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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems
FROM SUCCESS TO SIGNIFICANCE: Kanter (at left) with several of this year’s ALI fellows. Baby boomers of the world, arise! Calling it “an opportunity to deploy people to fix the world’s problems,” HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter launched the Advanced View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty: The New Rules for Getting the Right Things Done in Difficult Times by Ram Charan (MBA ’65, DBA ’67) (McGraw-Hill) Economic turbulence has arrived with a vengeance, and only companies that... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
a rapidly changing landscape that presents increasingly complex management challenges, leadership skills are even more essential to a venture's success, Pisano said. "A good business model is necessary but... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
Apple Computer, and Charles Schwab. What are some of the most important leadership challenges in nonprofit management? There are many excellent executives in the nonprofit area, and our research shows that leading a nonprofit organization... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Leading Questions
lesson she learned from Professor Boris Groysberg in an HBS classroom: “The most important leadership skills in the future aren’t going to be analytical or diagnostic skills. The thing that will make the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Inciting Wonder
ROGERS: State dinners and Easter eggs. Stephen J. Serio/Crain’s Chicago Business As the social secretary for the new administration in Washington, Desirée Rogers (MBA ’85) will have a discreet hand in shaping the personal image that the Obama White House presents to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2014
low-income youth and companies needing skilled labor. His yearlong training program offers 18 through 24-year-olds the technical, professional, and communications skills needed to transition into careers and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Faculty Books
challenges. His story, which Professor Emeritus Nolan and his coauthors developed in collaboration with seasoned, real-life CEOs, includes crucial lessons for anyone hoping to master the new-world skills required of successful business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
INK: The Bookshelf
leave. It goes back to this sense of reliance on others during wartime and adversity that can unlock the human potential for groups.” EXCERPT “There isn’t anything secret about presenting. The necessary skills are simple, the keys to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Celebrating HBS
Noting that HBS is educating students now for a vastly more globalized and challenging world economy, Dean Clark traced the School’s mission to its beginnings, when creating an educational community dedicated to skilled and thoughtful... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Stanford Lets Students Customize
leads off with a quarter of required “Management Perspectives” courses designed to provide students with an integrative overview of management challenges and to develop soft leadership and communication skills, including courses in... View Details
- 30 Sep 2013
- News
Mark Fields Steps into the Limelight
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The $4 Billion Question
the minority in how they viewed this choice. “The course does a good job of highlighting the conflicts that are inherent in this business, such as the tension between investment professionals and their investors,” El-Hage says. “It trains our students to think... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
resources for the full length of the research, he also provided pro-bono, unlimited access to one year of Burning Glass data to analyze the middle skills gap in America. The joint report produced under the View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
do — to ensure that all children can reach high levels of achievement. “My focus at NLNS is on building the managerial and instructional leadership skills necessary for a principal to be truly successful,”... View Details
- 10 Feb 2016
- News
A Leader’s Call to Action
Barbara Nick (AMP 165, 2003) has spent more than 30 years in the gas and electric industry, honing her skills to become an award-winning leader in business and in her community. She knew her success was due in part to other leaders—the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
They became skilled at watching the bottom line, managing scarce resources, and forming relationships with government and business organizations outside the company. At Abbott, young MBAs most often were placed in sales. As a result, they... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping
with the men: the midlevel skills gap. “That was the spark,” says Kane, who along with Bockmann and other members of the HBS Club of New York launched the HBSCNY Skills Gap Project to translate research into... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension
Soil Association, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and ClientEarth. The skills she developed in business were clearly a boon: “One was strategic-thinking ability,” she says, “and the other was pace, which can be useful in... View Details
Keywords: April White