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- 01 Mar 2008
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Avoiding a Succession Crisis
critical perspective of an outsider who sees the need for real change. Building inside-outsiders means managing succession to bring to the fore leaders who will challenge their strategic inheritance. Since succession planning is so... View Details
- 02 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
The No. 1 Character Trait You Will Need to Succeed in Business
people who took the easy way out because they lacked integrity, courage and an overarching sense of purpose. Pursuing an MBA, I believe, means critically engaging with these kinds of stories and, ultimately, figuring out for yourself what... View Details
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Louis-Philippe, "King of the French" - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
with the head of a pear, perhaps because of a certain natural resemblance, but more likely because the slang meaning of "poire" is simpleton or bungler. 45 Pauvres Aveugles view image Lithograph by A. Desperet (d. 1865). [Paris], Chez... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
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Dressing by Number
individual client and the “client in aggregate” becomes. And better data means better-dressed shoppers, says Lake, noting that 70 percent of Stitch Fix’s clients return for a second “fix” within 90 days. Next: Karen Moon (MBA 2008) —... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Research Brief: Great Expectations
The narrative surrounding employees who are passionate about their jobs holds so much sway in today’s workplace that it has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. “Ultimately, if you believe in a passionate person, they will perform better,” observes Assistant Professor... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
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Passion & Purpose
photography by Susan Young See full profiles and more photographs here. In August, five HBS alumni returned to campus to accept the School's highest honor. This year's award recipients have contributed significantly to their companies and communities. They are... View Details
- 07 Nov 2014
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Investing for the Long Term in Education
exist in perpetuity, means being able to produce that 5 percent plus inflation, which is a bit challenging in a low-interest-rate environment. “I think that we try to approach investments much in the same way that the corporation tries to... View Details
- 23 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
HBS Latino Student Association Spotlight: Sebastian Forero (MBA 2025)
related to MBA Admissions, alumni engagement, career development, and more to advocate for and empower the Latino community on campus and beyond. In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we asked LASO members to share what being Latino at HBS View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Fall at HBS means many things to many people - for the incoming MBA Class of 1999 it means a certain level of discomfort as they take on a seemingly unmanageable case load and find themselves at the... View Details
- Portrait Project
Jake Cusack
means to owe something. To realize you have to earn that you survived when others did not. I will honor the unique chances I have been given by investing myself in the places where others spent their blood. Over the last two years, I have... View Details
- Portrait Project
Ginger Jiang
individual. But on that night, halfway around the world, I learned that who I am and what I do with my life have become intimately intertwined. Hippocrates – arguably the most famous physician in history – once related medicine to the love of humanity. I took this to... View Details
- 12 Mar 2019
- News
Acting Naturally
initiative is not just teaching them the fundamentals of soap-making, but asking these communities what it means for them to make a difference. And I mean, just asking that question can have a profound effect on how people view themselves... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
An Ethical Fitness Quiz for Negotiators
anyone else in my situation to act this way? Legacy: Does this action reflect how I want to be known and remembered? Concludes Wheeler: “Doing the right thing sometimes means that we must accept a known cost. But in the long run, doing... View Details
- Portrait Project
Rejji Hayes
I want to do great things in my lifetime. I am not exactly sure how to define the word "great" at the moment, but I guess that is one of life's most intriguing challenges. Does it mean making profound contributions to society?... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
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The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
power. Equal ownership means that the parties must work out solutions to problems and differences beforehand, so that they enter the alliance with the attitude that they are true partners. With that mindset, the chances are much greater... View Details
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Judith Prior Lawrie Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
(HRPBA 1957) Judith Prior Lawrie (HBRPA 1958) "I've always said, having gone to the Business School, I knew the jargon. I mean literally I spoke the same language from day one. And so I tended to be accepted intellectually by young... View Details
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Reweaving Ourselves and the World: New Perspectives on Climate Change - Course Catalog
damage. How should we respond to such cataclysmic news? What does it mean to be alive and human right now? To what should we devote our lives? This course is for you if you are committed to grappling with the reality of global heating and... View Details
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Gad Caspy
stand up for my beliefs even if it sometimes means daring and challenging things others believe in. "Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." - Ferris Bueller, 1986. View Details
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Kyle Bisutti
Responsibility: overseeing one-hundred employees building the thrust reversers that ensure the uneventful deceleration of aircraft on airport runways. With two summers at General Motors in Detroit, and six years at General Electric, Kyle Bisutti knows what it View Details
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TALK: How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life - Course Catalog
conversational goals: Why do we talk? What does it mean to do it well? How do these goals play out over the short- and long-term? Study the TALK framework to understand conversation as a fundamental part of the human experience—a repeated... View Details