Personal Development and Career - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Nov 2023
News

From the Brink

about an opening at the Treasury Department from the HBS Career and Professional Development Office, he became a senior policy advisor for state View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

27 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

Ph.D. in biology and a former biology professor at Harvard, has also had a 25-year career in drug development and biotech companies, leading both... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Health

10 May 2021
Research & Ideas

Who Has Potential? For Many White Men, It’s Often Other White Men

people—other white men. Meanwhile, white women and people of color who were recruited from the same competitive MBA pool received more mundane work, including tasks they had already mastered. This disparity in View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

21 Mar 2024
Blog Post

SVMP Gave Me the Courage to Fail

building and developing leaders in such an insular and risk-free environment. While leading the small group case discussions, I learned to question ideas, push the conversation... View Details

11 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK

lot of people are feeling apprehension,” says Yu, who’s now a scientist at Humu, a Palo Alto company that develops productivity tools for workplaces. “Maybe they want to go back to work but there's a lot of social anxiety because they're... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?

services that simultaneously provide greater customer value and higher supplier profitability. We constantly strive to move elements of the relationship from the zero-sum conflict side to the win-win cooperation side to achieve business... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro; Manufacturing

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Events - Business & Environment

Environment Initiative; Career & Professional Development 03 MAR 2025 | HBS Campus Open to HBS Students Join small group chats with Professor Jim Matheson to discuss careers in... View Details

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Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center | About

a president’s cabinet in American history, said that her mother “was a positive, optimistic person who believed in the transformational power of education regardless of gender in developing leaders for the... View Details

17 Jun 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Excellence Comes From Saying No

their own individual philosophy of excellence. Frei and Schulman encouraged students to develop their own personal view of what it means to care, View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

Profile

Mark Giragosian

groups.” “As a ballet dancer, I had developed ways of improving myself through deliberate practice and honing my skills over time. Since coming to HBS, I’ve made a lot of progress in terms of the way I think... View Details

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Interviewing - Alumni

Careers Interviewing Careers Interviewing Preparation is key to a successful interview. The tips and questions below are designed to let you know what to expect from the... View Details

10 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Key to Doing Your Best at Work? Be Yourself

idea of reframing or reworking your expectations. [One] person who comes to mind when I think about authenticity—she’s African American and a woman—is filmmaker and writer Ava... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

01 Dec 2023
News

Joint Venture

The human knee is a marvel. It’s the hinge at the center of our gait, the evolutionary adaptation that makes humans the only fully bipedal mammals on the planet. But the knee also is a complicated and vulnerable knot of bone, muscle, and sinew. Nearly everyone knows... View Details

Keywords: Shoshi Parks

September 1996 (Revised May 1997)
Case

Mobil USM&R (C): Lubricants Business Unit

By: Robert S. Kaplan

The general manager of a Lubricants Business Unit in Mobil's U.S. Marketing and Refining division launched a project to develop a Balanced Scorecard (BSC) for his unit. The purpose was to provide focus for all employees of the unit, enabling it to operate on an... View Details

Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Employees; Customization and Personalization; Performance Evaluation; Measurement and Metrics; Management Teams; Projects; Energy Industry; Mining Industry; United States

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Purchase

19 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Handicapping the Best Countries for Business

should government strategy matter to business people? It seems many executives, particularly Americans, believe government is incompetent. Richard Vietor: Business people care in several ways—macroeconomic, microeconomic, and foreign... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Alumnae Circles - Alumni

safe space for the members to connect. Facilitators receive training from the HBS Career and Professional Development office on confidentiality, conflict resolution, View Details

12 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

and managers), and they need to self-actualize (assigned interesting work, able to reach career goals, achieving wealth to reach personal goals... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

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Cold Calling - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

anxiety-provoking and inspiring. Regardless of the strategy used for selecting the opener, instructors should position the call as a challenging but fair opportunity for students to experience personal View Details

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Community | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

reflection, conversations, tools, and networking to help them lead positive change in the world. The Rising Leaders for Social Impact Forum builds a robust community that connects students and alumni,... View Details

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Yaoxin Ding

range of experiences. “I’m talking to my professors and advisors at the i-lab to get feedback on my ideas.” One of them involves developing AI-enabled enterprise software for educational institutions to help... View Details

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