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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
Choose a career that feeds your soul and your mind. Embrace your career and proceed with passion. Build relationships with everyone, regardless of job responsibility, gender, age, race, etc. Engage with integrity at all times. Feel... View Details
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
they would feel compelled to execute against. Q: Another aspect of collaboration that Robertson discusses in the case is interpersonal harmony. Why was it complicated to get along? A: In business we have the notion that we can create a... View Details
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
hours of hard work flow into a piece that none of them has ever heard before and will never hear again. Like jazz, communication is improvisational. Each time you communicate with another person, you're playing it by ear. You may have... View Details
Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn
- 16 Dec 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Marrying Distance and Classroom Education
would think about taking advantage of both. You heard in the workshop some of the things that are advantageous to the technology side besides the obvious advantages of asynchronicity and not having to travel. Mediated work, for example.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
that led to this disregard for traditional verities? Kanter: The two big messages of the 1990s were "The old rules don't hold" and "There are no new rules, and if there are, you should break them." I think that leads to a particular kind of culture... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
motivated by the team’s sustained stamina today and throughout the week. “I feel pretty energized to come in and contribute,” she says. “If you were thinking this much at work you wouldn’t be as energized or want to keep doing it.” After... View Details
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
entrepreneurs primed Enan for a career in venture capital. So did her experience at the EAEF, which invested in early ventures that are now household names, like Fawry, cofounded by Magda Habib. "I'd always heard about Magda and how she... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
was through such a discussion that Allen Grossman, the MBA Class of 1957 Professor of Management Practice, first heard about the Mexican health-care nonprofit Salud Digna, which he calls "one of the most stunning and efficient nonprofit... View Details
- 25 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP 2025 & ClimateCAP Fellowship
ClimateCAP hosts a summit, which brings together MBA students, business leaders, and experts from around the world to assess the implications of climate change for business. This year the summit took place at UC Berkeley, and we heard... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
working to change such bias is well within our purview. Interestingly, someone told me there’s a US white supremacy group that loves Khan Academy, despite the apparent fact that I am not white. We’ve also heard that in the frontier... View Details
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
it, and he thought it was great. The firm was so small somebody heard that he was looking at this. They came into my office and said, "We think it's terrible." And I said, "Why?" He said, "Because all the company's doing is making... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
specialized robot, and stories of famous innovators like Hedy Lamarr. You will assess your interests and uncover your core purpose through introspective, self-exploratory exercises, then craft a personalized vision and learn how to execute it. For those who View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
some stock. The first stock I bought—Northeast Airlines—was the only one I had heard of that was selling for less than $5 a share. I figured I could buy more. There’s obviously no sense in that, but I tripled my money. I said hey, this is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
mindful living” at venues around the world. (Melissa Gayle for Wanderlust Festival) The Wanderlust mantra “find your true north” is “all about people feeling like they are able to focus on themselves, with the core being yoga,” explains... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
was giving. And so yeah, I can talk about my story and what I've learned and maybe some faith lessons, if you will. What was amazing to me is that I live in Maryland near Washington, DC, and nobody knows much about Australia. Nobody's View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
eight floors up, both for the Acropolis views and for a less buttoned-up vibe. As the November afternoon wears on and daylight fades, the buzz in the lounge heats up. Tea service yields to bar service, and patrons jockey to be heard above... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
consequences of corporate indifference, individual end consumers are striking out on their own to blaze new trails in a new approach that we call the individuation of consumption. They want to be treated as individuals, not as anonymous transactions in the ledgers of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
of the trench and risen above 4,000 meters, the Pressure Drop heard his voice again. As Vescovo descended into the Challenger Deep in April, he encountered another unexpected technological glitch. One of his landers—a homing beacon in the... View Details
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
upbeat. Senior management continued to invest in the Dreyer Leadership University [DLU], demonstrating that they cared about employee development. Cronk and others in senior management thought this was an investment in the future that would pay off. "When people... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace