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- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
first-time CEO, or other member of the C-suite. I’ve seen investors coach leaders on everything from how to lead their teams and handle challenging employees to how to run a great board meeting. I’ve also seen investors support and sometimes even pay for executive... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
same manner, creating a multiplier effect. For the future, I believe HBS should train managers for all parts of society, not just for business. Companies know that success means having managers with an open mind and a mindset of how to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
employ and train a cadre of professional directors to serve on corporate boards (see sidebar, page 35). And HBS professors, drawing on their areas of expertise, have attempted to influence the debate through opinion pieces in major... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
says. “It’s not only helped me in my campaign, but it’s also helped me in my work in homeland security and national defense. The title of ‘Harvard MBA’ doesn’t win many votes, but the problem-solving ability does.” Taylor says his HBS View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
“The protests are critical because they create awareness, and we need to sustain that awareness, but the next piece is how do you translate that into action. So what we’ve been doing is working with the corporates to create true training... View Details
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
of health-care reform is a management problem. It can't be solved by policymakers acting at a distance. That is why we should devote time to training and supporting managers in practice. I also believe we should help doctors understand... View Details
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
develop the organization and its people. So they do not cut all training and education. Nor do they cut employment without a lot of open communication about why they are doing it, often traveling to all parts of the company to communicate... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
School Case 406-118 General Electric thrived in every decade of the 20th century. Since its founding in 1892, GE has placed a high value on picking and training the best people. Staff members worked with other scientists in the company's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
is very human—frail. And, in fact, very few people graduate these days with any training of how to make a software package hard. There are people who learn how to do that and they write military systems, and even those aren’t perfect.... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
Norman A. Berg, OPM's faculty chairman. "The program is devoted entirely to training practicing entrepreneurs and is the most distinctive entrepreneurial offering of any kind anywhere." The predecessor of OPM, the Smaller Company... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
philanthropic foundation, it struck me how much we could benefit from importing in that community, the management skills, and rational decision making, and the logic that I had been trained in, in the business world for the first 18 years... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
Packard Foundation, involves ramping up leadership and skills training for nonprofit executives. “With trends in the sector pushing toward larger, more complex organizations focused more on how to deliver results, there’s an increased... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
have higher management quality, more MBA trained managers, and lower mortality rates. This is true compared to the distance to universities that offer only business or medical education (or neither). We argue that supplying joint... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
professionals. New roles and responsibilities must be clearly defined in advance, and teamwork models that include factors common in successful redesigns such as leadership, shared objectives, and training should be promoted. The focus... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jul 2024
- News
Surviving the Iditarod
would potentially prepare me for the South Pole. Training for the ITI is really difficult. A lot of it actually is trying to think about what your mindset is going to be out there, how uncomfortable you're going to be, how difficult... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Tribune. Browne reported on Henrietta’s story and used his legal training to bring about her repatriation to her father in England through a sensational legal case. Forever Sheriff (The High Mountain Sheriff Series) By Edward Massey (MBA... View Details
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
mush them in with the 400 from time to time. But I just want to understand what's going on for all these people. So we just did it. Most of these interns are Democrat. So I said, look, as part of your training session we're going to get a... View Details
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
an interesting guy. He was trained to fly by the Australian Air Force. When you're taught to fly by the Air Force, you're taught to think in a very specific way, a way of controlling your attention which corresponds to what we know about... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
K.P. Balaraj. “The need is massive, and no Indian is going to compromise on his child’s education.” Subsidized loans for education and specialized training would be another option. There’s hope that a new awareness and lack of complacency... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
some of that will be directed to the state and city for expenses already incurred. The LMDC has received an initial $2 billion, targeted for infrastructure needs, such as rebuilding the subway and commuter train lines destroyed at Ground... View Details