meetings - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Aug 2016
Blog Post

Relocating to Boston with Your Partner

were our quick road trips. 4) Join the Partners' Club The Partners' Club organizes a number of events which provide great opportunities to meet other couples, many of whom are relocating as well. Also, it is a rare chance to take... View Details

01 Sep 2005
News

Gifts Create Frist Financial Aid Fund

Expressing gratitude, Brit K. Dewey (MBA ’96), managing director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid, said the two gifts will allow the School to continue to innovate to meet student needs. “These gifts will help fund a new... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

Research Summary

Understanding Customers

In conventional business case studies, protagonists almost never have the option of stepping back to seek a new understanding of the customer. But to be effective in practice, managers need both the self-assurance and ability to initiate and pursue, with rigor and... View Details

23 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Overcoming Nervous Nelly

small things—for instance, 'Did I leave the coffeemaker on this morning?'—by bigger things like meeting with a colleague or a manager, or by very important things like job security or health." At its core, anxiety is about... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

26 Jun 2023
Blog Post

ClimateCAP 2023 & ClimateCAP Fellowship

ClimateCAP Fellow? I had a great time meeting other fellows in Austin back in February during the ClimateCAP Conference. Since most of this year’s fellows are also joint-degree candidates in various programs, it is refreshing to set aside... View Details

17 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers

that move faster to meet caregivers’ needs. With those employees goes the substantial investment that companies make in recruiting, retention, and training, says Fuller, who co-leads the Managing the Future of Work project. Raman is the... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

writing history without an explicit conceptual framework," begins one review. On several occasions I took historians, visiting the United States from abroad, to meet Al. They were recipients of the Alfred D. Chandler Jr.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 Oct 2020
Blog Post

7 Coming Out Stories from the HBS PRIDE Club

coming out that night. I had never met another bisexual person, and I’m not even sure I fully realized that was the right word for myself until then. But just knowing that there was someone else like me, someone else who understood, was such an incredible relief. It... View Details

01 Dec 2004
News

Marquis Jet Takes Off

Rich knew we were right. He just needed time to get to know us. Ultimately, I think he saw in us a lot of himself when he was younger. He saw passion, and energy, and business acumen. We gave him all the reasons why he should give us the chance to succeed.” After a... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Aug 1998
News

High Honors

of the Boston area who graduated from West Point in 1943, McDermott became a fighter-bomber pilot in World War II. He then served on General Dwight D. Eisenhower's staff before being sent to HBS to learn the management skills needed to View Details

14 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?

Meet Cheryl Andrus: Manager. Survivor. A vice president responsible for corporate and product marketing at FranklinCovey in Salt Lake City, Andrus was asked in August 2002 to also take charge of one of the company's business lines. Along... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

20 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting the Marketing Mix Right

they studied the three primary ways these drugs were marketed by Pfizer, Merk, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and AstraZeneca: "detailing," in which drug firm representatives personally visit physicians to sell the drug; at professional View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

30 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Finding Pride

group started up an annual potluck in New York City, and 10 or 12 of us would drive down to meet 60 to 70 wonderful, accomplished gay and lesbian alums. I was co-president of the GSA my second year, and after graduating I organized 15 of... View Details

12 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association

the people you meet who impact you the most. One such man had an incredible impact on me: Jawid. Jawid was the local Afghan National Army commander, who lived and operated from a small patrol base near us. He was a natural born fighter... View Details

29 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas

just don't know who has the kind of upbringing or life experience that would be relevant to identifying the issues you need to anticipate and plan for.” Wu adds: “It means both adding people and making sure their voices are heard.” About the Author Rachel Layne is a... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

21 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

organizations live-blog or live-tweet their corporate meetings or events to give employees a sense of the back-and-forth in the moment. The virtual platforms that companies are relying on these days offer a similar opportunity to invite... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden

24 Jul 2017
Blog Post

Transitioning to Product Management at HBS

with engineers, to beta testing, to launching for customers, all in 10 weeks. And I found exactly that during my summer at InsightSquared. Who was crazy enough to hire me? Sam Clemens, the Chief Product Officer there, and a HBS alum. How did I View Details

19 Mar 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’

While many Frenchco workers were angry about the English-language mandate, Neeley says a small number of highly fluent workers viewed the change as a chance to perfect their English by asking for feedback from native speakers, participating in View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

21 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style

or nonverbal communication at shareholder meetings to add depth to their assessment of company performance. “There is a whole ocean of data out there that people aren’t using,” says Khanna. “Using it could help examine many questions that... View Details