• 24 Nov 2008
• Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

critical and creative thinking, as well as communication skills. "These skills lie much more on the 'doing' side of the scale than the 'knowing' side," says Datar. Such soft-skills development by its very nature involves labor-intensive small View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education

• 05 Sep 2000
• Research & Ideas

Building Bridges Between Education and Business

How can Latin American business and academia work together to stimulate more case writing in the region? In a set of frank discussions, conference participants—academics and business executives together—broke into small groups organized... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

• 21 Dec 2009
• Research & Ideas

Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer

institutions, we should move to the private equity model for their boards. Under that model, a small group of super-directors with extensive financial expertise would spend several days every month at the bank; they would also have... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

• 14 May 2008
• Research & Ideas

Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

work lives of their employees." —Teresa Amabile For example, in her course Managing for Creativity, Amabile divides students into brainstorming groups to work on a problem. What they don't know is that the View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation

• Web

Employment | Harvard Business School

reminds you of what a special place this is because of its people.” Amenities Shad Hall, centrally located on the school’s campus, is available to HBS employees, students, alumni and partners. Shad offers over 50 View Details

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Senior Executive Leadership Program—Middle East

Take advantage of resources for lifelong learning as a member of the global HBS alumni community Who Should Attend Senior executives, senior functional leaders, or general managers leading successful, established companies in the Middle... View Details

• 16 Jul 2021
• Blog Post

Staying Under the 1.5°C Threshold: The Role of Government, Business, and Society

On Earth Day 2021, the HBS Business and Environment Initiative and the AMP199 Energy Circle co-hosted a conversation between Joan MacNaughton, Chair of the Climate Group and of the Advisory Board of the New Energy Coalition of Europe, and... View Details

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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

director of Bain Capital, a leading global alternative investment firm. As the firm’s first general counsel, he built an industry-leading legal, compliance and public affairs group and led a variety of efforts in crisis management,... View Details

• 02 Jul 2013
• First Look

First Look: July 2

personal connections amongst U.S. politicians have a significant impact on Senate voting behavior. Networks based on alumni connections between politicians are consistent predictors of voting behavior. We estimate sharp measures that... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

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Hiring Organizations

Partners AllWin Alpaca Real Estate Alphabroder Alpine Investors Alterra Capital Partners Altitude AI Altos Ventures Alumni Ventures Amazon Amazon Web Services - AWS Ambit Partners American Express American Industrial Partners Amex... View Details

• 21 Sep 2009
• Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

clubby groups that are widely criticized as the handpicked "captives" of self-serving management. With White House support, congressional leaders are intent on shifting the balance of power in the boardroom away from management.... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

• 24 Sep 2015
• Blog Post

Why We Recruit: Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation

tactics have you found most successful in engaging with students and/or alumni at HBS?We found great success in a few ways to share the work of our Foundation with the HBS community. We hosted a Company Presentation on campus and did... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

• 22 Jun 2009
• Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

regulator to seek out and manage systemic risks regardless of the kind of financial institution posing it. Paulson affirmed his support for the idea in a March 18, 2009, op-ed article in the Financial Times. In January, an international View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

• 20 Mar 2018
• First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

women, three are African-American, and not one is an African-American woman. What’s going on? The authors studied the careers of the roughly 2,300 alumni of African descent who have graduated from Harvard Business School since its... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

• 11 Dec 2018
• Blog Post

Recap of the 4th Annual Women in Investing Summit

the Summit, peers, alumni groups and industry organizations (such as the NVCA) provide excellent channels to connect with diverse investors. Even if you don’t have formal investing experience, start by... View Details