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- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
they relate to each other are of crucial importance. If you're going to have a successful board, you need to think about it in terms of successful human relationships. I think that's a tenet that really makes HBS somewhat different from... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 04 Apr 2005
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?
But it isn't easy. It requires that carefully-selected individuals possessing deep smarts devote significant amounts of time to the coaching of a self-selected protégé by creating a learning process that the authors term "guided... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Classroom and Field Work: Methods of Instruction | Baker Library
Metropolitan Life Insurance, and R. H. Macy. Sponsoring companies also benefitted from the apprenticeships, and the long term relationships between the firms and the program often led to businesses employing women in new areas. (2) The... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Karen Tumulty Reports on America
solution to their problems in a way that they weren't before the attacks," she observes. "But they are also holding politicians to a higher standard, not just in terms of safety but with regard to jobs, schools, and other services.... View Details
- 29 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path
Gerdeman: Could you briefly explain each of the Four Elements? Butler: Sure, the first is Identity. Identity is a lifelong project in which we, and simultaneously the people in our world, have a growing sense of our place in the world in View Details
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
total. In 2007, corporate R&D spending was $6.43B, or almost 17% of net sales. Novartis executive leaders believe in scientific progress and that large-scale investments in science will therefore result in long-term pay-offs in terms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Portrait Project
John Kelleher
I want to help make the term "foreign policy" obsolete. Political and business leaders talk a great deal about globalization but too often fall back on old dichotomies—picturing a world divided between domestic and foreign... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
A Plastic Fantastic Friendship
collectors, according to an obituary in the New York Times (August 23,2000). "We plunged instead of hedging," Morse once explained, "and after a while I was becoming known as the nut who was backing a dark horse. Or vice versa." During the course of what the New York... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
Performance, by Brian Becker, Mark Huselid, and Dave Ulrich, is an ongoing study of nearly three thousand firms that describes a seven-step process for embedding HR systems within the firm’s overall strategy — what the authors call an HR Scorecard — and then measuring... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Slam Dunk
owners in terms of caring about the players and making sure that everything is taken care of, making sure that the coaching staff has everything they need,” said Pagliuca, who will continue at Bain Capital. “Then we'll get out of the way... View Details
- 11 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Kel Jackson, MBA 2019: "[My Job] Matters. I Didn't Want a Role that Would Box Me In."
Intern at Aurora Flight Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts. “I was looking for an opportunity where I could use some of the skills I’d learned so far at HBS in terms of [fundamental] business acumen and apply them in an environment that... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Class of 1949 Gift Supports HBS Faculty Development
Faculty Development. "We are at a critical juncture in terms of faculty development," Clark said. "One of the School's top priorities is maintaining an effective, dynamic, and highly skilled faculty. We are grateful to the Class of 1949... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- Profile
Alex Nelson
graduation," Alex says, "and will continue to focus on retail management. Longer term, I'm interested in entrepreneurship. I'm toying with a variety of ideas, including one for a fashion business that redefines luxury in terms... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
MBA Class of 2004 Celebrates Class Day and Commencement
graduates to think in terms of win-win solutions. “If you can try to recognize the other person’s perspective and craft a solution that wins for both sides,” he said, “you’ll create a much longer-term model of success.” At Commencement... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
New MBA Leadership Course
can live by those values in their professional lives. “We want students to realize their full potential as business leaders. Our goal is to help them understand — in very practical terms — the responsibilities that people take on when... View Details
- 23 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Break the Expert’s Curse
Unfortunately, though, experts frequently make lousy teachers. Experts are sometimes so steeped in expertise that they don't remember what it was like to be a newbie—in terms of both how much they knew and how they felt back then. The... View Details
- 02 Oct 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?
of authenticity in leadership is what is needed to manage the tension. Michael Leahy commented that " we are challenged to sort out short term position and personal self serving ambition versus more genuine leadership When we are... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
cannibalization and complementarity, and conjecture that the magnitude of these effects may be different at different points in time. We find that retail store openings initially cannibalize direct channel sales in the short term if... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
health care. These are just three examples out of dozens of active employer partnerships. The CCRI Foundation Board also includes a number of local business leaders who have helped to strengthen our relationships with the business community. In View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
the stock market. The real money is in the property market; a drop in values of real estate would have more far-reaching consequences. In terms of global spillovers, the recovery in most developed markets does not depend on exports to... View Details