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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Nancy J. Karch
years later, it's clear that she made the right choice. As a director of the Atlanta office of McKinsey & Company and managing partner of McKinsey Southeast United States, Karch has become an expert on numerous business topics, such as... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Notes from W50
Fifty years after the first eight women enrolled in the two-year MBA Program at HBS, 800 alumni came to campus to celebrate that milestone. As part of the School's April W50 Summit, HBS hosted two days of panels, workshops, and... View Details
- Profile
Janina Motter
says, “were skeptical about my mixed background – start-ups were more open.” Her first company collapsed after a year. But she found a more enduring – and rewarding – path forward at Heliotrope Technologies, a smart windows startup. Hired... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Action Plan: Role-Play
Carson held several roles in product development before shifting in the late 1970s to focus on small-business banking at Manufacturers Hanover Trust. In 1983, she moved from New York to California, taking a job with First Interstate Bank... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
“Culture Is Everything”
continued, to get an organization on the right track if there is a sense of crisis. “You must convey the urgency of the current situation and the requirement of doing something different.” Gerstner admitted that earlier in his career, he... View Details
- Portrait Project
Marilyn Wang
the years since, my fate was sealed, forever the bookworm, sidelined and unworthy of being the star of my own story. That changed May of 2016, the first time I saw myself. Watching comedian Ali Wong prance around the stage... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Home Sweet Home
TERWILLIGER: Workforce-housing shortages can hurt urban economies. Photo Courtesy Habitat for Humanity In June, Ron Terwilliger (MBA ’70) was named Housing Person of the Year by the nonpartisan National Housing Conference. With almost... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
The similarity is about the need to make great first impressions, to really stand out in a crowded marketplace and figure out a way to find a personal brand and create that compelling 30-second elevator pitch. So in dating, singles are... View Details
Keywords: Zoom
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
improvement in safety climate." “They're not going to get better by picking the right problem. They're going to get better by becoming better problem-solvers.” One reason for this is that employees are more likely to buy into improvement... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
delivery reveals some powerful, and ultimately optimistic, principles. First, the best way truly to reduce health care cost is to improve its quality—better diagnoses, more timely treatment, less invasive methods, getting the right... View Details
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Take Responsibility for Rising Stars
bench strength. At Starbucks, for example, the board oversees a formalized succession-planning process for 2,500 positions. Its goal is to make sure the company always has the right people with the right... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
into a book, How Will You Measure Your Life? The following excerpt, adapted for the Bulletin by Allworth, presents a fresh look at what it means to have “the right stuff” at work and draws a parallel to good parenting. Helping your... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
multibillion-dollar electronics corporation. On his first day in the lab there, he encountered a large banner that read, "George Wallace for President." That proclamation for the pro-segregationist former governor of Alabama was... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 26 May 2016
- News
W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975
hockey. One of his Frozen Assets teammates, who met him on the ice some 50 years ago, says McNerney remains the player who makes other people better. He sets them up for a shot and passes the puck at the right moment—sacrificing his own... View Details
- 07 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Pathlight: Reimagining the Developer Onboarding Experience
me graduating with a specialization in computing. In my senior year, I picked up a job at a small business selling open source services. This combination of baseline coding skills and open source knowledge got me to my first job at Red... View Details
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down
performance to improve, only to be bitterly disappointed. For some reason, the right things still don't happen. Why is change so hard? First of all, most people are reluctant to alter their habits. What... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- Portrait Project
Max Hodges
comes close to the untamed exuberance of 100 fifth-graders about to take the stage. Access to the arts is a human right and a necessity to global citizenship. After Harvard I will lead arts organizations, to... View Details
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
exhibit "The Four Spans" provides a summary.) The span of control. The first span defines the range of resources—not only people but also assets and infrastructure—for which a manager is given decision rights. These are also the... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 11 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
2+2 Admit Experiments with Career Options
Economic Section. Finally, I had the opportunity to pursue my passions at the nexus of business, technology, and policy before my HBS matriculation! While at Post, I contributed to enhancing U.S.-Bulgarian bilateral relations. My report on rule-of-law and View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
Alumni Books Get Backed: Craft Your Story, Build the Perfect Pitch Deck, and Launch the Venture of Your Dreams by Evan Baehr (MBA 2011) and Evan Loomis (Harvard Business Review Press) Now that you have your big idea, how will you find and convince your View Details