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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite
building a network of mentors to support and advise them. To uncover the processes that promote the development and advancement of minority executives, Thomas and Gabarro embarked on a six-year study analyzing promotion data and then...
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by Judith A. Ross
- 10 Feb 2016
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: New Insights into Career Development
in a single up-or-out professional service organization. Unfinished Business: The Impact of Race on Understanding Mentoring This paper by David Thomas and colleagues in 2006 discusses why race and mentoring...
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- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why dot.coms Will Rise Again
harebrained scheme." Mentors In The Garage According to Professor Dorothy Leonard, Silicon Valley has crucial lessons to teach big corporations, and the lessons are not necessarily about which Internet business models to avoid....
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by Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Writing the Case for Public School Reform
and a mentoring program for new teachers. Results of the campaign were felt quickly. For example, the mentoring program resulted in an improvement of new teacher retention rates from 73 percent in 2002 to 95...
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- 23 Jan 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sports: Lessons for Managers
shows that hooking up with the right mentor can quickly increase your value. On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K” Bobby Knight and Mike Krzyzewski were arguably the two most successful college basketball coaches in the country. But...
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- 30 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?
Blacks. My concern is Hispanics which wield significantly more economic buying power, land ownership It seems to me that everywhere I look Hispanics are being left out.”), and more systematic mentoring (Paul, a graduate of HBS,...
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- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
when one has reached a certain age or level of expertise. Concert pianists and Wimbledon champions draw on the expertise of master teachers to guide their practice sessions. One forty-six-year-old senior vice president at Adobe Systems calls upon View Details
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by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Take Responsibility for Rising Stars
needs, to help them cultivate new skills, and to provide them opportunities for professional development and personal growth. Managers must do this even if it means nudging their rising stars into new functional areas or business units. They must View Details
- 28 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home
search for high-potential small companies; provide training and mentoring to help those companies qualify as preferred suppliers or distributors; open access to domestic and international business opportunities; and help lower supplier...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 08 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How to Hire a Millennial
program offers newly minted MBAs the opportunity to oversee a $50 million unit as a field operations director responsible for finance, strategy, and marketing. Yet all the mentoring and flexible schedules won’t matter if a company is...
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by Joseph Fuller
- 30 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are Business Schools Really Important “Crucibles of Leadership?”
made, not born. These primary qualities of leaders are formed in the "crucible of leadership" (as Bennis and Thomas define it, anything from an important mentoring relationship to a near-death or war-time experience). Leaders...
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by James Heskett
- 03 Feb 2018
- Op-Ed
How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility
enterprises that help train and mentor the long-term unemployed while generating revenue from sales, among many others, I have encountered organizations that have been able to sustainably pursue social and financial goals over time. What...
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by Julie Battilana
- 04 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Female Stars Succeed in New Jobs
research department of Lehman Brothers took steps to create a comfortable environment for women, and to evaluate all their analysts fairly and mentor them intensively. This paid off: The bank developed a lot of stars and benefited from...
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- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
are used to evaluate investments creates a systematic bias against successful innovation. The authors recommend alternative methods that can help managers innovate with a much more astute eye for future value. Why Mentoring Matters in a...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
prioritize family over work. It's that all these other factors are also at play for women" that lead them to cut back their hours in a way that men often don't—factors such as exclusion from informal networks in the workplace, a lack of View Details
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by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
interviewed were struck by Gerstner's interest and active involvement in the development of high-potential minority and female senior managers and junior executives; he took a personal interest in how they were being mentored and what...
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by David A. Thomas
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
on local employers to provide admitted students with mentors and paid work experience starting in grade nine. Co-author of the recent book, Breaking Barriers: How P-TECH Schools Create a Pathway from High School to College to Career, with...
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by Kristen Senz
- 01 Mar 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
personal computing and the power of the Internet. CEO Jack Welch responded with his typical high-energy enthusiasm. After seeking out a young mentor in the organization to help him learn, he “suggested” that his senior colleagues find...
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by James Heskett
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Tales of the Newly-minted MBA
for several years before joining Novantas, a start-up consulting firm located in New York. The first eighteen months, she recalled, were "absolutely wonderful. I felt like my mentors at the firm were really excited about the work I...
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by Julia Hanna
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
crafting their identities; and transforming obstacles into opportunities. Beyond personal strengths, the authors say, another factor was critical: nurturing relationships with mentors who recognized the women’s talent and made it their...
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