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- 07 Oct 2024
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On the Move: Nikos Bartzoulianos (MBA 2008)
With marketing, you must understand what people need. There’s the aspect of being a psychologist. And there’s always a creative element, which is fun, because with marketing, it’s not always who has the biggest budget—creativity can... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Real Deal
it should set priorities.” One civic leader said of Leppert, “This mayor is the real deal. Tom Leppert cares about every street, every corner, and every person in this city he’s refreshing in every respect.” View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
of employees, entire organizations vanish. The vanishing act cannot be blamed solely on competitive forces. Most organizations that self-destruct experience failure because employees were not committed to... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Action Plan: Just Breathe
United States, for example, the American Psychological Association reports that one-third of workers experience chronic workplace stress. That stress costs American companies an estimated $300 billion a year... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
word is overused. But in some corner of the lives of each of these people, there was a streak of lightning that could be called genius. Only a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Faculty Books
activating two forces that enable progress: catalysts (events that facilitate project work, such as clear goals and autonomy) and nourishers (interpersonal events that uplift workers, including encouragement and demonstrations of respect... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
John Jong-Hyun Kim (MBA 1993) saw the School pivot its entire MBA and doctoral curriculum to an online model in just ten days—a move informed by years of experience developing HBS Online, the Harvard... View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
Sailing lessons give disabled children and adults greater life skills
A freak accident at age 21 left Paul Callahan (MBA 1992) a quadriplegic. It was a moment that led him, ultimately, to cast off from a career in wealth management at Goldman Sachs to take the helm of Sail to Prevail, a nonprofit that helps... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Leveraging Female Talent
experience gave me more of an emotional connection. I told my wife that I couldn't remember anything that bothered or interested me as much. But I had no skills as a gender... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Jeetendr Sehdev (MBA 2004)
selfies incredibly meaningful and empowering. We need that compassion and emotional understanding to create brands that connect. Brands today are looking to develop fanatics. Being careful or silent as a means View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
the experience of businesses including Keurig, Peloton, and Rent the Runway to develop more effective strategies to engage and educate patients about precision medicine, the need for genetic testing, and the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
of Difference edited by Todd L. Pittinsky (PhDOB ’01) (Harvard Business Press) Bringing groups together is a central task of leadership. These theoretical and practical essays and case studies on intergroup... View Details
- 06 Sep 2013
- News
More Seats at the Table
business expertise, women also bring a very different set of emotional skills. Stewart points to studies that have found that women directors facilitate the discussion of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training
Murch: from high-tech success to hands-on development (photo courtesy of Steven Murch) Murch: from high-tech success to hands-on development (photo courtesy of Steven Murch) Another in a series View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Shattering Glass
Image by John Ritter In 2020, the number of women running Fortune 500 companies hit an all-time high: 37, or just 7.4 percent. Of those CEOs, only three (less than 1 percent) were women View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Alan F. Horn, MBA 1971
creator of All in the Family. “I had no experience in the entertainment business, I had never been to Hollywood, and I didn’t know anyone there,” says Horn. “He said, ‘You’re perfect,’ and hired me. He... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 02 Aug 2019
- News
Fulfilling Their Promise
worked with 500 young women, many of whom now serve as mentors themselves. “Girls Group,” says Schooner, “is all about accessing emotions and learning to love yourself; and if you love yourself, then you can... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
HBS Faculty Explore Ideas Around the World
conceived the ambitious online oral history archive together with Chilean shipping entrepreneur Sven von Appen (AMP 76, 1977). The project is building an evidence base for emerging markets by documenting the personal experience View Details
Keywords: faculty research
- 04 Jun 2008
- News
Whistle While You Work
says Zander, and he puts on a high-energy, emotional one-man show to prove it. Zander starts with a confession. “The conductor is the last bastion of totalitarianism in the world,” he says, “the one person... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Lighting the Way
leaders in organizational studies who have crafted the discourse on the intersections of race, work, and leadership. The cross-disciplinary exchange centered on learning about and from the black experience.... View Details