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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Lunch with Jack: Student Dines with GE's Welch
to management teams," recalls Sanders. "That way you can get to know the people who are responsible for a company's strategy." Other topics included GE's bid for Honeywell and Welch's confidence in his successor, Jeffrey R. Immelt (MBA...
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Mo Fong
founder of LeiFongCoaching, LLC focused on supporting women of color in tech to lead with confidence and joy. Mo is a current board member for Develop for Good, Televisit.org, Starfish Institute, 100kin10.org, and the National Girls...
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- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
approach to the “pitch or spec” dilemma by constructing a model that links this choice to writers’ past experience and their confidence level about this particular idea. The model also predicts the average quality of ideas offered for...
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Alexandra Stanek
understanding financial statements, accounting, all the fundamentals managers need. But the larger virtue of HBS is that it’s a place to be challenged. To be in a setting with 90 very sharp people and be able to speak up and represent a point of view—that builds a lot...
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Leo Markel
Why was earning your MBA at Harvard Business School important to you? I came to Harvard Business School to further develop my leadership ability. While confident in my analytical skills, I recognized that I did not have the leadership...
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- 11 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
2+2 Admit Experiments with Career Options
found myself considering consulting. Knowing that I had been accepted in the 2+2 Program, however, gave me the confidence to speak with my career counselor about other potential opportunities. Ultimately, I took a summer sabbatical to...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Steve Barger (MBA 1974)
on the front lines. Now I’m definitely on the front lines. The great thing about HBS is that it gives you confidence and prepares you to succeed in a variety of jobs. Still, I’m pretty sure I’m the only HBS MBA in this particular line of...
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Jonathan Evans
clarity and confidence about my potential paths. Career learning also happens in more subtle ways. Office hours with professors and daily chats with classmates expose an overlooked element of HBS: There is an intense, collective interest...
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Platform for Dialogue
firsthand the benefits of combining insights from the social sciences and humanities with questions raised more explicitly by management studies, I am confident that my research and teaching will thrive as I continue to work at the...
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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Turning Point: Sum of the Parts
the confidence to move forward in my studies and in my career. After graduating with my MBA, I earned a JD from Georgetown in 1980, followed by two PhDs from UCLA in 1996 and 2001. I served as dean at the University of Hawaii Law School...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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Turning Point: Makeover
confidence collapsed. Disillusioned, I quit the corporate world and started traveling. I am Taiwanese-American but once I arrived in Japan, it felt like home. I began studying with mentors including geisha, scientists, business leaders,...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA
that time had to quickly become confident with making life-and-death decisions in the absence of complete information,” she says. Each moment of hesitation or indecision could place Marines’ lives in danger. “The only wrong answer was not...
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- 09 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Manager in Red Sneakers
confidence in their dressed-down rejection of the traditional pricey business suit and tie. It happens in academia, too. Anat Keinan, assistant professor of marketing at Harvard Business School, and Silvia Bellezza, a doctoral candidate...
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- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?
well-documented tendencies to be overconfident and to act on overly optimistic assessments (Thompson 2001). Interestingly, many people know that they have these tendencies, but fail to notice them in the context of a specific decision. For example, when people are...
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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
opportunity to take risks and be accountable for the outcome. You have to have confidence and faith that you’re going to be OK either way. “You can’t take the safe road all the time,” he continues. “You have to be willing to take certain...
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Chiedu Onichabor
section contributed to your understanding of business concepts, leadership, and/or problem solving? The HBS case method's "all-in" discussion style fosters spaces where thorough analysis of problems is necessary. I have often found myself having to rethink certain case...
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Industrial Life Photograph Collection - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
work of acclaimed Machine Age photographers such as Margaret Bourke-White, Lewis Hine, and others, who produced highly stylized images meant to instill confidence in corporate America. Researchers will find workers photographed in a...
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- 02 Dec 2017
- News
A Leveraged Investment
banker in her native Malaysia. “OPM helped me understand that vision, mission, and strategy are three different things. It made me a much better leader,” she says, noting that the program gave her the confidence to expand and fill a niche...
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- 14 May 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Teams
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered How does a team leader win the confidence of the group? What's the best...
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- 14 May 2018
- Blog Post
Women Making a Comeback: Diane Flynn Reboots Promising Careers
these women current, connected, and confident to return to work or pursue new dreams." In business now for a little over three years, ReBoot Accel has shifted its dominant business model from individually-paid tuitions to corporate...
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