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Kristin W. Mugford | About
previously served as Faculty Chair for field-based learning and co-curricular programs in the MBA program. For the last decade she taught "Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring," a popular advanced finance elective that analyzes how economic View Details
- 14 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2022
(MBA 2023) Becky and Adriann's Love Story: The First Time We Met Adriann’s story: I was a stressed consultant, constantly traveling with a rocky foundation and never-ending work schedule. I used the weekends... View Details
- 26 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast
climate change, which can be both overwhelming but also incredibly exciting. Many Climate Rising guests stressed the importance of finding a career you enjoy, and seeking roles that align with both your passions and your strengths. Erin... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
My HBS Student Loan Story: Ina Foalea (MBA 2018)
or stress related to debt or how you would pay for HBS? If yes, how did you manage those feelings? There was huge anxiety around cost initially. But when you go through recruiting in your first year, you start to understand the job market... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
simply a bilateral matter. First, a need to secure construction permits in multiple jurisdictions around the Baltic Sea involved other countries. And second, Germany's membership in the European Union entailed compliance with goals and values of the entire union, which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Connecting with Consumers Using Deep Metaphors
mind. One is Coca-Cola's "I'd like to teach the world to sing," which invokes the deep metaphor of connection and the ability of the brand to bring diverse people together. It also engaged the deep metaphor of social balance by View Details
- 06 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
My HBS Student Loan Story: Gorick Ng (MBA 2018)
aid but also took out student loans. Did you have any anxiety or stress related to debt or how you would pay for HBS? If yes, how did you manage those feelings? Finances were top of mind throughout my two years of school. I knew I wanted... View Details
- 01 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault
jobs is not expanding,” says Simons. “People feel more pressure to own their roles and they’re stressed because they’re being pulled in a lot of different directions, but they’re not getting the help they need.” The idea that an... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
became responsible for my mother and my younger brother once my dad left,” Sityodtong says. “It was nothing amazing or honorable on my part, it’s just part of Asian culture.” Attending HBS represented foregone income and a substantial financial drain at a View Details
- 21 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style
CEOs are communicators. Studies show that CEOs spend 85 percent of their time in communication-related activities, including speeches, meetings, and phone calls with people both inside and outside the firm. Now, new research using machine... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
inside of the courtroom more than once), hip-hop is as much a lifestyle as a musical genre. Yet the company’s spare, functional Times Square offices don’t suggest any of these bad boy qualities — and neither does the genial, relaxed... View Details
- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
nationwide office supplies superstore, she recalled: I'm not a good example of how to manage your career. I've just been willing to raise my hand several times for new opportunities. I've taken a lot of what others would perceive to be... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
not focused on them. In this paper we argue for greater recognition of repositioning costs, provide a repositioning cost typology, and demonstrate the fertility of this approach with a simple model of inter-firm competitive interaction in which repositioning costs... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
8 Stories from PRIDE for National Coming Out Day
(he/him), Class of 2022 “August 2, 2020 was the start of my Coming-out-iversary, the first time I told the world, ‘I’m gay.’ Despite knowing I was different since adolescence, conservative religious and societal pressures prevented me... View Details
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
manager can say, ‘It’s 3 p.m., and it’s been a tough week. Take the rest of the afternoon off and spend time with your loved ones.’ You’d be meeting people where they are by recognizing that everyone is View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53182 September–October 2017 Harvard Business Review The Surprising Power of Online Experiments: Getting the Most Out of A/B and Other Controlled Tests By: Kohavi, Ron, and Stefan H. Thomke Abstract—In the fast-moving... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Organizations Create Social Value
organizations wanting to create social value. The researchers stressed the importance of synergies between Economic Value (EV) and Social Value (SV), calling them "two sides of the same coin." By aligning EV and SV, both... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 10 Sep 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Branding Yoga
Harvard Business School Professor Rohit Deshpandé often asks his marketing students a show-stopping question: Is everything brandable—and should everything be brandable? So when he read a November 2010 New York Times piece on the tensions... View Details
- 05 Sep 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Making the Right Technical Hire
If I had a nickel for every time I get an email or text asking if I know any full stack developers for hire, I could cover the cost of my next trip to San Francisco. I’m also struck by the number of founders who say they’re raising more... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- Op-Ed
Don't Ignore Your Employees' Misery—TAKE Control
point is the most crucial—employee trust is hard to regain once it’s lost. E = Execute your organization’s post-COVID workforce plan in a timely fashion and evaluate your progress constantly. Ultimately, the TAKE framework is about... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson