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- 22 Feb 2018
- News
My First Job
just, like, I said, my whole career. So when I interview people for jobs with my company, I always ask them about their first job and what they learned. Skydeck is produced by the External Relations department at Harvard Business School... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
A Conversation with Dean Clark
I'd say it was to educate leaders and build knowledge on a global scale. BULLETIN: In several previous interviews and speeches, you've stressed the importance to the School of what you've called "globalization." What's your current... 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
- 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
- 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
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
hospitals with the aim of discovering organizational factors that contribute to operational failures. We conducted in-depth qualitative research, including observations and interviews of over 80 individuals from 4 nursing units and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
as dangerous as Power and others speculate. Based on two detailed case studies and 53 additional interviews with risk-management staff at five other major banks over 2001-2010, this paper shows that relentless risk measurement is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
For fun, Light takes to the water for sails on the ocean near his Dartmouth, Massachusetts, summer home. "I grew up sailing every day on the Great Lakes, and that experience has stayed with me," he says. In his first interview... View Details
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
Q: How did you come to see charismatic leadership as a potential double-edged sword? What observations led to your decision to investigate this topic in depth? A: As we conducted our interviews with employees, there was a recurring theme:... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Faculty Books Published in 2020
Showing how the boldest, most effective leaders use a special combination of trust, love, and belonging to create spaces where other people can excel, we offer practical, battle-tested tools—based on our work in companies such as Uber, Riot Games, and others—along with... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
challenge of upward voice. We first undertook in-depth exploratory research in a knowledge-intensive multinational corporation in which employee input was considered crucial. Qualitative data collected in 190 interviews with employees... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
then the plan for doing it. Difficult situations can actually be a blessing in disguise because they are when you have the opportunity to make changes that frankly, would have been unpopular unless there was a need to make those changes. DM: You've mentioned in View Details
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
find out why it existed. He and a group of colleagues began interviewing entrepreneurs who lead neuroscience startup companies, asking them what the principal barriers were between themselves and success. Their responses were unexpected.... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
interviewing and tracking subscribers and customers on behalf of clients in publishing and other industries. He lives in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, with his wife and three children. Since his college days at the University of Massachusetts,... View Details
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
implementations." In this e-mail interview Miller discusses lessons learned with colleagues Vincent Dessain (HBS MBA '87) and Daniela Beyersdorfer of the Paris-based HBS Europe Research Center. Dessain, executive director of the... View Details