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- 04 May 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Do Managers Think?
proactively seek out the doctor . A good manager needs to get more involved in 'preventative medicine .'" Akhil Mehta, before observing similarities, pointed out that " human life is almost never involved in managerial decision... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
realized that he wanted to learn more about the dilemmas inherent in launching ventures. He returned to HBS, first to earn a PhD (in 2002) and then as a professor, dedicating his research to the pitfalls of founding and how to avoid them.... View Details
- Career Coach
Alejandro Maldonado
Alejandro (HBS '08) has spent most of his career in the areas of direct investing and strategy, with a recent focus on human capital leadership and development. He has had experience in investment banking at Credit Suisse View Details
- 01 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?
global challenges on their responses. Sudip Bose put it this way: "Venerated works of Milton Friedman have influenced government policies. . . . But, his shadow will be relentlessly chased primarily by global climatic concerns and then perhaps by View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Feb 2022
- News
Holding Business to Account
returns but who also use the unique access and voice we have as investors to engage management and redirect corporate efforts toward long-term sustainability.” The firm has been active in encouraging companies to be leaders on issues from climate change to View Details
- 02 Jun 2003
- What Do You Think?
What Can Aspiring Leaders Be Taught?
Summing Up An overarching theme of an unusually large number of responses to the June question of "What can aspiring leaders be taught?" was that of context. That is, the suggestion that while it may be late to teach ethics and "distinguishing View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
Finance By: Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian Abstract—This chapter provides an overview of household finance. The first part summarizes key facts regarding household financial behavior, emphasizing... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
Buttner's (HRPBA '58) informative talk on the importance of financial investing for women, to the three upbeat and entertaining panels on how to succeed in corporate, nontraditional, and entrepreneurial career pursuits, to a moving speech on the power of the View Details
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
All this makes for a case study of the moral courage of ordinary Japanese citizens in times of crisis. There are lessons to be learned here by the rest of us. W. Carl Kester, George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Australia (HPE), launched the Dandelion program in 2015, introducing people with autism spectrum disorders into the IT workforce. Dandelion—an innovative collaboration between HPE and the Department of Human... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 26 Feb 2009
- News
Last Look - March 2009
Lassus Levassort (Mom’s Parisian roommate), turning right to her curly-haired neighbor (Ruth Lee Brodsky?). I believe Mom is in the dark shirt.” She concludes, “None of those first women MBA and HRPBA... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Stanford Lets Students Customize
introduction, students have no required courses. Rather, they pick from eleven “foundations” subject areas, including finance, human resources, marketing, microeconomics, and operations. In a major break with the one-size-fits-all... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
Image by John Ritter In 2018, HBS associate professors Aiyesha Dey and Jonas Heese wrote a case about a whistleblower at a multi-national gambling company who exposed financial misstatements, first to his manager and later to the US... View Details
- 26 Jul 2016
- News
HourlyNerd Rebrands as an Enterprise Talent Platform
co-CEO Petitti. “For the first time, businesses are using a unified (internal, external, knowledge) approach to solve problems and capitalize on opportunities. With Catalant, they can access the exact expertise or knowledge needed in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
dinner and saying it’s a fait accompli,” Peterson tells the group, referring to the need to balance input between management and clinicians. “It has to be messy for the first hour.” Two people are charged with creating the View Details
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
non-obvious, second-order effects—things we can't see clearly right now. The human tendency in trying to predict what will happen in the future is to extrapolate in a straight line from today. So we imagine... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
being too dogmatic about how you define your sweet spot as an investor; and (2) seek companies that seem extraordinary on some dimension, even if it is unusual or seems deficient in others. Rob Go (MBA 2007) NextView Ventures For the Birds Here’s what I wrote in my... View Details
- 19 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 4/5
still not fully free. The first time I talked about race outside of my home was at Lanier Middle School. My class watched a documentary on the June 1998 murder of James Byrd, a 49-year-old Black man who was beaten with a baseball bat,... View Details
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Innovating at Scale - Course Catalog
to innovate Class 1: The power of strategic imitation Class 2: Dominant design and 2 nd mover advantages Class 3: First mover advantage Class 4: Exercise on crafting your vision for innovation by asking the View Details
- 06 Mar 2013
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Manage Our Work Time?
CRM and voicemail systems Technology can scale human efficiency, but only up to a point." Ganesh Ramakrishnan added, "The technologies to communicate, collaborate and access infinite information have evolved and spread much... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett