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- 01 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Team Success Starts with the Individual—and with Love
don’t share a common background or life experience with team members. Such empathy in turn generates trust and activates team members’ sense of self-worth. Each of us in our own way seeks acceptance from others. When we receive it, it not... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
excellent runner and that this distinction would be noticed by the people I worked for. It was an interesting way to say that whatever you do, do it well - and it's something I've never forgotten. Would you want your kids to do what you do? I would never want my... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- Web
Design Thinking Course | HBS Online
Networking Group and gain exclusive access to events and other networking opportunities. Description of silent animated video above: Learner types an answer in the discussion board in response to a peer's question Immerse yourself in real-world, case-based examples... View Details
- 15 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
From Teacher to Student: The Important Ways HBS Professors Showed Me How to Lead
directly from the airport to catch our Section J dance at Ekta, the annual HBS South Asian show. There was also the time when Professor Jon Jachimowicz sat and listened to me agonize over my summer internship choices and gave me valuable View Details
- 02 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies
A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 04 May 2020
- Blog Post
6 Things You Should Know About the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
events, and tight-knit joint degree cohorts all add to a very rich experience as members of both HBS and HKS. The joint degree cohort is a close-knit group Taniel: I did not expect to get as close to the joint degree family as quickly as... View Details
- 15 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax
most from our way of life can afford to give back a little bit more." Like FDR, Obama wants us to see taxes not as a burden to be lamented but as a fair payment for benefits received. And as our society has grown more complex, the... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl
- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details
- 25 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better
Why did you come in late on Tuesday? Did you really need an hour and a half for lunch on Wednesday? Why wasn't that report done by Thursday? For most of us, justifying our schedules is an expected part of the job. But what employee hasn't... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift
destroy health, wealth, and life itself. The issues span the ethical spectrum: falsified books and records, misleading communications, defective and dangerous products shipped without warnings or information, abusive behavior and unsafe... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 05 Jun 2009
- What Do You Think?
What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?
What do you think? Original Article During the past several weeks, economists have begun to predict substantially slower growth rates for the world's economy into the foreseeable future. Characteristic of this is the reduction of roughly 100 basis points annually in... View Details
- 25 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse
at an impasse. The impasse experience has features that are common to all of us, and in time each of us has a unique experience of impasse. For most people the recognition that we're at an impasse, whether it's a career situation or a broader View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 May 2018
- News
Carla A. Harris, MBA 1987
1999 Named Managing Director, Morgan Stanley 2000 Releases album, Carla’s First Christmas 2005 First solo concert at Carnegie Hall 2005 Releases album, Joy Is Waiting 2005 Named by Fortune to list of 50 Most Powerful Black Executives in America 2009 Publishes View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 08 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching
are you won’t ever learn how to pull off a triple bypass. And yet, in business, companies routinely expect employees to pick up new job knowledge through vicarious learning—through reading descriptions of tasks in knowledge-management... View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
or, in other words, to exploit and explore. To achieve your goals, consider leveraging cross-functional teams, employing creative exercises, adjusting expectations and deliverables, supporting an agile enterprise and generating customer... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Jagnam, or “eldest son,” highlights the pressure and expectations inherent in that position and the tensions it creates. Kim’s father expected him to get a PhD, so an MBA was a compromise. Scholars are at... View Details
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
communities; better quality of life and good jobs. The Justice40 InitiativeDirects 40% of some federal investments to disadvantaged communities.[5] About $29 billion falls under this program.[6] Examples and Current Focus Areas Workforce:... View Details
- 02 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters
resources. And don't expect people to destroy something they've spent years creating. Impose your own processes quickly. If the acquired company is as large as yours and its processes are dissimilar, expect... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower
- 10 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Combining an Interest in Music and Business
continue to have music as a “hobby”. One of the first things we did on our first week at HBS was to reflect on our expectations on the whole MBA experience and make promises to ourselves that would ensure we stay true to what we want to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
representatives, artists, and students, as well as the chamber’s expected members of the business community. “YALP helped crystallize, A, that we had to do this work, no matter what the challenges, and B, that we had to include all walks... View Details