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- 24 Oct 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?
corporation behind me when things weren’t working out. The impact of a bad decision or process was much greater with no safety net.” – Karen Young, CEO and founder, Oui Shave Startup with limited leadership experience. Working with a View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
- Web
2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
expertise. The Disruptive Journey from Detroit to Boston Senior Lecturer Chet Huber (MBA 1979) + More Info – Less Info Why is it so hard for successful, established organizations to sustain their success? How do they miss the threats and... View Details
- 08 Mar 2021
- In Practice
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?
A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023
an Impact Great business leaders are problem solvers. That’s what sparked Susan Tynan to found Framebridge, a custom framing company. When Tynan couldn’t find a reasonably priced place to frame her beloved posters, she launched a business, which took off after years of... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 26 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest
What went wrong on Mount Everest on May 10, 1996? That day, twenty-three climbers reached the summit. Five climbers, however, did not survive the descent. Two of these, Rob Hall and Scott Fischer, were extremely skilled team leaders with... View Details
Keywords: by Michael A. Roberto
- Web
Questioning, Listening & Responding - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
Material Providing Assessment & Feedback Sample Class “It would be hard to name a more valuable pedagogical accomplishment than the mastery of questioning, listening, and response: three teaching skills as... View Details
- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time is Not on Your Side
supports, putting together diversely skilled teams that communicate well, are mutually committed to the work, and constructively discuss ideas); supervisory encouragement (team leaders who communicate effectively with the group, value... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Kim at Seoul’s government-built Hoehyeon “Citizens’ Apartments.” Opened in 1970, it stands as a reminder of a Korea from a very different era. Like so many South Koreans of a certain age, Michael ByungJu Kim (MBA 1990) lives in a country where the past lingers,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?
friends were still incarcerated or couldn’t get ahead. I carried a lot of guilt for my success. I always wondered, ‘Why me? Why not someone else?’” Miller says. “And then there was the guilt of the homicide. That has been really hard to... View Details
- 07 Jul 2019
- HBS Case
Walmart's Workforce of the Future
initiative. “That requires a lot of reskilling of employees and hard choices, in an uncertain environment, in terms of how to deploy capital.” “This digital transformation creates new jobs, but, more important, it changes the nature of... View Details
- 01 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
of the simplest words and gestures often gets lost when CEOs and managers are in perpetual crisis management mode, struggling with layoffs, remote work technology, market woes, and a range of other frustrating disruptions. While confronting these challenges requires... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson
- 27 Jul 2021
- Op-Ed
What Pirates Can Teach Us About Leadership
In the deep heat of an 18th-century summer, a crew of pirates was sailing off the Virginia coast when a lookout spotted a merchant ship to the south. Springing into action, the pirates launched an attack, rocking the merchant ship with a cascade of musket balls and... View Details
Keywords: by Francesca Gino
- 20 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Is the MBA Worth It? Hear What Recent HBS Grads Have to Say
leverage my understanding of tech roles from my HBS classmates. I also leaned on them for interview prep and industry background. What advice do you have for prospective HBS students? Think long and hard about what are you looking to get... View Details
- 19 Oct 2022
- Op-Ed
Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup
Partners in Short & Long Term Relationships. “The conviction to have a cofounder is often based solely on complementary skills and experience versus the softer, and often more important, relationship criteria.” In the podcast, Dr.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Quiet Leader—and How to Be One
men. He pushes so hard he ends up committing suicide, is very disappointed in his kids—there are other characters, I noticed, who were what I came to call quiet leaders. You also end up defining quiet leaders almost through a series of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advice on Advice
realize that it involves skills that can be learned and refined, according to Harvard Business School professors David A. Garvin and Joshua D. Margolis. Highly skilled advisers pay close attention to how... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Profile
Merve Ciplak
people. Because of that continuity, it’s more than just learning hard skills – it’s about learning from many types of experiences and perspectives. Being in this kind of classroom allows you to get to core... View Details
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HBS Health Care Initiative - Blog: Health Supplement
diseases have an approved therapy. It’s a dilemma that is historically overlooked, largely because it’s hard to make a profit from a treatment that affects so few people. How do we empower patients with rare diseases when a lack of... View Details
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My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
- 30 May 2024
- News
How to Have Effective Conversations
moment, it's really hard to hear each other and to connect. Which of course is exactly what was happening with my wife and myself. And when they said that to me, it made so much sense. It explained so many of the times that I had failed... View Details