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The Female Executive's Perspective: A conversation with HBS AMP Women on Applying

Stepping away from responsibilities in the office and at home for the multi-week HBS Advanced Management Program (AMP) is a major decision. Women executives in particular wonder, "Can I really leave my family and my team for that long?"... View Details
  • August 2018
  • Case

Christine Lagarde

By: Julie Battilana, Carin-Isabel Knoop, Vanessa Ampelas and Noemie Assenat
For a modular presentation of the same material, please see “Christine Lagarde (A): A French Prime Minister Calls” (HBS No. 419-017), “Christine Lagarde (B): Being a Public Servant” (HBS No. 419-018), and “Christine Lagarde (C): Managing the IMF” (HBS No. 419-019).... View Details
Keywords: Change; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence; Leadership; Gender; Leading Change
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    James K. Sebenius

    JAMES K. (“Jim”) SEBENIUS, is the Gordon Donaldson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he founded the Negotiation unit and teaches advanced... View Details

      Michael L. Tushman

      Michael Tushman holds degrees from Northeastern University (B.S.E.E.), Cornell University (M.S.), and the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T. (Ph.D.). Tushman was on the faculty of the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, from 1976 to 1998 where he was... View Details

        Make the Most of Your Relocation

        Although the Covid-19 crisis has halted travel in recent months, geographic mobility has become critical for managers and knowledge workers hoping to advance in today’s globalized economy, and that trend is unlikely to reverse. Assignments far from headquarters can... View Details

          Michael W. Toffel

          Professor Toffel is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management. His research examines how companies are addressing climate change (especially decarbonization) and other environmental and working condition issues in their operations and supply... View Details

          • 07 Oct 2024
          • Blog Post

          Four Ways to Make The Most of Your Company Events

          engage students in discussion around company values, job opportunities, and potential career paths. You and your team have the option to facilitate events 1:1 or in a small group in person or virtually, or in a large classroom setting.... View Details
          • June 2017
          • Article

          The Social Trajectory of a Finance Professor and the Common Sense of Capital

          By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana
          This paper traces the career of Michael Jensen, a Chicago finance PhD turned Harvard Business School professor to reveal the intellectual and social conditions that enabled the emergence and institutionalization of what we call the “neoliberal common sense of capital,”... View Details
          Keywords: Executive Pay; The Firm; Michael Jensen; Neo-Liberalism; Shareholder Value; Agency Theory; Corporate Governance; Executive Compensation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Transformation
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          • 15 Nov 2016
          • First Look

          November 15, 2016

          advance; moreover, mitigating the conflict through flexible work policies has done little to improve women’s advancement prospects and often hurts them. Drawing on an in-depth case study of a professional service firm, we offer two... View Details
          Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
          • 08 Sep 2021
          • Blog Post

          Building the Bridge from Nonprofit to VC with Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)

          A career pivot into venture capital from a “nontraditional” HBS professional background can seem daunting, or perhaps even impossible. In truth, it is a significant challenge to secure a full-time or internship role in venture capital... View Details

            Richard G. Hamermesh

            Richard Hamermesh was the MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School. While at HBS Richard served as co-chair of the HBS Healthcare... View Details

            Keywords: health care
            • 24 May 2018
            • Blog Post

            Win/Win Board Assignments: Expert Advice from Board Recruiter Julie Norris

            For many successful business people, retirement (or the advanced stages of their careers) is not a time to abandon old interests, but an opportunity to create new successes on the foundations of previous ones, perhaps by serving on a... View Details
            • January 2014
            • Teaching Note

            Dr. Benjamin Hooks and Children's Health Forum

            By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Malone
            The case includes law, business, and public health perspectives on an African American leader's social entrepreneurship and leadership in other social movements. Later in his life, Dr. Benjamin Hooks championed the eradication of lead poisoning. Prior to that Hooks... View Details
            Keywords: Leading Change; Health Disorders; Social Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Social Issues; United States
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              Nitin Nohria

              Nitin Nohria served as the tenth dean of Harvard Business School from 2010-2020. He previously served as co-chair of the Leadership Initiative, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development, and Head of the Organizational Behavior unit.

              As Dean, building on... View Details

              Keywords: accounting industry; arts; biotechnology; emerging market private equity; energy; executive search; financial services; green technology; health care; high technology; industrial goods; information technology industry; infrastructure industry; investment banking industry; legal services; management consulting; manufacturing; oil ＆ gas; petroleum; pharmaceuticals; professional services
              • 2022
              • Case

              Polarizing Government Work: McKinsey & Co. and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

              By: Andrew J. Hoffman
              When Donald Trump announced his run for president in 2015, he placed immigration front and center in his campaign. He promised to drastically expand U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and build a border... View Details
              Keywords: International Relations; Immigration; Public Opinion; Ethics
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              • 23 Jan 2019
              • Blog Post

              Leaving an Unhappy Job: How to Look Before You Leap

              As a career coach at HBS, Matt Spielman (MBA 1999) has heard the groans of frustrated professionals who are unhappy in their current jobs and faced with an urgent question: should they leave immediately or wait until they've secured their... View Details

                Michael E. Porter

                Michael Porter is an economist, researcher, author, advisor, speaker and teacher. Throughout his career at Harvard Business School, he has brought economic theory and strategy concepts to bear on many of the most challenging problems facing corporations, economies... View Details

                Keywords: biotechnology; e-commerce industry; health care; information; information technology industry; internet; nonprofit industry; service industry; state government
                • 13 Feb 2020
                • Blog Post

                Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Manufacturing

                Career & Professional Development Renee Pappastratis – Recruiting Relations Manager As the Career & Professional Development Employer Relations team managing relationships with manufacturing... View Details
                Keywords: Manufacturing
                • 17 Aug 2021
                • Blog Post

                New Associate Director: Courtney Fairbrother

                BEI recently named Courtney Fairbrother as the new Associate Director. Courtney manages student and alumni engagement and creates networks and opportunities that encourage these groups to address climate change. She also oversees the implementation of infrastructure... View Details
                • 15 Aug 2019
                • Blog Post

                Stan Chang: “A Guided Experience into the World of Entrepreneurship”

                An engineer by training, Stan Chang, MS/MBA 2020 candidate in the SEAS/HBS joint degree program, came to Harvard to “balance a business curriculum with an advanced engineering education. When I saw the curriculum here and the focus on... View Details
                Keywords: Technology; Entrepreneurship