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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
Derek T. Ferguson (MBA 1990) could be mistaken for a minister by fellow commuters on the train from Connecticut to Manhattan. Yet his calling is not to the pulpit, but to the midtown headquarters of Bad Boy Worldwide Entertainment Group,... View Details
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
S. Bernstein (MBA 2006, DBA 2013) + More Info – Less Info Talent markets are shifting. Until recently, job seekers focused mainly on what organizations would hire them to do: organizations posted jobs, and people applied for them. For... View Details
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
creating an inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem can be seen through the stories of four women—two of them Black, one Latinx, and one white—who launched new enterprises in Miami with an eye to diversifying tech jobs in the future.... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 11 May 2022
- Blog Post
MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS
campus are state of the art. It's a very cozy environment and the emotional support makes the experience so much less daunting and lonely. It's true that business school is very busy, but I think it's still a lot easier than juggling certain View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding
Even as COVID vaccines begin early deployment, pressure on leaders continues to mount to engage in “Big C” change: rapid course corrections through job cuts, recruiting a fresh management team, and redesigning roles and responsibilities... View Details
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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
at the firm, served as a director of a number of its portfolio companies, and became one of the leading women in the US venture capital field. A steady stream of individuals who trained at HBS entered the Quartermaster Corps, and Doriot... View Details
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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
training we had given ourselves in the field of polarized light had endowed us with a competence we had not sought and did not know we had," Land wrote. "It was as if all that we had done in learning to make polarizers . . . had been a... View Details
- 16 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense
“Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.” The best entrepreneurs are taking this slower moment to re-examine their key business processes and make sure that they’re running them more effectively and efficiently. Train your interviewers (Who has... View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
Virginian-Pilot, a daily newspaper owned by his uncle. After graduating from the University of Virginia (UVA), serving in the Merchant Marine, and earning a Harvard MBA in 1952, he took a job as a reporter and ad salesman for his uncle's... View Details
- 12 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association
others. I sought one of the greatest honors I will ever experience: leading a platoon of Marines. REFLECTION ON SERVICE: My favorite memories happened during training events in the field with my Marines. We would be short on sleep,... View Details
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are You Supporting Your B Players?
get a job at Southwest Airlines than it is to be accepted to the Harvard Business School," he quipped. And C&S Wholesalers, based in Brattleboro, VT, grew from a $40 million company in 1980 to a $14 billion business today.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2021
- What Do You Think?
What Does Remote Work Mean for Middle Managers?
the faster, smoother, more responsive, cross-functional process design that characterized Michael Hammer’s and James Champy’s pathbreaking work in the early 1990s. However, one could also make the argument that middle managers have the most complex View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Jul 2005
- What Do You Think?
How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?
job has been the most difficult of all." These questions are perhaps made more significant by the fact that the leadership of both Harvard Business School and the Yale School of Management will change soon. Why are questions... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
that he has seriously injured, and probably killed, persons of another race. “I have an anger problem,” confesses the soft-spoken Mike, who’s spent twenty years, off and on, in some of California’s toughest prisons. But now, with a job... View Details
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MBA Program at Harvard Business School - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
Introduction Training Certificate Management Program Harvard-Radcliffe HBS MBA Program Methods of Instruction Theory to Practice MBA Program at Harvard Business School: 1963 - 1970 020, 019, 120 The Co-Ed Experience In December 1962,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Guy de Chazal: Changing Focus
he will cut back on his hours at Morgan Stanley in order to devote more time to some other important priorities, beginning, he says, with his family. For years, de Chazal's demanding workdays have been bracketed by lengthy train rides to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 25 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures
in 2013, Hilton noted a lack of job opportunities in renewable energy. So, he went into management consulting and then a software company, before landing at Tesla in 2017. The culture was challenging but “It was the most exciting clean... View Details
- 18 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask
surprising number don't," he says. Senior leaders should leverage this depth chart information about up-and-comers by delegating to them more extensively. This also allows senior leaders more time to achieve a better match between their own time and key... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Meet the HBS Tech Club
skills events, an education series called Training the Valley, a series of sub-industry highlights on fintech, edtech, etc., a mentorship program, small group dinners and socials within the club and with other tech clubs across schools... View Details
- 30 Nov 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?
contributor to organization arrogance. What do you think? ORIGINAL POST: Some would say that the most important task of leadership is that of leading change. Others maintain that it’s the job of fine-tuning and preserving an... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett