interviews - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

"Innovation that matters for our company and the world." The addition of those words "and the world" opened the walls of the company. There are IBM employees I've interviewed all over the world who actually invoke that... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

to be published by Princeton University Press. In this recent interview conducted by e-mail, Lodge is hopeful that the World Development Corporation will be formed. He explains why nonprofits aren't the answer to ending poverty and asks... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

How to Put Meaning Back into Leading

organization and its employees. Podolny, Khurana, and Hill-Popper collaborated on an e-mail interview to explain their latest research for HBS Working Knowledge. Martha Lagace: As you wrote in your working paper, the past century saw a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Nov 2020
News

The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises

connected me because of her venture capital position to a startup role. And it was a hard left in terms of my career direction, but actually my HBS sectionmates convinced me to take the interview and I eventually took the job. And I think... View Details

19 Jun 2017
News

How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe

give me a recommend basketball player. I didn't think much would amount to it. But as it turned out, by pure luck, my job with Jordache involved going to different countries and interviewing companies that wanted to be their licensees. So... View Details

22 Mar 2010
Research & Ideas

One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution

an interview with HBS Working Knowledge. "Obtaining One Strategy in times of change means the organization will respond in a holistic fashion to new challenges, staying aligned for maximum competitive impact." The book follows... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

16 Dec 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Marrying Distance and Classroom Education

In an interview with HBS Working Knowledge editor Sean Silverthorne, Harvard Business School professor Dorothy Leonard and research assistant Brian DeLacey discuss their research and the recent Adult Learning Workshop held at Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Web

Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online

real-world, case-based examples brought to life by industry-leading companies like Facebook, Google, and SA Taxi. Description of silent animated video above: Learner scrolls through video interviews from prominent business leaders About... View Details

18 Oct 2024
News

My Worst Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell host of Skydeck. When I was in high school, I worked as a dishwasher at a steakhouse chain in upstate New York. It was not glamorous work. I would clock out covered in a... View Details

11 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers

qualitative interviews with developers, who spoke firsthand about the difficulties in deciding which new platforms to adopt, and told how they learned about new technologies while attending hackathons. From that information, the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

17 Feb 2015
HBS Case

HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco

order to bring in the revenue and vibrancy, with protecting and enhancing the traditional communities," says Rose—a difficult, if not impossible balancing act. Many of the MBAs who Rose and his colleagues interviewed for the case... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

23 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?

The last six years have proved just how fluid the international oil market is. And if recent support of the Keystone Pipeline by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Nebraska Supreme Court (which approved the pipeline's path through that state) are any indication,... View Details

Keywords: Re: Richard H.K. Vietor; Energy; Utilities

14 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides

which she interviewed women at several law firms, noting both positive and negative interactions among peers and supervisors. In terms of positivity versus negativity, the consistent mediating factor was whether the women considered their... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

20 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It

the product of three elements that are required to interact: technology, people, and government. The interaction, which they describe in detail, "ultimately affects us all, and so should concern us all," they write. In the following View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

Profile

Michael R. Bloomberg

economy, a record-low crime rate and a healthier New York. His smoking ban in public places was a landmark decision. Some believe his legacy will last for generations to come. “There are many things we have achieved that I am proud of,” Bloomberg said in an View Details

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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

General Georges F. Doriot," interview by Aulikki Olsen, 2 May 1980, 5. GFD-HBS 3 In 1924, a gift of $5,000,000 from George F. Baker, president of the First National Bank, enabled HBS to build a new campus across the river from Cambridge.... View Details

01 Oct 1998
News

Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship

(1970). In a 1988 interview in Manager magazine, Andresen said that his business philosophy was based on "diligence, toughness, and honesty" toward himself and others. "You have to have the ability to constantly criticize and evaluate... View Details

19 Jun 2023
Blog Post

The Road to Impact

applicable skill set. As he was finishing his MBA, he interviewed at Lehman Brothers and learned that many people at the company had worked in government, notably former US Secretary of Commerce Peter George Peterson. Offensend thought... View Details

July 2020 (Revised September 2020)
Case

The Honor Foundation: Accessing Special Operations Talent

By: Boris Groysberg and John Masko

In 2020, The Honor Foundation (THF), a nonprofit dedicated to helping U.S. military special operators to transition into civilian careers, was facing a series of strategic challenges. THF had been founded in 2013 by former Navy SEAL trainee Joe Musselman, who observed... View Details

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13 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

informal “water cooler” conversations could go a long way in promoting belonging. Concrete tips I have heard from interviews include scheduling five to 10 minutes before a formal meeting for casual conversation, asking each other silly... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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