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- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
head to this day,” he says. “As an entrepreneur, leadership is the most important quality to have—you need it to attract the right people and get the optimum performance beyond any employee numbers or resources you control. And the case... View Details
- 29 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Delving Deeper into Development with the MBA/MPA-ID Program – a Q+A with Zainab Raji (MBA/MPA-ID 2022)
education, hard work, and generosity played in their lives. One story I often reflect on is my grandpa’s path to school. During his childhood years, children could not attend school until their right hands could reach over their heads and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am... View Details
- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
what the managing partner had been waiting and hoping for. What many command-and-control leaders fail to grasp is that admissions of fallibility, uncertainty, and doubt are actually signs of strength. These admissions propel individuals from doing the wrong thing well... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 31 Oct 2023
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
Special Drawing Rights (international reserve assets that supplement a country’s official reserves); and negotiating agreements to fund some of flagship projects laid out in the 2019–2023 Priority Action Plan, a development model that... View Details
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
arrived, Platzer knew. The time to make good on his mission was now. After a bit more research, Platzer left Wall Street and set out to build Spire. DM: Talk about how that mission statement finally culminated in the founding of your company. PP: So, I then felt, okay,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
On the Radar
Illustration by Brian Stauffer Illustration by Brian Stauffer Our planet is teeming with trillions of viruses and bacteria, most of which are innocuous or even helpful, but some pose a significant risk to public health, animals, and crops. In recent decades,... View Details
- 09 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Five Steps to Better Family Negotiations
negotiate only considering the interests of those at the bargaining table when those who are not at the table will be affected by what is negotiated and can assert their rights or power in the future. A typical strength of family... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra
- 09 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Where to Find Remote Work Now: 250 Million Job Postings Paint a Complex Picture
technology, management processes that they already have, and probably the culture.” Who’s in your talent pool? So what’s a remote job-seeker to do? Finding the right job depends on profession and, perhaps more crucially, what individual... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 24 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Launching a Career in Clean Energy
distributed and clean energy together for customers into an individualized, integrated solution that makes sense for them. Right now we’re in the early phases of customer discovery; we want to prove that we can deliver a solution that... View Details
- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
has been a failure of leadership as astounding and momentous (and ironic) as the company's early achievement. Robert D. Austin, Associate Professor: When I worked in a U.S. auto company in the mid 1990s, we were doing many of the right... View Details
- 20 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
Black Visionary Leadership and Redefining What's Possible
to occur around the AASU conference, to offer educational, networking, and funding opportunities. Tell us about Friday’s Master Series. Tyler: It’s a full day of tech and entrepreneurship programming, designed to help equip black entrepreneurs with the educational... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Zone Defense
differently,’” Tseng says. “I know what that means: Someone could have gotten killed.” If Brandon Tseng was prescient about the demand for technology that could reduce the risks associated with indoor-clearance operations, Ryan Tseng proved View Details
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising
graphics, to target the right audience, and to measure responses instantly. But many experts contend that Internet advertising is still in its infancy. There is a widely held belief that in the future we will compare today's Web ads with... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 14 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
10 Things I Learned During My First Month in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
support, and ultimately, a new family. Before coming to Boston, I struggled to decide if the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program was right for me. I wondered if it’d be too much work or if it would affect my regular MBA experience. With... View Details
- 20 Apr 2021
- Book
A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success
book that for most companies, the best opportunities sit right in their industry, close to home. Second, conventional strategic thinking teaches that companies can easily get “stuck in the middle,” with no discernible competitive... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Ipsita Dasgupta - Global Perspective, Local Results
Photography by Robert Schoen Ipsita Dasgupta is truly a citizen of the world. The Calcutta native speaks six languages and has lived in Sudan, Cairo, Jakarta, and Manhattan, thanks in part to her father's peripatetic career as a senior executive for Energizer. Her... View Details
- 22 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance
National Bureau of Economic Research. The paper was written by Cullen, Will Dobbie of Harvard Kennedy School, and Mitchell Hoffman of the University of Toronto. “There are a lot of companies willing to give workers with criminal pasts a second chance under the View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- Profile
Tim Kluska
Coming to HBS is like... Stepping onto a roller coaster with a blindfold—it's thrilling, unpredictable, and slightly daunting. Yet, you have faith you're on the right track, and as the ride progresses, you discover this experience will... View Details
- 21 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Are Your Employees Passing Up Incentives? Try Promoting the Programs More
Might Also Like: Latest Isn’t Always Greatest: Why Product Updates Capture Consumers Giving Back: Consumers Care More About How Companies Donate Than How Much A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis