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13 Feb 2024
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Breaking Through the Self-Doubt That Keeps Talented Women from Leading

to draw more women to apply: Make it easier for candidates to know whether they are qualified. Instead of using vague language about the experience or skills candidates need in job postings, be more precise about expected qualifications.... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

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Careers - Alumni

he's reshaped his definition of success by balancing a stable corporate career... Alumni Career Video | Nicole Ledoux (MBA 2008) 11 Jun 2025 Nicole Ledoux (MBA 2008) shares how a personal experience sparked an unexpected pivot from... View Details

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Case Method Project

and colleges Use this methodology to deepen students’ understanding of American democracy Based on the highly successful experience of Harvard Business School and other graduate and professional programs that use case-based teaching, we... View Details

February 2017
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The De Beers Group: Exploring the Diamond Reselling Opportunity

By: Benjamin C. Esty, Daniel P. Gross and Lauren G. Pickle

In September 2014, Tom Montgomery (SVP of strategic initiatives at the De Beers Group) and his team launched a pilot program in the United States to explore the $1 billion diamond market for pre-owned (recycled) diamonds. According to Montgomery, the motivation for the... View Details

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Preparing to Be a Corporate Director

members who are in small and medium sized firms Learning and Living at HBS When you participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the learning model has been... View Details

30 Dec 2010
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Four New Year's Resolutions to Fast Track Your Career

02 Oct 2020
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HBS Announces Inaugural Cohort of Executive Fellows

11 Apr 2017
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Carolin Oldenbuettel

Will Work-from-Home Work Forever?

The pandemic may be winding down, but that doesn’t mean we’ll return to full-time commuting and packed office buildings. The greatest accidental experiment in the history of labor has lessons to teach us about productivity, flexibility, and even reversing the... View Details

05 May 2022
Blog Post

Celebrating Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS

and diversity of the AAPI experience and inspire hope for a world of empathy, compassion, and courage. Keven Wang (MBA 2022) October 31, 2001. For the first time in my life, I stepped foot onto a land I did not call my own. To give me a... View Details

11 Jun 2025
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Alumni Career Video | Nicole Ledoux (MBA 2008)

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01 Mar 2021
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HBS Announces Spring 2021 Cohort of Executive Fellows

03 Apr 2019
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Do Your Experiential Marketing Moves Produce Enough ROI?

10 Jul 2023
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Raising Capital as an Underestimated Entrepreneur

10 Jul 2023
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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023

entertaining experience during my leisure time. With this thoughtfully curated selection, I look forward to expanding my knowledge, gaining fresh perspectives, and finding moments of relaxation throughout the summer. Hise Gibson is a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

06 Nov 2023
Research & Ideas

Did You Hear What I Said? How to Listen Better

It’s a common experience in the workplace: You leave a meeting feeling good about the discussion and believe everyone is on the same page. “Then you meet with someone two days later, and you realize they’re not on the same page at all,”... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Managing Health Care Delivery

effective teamwork Learn tools and techniques for designing and managing successful organizations Expand your personal and professional network Extend your network by living and working with accomplished executives from across the globe who possess deep and varied... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care

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Understanding the Advice of Commissions-Motivated Agents: Evidence from the Indian Life Insurance Market

By: Santosh Anagol, Shawn Cole and Shayak Sarkar

We conduct a series of field experiments to evaluate the quality of advice provided by life insurance agents in India. Agents overwhelmingly recommend unsuitable, strictly dominated products, which provide high commissions to the agent. Agents cater to the beliefs of... View Details

Keywords: Advice; Customers; Insurance; Service Operations; Motivation and Incentives; Ethics; India

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Mergers and Acquisitions

HBS When you participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the learning model has been carefully designed to facilitate your growth. Your learning will take place... View Details

December 10, 2024
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Is Your Company’s Problem Complicated? Or Complex?

By: Nitin Nohria, Bill George and Kayti Stanley

Complicated problems, which can be solved with systematic approaches, are different from complex problems, which require adaptive strategies and continuous learning. Many leaders conflate the two types, have more experience with complicated problems, and therefore may... View Details

Keywords: Complexity; Adaptation; Leadership; Problems and Challenges

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