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Foundation Professor of Management Practice Poorvu Family Professor of Management Practice, Retired); Willy C. Shih (Robert and Jane Cizik Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice in Business... View Details

01 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing

On Facebook and a myriad of other social media platforms, you can find out who your friends are dating, see pictures of their last vacation, and even know what they had for... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Cumnock Hall | About

Textile School—the first school in Massachusetts where the theory and technique of textile manufacturing was taught. He acquired the Appleton mill with a group of family and... View Details

28 Feb 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Master the Team Meeting

monkeybusinessimages No matter how much we hate going to meetings, there’s a generally accepted best practice that teams should meet with their managers on a regular cadence. More often than not, unfortunately, I hear leaders and their... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

06 Sep 2022
Blog Post

To Go-Go: A Foodtech Startup Serves Up Scale in Latin America

to make a go of it. They raised $500,000 from family and friends in 2019; picked up another $75,000 by winning the alumni track of the HBS New Venture Competition in 2020;... View Details

07 Jan 2016
Blog Post

Is HBS Too Big?

discussions on women in the workplace to tutoring sessions for finance. My best friends are mostly my section mates. Generally, friendships formed when I had the opportunity to spend more time with them in small group settings View Details

06 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails

but more productive and creative, resulting in higher-quality work, the study shows. “It seems there is a sweet spot in the middle,” says Prithwiraj Choudhury, the Lumry Family Associate Professor of... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

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Interviewing - Alumni

the conversation ask about next steps. Thank the recruiter for his/her time, and follow up with a thank you note. Interview Questions + – General Interview Questions Tell me about yourself. What are your strengths View Details

24 May 2017
News

Adebayo O. Ogunlesi, JD/MBA 1979

then settled in New York and joined the law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore for a short stint until a high school friend convinced him to consult on a project in their home country. “Serendipity works in... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

25 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway

frequently that psychologists have a name for them: "fundamental attribution errors." Unable to know every aspect of a stranger's backstory, yet still needing to make a primal designation between friend View Details

Keywords: by Anna Secino; Education; Employment

27 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets

Organizations with great reputations can draw large and loyal followings. Source: iStock In developed countries, the best friends of businesses are the legal, political, and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

Supervisor of Sandwiches? More Companies Inflate Titles to Avoid Extra Pay

If it seems like everyone is a manager these days, you may be onto something. Not only is there a profusion of assistant managers, there are also now carpet shampoo and food cart managers, directors of first impressions, assistant bingo... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

22 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Does Spirituality Drive Success?

Executives from a wide range of industries trooped to Harvard Business School to discuss how their spirituality helps them be powerful leaders. The stories emerged from three panel sessions at the Möbius Leadership Forum, held April 11-12. The conference explored... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace, Sean Silverthorne & Wendy Guild

15 Dec 2023
News

The Musts of 2023

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. At fall reunions, we set up shop on campus and asked alumni about what media moved them this year. What changed their minds or their hearts. And their answers ran... View Details

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

performance. We find that firms with founding families or other individual investors as owners underperform, unless family members serve as CEOs, when they outperform all others. Non-family management View Details

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Investors - Entrepreneurship

Founders & Investors Discover Rock alumni and students who are turning opportunity into reality. Contact us if you would like to be included here . Entrepreneurs Investors Companies Ajay Agarwal Partner, Bain Capital Ventures MBA 1995... View Details

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Adriann Dolphin

overwhelmed with opportunity. In class, I’ve heard new perspectives from my classmates or the case protagonists themselves. Clubs and conferences have given me connections to industries I didn’t even know existed before coming here. I’ve... View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock

Illustration by Lincoln Agnew Pete Stavros (MBA 2002) got his first lessons in labor relations as a kid at the dinner table, when his father, who operated a road grader at construction sites, told the family about his day. The elder... View Details

Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

July 2022 (Revised September 2022)
Case

Birla Carbon Egypt: Building Soft Power in a Foreign Country

By: Jeremy Friedman and Malini Sen

Birla Carbon, a flagship business of the nearly $60-billion global conglomerate and India-headquartered Aditya Birla Group (ABG), is one of the world's top manufacturers and suppliers of high-quality carbon black. The largest among its 16 manufacturing plants is Birla... View Details

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06 Aug 2020
Blog Post

My HBS Financial Aid Story: Why I Chose to Invest in My Future

family circumstances had prevented me from saving as much as I could have otherwise. I was both unsure of how to convey this in my application and embarrassed to have to ask for more money. I was not... View Details

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