Individuals - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

What it Takes to Lead Through Turmoil

whether individuals could make a difference in laggard companies. She said one effective strategy for individuals is to back initiatives inside the company—everything from guest speakers to building... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month | Baker Library

advantage of Crunchbase's (in-library only) "Diversity Spotlight" feature, where you can filter for U.S. start-ups founded and led by individuals of East, South, and Southeast Asian descent as well as Native Hawaiians and Pacific... View Details

13 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down

avoid backsliding into dysfunctional routines—habitual patterns of negative behavior by individuals and groups that are triggered automatically and unconsciously by familiar circumstances or stimuli. Employees need help maintaining new... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto

15 Feb 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective

to today's Network Era characterized by the Internet. From roughly 1970 to 1980, DIS concentrated on the management of mainframes and the chief individual responsible for information technology, the Information Systems (IS) manager. At... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

9 AM – 4:30 PM EDT, 06 Jun 2023
Career Events

Renewal: A Workshop for Work and Life Transition in New York City

workshop from 9:00am-4:30pm on Tuesday, June 6. Career development expert Dr. Tim Butler (Senior Fellow and Faculty Advisor to Career and Professional Development) will guide participants through a series of exercises working individually... View Details

14 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

Society is evolving and it is leaving business behind, say HBS professor Shoshana Zuboff and James Maxmin. In their new book, The Support Economy: Why Corporations are Failing Individuals and the Next Episode of Capitalism, they address... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 1998
News

HBSAAAA Convenes in San Francisco

a panel of prominent African-American CEOs and executives. The conference included a session on navigating corporate environments, moderated by Associate Professor David A. Thomas, and a workshop led by Professor Linda A. Hill on techniques for building and utilizing... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

Portrait Project

Sridevi Raghavan

non-existent musical abilities. I will pursue my goals by learning constantly from people around me. I will need to question some of my old beliefs, worse still, even give up some of them. I will have to open my mind and trust in the greatness of every View Details

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Introduction - The Worker - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

at the same time encourage workers to view themselves as vital parts of a meaningful whole. Photographers like Lewis Hine shifted emphasis to heroic depictions of workers. “I thought I had done my share of negative documentation, and I wanted to do something positive,”... View Details

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5.4 Sample Community Standards Violations | MBA

without individual preparation/ analysis Sharing or receiving notes or write-ups from students who have participated in previous class discussions (e.g., earlier in the day or in a previous term) Exceeding exam time limits Misattribution... View Details

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4.1 Student Travel | MBA

group, and individual travel. Student-organized trips, including club sponsored travel, do not count as an excused absence. Absences occurring from travel disruption due to cancelled flights, inclement weather, or other circumstances are... View Details

09 Apr 2024
News

To Serve and Protect the Markets

Every day, in her role as the director of the Atlanta Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nekia Hackworth Jones (MBA 2004) stands in the breach between the $100 trillion in securities traded on U.S. equity markets and the bad actors who... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

24 Jun 2016
News

Reinventing Pharma

and in her family life. “It’s a fascinating theory and one I think about a lot, in terms of how it potentially applies within Pharma,” she said. “What inspires me most about Clay though is how he has applied this same theory to how to live a happy life. He points out... View Details

Keywords: Scientific Research and Development Services

22 Apr 2008
News

The Next Harvard Square? Really?

though — even visually-challenged individuals like me can see that by taking a stroll by the construction zone for the Harvard Allston Science Complex on Western Avenue, due for completion in just a few years and future home of the... View Details

Keywords: Construction; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Real Estate

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LGBTQ+ Pride Month | Baker Library

LGBTQ+ Pride Month Explore Baker Library resources with a connection to LGBTQ+ individuals and business. Want to stay up-to-date on relevant topics? Consider subscribing to our monthly Inclusion & Belonging Newsletter . Quick Research... View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

The Intellectual Underpinnings of Entrepreneurial Management

of more personal analyses of individual entrepreneurs. During this phase of development in the field, many researchers attempted to discover common character traits that might help distinguish "true" entrepreneurs from... View Details

Keywords: by Howard H. Stevenson & Teresa M. Amabile

03 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment

bachelor’s degree work in jobs that don’t require one. Many assume that this “malemployment” is a temporary condition primarily affecting only some recent college graduates. While it is more common in recent graduates, analyses suggest that even View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Education

05 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?

professor in Harvard Business School’s Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit. Beshears is an expert in behavioral economics, which uses insights from psychology and economics to explain individual decision making and help people... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

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Field Course: Life Sciences Venture Creation - Course Catalog

innovate in the industry Navigating careers within the life sciences Building a brand and community within the industry to leverage for help Building budgets; licensing/creating intellectual property; legal and regulatory considerations Fundraising with angel View Details

29 Jan 2015
Op-Ed

The Fall of Greece

them by favoring reform based on central government control rather than the forces of competition, meritocracy, and individual accountability. Let me be clear about one thing: the previous government, as most previous governments, failed... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

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