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- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
funds, Pozen writes with authority and unusual clarity about complex issues in Too Big to Save? How to Fix the U.S. Financial System (John Wiley & Sons). Roger Thompson: How does the government figure out which financial institutions... View Details
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
are you working on now? A: I'm continuing my broader research efforts to understand how the design of knowledge-intensive work affects teamwork, collaboration innovation, and ultimately performance. For example, I'm writing an empirical... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Keeping the Faith
It has been said that the note of a Tibetan singing bowl is the sound of inner peace. That’s not something you might expect to hear in the MBA classroom. But it rings through Hawes Hall at the beginning of each session of The Spiritual Lives of Leaders, a second-year... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
imagining a world where I wasn't running this business that we had started, and where I couldn't necessarily control if it was going to be successful or not, that was really helpful to experience that versus just theoretically understanding it and View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
twentieth century, neither country would see such glory again. “Before 1914, [Argentina] was one of the most dynamic nations in the first global economy, attracting a record amount of foreign investment and massive inflows of immigrants,” View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
employ and train a cadre of professional directors to serve on corporate boards (see sidebar, page 35). And HBS professors, drawing on their areas of expertise, have attempted to influence the debate through opinion pieces in major newspapers. View Details
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Past Issues - Alumni
Hard Way Nothing came easy for Sarina Russo, but that didn’t stop her from living her dream. Complete Table of Contents September 2006 One-on-One with Carter Roberts President and CEO, World Wildlife Fund Down the Memory Chute WAC, WOC, and Doing the View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- HBS Case
This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly
NPLs—including mortgages, credit cards, and car loans on which customers had defaulted. “At a certain point, it becomes clear to banks that they can’t collect without a lot of effort, so their choice is to write the loan off completely,... View Details
- 10 Nov 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?
to express their feelings, exchange information, and act in ways that previously were unheard of. Several recent writings suggest that the next phase in the activation of customers will be putting them to work in the service of an... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 25 May 2023
- Blog Post
Interview Strategies to Connect with a Wider Range of Candidates
Descriptions To create a welcoming and inclusive environment in the early stages of your hiring process, it is critical to use inclusive language that invites candidates in. Educate team members who are writing job descriptions about... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 16 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
judgement. Key Takeaways Unconscious bias exists in recruiting, and it is the responsibility of employers to both name it and address it in order to create diverse and successful organizations. Ensure you are writing inclusive job... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 25 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
4 Challenges All Early-Stage Startups Face
keep notebooks to write down quick ideas, but they miss the opportunity to generate immediate discussion on those ideas. Through our group text, any idea that got introduced would be built upon on the spot, and the discussion would... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 1/5
rate for Black Americans is 2.4 times as high as the rate for Whites. 9. I am angry that I’ve somehow been tricked into believing that supporting 45 is an acceptable political stance. 10. I am angry that I had to write this letter. I’ll... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
development, and review in quantitative reasoning, accounting, computer skills, and business writing and logical expression. From January 8 to January 30, they became the first group to encounter "Foundations" - the "sequel" to Essential... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
field. He seemed taken aback by the question at first, but after thinking for a minute, he said, “The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it’s not work for me.” I think that is the same force that... View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
degree in Russian literature from Harvard. The colonel offered to write a letter of recommendation for Hall, but only if it was addressed to Harvard Business School. "I told him I couldn't see myself at Harvard. I was in a war zone, and I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
grantmaking, reporting, or evaluation, they discuss topics such as going beyond check writing and traditional volunteering, advocating for change, leveraging business, forging peer networks, empowering individuals, leading adaptively, and... View Details
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Oral Histories | Baker Library
discipline of the WAC program helped me with the doctoral program later . . . in writing my doctoral dissertation. Betsy Jaffe is founder and president of Career Continuum, a New York career consulting firm, and author of “ Altered... View Details
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
Henry Ford think he could keep selling black-only Model Ts? "Denial has always been a problem," writes Harvard Business School historian Richard S. Tedlow in a new book, Denial: Why Business Leaders Fail to Look Facts in the Face-and What... View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- News
Well Said
And now they're feeling like they are doing better and better in those interview processes. And some of them are writing to us telling them that they got a job. I mean, again, correlation there, we'll never fully know but part of it is,... View Details