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Develop Your Career Vision - Alumni

non-negotiable obligations and constraints that shape your work and life choices. Horizon: Complete the Horizon exercise . This is an exercise that will allow you to understand and move closer to what it... View Details

07 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 7

PublicationsTransnational Management: Text, Cases and Readings in Cross-Border Management Authors:Christopher A. Bartlett and Paul W. Beamish Publication:Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 2011 Abstract Transnational Management focuses on the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Apr 2022
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What Does Your Business Stand For? Why Building Trust Starts with Purpose

principles into every aspect of the organization. This purpose serves as a compass to guide all decisions, but also as an operating system that shapes all facets of the... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

28 Sep 2023
News

What Ray Dalio Can Teach Us About Global Venture and Startups

Ray Dalio (photo via Bridgewater Associates) and Alex Lazarow (photo by Lindsay Upson) In a recent conversation with Bridgewater Associates Founder Ray Dalio (MBA 1973), Alex Lazarow (MBA 2010) gleaned three insights (and one bonus) from View Details

26 May 2022
HBS Case

Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right?

Cedric O said, “A company that has never been in better economic shape is not helping the government fight the crisis. We will remember that.” Lessons for leaders View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

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Confronting Climate Change - Business & Environment

Cities Deploying resilient infrastructure The world is currently undergoing the largest wave of urban growth in human history. These population centers are especially at risk... View Details

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Past Issues - Alumni

years leading HBS and outlines the strategies that will shape the School’s future My First Job The mistakes and memorable moments from our... View Details

Portrait Project

Emma Beck

When I was a kid, my mom showed me how to dissect owl pellets and make art out of foraged bird nests and pebbles. Transforming nature, she was a magician of sorts – or so it seemed to me at the time. But as I grew up, I came to learn that... View Details

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About - Business & Environment

About Inspiring innovation at the intersection of business and the environment. Mission The Business and Environment Initiative educates, connects, and mobilizes business... View Details

24 Feb 2010
Working Paper Summaries

Accelerating Innovation In Energy: Insights from Multiple Sectors

Keywords: by Rebecca M. Henderson & Richard G. Newell; Energy; Utilities; Technology

March 2009
Article

Risk Management and Calculative Cultures

By: Anette Mikes

Enterprise risk management (ERM) has recently emerged as a widespread practice in financial institutions. It has been increasingly codified and encrypted into regulatory, corporate governance and organisational management blueprints. A burgeoning literature of... View Details

Keywords: Risk Management; Practice; Banks and Banking; Corporate Governance; Value; Business and Shareholder Relations; Managerial Roles; Culture; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business or Company Management; Financial Services Industry

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01 Dec 2023
News

Turning Point: Where Credit Is Due

Nagi Otgonshar (MBA 2015) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Nagi Otgonshar (MBA 2015) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Earning a full scholarship has always been the only realistic ticket to a superior education for me. It was this golden opportunity that allowed me to... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

27 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

How One Late Employee Can Hurt Your Business: Data from 25 Million Timecards

pandemic fatigue set off a wave of “quiet quitting” and not-so-quiet quitting. "The heart of what we found is that the [quality of work] depends on how much it's accompanied by other employees being late or... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Retail

2024
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Crucibles, Multiple Sensitive Periods, and Career Progression

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Sunasir Dutta, Hise O. Gibson and Eric Lin

We study the effects of crucible experiences along multiple sensitive periods on career progression. While prior literature has hinted that individuals can be imprinted during multiple sensitive periods, not just during the early career, there has been scant attention... View Details

Keywords: Military Service; Personal Development and Career; Transformation; Power and Influence; Learning; Human Capital

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10 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

nature of what is seen as legitimate leadership in modern society. The origins of psychology and its interest in leadership date back to Sigmund Freud and Erik Erikson. Many individuals tried to understand what leads certain people to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

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Finance - Faculty & Research

Economics in 1997, to John Lintner who co-created the Capital Asset Pricing Model and made significant contributions to dividend policy , and Gordon Donaldson whose work helped shape View Details

30 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers Would Pick Crest or Colgate?

mean and the distribution around that, and then look at the overall shape of what we get, and determine whether we are actually getting something that looks like a realistic... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

15 Jul 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Poultry in Motion: A Study of International Trade Finance Practices

Keywords: by Pol Antras & C. Fritz Foley; Agriculture & Agribusiness

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Leadership - Faculty & Research

Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was devastated by three reactor explosions and two core meltdowns in the days following a 9.0 earthquake and a tsunami that produced waves as high as 17 meters. View Details

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

last? Why is the ‘skills gap’ so pervasive and enduring? Why is the workforce participation at historic lows across so many developed countries? What can be done to reverse the... View Details

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