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03 May 2021
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Celebrating the First HBS African-American Mother-Daughter Duo

of the hardest in her life in a white-male dominated institution, the struggle was worth it. Growing up, I noticed the value of the Harvard MBA experience, especially as a Black woman. It gave her the skill sets, credibility, and... View Details

04 Dec 2023
Blog Post

My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service

memories took place in national parks. I spent 80% of the pandemic going up and down parks along the Pacific Coast Highway. Using business skills to give back to an organization that had provided so much joy sounded too good to be true. I... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

An Engine of Innovation

while others will realize entrepreneurship is not for them. And so, we’ve evolved our mission so that it’s not just about people founding a venture, but also about developing the skill set and mindset for bringing innovative,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

lead to long-term productivity improvements if it leads companies to come and investment in a more advanced capital stock. Government efforts that directly improve productivity through upgrading workforce skills or subsidizing companies... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Women Leaders and Organizational Change

certain subset of men—white, middle class professionals—or consider how this might not only limit who progresses but also constrain our very sense of what organizations are and what they can accomplish. This aspect of the "white male... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

March 2022 (Revised May 2022)
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Winning Business at Russell Reynolds (A)

By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco

In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting–and... View Details

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11 May 2022
Blog Post

MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

in how to spend time as a mother. I took a gap semester in my EC (second) year because I felt I was drowning between classes, the part-time job I wanted to do, and a broken childcare support system (daycare was shortened due to COVID).... View Details

18 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift

with outstanding financial results.— Lynn S. Paine This shift in our understanding of the corporate personality has profound implications for management. Among other things, it means that managers must develop more robust ethical reasoning View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

17 Dec 2007
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Medical Tourism

care, state-of-the-art facilities, and skilled doctors are available in many parts of the world, including in developing countries. Auxiliary health-care providers such as nurses go where care is needed. Filipino nurses provide an... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

17 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers

don’t realize that there are material returns associated with helping these workers,” says Fuller, a professor of management practice. “If I told an executive, ‘You could reduce your turnover of key personnel by 3 percent,’ they would say, ‘Where do I sign?’” The... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

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Inside the Learning: Program Formats Unpacked

during the middle of the program, to allow you to continue learning while you apply new concepts and skills in your workplace. Live, Virtual Learning. Learning that takes place remotely, centered on live... View Details

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John H. McArthur | About

complex stakeholders. By the time he became dean, McArthur had a reputation as a skilled negotiator with a talent for resolving thorny conflict, and a tough-minded but rational decision maker who worked with others in considerate and... View Details

01 Mar 2023
News

Step Change

experience,” she says. “No one ever spoke about culture; it was embedded. We were in it together.” That interest in the very human aspect of how work gets done is more than clinical. When asked, anyone who has worked closely with Enan mentions her strong sense of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
Background Note

Leadership and Teaming

By: Ethan Bernstein

Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details

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01 Dec 2022
News

Full Court Press

sports. “But what struck me was how much people hungered for something to lift their spirits in the middle of sitting at home in various stages of lockdown and how impactful sports was to driving that sense of psychological and mental... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

13 Apr 2021
Book

How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

companies, and the gender pay gap persists. While young women are aware of these systemic problems, the more nuanced forms of sexism that persist today often take them by surprise, say Ammerman and co-author Boris Groysberg, the Richard... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

two years and in-person with set schedules. An online program like CLIMB provides flexibility and convenience to take courses and develop business skills within your schedule. Lastly, those who graduate from an MBA program earn an MBA... View Details

11 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Meet the MBA Class of 2020

TAKE MY SKILLS TO THE NEXT LEVEL.” HOME REGION Buenos Aires, Argentina UNDERGRAD EDUCATION Universidad de San Andres, 2010 PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Lartirigoyen Group, Adecoagro, ExxonMobil Michelle Lee “TO SCALE FOOD BUSINESSES, YOU FACE... View Details

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

innovative solutions, especially Black female knowledge workers. We found that 42 percent of Gen Z Black women are “the first to know when something new or cutting-edge is released.” The gap with the other races was almost two-to-one. Jim... View Details

27 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

"button downed" and idealizes a more sophisticated, centralized approach. Both often "look down" on one another. Anything that can be done to bridge the gap is very useful. Several things can be done to encourage... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro

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