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- 2005
- Chapter
Beyond 'Fun and Games': Outdoor Activities for Meaningful Leadership Development
Many managers and academics today view outdoor exercises as simply "fun and games." However, framed correctly, outdoor leadership activities provide a uniquely effective method for leadership development. They allow participants to access and explore the deeper...
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Keywords:
Learning;
Games, Gaming, and Gambling;
Leadership Development;
Personal Development and Career;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Groups and Teams;
Behavior;
Emotions;
Personal Characteristics;
Alignment
Petriglieri, Gianpiero, and Jack D. Wood. "Beyond 'Fun and Games': Outdoor Activities for Meaningful Leadership Development." In Mastering Executive Education: How to Combine Content with Context and Emotion, edited by Paul J. Strebel and Tracy Keys, 252–266. London: Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2005.
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
approach to these unique negotiations, why they were so successful in the face of such great odds, and what the experience taught him. READ MORE Dan Morrell: When the average person thinks about negotiation, they usually think of it in...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
Issue Focus: Ideas & Impact Illustration by Timothy Cook An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance Pleasure in Progress Teresa Amabile It sounds so obvious: Employees who make meaningful progress in their work enjoy greater engagement,...
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- September 2005
- Case
Martha Goldberg Aronson: Leadership Decisions at Mid-Career
By: William W. George and Andrew N. McLean
In 2005, Martha Goldberg Aronson must decide whether to accept an overseas posting in a functional role with Medtronic Corp. The move would be a professional stretch, but would entail leaving a position with a plan half completed and moving her young family overseas....
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Keywords:
Decisions;
Work-Life Balance;
Personal Development and Career;
Motivation and Incentives;
Opportunities;
Leadership
George, William W., and Andrew N. McLean. "Martha Goldberg Aronson: Leadership Decisions at Mid-Career." Harvard Business School Case 406-017, September 2005.
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Scaling Peaks for Cancer Research
MOUNTAIN CLIMBING TRIO: Bishop, Murphy, and Serafini stay in shape. Three HBS students are out to set a world record by scaling the seven tallest mountains on seven continents in seven months — all to raise $5 million to help fight childhood cancer. The idea for the...
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- 14 Mar 2014
- News
Start-up Takes the Legwork out of Shopping
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
HBS Clubs and Associations
Although she had nearly thirty years of on-the-job experience, Deborah Richardson still was thrilled to be selected for a weeklong HBS Executive Education course for nonprofit leaders in July 2003. “I had many ‘eureka’ moments when I was there,” recalls Richardson, the...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Big Brothers
In 1970, Anthony Carter was nine when he was first paired up with Steve West (MBA 1968) through the Big Brothers/Big Sisters (BBBS) organization in Cincinnati. West had become a BBBS volunteer because, he told the Cincinnati Post (July 3, 2004), “I had been very...
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- 31 Jan 2013
- News
Ex-Pimco CEO is an engine for charity
- October 2017
- Supplement
Maggie Wilderotter: The Evolution of an Executive: Video Supplement
By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah L. Abbott and Robin Abrahams
In a career that spanned over 30 years, Maggie Wilderotter served as CEO of two publicly traded companies and served on 32 corporate and nine association and non-profit boards of directors. The case looks at the progression of Wilderotter’s career; the decisions she...
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Keywords:
Leadership;
Managing People;
Networks;
Strategy And Leadership;
Personal Development and Career;
Personal Characteristics;
Leadership Style;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Gender;
Power and Influence;
Telecommunications Industry;
United States
Groysberg, Boris, Sarah L. Abbott, and Robin Abrahams. "Maggie Wilderotter: The Evolution of an Executive: Video Supplement." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 418-702, October 2017.
- Forthcoming
- Article
Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs
By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Karim R. Lakhani and Roberto Fernandez
Competence development in digital technologies, analytics, and artificial intelligence is increasingly important to all types of organizations and their workforce. Universities and corporations are investing heavily in developing training programs, at all tenure...
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Lane, Jacqueline N., Karim R. Lakhani, and Roberto Fernandez. "Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs." Organization Science (forthcoming). (Pre-published online May 31, 2023.)
