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- 05 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
"It is Possible to Walk Away from Situations that Make You Unhappy": Cauvery Patel, MBA 2016
City, where her partner worked; and finally, it couldn't be within a large company. The not-so-long yet winding road Cauvery began her search with the HBS network, but found it challenging. There was no systematic way to search by "authentic sustainability,"... View Details
- 02 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Summer Listening - HBS Podcasts to Take to the Beach
to making better predictions. As a component of a vast array of activities, enhanced prediction will have ripple effects throughout the economy. What new functions and business models will it create? What difficult questions will it force... View Details
- 03 Mar 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Pamela Meyer (MBA 1986)
the uncomfortable moments. The ability to have a difficult conversation is a necessary social skill that mature leaders have to develop. Knowing someone is deceptive is quite different from knowing the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 03 Mar 2014
- Blog Post
Align Your Social Media and Recruiting Strategies
success of your social media strategy. Join relevant conversations with candidates of interest and put yourself in a better position to succeed. Create Awareness of your FirmObvious as it may seem, every hiring organization should have a... View Details
- 02 Mar 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?
SUMMING UP Why Is It so Difficult to Lead with Candor, Humility, and Trust? Responses to this month’s column, for the most part, represented a celebration of the values of candor, humility, and trust in leadership. As Dan Wallace put it,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Diversity on Teams: Our Own Harvest - Race, Gender & Equity
Just Digital Future Diversity on Teams: Our Own Harvest A Conversation with Tina Opie on Race and Appearance in the Workplace Lori Mackenzie on Identifying and Blocking Gender Bias in the Workplace In our Just Digital Future interview... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
is often about new ideas, new products, new services, or even just improvements in the ways things have been done. It’s hard to quantify that, at least for the individual employee. Wu: For the companies that have been remote in the pandemic, it’s also a very, very... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 20 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Thinking About an MBA? Think About Your Purpose
Microsoft (whose purpose is “to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more”), and Warby Parker (which seeks “to inspire and impact the world with vision, purpose and style”). I recently interviewed 10 top executives for a podcast, and... View Details
- 15 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Coming to HBS with a Non-Finance Background
Is it difficult to learn finance through the case method? This was definitely one of my concerns before I got to HBS, but it quickly diminished. You’ll be amazed at how willing your peers in your discussion group and section are to help... View Details
- 29 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
The HBS Community - Student Initiatives
at the table to discuss! In the classroom, we talk about the importance of leaders having difficult conversations. Eat & Engage strengthens our ability to have challenging and thought-provoking discussions that are based on respect.... View Details
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
converse with individual consumers and follow through with messages adapted to their unique needs and interests. Direct mail and the telephone, however, have been relatively expensive to employ on a mass-market scale. Now, digital... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 27 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Buy Big, Sell Small
connection. “But then COVID-19 hit,” she says, “and all of India stopped traveling.” The risks Shruti had considered in the abstract became real. “The 15 people on my team had devoted a year of their lives to the travel venture,” she says. “My cofounder left, I had... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Charlie Rose Interviews Goldman CEO Paulson
covered everything from the state of the U.S. stock market, to work-life balance, to international capital markets. The spirited conversation was one of two sessions held on campus that aired on the Charlie Rose show in the spring. Rose,... View Details
- 06 Oct 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?
dashboard, "indirect goals" that help predict and explain financial performance beyond the "direct goal" of profit. These might include the speed of aircraft turnaround in the airline industry, the conversion rate of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Class of 1975 in Review
classroom debates. When I reminisce with my classmates, it can be difficult (a senior moment thing) to remember that far back. But as class secretary, I have had the occasion to reflect more than most. What I have noticed is that the... View Details
Keywords: J. Hans Stumm
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
New MBA Leadership Course
“The discussions forced us to think about complicated issues,” he adds, noting that there was never a right or wrong answer. “It gave us a systematic approach to thinking about difficult situations.” That’s exactly what the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
On the Outside at HBS
third are international, and roughly a quarter are ethnic minorities — the School can be a difficult place for these groups to thrive. To its credit, HBS understands that the real value of diversity is not in the statistical percentage of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
brand’s image on Amazon. “I was building buzz around my own brand, and Amazon was working against me in that sense,” she says. In August 2019, Ford stopped listing products on the site. After a difficult March and April this year when the... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Two sides, same coin: How I left the Bay Area as an operator and returned as an investor
keep this in mind whether I was supporting a founder as she was making a first hire or having a difficult feedback conversation with a team that did not receive funding. Having been an operator, I was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
crisis provided the political will to create safeguards in the system that, even with deterioration over time, will protect us for a long time to come,” he says. Shining a Light on Shadow Banks David Scharfstein, Edmund Cogswell Converse... View Details