Reflection - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Apr 2014
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Identifying why the path to the top for women and racial minorities remains elusive

While diversity in hiring has increased markedly among professional service organizations, the changes are not reflected at the senior-most levels. For example, in US law firms, women comprise 46 percent of associates but only 19 percent... View Details

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Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Role (MDD) - Course Catalog

principal purpose of the course is to improve students’ ability to make and implement better decisions in complex, interdependent the contexts involving of often complex interdependencies with others (subordinates, superiors, and even members of other groups or... View Details

28 May 2019
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The Physical Campus in a Virtual World

much in these physical spaces? It’s a question I reflect upon every time I look at a blueprint or don a hard hat to tour a campus construction site. In an era when online learning is becoming pervasive, it may sound quaint to dwell on our... View Details

Keywords: Nitin Nohria

11 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’

"Boardroom Challenges," The Future of Boards Why so many directors were reflecting on the board's role is difficult to pinpoint. A partial answer undoubtedly rests in the fact that regulations and laws offer little guidance about what... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Lorsch

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Past Issues - Alumni

pickleball’s gold-rush moment, Brian McCarthy is looking to build a business that can keep its bounce In Harmony Born in Korea, Michael Kim spent his formative years in the US. As his novel ‘Offerings’ heads for the big screen, Asia’s “godfather of private equity”... View Details

28 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: Feb. 28

actually lived) is named phenomenology. In short, an epistemological mastery of a subject leaves one knowing. An ontological mastery of a subject leaves one being. Read the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1681682 View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Oct 2019
What Do You Think?

What Grade Would You Give Walmart CEO Doug McMillon?

“Walmart is losing several hundred dollars per month in sales at least from us.” Ituk Uppoo was more concerned about inconvenience. As he said, “I give him a C. So they don’t carry ammo anymore, so what? I simply now will have to go to my favorite gun shop.” JohnA’s... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

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IFC India 2025: From Gray to Green: A Glimpse of the Future of Green Hydrogen in India - Blog - Business & Environment

Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business... View Details

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European Economic History & Philosophy | Baker Library

economic thought and works that reflect economic life from 1472 to 1850. The collection originated with Herbert Somerton Foxwell, lecturer and teacher of political economy at St. John's College, Cambridge, and at University College,... View Details

28 Sep 2017
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Alumni-Founded Aerospace Pioneer Orbital Acquired for $7.8 Billion

excerpt from the March 2016 Bulletin, Orbital CEO David Thompson (MBA 1981) reflected on the company’s beginnings, dreamed up in the wake of a funding decline for NASA—Thompson’s employer at the time—in the 1970s: Thompson began thinking... View Details

25 May 2016
News

Supporting Critical Initiatives

professors at HBS. Seeing his emphasis today on women’s and men’s professional and family responsibilities made me reflect on the School’s influence in my own life.” Since joining W.P. Carey’s investment department right after HBS, Raun... View Details

22 Mar 2017
Blog Post

3 Lessons I Learned as a Social Enterprise Summer Fellow

Foundation (DRK) – a venture philanthropy firm. The Initiative also partially funded my internship through its Summer Fellows Program, a sponsorship designed to help students explore career opportunities in social enterprise. In View Details

01 Jan 2008
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Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982

before moving to GE Medical Systems, where he was named CEO in 1997. Reflecting on his years at GE, Immelt recalls many moments of intense, even painful, learning. “In 1989, I was running the appliance service business in the midst of a... View Details

01 Dec 2011
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The Evolving Case Method

about leaders who failed to rise to moral challenges, the professor would hand out an exercise worksheet. “We asked students to reflect on a time when they failed to rise to a moral challenge,” recounts Garvin. “What were the... View Details

Keywords: the case method

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Muriel Siebert Collection | Baker Library

tenure as New York Superintendent of Banks; her commitment to and involvement with a variety of groups, committees, associations, and other non-profit organizations; and her run for the U.S. Senate. The collection also includes Siebert’s writings and appearances on... View Details

26 Jul 2016
News

HourlyNerd Rebrands as an Enterprise Talent Platform

HourlyNerd, the red-hot freelance business-talent consultancy launched at HBS by classmates Rob Biederman, Patrick Petitti, and Peter Maglathlin (all MBA 2014), has unveiled a new identity and name, Catalant—“a combination of catalyst, brilliant, and talent [that]... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Making TV Look Like America

Jackie Burgos (MBA 2014) intends to run a TV network to promote programming diversity, making TV more reflective of the world in which we live. “I think I’ve always been the kid who has big dreams; life otherwise wouldn’t be fun,” says... View Details

27 Sep 2023
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HBS Latino Student Association Spotlight: Anna Ohanian (MBA 2025)

As Hispanic Heritage Month begins, I can’t help but reflect on how my identity as a Latina has already shaped my experience at HBS, from the LASO community providing me with guidance and support before even stepping foot on campus to the... View Details

26 Nov 2019
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Predicting Financial Market Bubbles and Crises in Real-time

reflects information from 42 countries spanning the years 1947 to 2017. What he found was a “killer predictor”—the coincidence of price and quantity growth in which either housing prices are high and there is great housing credit growth,... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Feb 1999
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Social Enterprise Forum Discusses Strategy

How are the models of strategy that have been developed for business organizations being applied in the nonprofit world? What new strategy models are emerging that reflect the distinctive characteristics of nonprofit organizations? These... View Details

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