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04 Jun 2018
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Are There Conditions Under Which Directors Should Consider Hiring a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior?

over for partner and left the firm. “He, the protected rainmaker, went on to make sexual advances to many other female associates and 15 years later is still employed in a cushy job at the firm.” Assuming that this situation is not unique... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

John C. Mulliken

Strategy consultant, former CTO & CPO, public & private company board member, retail & climatetech entrepreneur, early stage investor. Father of two, husband, sailor, hiker, and aspirational road biker.

John is a senior lecturer in the... View Details

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Involvement in Faculty & Student Ventures | About

member who is on a leave of absence is still considered a full-time employee. In addition, all policies described in this document apply to a faculty member’s immediate family members (defined as the faculty member’s spouse or partner and... View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

Generation Next

done at Godrej. (Earlier consultants, she notes, often operated as yes-men for her father.) They didn't disappoint: Vivek Gambhir (MBA 1997), the Bain partner who headed the project, notably challenged the status quo, and Nisa went on to... View Details

Keywords: Mark Bergen; Godrej Group; Management

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

found valuable information from other sources. Firms with business partners or suppliers in China, for example, tried to distill the noisy signals emerging from these areas as quickly as possible to plan for safety in their plants. This... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

01 Mar 2018
News

Every Trick in the Book

the charms of a small-town Main Street. All told, there are just 5,000 carefully selected titles in BookHampton, all sold at full price. Brody, who spent most of her career in real estate, partnered with R.J. Julia, a successful... View Details

Keywords: April White

18 Jan 2018
News

The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast

after lackluster business performance for a number of years, we knew we needed to do things differently, we needed to take some bold action. So I'd say that was really the turning point from a cultural perspective, not just within the company, but with our... View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

25 Aug 2022
News

Up on the Corner

she had mustered. Local leaders, meanwhile, found in Dlodlo a partner who was willing to listen and who shared their vision for the future. Which was not at all what they were used to. Dlodlo’s plans for a six-floor, mixed-use building... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

doing an MBA. For technical work, the training an Analyst gets from a Wall Street firm is better than the training they would receive at business school. [ ] The same point was made by a senior partner in a consulting firm, who, when... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

02 Mar 2012
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Moving to the U.S. With a Family - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

26 Jun 2015
Blog Post

7 Things International Applicants Should Know About HBS

throughout the whole first year class. I love getting to see my new ANZ friends as well as meeting the other international students and, of course, spending time with the Americans. It’s a lot more international than I expected and I’ve loved that element of the... View Details

09 May 2021
Blog Post

Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year

one’s favorites: Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, “Baby Shark” What has been the best part of being a mom at HBS? The support and community from moms and non-parents. How do you make it work? My partner and friends are the key. My View Details

04 Jan 2016
Blog Post

Motherhood and the MBA

(student club) is a great group of students and their partners. It is a wonderful resource should you choose to live on campus, particularly if you have a partner who will be at home during the week with your little one. There are not a... View Details

06 May 2021
Blog Post

The Extraordinary Things We Do on Ordinary Days: A Mother’s Day Tribute

falling asleep on the drive home from a museum and then taking a three-hour nap. And we support each other through the tough days when our partners are busy and we just need a friend to listen about the meltdown we experienced at the... View Details

01 May 2017
Blog Post

Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone at HBS

speaking during START, ASW, Class Day) and allowed me to work behind-the-scenes on initiatives that matter most to me (mainly student advocacy work – diversifying curriculum, making the student experience more affordable, giving students more options, View Details

Research Summary

The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building

The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take... View Details