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- 21 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Leveraging Academic Opportunities to Attain My Post-HBS Job
Earlier this summer, I joined Plaid as a Product Manager, culminating my transition from HBS back to the “real world.” My path to joining Plaid... View Details
- 22 Jul 2015
- News
Supporting a Return to Work for Women Execs
wanted to use her new skills in the business world. After training as an executive coach, she set up the executive coach and career consultancy Thinking Potential. Working with... View Details
- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)
a great manager at the firm alongside the support of relationship managers at INROADS, who acted as career coaches to help young professionals navigate their careers. At Wellington, Ramirez also met fellows... View Details
Leonard A. Schlesinger
Leonard A. Schlesinger is Baker Foundation Professor at the Harvard Business School where he serves as Chair of the School’s Practice based faculty and faculty Chair of the MBA Field Global Immersion program. He has served as a member of the HBS faculty from 1978 to... View Details
- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)
a great manager at the firm alongside the support of relationship managers at INROADS, who acted as career coaches to help young professionals navigate their careers. At Wellington, Ramirez also met fellows... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 25 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Attending HBS to Grow the Family Business
three consulting firms (a role I never wanted to return to), and the excitement of entrepreneurship. All of a sudden, the family business didn’t seem all that glamourous. It... View Details
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs have an incredible backstop of management experience and wisdom available to them that, too often, they ignore. Why don’t startup founders make more use of their investors? Many entrepreneurs are hesitant View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 16 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Driving Positive Impact on Community and Climate with Ben Schutzman (MBA 2016)
thinking about what I wanted from a career standpoint, I realized that I didn't want to be consulting for other businesses in the long run. I had... View Details
- 19 Mar 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager
iPhoto In an interview about his recent book Profits and Sustainability, which portrays the iconoclastic entrepreneurs who built green startups in the 19th century, Harvard Business School historian Geoffrey Jones notes that being a business-environmentalist can be... View Details
- 19 Nov 2015
- Blog Post
What to Expect During Your Second Year at HBS
graduation. The choices, the opportunities, the privileges of being an EC at Harvard Business School could overwhelm anyone. I now more fully understood that I was in a special place and that the countdown on my time here had begun. Having next View Details
- 11 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
What You Need to Know about Recruiting at HBS
times their online databases contain company and industry profiles and access to financial reports. Consult your network Look at your network and see if there are people from... View Details
- October 1997 (Revised March 1998)
- Case
Appalachian Mountain Club: Transforming Governance
By: Walter J. Salmon and Jaan Elias
Starting in 1988, the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) began a controversial transformation in management and governance. For its first 112 years, the AMC's structure had resembled that of a country club--volunteer leaders directed the club's operations and its small,... View Details
Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Transformation; Corporate Governance; Employee Relationship Management; Recruitment; Leading Change; Organizational Culture; Labor and Management Relations; Nonprofit Organizations; Education Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Salmon, Walter J., and Jaan Elias. "Appalachian Mountain Club: Transforming Governance." Harvard Business School Case 598-066, October 1997. (Revised March 1998.)
- 02 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring: Laura Mackay...
building a new network from scratch was quickly allayed by the strength and breadth of our alumni community, which provided me with incredible access directly to top industry leaders. At Fibroblast, my... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Whitehead Urges MBAs to Become Lifelong Leaders
public, somebody is always opposed. But that’s the exception. On other occasions, consensus is worth striving for.” Asked by a student about moving from the private to public sector, Whitehead said, “I found... View Details
- 25 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?
new roles and creates the motivation and readiness to learn from knowledge and skill training that they can now enact. “These are not lockstep things. These are overlapping... View Details
- 24 May 2022
- Blog Post
Get to Know 2022 Class Day Student Speaker Peter James Kiernan
Stressful and uncertain environments were familiar to Kiernan from his time in the Marine Corps. He spent most of his military career in special operations, serving as a scout... View Details
- April 2021 (Revised June 2021)
- Case
Balancing Act: Deborah Lovich (A)
By: David G. Fubini and Patrick Sanguineti
Deborah Lovich, Partner at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), has been given the opportunity of a lifetime: to join the firm's Executive Committee as its youngest member and only current woman, as well as just the second woman in its history. Encouraged by her mentors,... View Details
Keywords: Work/life Balance; Work/family Balance; Work-Life Balance; Family and Family Relationships; Personal Development and Career
Fubini, David G., and Patrick Sanguineti. "Balancing Act: Deborah Lovich (A)." Harvard Business School Case 421-060, April 2021. (Revised June 2021.)
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
U.S. consumers more power over decisions related to health care. Those who advocate consumer-driven health care - including conference chair Professor Regina E. Herzlinger - believe that shifting control of health-care purchasing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions
A couple of years ago, hip-hop artist Macklemore topped the Billboard 100 chart with Thrift Shop, a paean to buying inexpensive used clothing from Goodwill Industries. Indeed, like the rapper, millions of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
which directly contributed to the segregation of neighborhoods. Understanding the role systemic racism has played is essential to EJ. For environmental policy View Details