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Families in Business
Extend your network by living and working with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries around the globe Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your... View Details
- 19 Mar 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager
don't necessarily conflict with making a profit, business leaders today don't face such formidable challenges to their views. Still, what can managers do to ensure that their industries, their companies, their workplaces, their work, support the environment? Here are... View Details
- November 2007
- Supplement
Differences at Work: Allie (B)
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Rachel Gordon
In Differences at Work: Allie (B) HBS Case No. 9-408-055 Allie and her colleague initially refuse to go but when her boss makes a scene they reluctantly agree to accompany him to the beach despite his inappropriate behavior. Later back at company headquarters they tell... View Details
Sucher, Sandra J., and Rachel Gordon. "Differences at Work: Allie (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 408-055, November 2007.
- 11 Apr 2023
- Op-Ed
The First 90 Hours: What New CEOs Should—and Shouldn't—Do to Set the Right Tone
your values and style. My preference is to employ people who are polite but firm, welcoming but professional. You might decide to retain your predecessor’s EA because of his or her knowledge about how the place View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 24 Feb 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Issuer Quality and Corporate Bond Returns
Keywords: by Robin Greenwood & Samuel G. Hanson
- Research Summary
War & Peace
By: Deepak Malhotra
A second stream of research looks at issues related to conflict resolution in the context of international and ethno-political conflict, and in particular, at the role of negotiation in ending armed conflicts. I launched a new course at HBS entitled "War & Peace:... View Details
- 2011
- Book
What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential
By: Robert Steven Kaplan
Successful leaders know that leadership is less often about having all the answers-and more often about asking the right questions. The challenge lies in being able to step back, reflect, and ask the key questions that are critical to your performance and your... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Development; Organizational Development; Reaching Your Potential; Career Planning; Management Styles; Interpersonal Communication; Leadership; Performance Effectiveness; Personal Development and Career
Kaplan, Robert Steven. What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2011.
- Career Coach
Alyssa Wilson
Alyssa wants to help students decide if a career in investing is a good fit for their interests and skillset as well as work through practical recruiting advice and tactics. Alyssa can provide insight on how different firms recruit as... View Details
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
Working PapersThe Long-Run Risks Model and Aggregate Asset Prices: An Empirical Assessment Authors:Jason Beeler and John Y. Campbell Abstract The long-run risks model of asset prices explains stock price variation as a response to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
However, this project was a failure. As one former securities analyst noted, "None of this stuff worked the way it was supposed to." 76 This history seems especially relevant given GM's current attempts to create yet another... View Details
- 29 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services
But this is a far cry from the PSF CEO, who lives and works among her "shareholders." She passes them in the hall, eats lunch with them, and has to guide them productively to accomplish her objectives. Even if they View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
- 06 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
How to Thrive in an Unstructured Environment
“Perfect is the enemy of done.” No experience has helped me internalize this more than my summer at blueground, an international, vc-backed real estate startup. Before business school, I worked at a large oil & gas company, where... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 03 Apr 2009
- What Do You Think?
How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?
absorb as much communications technology as the culture, training, and mentality of the individuals working in the organization will allow the organization should only absorb as much communications technology as is required to efficiently... View Details
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Managing Innovation
Understand the potential of disruptive innovation Integrate your customers into the innovation process Take advantage of digital transformation Expand your personal and professional network Extend your network by living and working with... View Details
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Driving Corporate Performance
objectives Enhance competitiveness by better aligning all types of resources to customer needs Strengthen employee relationships and build a strong and enduring culture of helping others to succeed Expand your personal and professional network Extend your professional... View Details
- 22 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: 3M
Why We Recruit is a series of interviews with our recruiting partners covering everything from their experience working with HBS to what they would like students to know. Each week, we will release a new... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
recognized as a result of the bubble—have been those of the analysts who worked in the investment banks. The banks employ two kinds of analysts: Those who issue recommendations about individual firms, and those who try to get investors to... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 12 May 2020
- Blog Post
The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership
When Apoorva Pasricha (MBA 2019) assumed her role with the City of San Jose’s Mayor’s Office of Technology & Innovation as an HBS Leadership Fellow in August 2019, her mandate was to implement San Jose’s ‘Smart City’ road map.... View Details
- 28 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership
When Apoorva Pasricha (MBA 2019) assumed her role with the City of San Jose’s Mayor’s Office of Technology & Innovation as an HBS Leadership Fellow in August 2019, her mandate was to implement San Jose’s ‘Smart City’ road map.... View Details
- 02 Apr 2024
- What Do You Think?
What's Enough to Make Us Happy?
lifetime. HBS colleagues Laura Nash and Howard Stevenson expressed some of the same thoughts in a book they coauthored titled Just Enough, a personal determination made through “the art of complex decision-making about noncomparable... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett