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- 27 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?
our bonds with others often derail our plans. In the second part of the book, we will examine how this happens. I will discuss the difficulty of putting ourselves in others' shoes (chapter 4), how sharing even superficial features with... View Details
- 16 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020
shoes of management of the company and proposing something valuable to them when guiding the company. Joshua Rodriguez: The Flatiron Boot Camp complemented my HBS learning experience well. At HBS, we’re taught to think strategically about... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 14 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Trust the Process, and Trust Yourself Even More: Interview with Wellness and Empowerment Leader, Dilan Gomih (MBA 2019)
explain to clients what was happening in a compelling way.” Then one day a senior leader at Bank of America invited Gomih to a spin class. Immediately the stress of trying to clip her shoes into the bike at her first spin made Gomih want... View Details
- 18 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups
mechanism works something along the following lines: if you look at one pair of shoes, it's hard to evaluate the quality of those shoes," Bohnet explains. "You will be much more likely to go with stereotypes or heuristics or rules of thumb about shoes. But if... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
the shoes of his long-time predecessor who had created the U.S. telecommunications giant via a series of acquisitions and, before departing, had initiated the company's strategic repositioning. The new CEO reflected on Verizon's recent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
value is that all the people aren't seeing, and then visualizing it, and then putting a team together to capture that value. My name is Jennifer Tisdel Schorsch, and I'm MBA Class of 1992. My first job was in a shoe store, and my... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
faculty to guide rather than lead a discussion. And they’ll still necessitate that students put themselves into the shoes of the protagonist. So I think the engagement around business decisions and business practices will never change.... View Details
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
narrowing horizontal breadth from over a dozen therapeutic classes to just three. In 2005, Levin hired Deborah Dunsire from Novartis as CEO to lead Millennium's continuing transformation. Students are asked to put themselves in the shoes... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono
music, just like grocery shoppers buying organic milk or fair trade coffee." This lesson applies across all businesses. "We think this is only true for artists and entertainers, but it's true for making tennis shoes and semiconductors,... View Details
- Web
Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020 - Recruiting
strategy. To this end, the knowledge that I learned at HBS was definitely helpful, but the most important skillset I used was empathy; putting myself in the shoes of management of the company and proposing something valuable to them when... View Details
- Web
Commencement 2018 Address | About
right now, in a world that is so deeply divided along so many dimensions. Empathy is the process of walking in the shoes of others. It requires seeing the world from their eyes, feeling the world from their heart, understanding the world... View Details
- Profile
Mike Maples Jr.
HBS, Maples was deeply influenced by a course called “The Coming of Managerial Capitalism” taught by renowned business historian Thomas K. McCraw. In that class, Professor McCraw asked his students to don the shoes of the 19th... View Details
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
manager's shoes and solve a business problem, Hill's and Koehn's approach was slightly different. They encouraged the alumnae to grapple with the real-life choices made by both women in the cases. Said Hart, "Some of the participants... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Profile
Michael Maples
HBS, Maples was deeply influenced by a course called “The Coming of Managerial Capitalism” taught by renowned business historian Thomas K. McCraw. In that class, Professor McCraw asked his students to don the shoes of the 19th... View Details
- 17 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #14: Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) – A Career Devoted to Creating the Future
consumers. The Deckers Brand – producer of UGG®, KOOLABURRA®, HOKA®, Teva®, and Sanuk® shoes and apparel – is an example. Despite inflation, ongoing Covid workplace worries, and supply chain limitations, the company just reported $1.346... View Details
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
adjust those spans as if on sliders to make employees more effective.To understand what determines whether a job is designed for high performance, you must put yourself in the shoes of your organization's managers. To carry out his or her... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
International and sports shoe manufacturer Reebok International Ltd. Reebok's CEO, seeing a connection between the cause of human rights and the underlying values that he wanted to foster in Reebok's corporate culture, sponsored a... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
Burlington, Massachusetts-based, Rochester Shoe Tree Company, the country's leading manufacturer of private-label shoe care products, where he directed all new business ventures and substantially increased... View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
of this learning is. But it certainly can give students a chance to put themselves in the shoes of people who had this happen to them." The research team also interviewed high-level executives who have been laid off during their... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
made to contain the risk that such outside organic matter could introduce. Visitors are asked to dip the soles of their shoes into a shallow plastic water bath, so as to limit contamination by pathogens and insects. Entry into one of the... View Details