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- 19 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
From Retail to HBS: How I’m Building a Career Path at the Intersection of Arts, Culture, and Business
be a common path, but that’s why your skillset and voice can uniquely augment the community, and why you have the ability to make real impact afterwards. Sara was also a featured panelist during “From Retail to HBS,” an Industry Spotlight Series virtual event. You can...
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- 12 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association
SERVICE FROM: Bristol, England REASON FOR SERVING: I got interested in joining the military for ideological reasons. As a teenager I watched the early Sierra Leone crisis unfold and was appalled at what humans could do to each other. I...
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- 18 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask
serving as vice chairman before leaving the firm in 2005. "I went from being a junior person to running a large business in what seemed like a nanosecond," he says. "And suddenly more people were watching what I did, and I...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
address. Employees watched closely the numbers of users who might elect the “DeleteMyAccount” button on Facebook. What would you do? Mark Zuckerberg has come to you today to help formulate a plan of action for the company and for his...
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- 07 Feb 2019
- Book
How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption
everything,” watch out. Their ideas might come from the same places: the same customers, same suppliers, same opinion leaders, same universities. Without even realizing it they get grooved. It’s better to talk to different customers,...
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by Martha Lagace
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Melcolm Ruffin
Growing up on the west side of Chicago, Melcolm Ruffin was immersed in three things: "a loving family that nurtured me," an emphasis on education, and a passion for basketball. "I loved sports and was a big basketball junkie," Melcolm says. "I...
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Reinventing the GMP Experience
and how they built relationships with other participants. For additional information on the GMP experience, watch The General Management Program Impact video featuring GMP Faculty Chair Stefan Thomke and alumni of the program, who discuss...
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- 10 Jul 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?
"So is leadership about control, delegation, or theatre? It could be all three, or none of them. The answer lies in the projections of the potential followers." Ken Hedberg said, "You can tell who the leaders are by View Details
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by Jim Heskett
- 04 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping
essays posted on the HBS Business and Environment Initiative’s Blog that highlights their reflections. Learn more about this IFC course on Decarbonization and Sustainable Production by watching this five minute video summary. As part of...
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- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
pretty regular basis. To have him there as the mother lode of business history, if you will, and to watch his work evolve and to see how he involved others in the creation of this work was both fascinating and inspiring, particularly for...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
What is the HBS FIELD Program?
exploring New Delhi on a daily basis. We tackled project work as well as cultural immersions including a rickshaw bike ride through the old streets of Delhi and watching the local weekly prayer ceremony. Our FIELD 2 team bond has yet to...
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- 04 Aug 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?
conditions don't prevail, watch out. At risk of oversimplification, that sums up the responses to this month's column, in which most readers accepted to some degree author Duncan Watts' description of how common sense fails us. First...
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by James Heskett
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I...
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by Kathryn Haviland
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
Victoria, and the driver yells out something. In a flash, Timken draws his Heckler-Koch .45 and aims it, out of sight below his window, at the other car. The motorist only wants directions. Timken obliges, then watches him pull away,...
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Olivia Melendez
with a head full of curly hair, standing in front of a sidewalk curb. Although I am fully capable of stepping up onto this curb, I start out crying out to my dad, “ayudame, papi! Ayudame!”. It’s hilarious to watch but also special to me...
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- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
Michi Ferreol – Class of 2021 I grew up in the Philippines, around other kids who looked like me and talked like me. So while I watched a lot of Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen shows back then, I never really understood that I was different....
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Class of 1975 in Review
future investment bankers, consultants, and Fortune 500 leaders. "Hey, Stumm!" boomed a loud voice. I was astonished to see my Dartmouth buddies Giff Foley and Ken Wilson. Our last encounter had been at college graduation, when I watched...
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J. Hans Stumm
- 04 Feb 2010
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?
for failure in similarly uncontrollable circumstances. We hire "stars," only to watch them burn out in a new and different managerial environment. We look for "best practice" (à la Jim Collins in Good to Great and...
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by James Heskett
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
unfair to high performers—that it was fairer to lay off the weak links and support the strong ones. “It’s a little surreal to watch a room full of people discuss what you did,” Cote said following the class sessions. Cote explained that...
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- 06 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or Die
successful companies and then watch them suddenly collapse. When they do fail, it's incredibly disruptive to employees, shareholders, and communities. I was intrigued by this common problem, and I wanted to take a look at pairs of...
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by Michael Blanding