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- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Manager or Mentor? Why You Must Be Both
what exactly is a developmental relationship? It pivots on the experience that an individual has when they're engaged in their work, he said. That experience can be heavily slanted along racial or gender lines, he added, offering an example from his own View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 18 Jan 2012
- News
Charter Supporter
those opportunities.” An excellent tennis player, Burke volunteered to teach the sport as a teenager in Milwaukee’s inner city. “It taught me a lot,” she said. “You see kids with a passion for life and talents and you know if they could...
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- 04 Dec 2000
- What Do You Think?
Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?
effects. The highly publicized shortcomings of questionable efforts to deregulate are not encouraging—witness the case of the California electric power industry. It's not clear whether attempting to educate consumers about what to expect...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Reza Satchu (MBA 1996)
We moved to Toronto from Mombasa, Kenya, when I was eight and my brother [Asif Satchu, MBA 1999] was six. For my parents to decide to come here and start a new life was, in many ways, THe ultimate risk. The immigrant experience is...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
From Das’s Desk
address critical needs arising at certain inflection points for alumni along their career or life paths. Together, we can develop programs and learning opportunities that create value for you, when you need it. Together, we can develop...
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Das Narayandas
- 22 Mar 2011
- News
Maximum Cities
Growing up in Calcutta, Delhi, and Bombay, HBS Dean Nitin Nohria experienced urban life at its most extreme — cities so full of people and traffic that it was impossible to imagine they could grow any larger. At a conference on...
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- 13 May 2014
- News
Inside Africa
become chairman, CEO, and executive editor of Africa.com LLC. In this capacity, she has traveled with President Obama to Africa, produced and directed a documentary about Africa, and lectured at numerous Ivy League universities on Africa. This is very different from...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Into the Light
More than 1.2 billion people worldwide live without access to electricity. Another 2 billion have limited electricity, just a few hours of often unreliable power a day. “It’s really hard for most of us to imagine a life without...
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- 26 Nov 2018
- News
New York Alumni Explore Risks and Opportunities in Climate Change
to monthly meetings and expect to remain involved “for the long term.” While that sometimes seems daunting at first to busy professionals, Sheets says it’s critical to the forum’s effectiveness. “If you’re busy in a career, and busy with...
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Kurt White
With a degree in civil engineering, Kurt White had imagined a post-Army life in which he “designed skyscrapers and stadiums – large civil projects.” But after two tours in Iraq, “I found it amazingly rewarding to lead soldiers every day....
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
much air to breathe and nothing between a little girl and the innocence of life. The wind is inextricably part of my family tree. Like a crazy, unpredictable cousin, it’s always welcome, but, as my life reveals, it’s sometimes dreaded....
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
June 2006 at the age of 81, the Bulletin’s Class Notes were flooded with dozens of tributes from alumni who recalled his passion and commitment in the classroom and his lasting influence on their careers. “I was clueless going into Professor Levitt’s course and,...
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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Theory & Practice
complex and troubling questions of what to do when "doing the right thing" requires doing something else wrong or leaving a right thing undone. It examines choices in work and life and the critical points at which the two become one....
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- Student-Profile
Ran Zhuo
during which they work directly with faculty on research projects while getting to know their colleagues and becoming familiar with the abundant resources at Harvard. Coming directly from her undergraduate career—and unsure what to expect...
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- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
bodies is that they are only likely to be as successful as people expect them to be. That is, if people expect a standard setting body to be effective in establishing a standard, they are much more likely to...
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- 18 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.
“Delivering patient care is one of those situations where timely speaking up can be a matter of life and death, or frequently a matter of high- or low-quality care.” “Psychological safety describes a belief that the work environment is...
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Advancing Health Equity: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Simona Stancov (MBA 2025) - MBA
Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID MD/MBA MS/MBA Biotechnology:...
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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership
the Post to look after their four children and coordinate the couple's active Washington social life. Her life changed abruptly in 1963, when Philip Graham committed suicide after a struggle with manic depression, and she took control of...
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- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Delivering Trust
dimmer than they’d thought: In addition to Deborah’s ovarian cysts, Jake had a lower- than-normal sperm count. The couple went through three rounds of fertility treatment, all unsuccessful. Their experience made one thing clear: “We had no idea what we were in for,”...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Book Review: My Lunch with Warren
re-education occurred when Spier won an opportunity to lunch with the Oracle of Omaha, a three-hour steak-a-thon. Buffett encouraged his dining companions to live their lives by an internal scorecard and to filter out distractions and the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne