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- 30 Jun 2022
- News
Scaling Hope
them. It was a night that would change both his son’s life and D’Antonio’s. Today, both men work in the field of addiction treatment. D’Antonio’s son, now with more than six years of continuous sobriety, is trained as a peer recovery... View Details
- 08 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team
little performance variability—because the tasks are standard, because the firm or industry has reduced variability, or because the business model limits the bandwidth of performance variance. Think about the difference between sales personnel at Nordstrom, where View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce
bank account was opened in the name of the woman in the household; the second included an account and basic training in banking; the third included an account and direct deposit of wages earned in a government work program; the fourth... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 16 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders
effectively manage and grow their own teams. These types of exchanges are often more personalized than formal training programs, because the founders tailor the discussion to a company’s specific situation... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
should do: “agitate, innovate, and orchestrate.” Ordinary people can effect change After all, people lower down the organizational ladder, who may seem to have little influence, often have far more power than they realize to change their workplaces, View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
The Musts of 2023
fictional account, although told in the first person of growing up wealthy, dysfunctional in Beverly Hills, California. I grew up not there, but near there and right around that same period. And the level of detail around places and what... View Details
- 25 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Meet the HBS Women's Student Association
who met to discuss the topic “How to Build a Successful Life.” We recognize that success can be defined in many different ways, and wanted to hear from successful female leaders about how they created their own professional and personal... View Details
- Profile
Mollie Breen
women's-only start-up competition that ran on TLC and Discovery Channel in spring 2017. "I always had business ideas," says Mollie. "I would write them down on the train ride home from work." When she came across Girl... View Details
- Web
Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
tech-enabled nannies. Social Enterprise Track, 2017 Flare Quinn Fitzgerald (MBA 2017) Sara de Zarraga (MBA 2017) Social Enterprise Track Winner Flare is reinventing personal security by creating tech-enabled safety devices for women. Juva... View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- Book
Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI
difference in whether you click on it. The algorithm is trained to pick out the pictures people are more likely to click on. And AI can optimize those images to individual preferences. If I like comedies, and there’s a movie on Netflix... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
an insider's view of the action, the Bulletin asked five members of the class who have been involved in a variety of banking endeavors to share some personal and professional insights and to reflect on the lessons, losses, and phenomenal... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Case Study: Testing the Waters
triathlon in Miami and immediately got to work, with a mix of weekday workouts and longer weekend sessions. But training through a New York City winter can go only so far in preparing a person for exertion... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A Continuum of Innovation
seen to be—essential to developing the skills and insights business leaders need?) to the personal (How do we make sure that HBS continues to attract exceptional students as well as remarkable faculty and staff who create this... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 28 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration
techniques could have a significant effect. Specifically, participants who had received training were asked to write a response to an essay written by a person they disagreed with on issues such as policing... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Guy de Chazal: Changing Focus
accent and direct, engaging manner, he comes across immediately as the kind of person who is accustomed both to doing things right and to doing the right thing. Over a late afternoon cup of tea in a conference room at the firm's midtown... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- Blog
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023
Healthy Minds by philosopher John Kaag. This book is a fantastic summary of the life and work of William James, the father of modern psychology, and a professor right here at Harvard. James endured intense personal struggles and is known... View Details
- 22 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees
time, employees must be trained to regularly communicate their progress to keep managers in the loop. 3. Support work-life wellbeing One of the unexpected outcomes of the pandemic has been a newfound appreciation for people’s humanity,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Profile
Madison McIlwain
Coming to HBS is like... Skiing down a double black diamond. You may have trained your whole life for the run, but somehow it is still more exhilarating, challenging, and rewarding than you thought possible. What is your most memorable... View Details
- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
she set store standards, instituted training programs, and rejuvenated performance. Due to her success in operations over the next two years, this manager received two more challenging assignments. First, she became director of sales for... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
- 01 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
Science Quarterly, a research team finds that shifting the focus to an employee's personal identity leads to an increase in both employee retention and customer satisfaction. "Organizations will talk about recruiting from outside the... View Details