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- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
environment are essential. High-performing organizations need ground rules so that people who do not follow them are legitimately held to account. Prepare your managers for the crucial role they will play in... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- Profile
Pato Bichara
What’s the one thing you’re most excited about learning at HBS? I love my Entrepreneurial Manager class. We get to see a ton of different cases about how people start and grow companies – we see the... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Rethinking Housing in the Motor City
Detroit needs more housing, says developer John Rhea (MBA 1992). That’s a counterintuitive idea for most people who have driven the streets of that shrinking city, passing thousands of vacant homes and nearly abandoned neighborhoods.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Sep 2020
- News
Balancing Act
within the company. And the third step was being explicit with the recruiting team: “It’s not about saying ‘I prioritize diversity but ultimately I’m going to hire the best person for the job.’ People say that a lot. You have to say, ‘We... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
options to assist people with substance use issues. Then he learned that there were better treatments available—a category of interventions known as contingency management, which offer motivational incentives for staying sober. “But no... View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
but as long as India didn’t get it and open defecation was still a given in India, and people didn't even own toilets, what do you expect?” So I knew that it was something that was not giving the country the need to do the right thing,... View Details
- 27 Mar 2023
- News
A Sporting Chance
It would be a much sexier story, says Jorge Perez de Leza (MBA 1996), if he told people he was trampled by a raging bull, but the truth is that the fall that had such a profound effect on his life was a much more mundane event. "It was... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Mr. Coffee
Courtesy Peet’s Courtesy Peet’s Ketchup. Potato chips. Chewing gum. Coffee. “These are products that everyone can relate to, that people understand,” says Casey Keller (MBA 1989), a longtime executive in consumer-packaged goods with... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 06 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela
other people are willing and able to lead. This image of the shepherd behind his flock is an acknowledgment that leadership is a collective activity in which different people at different times—depending on... View Details
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
Self-confidence is not the real secret of leadership. The more essential ingredient is confidence in other people. Leadership involves motivating others to their finest efforts and channeling those efforts in a coherent direction. Leaders must believe that they can... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
2011. Of the nation’s 16.2 million management jobs at smaller companies, only 6.7 percent are held by blacks, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. These realities prompted John Rice (MBA 1992) to found View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
see it come to fruition, as it combines all the now-familiar elements of a collaborative effort around an important, inspiring vision. “We’re bringing people together in Asia so they can contribute to, and be part of, the future of this... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
directions to meet future needs. The Boeing board’s repeated CEO failures resulted from this approach of choosing people who applied the same leadership formula. Business allow the current CEO to dominate the hiring process. Many boards... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?
during those moments, if you were to write down all the things that occur during those moments, and then asked yourself how often these things occur in your business life, and would they improve the way you manage or not, most View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2013
- News
Terry Kramer, MBA 1986 & Suzan Kramer
“We invest in HBS because we want to create opportunity. At HBS, you learn so much—how to think about problems and solutions, how to create a vision, how to course correct, and the criticality of people in the equation. We want to make... View Details
- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
not be sufficient. I would like the next recession to come after we’ve had a chance to give proper management training to the people who are actually going to implement that change. It requires a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
Will Information Technology Really Turn Organizations Upside Down This Time?
First, as Greg Waldrip points out, let's get things in perspective. These are only means to carry out a strategy after goals are determined, all in a supportive management environment. Dennis Crane concurs, adding that "Information... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Mexico on the Brink: A Conversation with Juan Enriquez-Cabot (MBA '86)
upheaval - financial collapse, peasant uprisings, and political violence. What's going on? Some people see the repression in Mexico's political system and call the system authoritarian. Others see its freedoms and label it an emerging... View Details
- 15 Jul 2024
- News
A Sporting Chance
The fall that had such a profound effect on Jorge Perez de Leza’s life would later have a big impact on others with disabilities as well. “When you hear somebody say that in one minute your life changes—it really can happen,” says Jorge Perez de Leza (MBA 1996), the... View Details