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12 Jun 2023
Blog Post

What Does PRIDE at HBS Mean to You?

25 years later, I still count the connections I made through HBS PRIDE as my closest friends and confidantes. Kelly Bojic (MBA 2024) PRIDE at HBS is my second home. I’ve made lifelong View Details

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Profiles - MBA

challenges. As we navigate these unknowns, we must turn to those around us, using cross-disciplinary collaboration and honest, empathetic communication to imagine the possibilities that await. As a Roberts View Details

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Faculty & Research - Entrepreneurship

Practice Poorvu Family Professor of Management Practice, Retired Jeffrey J. Bussgang Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Nori Gerardo Lietz Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Olivia S. Kim Assistant Professor of Business... View Details

21 Mar 2024
Blog Post

SVMP Gave Me the Courage to Fail

of my new friends in the program, I wrote, practiced, and delivered my speech successfully. Through the speech preparation and delivery process, I learned about the importance... View Details

04 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

How To Do Business in Islamic Countries

practical basis, names are very important for doing deals in Islamic countries, as in most of the world, the professors said. Who you know is key. Similarly, relationships and family connections are vital in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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The Chao Center: The Heart of HBS Executive Education

(1930-2007) an immigrant from China who, with her husband James Si-Cheng Chao, built a life in the U.S. and raised six daughters. It is the first building on campus named for a Chinese family View Details

01 Jun 2011
Working Paper Summaries

The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures

Keywords: by Thomas F. Hellmann & Noam Wasserman

Research Summary

The Game Has Changed

By: Max H. Bazerman

Many prior books on negotiation, including books co-authored by Max Bazerman, have addressed how to create and claim value in negotiation. These ideas have proliferated in business schools, where negotiation is often the most popular course. Class participants... View Details

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Mark Giragosian

before class. Because I’m prepared, I’m better able to simply listen and respond in real time.” Yet academics are balanced with other commitments. Mark arrived on campus with his wife, Alexis Giragosian, and... View Details

13 Mar 2023
Op-Ed

How Leaders Should Leave

and two or three adviser friends outside the organization you can trust. Your resignation should be rational, not emotional. What are the financial implications if you don’t have an immediate new job, View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

09 Jun 2022
Blog Post

The MBA Class of 2022 Looks Back

future endeavors?Listen to others’ stories and points of view. Listen with purpose and without distraction. Listen first and talk second. Over the last two years I’ve listened... View Details

21 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

What Went Wrong at J.C. Penney?

home goods. It was particularly well known for home goods and children's ware. And once the family went there, they also shopped for men's and... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Retail

Portrait Project

Raphael Geismar

emerging, and I am very grateful to them. I dream of continuing this heritage. I want to help people and ideas develop. I want to see my family View Details

15 Nov 2022
Cold Call Podcast

Planning the Future for Harlem’s Beloved Sylvia’s Restaurant

Keywords: Re: Christina R. Wing; Food & Beverage

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HBS - The year in Review

wrapped into one, beginning with an intense effort around welcoming the entire community back and culminating in a joyous crescendo of multiple commencements and alumni reunions—with more than 23,000 in... View Details

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Building Effective Relationships Across Cultures

Trust is the foundation of any successful collaborative relationship. In my first stream of research, I draw on the basic distinction between cognition-based versus affect-based trust– that is, trust from the head versus trust from the heart – to better... View Details

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Power to the People

By: Eric D. Werker

Every nongovernmental organization has a mission statement. For example, CARE, one of the world's largest and best-funded NGOs, explains its mission as serving "individuals and families in the poorest communities in the world. Drawing strength from our global... View Details

Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Food; Service Operations; Inflation and Deflation; Experience and Expertise; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Knowledge; Poverty; Agribusiness; Diversity; Non-Governmental Organizations; Innovation and Invention; India

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20 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Three Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

heels. I was also raised seeing my sister come out years before me and open the door for how siblinghood and queerness could intersect. I’m grateful every day for a family that... View Details

05 Oct 2020
Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

After earning a doctorate, Ashley Whillans received two tempting job offers: one in her hometown, where she could remain close to family and friends View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

15 Nov 2016
First Look

November 15, 2016

is widely accepted that the conflict women experience between family obligations and professional jobs’ long hours lies at the heart of their stalled advancement. Yet research suggests that this “work-family... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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