firestone... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Richard Pechter: Learning New Lessons
national training program geared toward recent college graduates. He was eventually placed as a mathematics teacher at Jersey City, New Jersey’s Liberty High, an ethnically diverse high school for students who have struggled in View Details
- 26 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food
Department, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware Yet there was a notable exception to the adoption of self-service retailing: the meat department. Even in supermarkets, the meat-buying process remained akin to that of a View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer
keep in mind that in any industry the scope of strategy vis-à-vis government has expanded beyond traditional musings about "How will we influence the government on domestic regulation?" "We should start thinking about the... View Details
- 02 Apr 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Making the Move to General Manager
faculty; the program is also supported by a very professional and skillful administrative team. Although it is a new program, GMP actually grew out of two other longstanding programs with a deep tradition and knowledge base at the School,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle
3.8 to 2.83. That measure of scarcity, says Keinan, may hold the key to why busyness is perceived the new luxury. “When we talk about traditional conspicuous consumption, it’s about consuming scarce and expensive things like jewelry or... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Mireya Iglesias Ayala
Coming to HBS is like... Delving into a captivating novel, where each chapter, from the invigorating classroom debates prompted by the cold call method to the enduring traditions like Flag Day, propels the narrative of our growth forward.... View Details
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
remotely. But in general, rather than monitoring every move employees make, companies should establish work goals and measure individual productivity based on output, he says. “If you’re on a team in a traditional company, one imperfect... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman