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- 09 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen’s “How Will You Measure Your Life?”
2010) and Karen Dillon, the book uses meaningful corporate and personal anecdotes to extoll the value of theory in finding and creating happiness. "You'll see that without theory, we're at sea without a map or a sextant,"...
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- 13 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
Benefits of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
years before HBS working at AppNexus in New York City. While working as an engineer Damjan never lost sight of his ultimate goal: to found and grow a business. “I was curious to View Details
- 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM EDT, 09 Apr 2019
- Career Events
What's Next in My Life?
Do you see change ahead on your horizon, and you're not sure how to quite put it all together? Join this hands-on, two-hour workshop where you will learn frameworks for life and career planning, consider work and life dimensions to help create your next chapter and...
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- 13 Jul 2022
- Book
Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?
she shudders. Through another Brazilian immigrant, she had obtained housecleaning work shortly after settling in. She worked constantly, trudging home most nights after dark, too late—and often too tired—to...
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by Avery Forman
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Global Research Centers - Faculty & Research
worldwide, and to learn from business challenges and innovations wherever they occur. Through sustained work in the field, faculty are provided the opportunity to immerse themselves in the culture and values – as well as intricacies and...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
real-time connections with colleagues, but will prefer to maintain their at-home work lifestyle. I suggest managers put some structure in place to ensure that time in the office is optimized for face time. For example, make a team...
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- 16 May 2023
- HBS Case
How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’
One thing that stuck with Pete Stavros from the dinner-table conversations of his youth was that capitalism seemed fundamentally broken for his father, who earned an hourly wage working construction. The incentive was not there for...
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by Avery Forman
- March 24, 2014
- Article
Like a Boss: How Corporate Negotiators Would Handle Nuclear Talks With Iran
While the Obama team deserves high marks for launching the interim talks, its approach doesn't sell the upside of a comprehensive deal persuasively enough to transform more Iranian skeptics into active supporters—a necessary condition for success if there is an...
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Sebenius, James K. "Like a Boss: How Corporate Negotiators Would Handle Nuclear Talks With Iran." ForeignPolicy.com (March 24, 2014).
- 08 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
8 FAQs on the MBA Application
versions of these exams where available even if they do not have a writing section (AWA). Scores from these online tests will be accepted at HBS in any future admissions round as long as they are valid from the testing organization, which may be less than the customary...
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- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
more than mechanistic structures that defined work roles and regulated economic action. Mayo, Roethlisberger, and their followers saw organizations as social systems characterized by ideals, values, and, ideally, a purpose. An individual...
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by Martha Lagace
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Case Development - Faculty & Research
purpose and may arise as the result of a past relationship with an executive, a former student, or from a professor’s interest in exploring with a company’s management team a situation that would provide a meaningful learning experience....
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Special Collections and Archives | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
× Please sign in You need to log in to use the bookmarking feature. Sign In Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Search Find Services Ask Browse Databases Collections & Archives Guides Exhibits Find Books, Articles & More More Places HOLLIS Catalog Harvard Library View Details
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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online
Introduction to Power and Influence for Positive Impact Power and Influence for Positive Impact $1,850 Next 6-week session starts August 7th Apply Understand how power really works and develop your own power to gain influence and make an...
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- 26 Jun 2023
- Research & Ideas
Want to Leave a Lasting Impression on Customers? Don't Forget the (Proverbial) Fireworks
way of leaving an impression. “A strong ending can have a big impact on people’s evaluations when they look back on an experience,” says De Freitas, coauthor of the working paper “Summarizing the Mental Customer Journey.” “We ended up...
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Management, a technology-sector hedge fund. Previously, he worked at Vector Capital Management LP in San Francisco and at Goldman Sachs International in London. Originally from Norway, Abrahamsen earned an undergraduate degree from the...
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- 25 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Importance of Teaming
learning and process knowledge, and explains why these are important concepts for today's leaders. Teaming is a verb Sports teams and musical groups are both bounded, static collections of individuals. Like most work teams in the past,...
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- 19 Apr 2017
- Blog Post
7 Ways MBA Students Use Baker Library
startup ideas and business plans. We asked members of our team to share stories about meaningful interactions with MBAs, and the different ways students (and their partners) utilize the resources at Baker. Here’s what our librarians have...
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- 24 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Rituals at Work: Teams That Play Together Stay Together
bonding activity—regular rituals like doing the Walmart Cheer or firing a Nerf toy gun to conclude a project—led to a 16 percent increase in how meaningful employees judged their work to be, according to...
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by Kristen Senz
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
Working PapersCan Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia Authors:Nava Ashraf, James Berry, and Jesse M. Shapiro Abstract The pricing of health products in the developing world has become a center...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2023
- Research Event
Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips
learned from her depression after a movie she worked on “bombed;” and how to be not necessarily happy all the time, but happier. Here's a transcript of the full conversation. Jeffrey Goldberg: Please join me in welcoming to the stage...
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