Women And Leadership - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 May 2019
News

From Das’s Desk

Boston for a few days of learning, alumni are eager to connect with HBS when faculty and others from the School visit their city or region. Women continue to have unique needs for professional development,... View Details

03 Jun 2002
What Do You Think?

Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?

efficiency, innovation, quality, and responsiveness to customers—even as one also finds adaptations to cultural differences." These comments tend to question whether management leadership has a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Sep 2008
News

Raiffa Honored for Life’s Work in Decision Analysis

mathematician by training, Raiffa was an originator of the decision tree and did extensive research on negotiations and choice-making in complex and ambiguous situations.... View Details

Keywords: awards; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Mar 2019
News

City Hall’s Headbanger

Above: photo by Minesh Bacrania As mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Tim Keller (MBA 2005) is focused on bread-and-butter initiatives that drive down crime and attract business. And he’s been successful on... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

19 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work

found that when work schedules clash, real-time communication drops, and some workers feel pressure to shift their work-related conversations to early or late periods of the day when they should be off the clock. Yet talking after hours... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Scrapbooks & Collectibles- The Art of American Advertising

those with simple covers to those with tooled embossed leather and elaborate designs. The collecting of advertising media especially appealed to women and children, who created... View Details

April 2008
Case

Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. (A)

By: Paul W. Marshall, Michael Shih-ta Chen and Keith Chi-ho Wong

In late November 2000, Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd., the once-monopolized telecom operator owned by the Taiwanese government, was on its way to privatization. Mr. C.K. Mao, Chairman of the company, who headed the job only three months earlier, after its prior chairman... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Employee Relationship Management; Leading Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Privatization; Competition; Telecommunications Industry; Taiwan

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25 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

pick something they like to do, work hard, and not worry about the rest—success will come.—Todd Krasnow Rhyne's idea for meeting the "weekly beauty needs"—manicures, facials, massages—of time-pressed View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

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Women's Student Association | MBA

Women's Student Association To actively support a community that empowers and mobilizes women to thrive academically, socially and professionally for long-term success. Annual... View Details

01 Sep 2017
News

City of Dreams

Eisenhower Fellowships’ prestigious Middle East/South Asia leadership development program. It’s all to the same end, to the vision he’s been framing in his mind’s eye of a city—and a country—with the right balance of modernity, inclusion,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development

08 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 8

2013 Harvard Business Review How Should Your Leaders Behave? By: Sharer, Kevin Abstract—The article discusses the value of effective leadership and an examination of the ways in which a corporate leader... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

April 2006
Case

Managing a Public Image: Cheri Mack

By: Robin J. Ely and Ingrid Vargas

Cheri Mack, an African-American woman, has just arrived at Harvard Business School after working for three years at a major consulting firm where she learned to adopt the demeanor of her male colleagues in order to fit in. Some of her male classmates are critical of... View Details

Keywords: Management Style; Race; Reputation; Personal Development and Career; Leadership Style; Gender; Massachusetts

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08 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 8, 2008

for positions of international leadership in research and education. Bargains-then-ripoffs: Innovation, Pricing and Lock-in in Enterprise Software Author:Ian Larkin... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Sep 2015
News

Cold Call: The Launch of a New Podcast Series

01 Jun 2020
News

Unleashed

In their new book, Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader’s Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You, HBS professor Frances Frei and Anne Morriss (MBA 2004) make the case that leadership is due for redefinition.... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

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Introduction - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

venture capital is inextricably linked to Georges F. Doriot, an educator and a founder of the industry. During his 40-year tenure at Harvard Business School, the charismatic professor taught business and... View Details

Alumni WDYDWYD

Sarah Bucknell Treco

What was the secret to success as a woman on Wall Street in the 1970s? One promising managing director-track VP left the office on Thursday night to give birth and returned to work on Monday morning. Junior View Details

11 Aug 2014
News

It's All About the Talent

Keywords: advertising; talent management; human resources; creativitiy; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services

26 May 2015
First Look

First Look: May 26

trials and among early adopters. The issues Twine's leadership team had to address included identifying clinical care providers willing to pay for Twine, ensuring adoption and... View Details