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- 08 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career
In 2015, Steve Kloeblen retired and thought he was done with the corporate world. A graduate of HBS Executive Education’s General Management Program, Kloeblen had more than 30 years of experience with IBM, culminating with his transition...
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Technology
- December 2003 (Revised April 2005)
- Case
Camilla Denison (A)
By: H. Kent Bowen, Bryce LaPierre and Virginia Fuller
Follows a successful manager as she takes on challenging assignments to lead manufacturing and development organizations. Details many experiences that influenced her character and attitudes from her youth to her graduate education and first jobs. Students discover the...
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Bowen, H. Kent, Bryce LaPierre, and Virginia Fuller. "Camilla Denison (A)." Harvard Business School Case 604-061, December 2003. (Revised April 2005.)
- 2017
- Working Paper
Homophily in Entrepreneurial Team Formation
By: Paul A. Gompers, Kevin Huang and Sophie Q. Wang
We study the role of homophily in group formation. Using a unique dataset of MBA students, we observe homophily in ethnicity and gender increases the probability of forming teams by 25%. Homophily in education and past working experience increases the probability of...
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Gompers, Paul A., Kevin Huang, and Sophie Q. Wang. "Homophily in Entrepreneurial Team Formation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-104, May 2017.
- April 2015
- Teaching Plan
Codecademy: Monetizing a Movement?
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Lisa Mazzanti
This is a Teaching Plan for the case on Codecademy, an open-platform, online community for learning computer programming, launched in 2011. By 2014, the company had raised a total of $12.5 million in funding and was, on many fronts, an overwhelming success. However,...
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- 2009
- Working Paper
The Devil Wears Prada: Effects of Exposure to Luxury Goods on Cognition and Decision Making
By: Roy Y.J. Chua and Xi Zou
Although the concept of luxury has been widely discussed in social theories and marketing research, relatively little research has directly examined the psychological consequences of exposure to luxury goods. This paper demonstrates that mere exposure to luxury goods...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Judgments;
Ethics;
Marketing;
Behavior;
Power and Influence;
Luxury
Chua, Roy Y.J., and Xi Zou. "The Devil Wears Prada: Effects of Exposure to Luxury Goods on Cognition and Decision Making." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-034, November 2009.
The Power of Vicarious Learning
“We typically think of learning as something that happens in a classroom or an organizational training context, but the reality is that most of our learning occurs in our day to day interactions and the experiences that we have in the workplace.”
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- 23 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Summer Snapshot: Interning at a Robotics Start-Up
and Co-Founder. I didn’t have prior experience in agriculture space, therefore I have conducted many interviews with industry experts, academics, potential customers, and attended the nationwide United Fresh Show to learn more. I have...
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- 31 May 2015
- News
The trend towards board term limits is based on faulty logic
- Career Coach
Pamela Harder
Pam (HBS / HKS ‘13, Stanford ‘08 Economics) has spent the last 12 years working at the nexus of business and government. Currently, she runs Virginia's state-wide economic development talent investment strategy. As a Managing Director within state government's economic...
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- June 2021 (Revised October 2021)
- Case
Nissan's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
By: Ananth Raman, William Schmidt and Ann Winslow
In January 2020, Ashwani Gupta took over as COO at Nissan Motor Corporation, and several weeks later, the COVID-19 pandemic began. Nissan’s Business Continuity Plan (BCP) had been key to the resilience of Nissan’s supply chain. It had enabled Nissan to recover from...
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Keywords:
Operations;
Supply Chain Management;
Health Pandemics;
Auto Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Japan;
India
Raman, Ananth, William Schmidt, and Ann Winslow. "Nissan's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic." Harvard Business School Case 621-057, June 2021. (Revised October 2021.)
- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 16 Jun 2021
- Virtual Programming
Virtual Fireside Chat with 2021 Alumni Achievement Award Recipients
The entire HBS community, including alumni and friends, will have a unique opportunity to hear directly from the 2021 Alumni Achievement Award recipients as they share their insights and experience with the HBS community in a fireside chat led by Dean Srikant Datar...
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- 21 Aug 2023
- Book
You’re More Than Your Job: 3 Tips for a Healthier Work-Life Balance
thinking about stretch assignments and rotations. Allow folks to try new things that interest them, separate from their main responsibilities. Then you’ll have both the employee buy-in and the process already in place to think flexibly about talent reallocation when...
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by Kara Baskin
- Program
Managing Turbulence
module that features live online sessions in the HBS Live Online Classroom, and experiments that can be immediately applied in your organization. In the process, you will learn how to champion diversity and inclusion, foster communication...
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- Program
Succeeding as a Strategic CFO
and nonprofit financial leaders seeking to be more effective in their roles Learning and Living at HBS When you participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the...
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- 10 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on the Midwest
The HBS African American Student Union (AASU) strives to be an extended family for its members from the moment they decide to attend HBS, through the transition to second year, and beyond graduation. Here we profile two AASU members from the Midwest U.S. about their...
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- July–August 2023
- Article
What Smart Companies Know About Integrating AI
By: Silvio Palumbo and David Edelman
AI has the power to gather, analyze, and utilize enormous volumes of individual customer data to achieve precision and scale in personalization. The experiences of Mercury Financial, CVS Health, and Starbucks debunk the prevailing notion that extracting value from AI...
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Keywords:
AI and Machine Learning;
Customization and Personalization;
Integration;
Technology Adoption
Palumbo, Silvio, and David Edelman. "What Smart Companies Know About Integrating AI." Harvard Business Review 101, no. 4 (July–August 2023): 116–125.
- January–February 2018
- Article
Inclusive Growth: Profitable Strategies for Tackling Poverty and Inequality
By: Robert S. Kaplan, George Serafeim and Eduardo Tugendhat
More than a billion people in the developing world remain in extreme poverty and outside the formal economy. Traditional CSR programs have done little to alleviate the situation and rarely produce transformative change.
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Instead of trying to fix local problems,... View Details
Keywords:
Inclusive Growth;
Sustainability;
Social Impact;
Business Strategy;
Shared Value;
Impact Investing;
Inequality;
Corporate Governance;
Balanced Scorecard;
Strategy Execution;
Economic Growth;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Poverty;
Equality and Inequality;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Strategy;
Investment
Kaplan, Robert S., George Serafeim, and Eduardo Tugendhat. "Inclusive Growth: Profitable Strategies for Tackling Poverty and Inequality." Harvard Business Review 96, no. 1 (January–February 2018): 127–133.
- 14 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM
The HBS African American Student Union (AASU) strives to be an extended family for its members from the moment they decide to attend HBS, through the transition to the second year, and beyond graduation. Here we profile two AASU members with STEM backgrounds about...
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- 16 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Shekeyla Caldwell Sandore: Why 'A Name Like Mine' Matters
View Video Shekeyla Caldwell Sandore (MBA 2021) has turned her real-life experience of having a unique name into a children’s book, A Name Like Mine. We asked Sandore about her inspiration behind the book, why it’s important to pronounce...
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- 05 Nov 2019
- News