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- 22 Dec 2014
- Video
Donna Khalife
- 22 Dec 2014
- Video
Suchita Prasad
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Nine MBAs Chosen for Leadership Fellows Program
Nine graduating MBAs are taking positions with nonprofit and public-sector organizations with the support of the School’s Leadership Fellows program. Now in its seventh year, the program offers a select group of HBS students the opportunity to experience high-impact... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Finance: Helping Consumers Improve Their Financial Life
their financial lives, high tech is not enough. In our business, we also have to be high touch. Consumers love the convenience of a digital platform, but there will always be circumstances in the financial services sector when the consumer wants to talk to a View Details
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women at Work
rest," Gruver said. Start prioritizing now. Allow for personal change. You're bound to change over time. "Think about who you are now and base your decisions on that, rather than who you were fresh out of school," advised... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
- 03 Jan 2018
- News
Finding Faith in an NFL Locker Room
of family members, taking care of bills, managing personal relationships, balancing work-life with family. You've got a lot of players who are married, that have children. And spend a lot of time away from their children, and oftentimes... View Details
- 10 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists
COVID-19 is claiming an unexpected career toll among scientific researchers, and particularly on women, new research shows. If you are female, have young children, or work in a lab, you are more likely to feel the career-crunching effects dealt by the pandemic,... View Details
- 19 Dec 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
New Year, New Habits
When a new year rolls around, many of us ponder resolutions to improve our work habits. Maybe we wish to behave a little better with colleagues, become more organized, or actually take breaks during the day. But can we really change our own ingrained behavior? The good... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
Summing Up Is Our Thinking About Work Outmoded? In spite of contrary evidence, there is still a popular belief that working more hours produces more results. People too often assume that being "at work" is equivalent to "work." Americans are... View Details
- September 16, 2022
- Article
A Causal Test of the Strength of Weak Ties
By: Karthik Rajkumar, Guillaume Saint-Jacques, Iavor I. Bojinov, Erik Brynjolfsson and Sinan Aral
The authors analyzed data from multiple large-scale randomized experiments on LinkedIn’s People You May Know algorithm, which recommends new connections to LinkedIn members, to test the extent to which weak ties increased job mobility in the world’s largest... View Details
Rajkumar, Karthik, Guillaume Saint-Jacques, Iavor I. Bojinov, Erik Brynjolfsson, and Sinan Aral. "A Causal Test of the Strength of Weak Ties." Science 377, no. 6612 (September 16, 2022).
- January 1991
- Article
Work and Family: Should Parents Feel Guilty?
By: L. S. Paine
Keywords: Work-Life Balance
Paine, L. S. "Work and Family: Should Parents Feel Guilty?" Public Affairs Quarterly 5, no. 1 (January 1991): 81–99. (Reprinted in Ethics in the Workplace: Selected Readings in Business Ethics, edited by Robert A. Larmer, 495-507. St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing, 1996.)
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Time to Make Time
POZEN: Getting people to think about how they are managing their careers in the evolving context of their own personal and professional lives. HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen is living proof of the adage "If you want to get something... View Details
Keywords: Time management
- 18 Jun 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Why Leaders Need Great Books
thinking about character, or accountability, or—if you're a practical person rather than a theoretician—about getting things done; about pragmatism." 'A Struggle' Leadership is, in part, a struggle of flawed human beings, said... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Mindful Leadership: When East Meets West
course at HBS, we use my book True North and its companion workbook, Finding Your True North: A Personal Guide. Q: What are you working on next? A: I am working on a book on peer support groups with Doug Baker that is tentatively titled... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
believe in being comfortable in your own skin,” says Harris. “I don’t feel like I have to turn on the banker and turn off the singer and spiritual person — they coexist.” Harris describes her family background as solidly middle class. Her... View Details
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
and more treatable stage. And so when I came across this company it just so personally resonated with me. And I pivoted my corporate career into the health care space and into genomic space, all inspired by this very View Details
- 19 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Gender Bias Complaints against Apple Card Signal a Dark Side to Fintech
President Obama’s Cabinet as Administrator of the US Small Business Administration from 2009 to 2013. [Image: TommL] Related Reading Using Fintech to Disrupt Eastern Bank from Within Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
own actions link up to the larger organization's purpose. The time and attention that goes into hiring and retaining those individuals who derive personal meaning from the organization's values and purpose. Q: Does it matter if it turns... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace