Work Environment - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Nov 2021
In Practice

What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman

14 Jun 2023
Op-Ed

Every Company Should Have These Leaders—or Develop Them if They Don't

We’ve long known that organizations require so-called flexible leaders to respond to rapid market fluctuations; the last couple of years have only emphasized that necessity. The environment we operate in—shaped by the pandemic, social... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson

01 Mar 2021
Blog Post

Best Practices for Creating a Successful Virtual Internship

In the wake of COVID-19, organizations around the world quickly made changes to how they got work done, including managing summer internships. For many organizations, that meant creating remote internship programs in 2020 that will stay... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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Club Conferences - MBA

Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition Club Conference Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition October 20, 2024 Retail & Luxury Goods Club Conference Retail & Luxury Goods November 2, 2024 Climate Symposium Energy & Environment Club, Food &... View Details

Program

Senior Executive Leadership Program—China

Summary Today's global business environment offers many exciting prospects for talented executives and ambitious organizations. To take full advantage of emerging opportunities in China and beyond, businesses need exceptional... View Details

07 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

We all know the importance of mentors and other early career experiences in shaping the kind of leaders we ultimately become. But how important to that development are the particular companies we work for? For Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

29 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time is Not on Your Side

empirical research on time pressure and creativity in organizations, and the results were somewhat contradictory. Over the past few years, there's been more and more talk about time pressure in organizations, and what a prominent feature of the View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education; Fine Arts

01 Oct 2015
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: Goldman Sachs

the training, mentorship and support our people need to learn and advance quickly. When you join Goldman Sachs you can expect to work alongside talented people in a collaborative culture on challenging projects that have social and... View Details

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Africa - Global

stakeholders to gain insights into the local business environment. The HBS Africa Research Center in collaboration with the HBS Business and Environment Initiative hosted an in-person Alumni event on Climate Adaptation and Urban Economic... View Details

29 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: Jan. 29

Abstract The ongoing fragmentation of work has resulted in a narrowing of tasks into smaller pieces that can be sent outside the organization and, in many instances, around the world. This trend is shifting the boundaries of organizations... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Nov 2021
Book

What It Takes to Build an Organizational Culture That Wins

difficult. Success may validate the rightness of the culture—until it doesn’t. But that success is relatively short for organizations on track A in a competitive environment that is changing faster and faster, much too fast for any change... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

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Community Values - MBA

environment and are at the heart of a School-wide aspiration: to make HBS a model of the highest standards essential to responsible leadership in the modern business world. Our values are a set of guiding principles for all that we do... View Details

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Leadership Initiative - Leadership

MBA student clubs. Prior to joining HBS, Letty worked at MIT's Sloan School of Management where she coordinated the Seminar in Leadership for the MIT Sloan Fellows Program in Innovation and Global Leadership. Letty holds a Master of... View Details

03 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 3, 2009

Working Papers Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting Authors: Lisa D. Ordonez, Maurice E. Schweitzer, Adam D. Galinsky, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract Goal setting is one of the most replicated and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Know Your Audience: Recruiting HBS Students for Investment Banking

students where people can thrive in the culture.” This is the case for both the bulge bracket banks with significant brand recognition on campus and the boutique banks. Students see the value of experience in both types of organizations and are actively looking for a... View Details

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Answering Your Questions About the 2+2 Program - 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... View Details

13 Nov 2012
News

Get To Know a Professor

14 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

field questions from HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace in an e-mail interview.Lagace: In The Support Economy, you make the case that managerial capitalism, invented a hundred years ago, desperately needs an overhaul. How... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research

American woman with a Harvard Business School MBA and a background in finance. She had worked at the Ballet for eight years as chief of staff and chief financial officer, and she had helped steer it through the double crisis of the... View Details

30 Jun 2014
Blog Post

Cambridge to Nairobi

name of Ushahidi’s headquarters in Nairobi, before heading to San Francisco to work closely with the company’s business development team. Beyond the internship, the environment is full of energy: the Nairobi... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit / Government; Technology

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