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24 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class

at the Princeton endowment and I remember my boss at the time saying ‘Listen, we’re giving you this opportunity not because you’re an MBA student, but because you’re in a joint degree program.’ He saw having an MPP in addition to an MBA... View Details

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

31 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

life transitions—a new job, a sick parent, a partner’s layoff, or a return to work after a maternity leave, Whillans says. “Most employees will go about their day-to-day lives and be fine most of the time,” Whillans says. “But when we... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

06 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or Die

our current strategy." Companies think strategic change is this huge process they have to go through. But if you regularly review what you are doing, then that keeps the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

Portrait Project

Rishi Chandna

I will live in the present. I will push myself as hard as I can every day. I will pack a bit less and endure a bit more. I will sometimes do things that don't make sense. I will drive from Alaska to... View Details

01 Oct 1997
News

High Fives

productivity is going up significantly around the world. Globalization is creating higher growth rates and overall lower costs of production. However, the U.S. stock market is ahead of itself.” Views on investing in emerging markets: “We... View Details

04 Feb 2010
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?

the Complete Solution ought to be the key." Most argued for a process involving intuition based on analysis and experience. Rowland Freeman commented, "A great deal depends on the magnitude of the decision . The lesser the impact, View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Nov 2015
Blog Post

Casey Gerald: Becoming a Leader at HBS

school and listen to the speakers. One day there was a speaker that said in the 20th century if you wanted to change the world you had to go to law school, but in the 21st... View Details

12 Mar 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Firing the CEO

concerned patriarch finally admitted this to his board. After consulting with them and with me, the father walked into his son's office on a Friday afternoon and said, "Son, nobody can contemplate life with you View Details

10 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Is Groupon Good for Retailers?

customers full price, while charging a lower price to new customers who aren't willing to pay as much but who are still willing to pay something above the restaurant's costs.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising; Technology

04 Feb 2016
Blog Post

Meet the HBS Tech Club

student clubs at HBS. Can you tell us about your annual conference? This year will be the 21st year of hosting a conference. It’s traditionally been called Cyberposium (recently rebranded to a name with hopefully even more longevity —... View Details

07 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

division. But now, the Development Banking team is contemplating going to the board to take the concept one step further: pro-actively investing in PSL-qualifying activities not as a matter of regulatory... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Aug 1998
News

High Honors

others as you would have them serve you." When he announced his plans to step down, McDermott reminded his colleagues, "We've made customer service our primary goal, and we've encouraged other corporations... View Details

13 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas

Entrepreneurial Management Unit. “I hope it opens some eyes to the value of hard, risky, in-the-weeds science for commercial innovation, as opposed to ‘let’s just go build the thing and make it work on the... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

11 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Crafting a Nontraditional Path to Venture Capital and Private Equity with Morgan Sheil (MBA 2021)

operations to investing was a strategic move that Sheil saw as necessary to further develop her toolkit and influence change. “Being able to do both operations and investing will be important and necessary for creating change and pivoting... View Details

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

where everyone can thrive Communicate powerfully as a leader Go fast by empowering your team Can Consumers, Big Tech, and Retailers Fix Health Care? Professor Robert Huckman (PHDBE 2001) No additional... View Details

01 Apr 2021
Blog Post

An Aerospace Engineer Provides a Lift for Underrepresented Innovators and Entrepreneurs

Try as she might, Toyin Shodiya (MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences 2022) was just not interested in biology. As a high school student living in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., her lack of interest in the subject... View Details

01 Jun 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation

profoundly." Scientific innovation is moving into companies such as BofA that you wouldn't expect, she adds. "We think of automakers focusing primarily on design, but the growing emphasis on... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Auto; Pharmaceutical

21 Jun 2024
Blog Post

What Does PRIDE Mean to You?

also thankful for my husband, Connor, for coming with me on this weird and wonderful journey. I expect Pride will keep changing in meaning for me as time passes, but I know one thing won’t change: that closet door is rotted and gone, and... View Details

12 May 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team

circumstances.” Don’t forget your own leadership relaunches.To guide teams through these drastic changes, leaders must take the difficult step of acknowledging to themselves and the team that there is no guidebook for what everyone is View Details

Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley

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