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  • 16 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders

performance, the researchers say. Founders are usually very busy people—they recruit key employees, raise funds, find a board, develop partnerships, set strategy, and design the organization, to name a few responsibilities. What often... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 Sep 2013
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience about the touchy subject of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Oct 2022
  • Research & Ideas

When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions

Most companies rely on artificial intelligence-based algorithms to make a wide variety of business decisions—from pinpointing the products customers prefer to determining which resumes should go to hiring managers. The problem for... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 08 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Management Education’s Unanswered Questions

salesmen. Business schools need to look at what differentiates a professional school from a vocational school. For management, the impetus came much more from a small cadre of academics, a group of people... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

The Need for Speed: Effects of Uncertainty Reduction in Patenting

By: Mike Horia Teodorescu
Patents are essential in commerce to establish property rights for ideas and to give equal protection to firms that develop new technologies. Young firms especially depend on the protection of intellectual property to bring a product from concept to market. However,... View Details
Keywords: Startups; Natural Language Processing; Machine Learning; Patents; Business Startups; Risk and Uncertainty; Outcome or Result; Green Technology Industry
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Guides to Archival Collections – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us A New Vision An Essay by Professors Michel Anteby and Rakesh Khurana Introduction The Hawthorne Plant Employee Welfare Illumination Studies and Relay Assembly Test Room Enter Elton Mayo Human Relations and Harvard View Details
  • 26 Aug 2024
  • Blog Post

HBS Lingo 101

nonprofits, and government organizations—complete with the constraints and incomplete information found in real business issues—and places the student in the role of the decision maker. Students will read 500 cases during their two years... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

J. Hughes Norton III

It's early on a June morning at the Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland, the day before the U.S. Open golf tournament. Only practice rounds will be played today, but already groups of excited spectators are trooping up the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • Web

Generative AI - Alumni

description will give the AI more to work from when creating a targeted cover letter draft. Outputs will be more generic when working from less detailed job descriptions or job titles only. Below are two examples of input prompts for generating a cover letter: “I am a... View Details
  • 21 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

contemplated lies within the jurisdiction of the group or whether it might conflict with the policy of some higher echelon.” “To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Jun 2018
  • Research & Ideas

In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done

immigrant “gateways” such as New York and California seeing more than 40 percent of new businesses led by immigrants. The study also found that immigrant-led companies start smaller but grow at a faster rate and are more likely to survive... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Technology; Service
  • Web

HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

Business Administration Leslie Feinzaig (MBA 2007), Founder & Managing Director, Graham & Walker Venture Fund; Founder, Female Founders Alliance Sarah Fay, Glasswing Ventures and All Raise Chapter Lea 10:15–11:45 a.m. Founders & Builders... View Details
  • February 2014 (Revised April 2015)
  • Case

Go Beyond Investing

By: Lynda Applegate, Vincent Dessain, Emilie Billaud and Daniela Beyersdorfer
In 2013, Brigitte Baumann, founder of the Pan-European angel investing provider Go Beyond Investing, reflected on the evolution of her venture and the way forward. Her company, which offered deal flow and training to novice and experienced angel investors and ran... View Details
Keywords: Equity; Investment; Business or Company Management; Growth Management; Leadership; Financial Services Industry; Europe; Switzerland
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  • 19 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 19

Performing Arts: Alternative Futures Allen Grossman and Coleman RadellHarvard Business School Case 311-099 Ren Levy took over Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts when it was a group of warring... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2022
  • Op-Ed

Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)

the internet. We wrote a series of Harvard Business School case studies between 2009 and 2011 exploring viral videos—United Breaks Guitars, the JK Wedding Dance, and how Ford used influencers to launch the Fiesta car. What struck us right... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
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Jana Kierstead | About

Jana Kierstead Bio Jana Pompadur Kierstead is the Executive Director of the MBA and Doctoral Programs and External Relations at Harvard Business School. She brings over 25 years of experience to this role, with more than 20 years... View Details
  • 18 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?

Do lower-income families need and deserve access to fewer things than everyone else? As a society, we seem to think so, revealing a "grim double standard," finds a study published this month, Inequality in Socially Permissible Consumption. It was written by... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • Web

C. Roland Christensen - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

C. Roland Christensen was one of the founders of the field of business strategy and the world’s leading authority on case method teaching. Legacy Harvard Business School Professor C. Roland (Chris)... View Details
  • Web

Academics - Health Care

MBA Experience Academics Why HBS for Health Care? Harvard Business School The first-year “required curriculum” (RC) incorporates health care cases and topics in many courses ranging from Marketing and Finance to Entrepreneurship and... View Details
  • Web

Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni

with pre-vetted flexible work opportunities. Project & Flexible Work Opportunities The programs below connect alumni from top business schools with flexible work opportunities and consulting projects at a variety of organizations: View Details