Pay As You Go - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Learning from the Entrepreneurs-in-Residence as a Harvard MS/MBA Student

position, which can be either “above the line” or “below the line.” To be above the line means that you are open and excited about the topic at hand; to be below the line is to be apprehensive or to interpret a situation View Details

18 Mar 2020
Blog Post

Make Work from Home Work For You (And Your Team)

to mention the ease of unplugging your laptop and bringing it home, make work from home manageable. However, not everyone is going to be comfortable with these technologies right away and Stephan stresses the importance of being patient... View Details

26 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Two sides, same coin: How I left the Bay Area as an operator and returned as an investor

reflecting on our experience. In fact, after going through the program, many of my fellow RVPs realized this was not the career path for them, while others had their aspirations reinforced. Growing on a personal level: There are very few... View Details

14 Mar 2018
News

Do the Things You Love

Rebecca Henderson (MBA 1985, PhD BE 1988) is the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard University. In this interview, she discusses the value of money versus personal satisfaction. “Money doesn't matter nearly as much... View Details

12 Oct 2016
Blog Post

Interning as a Software Engineer while at HBS

Today, we’re catching up with Andrea Coravos (HBS ‘17). Before coming to HBS, Andrea worked in private equity at KKR Capstone. She also spent three years at McKinsey in the Houston and then DC offices. This summer, she interned as a... View Details

January 2020 (Revised March 2020)
Case

LOLA: Do You Know What's in Your Tampon?

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Aldo Sesia

LOLA is a direct-to-consumer (DTC) business launched in 2015. What started as a company to provide women with organic and transparent material-labeled tampons via a subscription model, had, by 2019 evolved to include additional menstrual and sexual wellness products.... View Details

Keywords: Direct-to-consumer; Channels; Disruption; Business Model; Brands and Branding; Internet and the Web; Strategy; Retail Industry; United States; Canada

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16 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

part of a much larger problem, as I've tried to suggest, and will require new thinking about the design of compensation systems and processes within the boards through which compensation is determined. Yet if View Details

Keywords: by Kim B. Clark

07 Jun 2019
Book

Are You a Digital Manager?

teams within and sometimes outside their organization. This raises questions like: How will you innovate? How will you bring out the best ideas in your teams working together near and far? How will View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 May 2019
News

Are You Ready for Veggie Fast-Casual?

is powerful,” Shaich told the Boston Globe. “Forty percent of America will tell you in a survey that they’re trying to eat more plants.” It’s a trend Shaich followed himself as he hit age 60. “I hired a... View Details

Keywords: Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

20 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It

continues. "I try to show students that it doesn't work that way—you have to go meet people where they are and then all move together. You have to connect with them before View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

04 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

the right word—and I had to negotiate about this. That experience gave me a sense that you can't be a passive person, even with the best of physicians. You have to understand what's View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

21 Jan 2022
Blog Post

How HBS Financial Aid Can Help You Meet the Cost of Your MBA

As a first-generation college student, I understand firsthand what it’s like to have to figure out how to pay for school. Education is an investment, and I’m here to tell you... View Details

09 Mar 2021
News

Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity

Island. You can’t go into a medical office in the state without meeting a CCRI graduate who’s your nurse, your ultrasound tech, or your dental hygienist. And there’s a demand for still more IT support... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

30 Aug 2023
Blog Post

I’m From the South and Going Back: Why HBS Was the Best School for Me

fully plan to contribute to that progress and have my voice heard, whether as a voter or as an active corporate citizen. I'll use this last paragraph to share a piece of unsolicited advice for aspiring... View Details

14 Jan 2022
News

Tsedal Neeley on Why We Need to Think of the Office as a Tool, with Very Specific Uses

15 Feb 2017
News

You Should Consider Buying a Small Business. But When?

12 PM – 1 PM EST, 05 Feb 2019
Webinars: Career

Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life

Rebels can often change the world for the better with their unconventional outlooks. Professor Francesca Gino has spent more than a decade studying rebels at organizations around the world. In this webinar, she explores the qualities that make rebels masters of... View Details

16 May 2023
HBS Case

How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’

performing as a whole, may not hold much value when an employee goes to exercise them, Rouen says. They also can be complicated to administer from legal and tax perspectives. Employees are skeptical of programs that trade wages or... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

01 Jun 2000
News

The HBS Show Must Go On: "STARt-up WARS" Continues Tradition of Smash Hits

more traditional careers. The cast of more than one hundred actors, singers, dancers, and musicians found plenty of material in the technology and Internet revolution, with songs such as "La Vida Nokia" and "The Heat Is in Dot-Com."... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

12 Sep 2023
Book

Successful, But Still Feel Empty? A Happiness Scholar and Oprah Have Advice for You

masses.” “Everybody thinks that [successful people] have perfect lives, but if you look inside their own heads, you’re going to see the same problems that everybody else has.” Written for a broad audience,... View Details