- 2022
- Working Paper
Optimal Illiquidity
By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, Christopher Clayton, Christopher Harris, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
We calculate the socially optimal level of illiquidity in an economy populated by households with taste shocks and naive present bias. The government chooses mandatory contributions to accounts, each witha different pre-retirement withdrawal penalty. Collected...
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Keywords:
Illiquidity;
Commitment;
Flexibility;
Savings;
Social Security;
Retirement;
Government Legislation;
Taxation;
Saving
Beshears, John, James J. Choi, Christopher Clayton, Christopher Harris, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian. "Optimal Illiquidity." Working Paper, July 2022.
- August 2008
- Supplement
Philipp Justus at eBay Germany (C)
By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Stecker
This case traces the development of eBay Germany, eBay Inc., and the career of eBay Germany's first country manager, Philipp Justus. The case covers from 2000 through the fall of 2007. This case details how eBay Germany, once a small start-up, became one of eBay's most...
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Keywords:
Innovation and Management;
Leadership;
Auctions;
Organizational Structure;
Personal Development and Career;
Internet;
Germany
Hill, Linda A., and Emily Stecker. "Philipp Justus at eBay Germany (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 409-029, August 2008.
- 2008
- Working Paper
Workplace Peers and Entrepreneurship
By: Ramana Nanda and Jesper B. Sorensen
We examine whether the likelihood of entrepreneurial activity is related to the prior career experiences of an individual's co-workers, using a unique matched employer-employee panel dataset. We argue that coworkers can increase the likelihood that an individual...
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Keywords:
Experience and Expertise;
Entrepreneurship;
Personal Development and Career;
Power and Influence
Nanda, Ramana, and Jesper B. Sorensen. "Workplace Peers and Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-051, January 2008. (revised January 2009, March 2010.)
- 08 Nov 2010
- News
Going the Extra Miles
- 2023
- White Paper
Unlocking Economic Prosperity: Career Navigation in a Time of Rapid Change
By: Joseph B. Fuller, Kerry McKittrick, Sherry Seibel, Cole Wilson, Vasundhara Dash and Ali Epstein
Fuller, Joseph B., Kerry McKittrick, Sherry Seibel, Cole Wilson, Vasundhara Dash, and Ali Epstein. "Unlocking Economic Prosperity: Career Navigation in a Time of Rapid Change." White Paper, Project on Workforce at Harvard, November 2023.
- Article
Using Fresh Starts to Nudge Increased Retirement Savings
By: John Beshears, Hengchen Dai, Katherine L. Milkman and Shlomo Benartzi
We conducted a field experiment to study the effect of framing future moments in time as new beginnings (or “fresh starts”). University employees (N=6,082) received mailings with an opportunity to choose between increasing their contributions to a savings plan...
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Keywords:
Choice Architecture;
Randomized Field Experiment;
Savings;
New Beginning;
Fresh Start;
Saving;
Retirement;
Behavior
Beshears, John, Hengchen Dai, Katherine L. Milkman, and Shlomo Benartzi. "Using Fresh Starts to Nudge Increased Retirement Savings." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 167 (November 2021): 72–87.
- 2014
- Article
In Search of the Self at Work: Young Adults' Experiences of a Dual Identity Organization
By: Michel Anteby and Amy Wrzesniewski
Purpose: Multiple forces that shape the identities of adolescents and young adults also influence their subsequent career choices. Early work experiences are key among these forces. Recognizing this, youth service programs have emerged worldwide with the hope of...
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Keywords:
Organizational Identity;
Socialization;
Youth;
Youth Service Programs;
Identity;
Mission and Purpose;
Age;
Personal Development and Career;
Service Industry;
Europe
Anteby, Michel, and Amy Wrzesniewski. "In Search of the Self at Work: Young Adults' Experiences of a Dual Identity Organization." Research in the Sociology of Work 25 (2014): 13–50.
- January 2010
- Case
Opportunities in Business and Life after Virgin Money: Asheesh Advani
Asheesh Advani is in an enviable position for a successful entrepreneur: he has sold his business and is trying to decide what to do with the next phase of his life. For the first two years after selling CircleLending—a pioneer in the person-to-person lending field—to...
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Chakravorti, Bhaskar, and Shirley Spence. "Opportunities in Business and Life after Virgin Money: Asheesh Advani." Harvard Business School Case 810-072, January 2010.