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service skills, initiative, be able to work as a team, and be flexible. Attributes of Successful Staff Members Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills Willingness to pitch in at any level Initiative and self-motivation Flexibility Knowledge of Harvard University... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Ink: Comfort in Discomfort
The Excerpt The past or the future. Personal gain or the greater good. Consistency or change. In their new book, Both/And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems, co-authors Wendy Smith (PhDOB 2006) and... View Details
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Security & Privacy | Information Technology
safe and secure. Recent headlines have shown that cyber criminals are becoming more brazen and creative in their attempts to gain access to our data and accounts. Sophisticated criminal enterprises are targeting both institutions and... View Details
- 15 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Learning from Mistakes and Leveraging Personal Experiences: Tiffany Kent (MBA 2001)
more, each unique to their own situation. I decided to become a Certified Financial Planner to improve my ability to advise on these additional areas. That choice began steering me toward a new direction with a clear focus. I noticed a... View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
5 Facts About HBS Conferences
conferences The attendee base is diverse and includes HBS and other Harvard graduate school students, visitors from other MBA programs, local professionals, and industry academics. If you have the ability to schedule a campus visit on a... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- Blog Post
Harnessing The Power of Collaboration to Create Opportunity in Chicago
producing pre-tax wages of nearly $25 million. Chicago food entrepreneurs face obstacles that limit their ability to start and grow businesses. Specifically, they lack access to affordable, food grade production space, high quality... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Releases
business, obtaining venture capital, managing growth, handling bankruptcy, and starting a nonprofit venture. The pieces focus on the skills and abilities one must master to fill the entrepreneurial role, from View Details
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bringing the Environment Down to Earth
considerations of social responsibility are important, executives who frame environmental problems solely in those terms may overlook the business opportunities and risks that come with such problems. Treating environmental issues like other business issues can lead to... View Details
Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Forward Thinking
streamlining the ability to take data centers and power them directly with solar and batteries. There are so many ways to creatively address the concern that AI is going to be problematic on the grid and... View Details
Expanding Horizons
Geoffrey Jones’s course, Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism. The students, who had arrived at HBS with diverse industry experiences, often raised questions and posed creative solutions that I had not considered. Hearing their... View Details
- 06 Oct 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?
responding with creative solutions to puzzles posted on the Facebook website are given interviews regardless of what their resume information might contain. Many are hired. Such analytics often represent "deep indicators" of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Bookshelf: Try As One Might
of design thinking—which is where you find the creativity, empathy, and human-centered work. But creative solutions need good testing. Without it you’re going to waste a lot of money scaling solutions that won’t work. And that’s the hole... View Details
- 06 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market
Khaire is a good barometer for such estimations, having deeply researched how value and markets are constructed around creative industries and products. In studying the modern Indian art market, for example, which was just starting to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
what you’re offering,” she continues. “Coordinating all the pieces and players not only for Linear Air, but for the industry to get off the ground, is an interesting creative challenge for the entrepreneur.” The View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
New Releases
three core capabilities that distinguish what they call "the individualized corporation": the ability to inspire individual creativity and initiative; the ability to link... View Details
Keywords: Robert Binstock
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Agenda: Stacy Sonnenberg (MBA 2003)
with post-COVID construction costs soaring, political winds have shifted away from solely taxpayer-funded venues toward public-private partnerships. As the global head of sports finance at Goldman Sachs, Sonnenberg works to develop View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 May 2013
- News
Trevor Fetter, MBA 1986
“I invest in HBS because I learned to make better decisions at HBS. The School helped me refine my ability to analyze business problems. As my career has evolved through different jobs in unrelated industries, the core skills in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
thinking. You see a pattern through a kaleidoscope, but it’s not fixed. Imagination and the ability to change the pattern have been main elements in the prosperity that Americans have enjoyed, and we need to value them highly. Science is... View Details
- 24 Jul 2014
- Blog Post
Create a Content Marketing Strategy for your Talent Acquisitions Team
exist in a particular industry or function, say business development for Matthew. Can you partner with those influencers and borrow their audience? Creativity is key! Build relationships between prospective candidates and organizational... View Details
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two
How does an entrepreneur make the switch from inspiring a tiny group of followers in a metaphorical garage to leading what eventually becomes a multibillion-dollar business? The ability to translate individual View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace