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Claire Freidman

of entertainment professionals as well as to countless resources that could help me achieve my career goals. How has your overall HBS experience shaped your goals & career path? I've been one of the few people I know who came to HBS... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media; Investment Management / Hedge Fund; Technology

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Varnika Menghnani

leadership? While I was aware that leadership is very subjective and many kinds of leaders thrive, I have truly come to appreciate this over time. What has stayed with me is that leadership is a series of "Bold Strokes" but also needs to... View Details

15 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

Business leaders must respond to growing concerns about pollution, but both the environment and corporate coffers can be green, says Harvard Business School professor Forest Reinhardt. The key to success may depend on how the challenges... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2023
News

Joint Venture

thumbtack-shaped implant and the curved partial knee and circular kneecap replacements—replicate the characteristics of human cartilage. Testing indicates that recovery from a Galene-based cartilage replacement is lightning fast. Sparta estimates patients should View Details

Keywords: Shoshi Parks

16 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

percentage rent above a specified revenue threshold. Normatively, the industry seeks to spend no more than 10 percent of revenue on occupancy costs, but when entering leases, restaurateurs may well be... View Details

Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage

12 Dec 2023
Blog Post

Bridging Science and Business: My Summer Internship at Eli Lilly

a startup, capturing the program's entrepreneurial essence. These weren't random placements but deliberate career paths, each made possible by the program's comprehensive curriculum. It's a testament to how well the program prepares us... View Details

12 Jan 2022
Blog Post

How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Cecil Alfaro-Mora

plan remained the same, but being granted admission at HBS served as a confidence booster, especially in professional and business-related matters. It also made me ask myself regularly: how can I use this time to prepare View Details

21 Apr 2023
Research & Ideas

The $15 Billion Question: Have Loot Boxes Turned Video Gaming into Gambling?

for whales is the randomness of what they will find inside, which can be similar to the draws of gambling, the paper notes. The authors find that whales were more likely to rapidly open one box after another, suggesting that they weren’t... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Video Game; Media & Broadcasting

24 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: What Mark Zuckerberg Can Learn About Crisis Leadership from Starbucks

take the lead. He understood the incident’s implications went well beyond the specifics, triggering widespread concerns about racial bias in the country and threatening to damage Starbucks’ image as a safe, friendly place to gather with... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Technology; Food & Beverage

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3D Negotiaton

By: James K. Sebenius

In articles and books, often with David Lax, I have been developing a broad approach to effective negotiation that encompasses three "dimensions." In this "3D" approach, our first dimension — "tactics"-- is the most familiar territory. Tactics are the persuasive... View Details

Teaching Interest

Managing Global Health: Applying Behavioral Economics to Create Impact (MBA)

Health, and development more broadly, is not something we give to people: it is something they produce themselves, interacting with supply-side and institutional factors. This course trains students to see through the lens of the end-user and to use the levers of... View Details

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Models of Best Practice in Integrated Reporting 2015

By: Robert G. Eccles, Michael P. Krzus and Sydney Ribot

In March of 2015, the authors reviewed the integrated reports of 25 multinational companies that participated in the International Integrated Reporting Council's (IIRC's) Pilot Programme Business Network. Because it was not until December 2013 that companies had any... View Details

Keywords: Integrated Reporting; Integrated Corporate Reporting

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08 Oct 2020
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Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

around them. The circumstances of work have become more difficult. Their responses included: “Keeping morale and motivation up amongst employees while they are dealing with the stress of COVID-19 as well as parenting/schooling children... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

12 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs

moment,” points of stickiness, drop off, etc. They also won’t have the biases you likely bring to the table and can look at the numbers objectively. Investors can be helpful with developing your company and product story, as View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

30 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness

around the strategic direction that the company is taking would require giving different types of information to board members and having different discussions in board meetings, but the effort to revamp the meeting process and agenda would View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan

April 1996 (Revised November 1997)
Case

Background and Agreements on Foreign Direct Investment

By: Louis T. Wells Jr. and Courtenay Sprague

A brief history of foreign direct investment (FDI) is explored, emphasizing conflicts, developments in the legal framework governing FDI, and international agreements and nonbinding principles formulated to resolve disputes brought in by FDI. Propositions provide a... View Details

Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Agreements and Arrangements; Conflict Management

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Stages of Development - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Strategy Stages of Development Stages of Development Successful economic development is a process of successive upgrading. A nation’s business environment evolves to support and encourage increasingly sophisticated and productive ways of competing by firms based there.... View Details

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Terms of Use - Alumni

participants. For example, alumni who have selected to share only a portion of an address will still be displayed on the map, however, the exact location will not be discernible. Alumni use of the new map... View Details

Portrait Project

Jourdan Henry

really happened.” My mother and father were detectives, and I was the subject of mini-interrogations. My personal values evolved in this hot seat, as this was a normal occurrence in our kitchen. If I were to lie, the truth would... View Details

07 Jul 2019
HBS Case

Walmart's Workforce of the Future

Any discussion of the future of retail—or how we work—has to include Walmart. As of 2017, 90 percent of the US population lived within 10 miles of a Walmart store; with 11,766 locations worldwide and $514 billion in annual revenues, the discount store also has the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

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