Goals and Objectives - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 May 2016
News

Can Brian Shortsleeve Fix the MBTA’s Budget Woes?

officials and transit advocates. Shortsleeve said his goal is to balance the agency’s books for the first time in 15 years, even if that means taking on sacred cows. He said any savings will be reinvested in... View Details

09 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 9

Region, 15-19. Copenhagen: Nordic Council of Ministers, 2009 Abstract unavailable at this time. Book link: http://norden.org/pub/ovrigt/ovrigt/sk/ANP2009731.pdf On Good Scholarship, Goal Setting, and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Pursuing a Deadly Opportunity

recipients with educational goals (74 percent vs. 47.5 percent). The entrepreneurial venture had a higher representation of recipients with continuing medical education goals (31.7 percent vs. 26 percent)... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

05 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

striking. It shows the trust and respect these companies have for their people. By giving staff certain goals they need to meet, as well as work on teams that may cut across many parts of the business,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Climbing the Great Wall of Trust

five-point scale about how much they could rely on those partners to complete tasks effectively (in order to measure cognitive trust), and how much the partners shared the same goals View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places

him and one of its board members? Understanding the dynamics of the CEO search process, as well as the ways in which chief executive turnover influences corporate performance, has been the goal of recent... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Employment

15 Apr 2015
Blog Post

Subverting Career Trajectories

As part of our "HBS Takeaways" series we’re interviewing some of our second year students before they embark on the next chapter of their lives. Clay Wiske attended Columbia University and the University of Cambridge before... View Details

Profile

Lily Wu

create. How has your internship experience shaped your goals & career path? I learned that the combination of positive impact on others and intellectual rewards motivate me as a professional. I intend to... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

02 Oct 2008
What Do You Think?

Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?

realm of ideology. Some respondents doubted the Government's ability to achieve the Buffett result, if not the "Buffett Effect" of the column's title. Several argued that the Government, by necessity, has different goals View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

09 Nov 2010
First Look

First Look: November 9, 2010

excel in small firms, where they can set a goal and then empower others to work toward it. Navy and Air Force officers, who operate expensive, complex systems, such as... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web

as it is being employed to unite dispersed functional or geographic groups within a firm. While automatic process execution continues to be valuable for these networks, the greater goal of integration often appears to be better View Details

Keywords: by Andrew McAfee

7 PM – 11 PM EDT, 10 Oct 2018

HBX Strategy Execution

Identify and solve your company's strategic challenges with an exclusive group of like-minded senior leaders via HBX Live, a real-time, interactive online classroom. Program Dates: October 10, 2018 - November 7, 2018 View Details

03 Feb 2018
Op-Ed

How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility

entities across sectors to refine them and arrive at meaningful and useful standards. Besides holding companies accountable, we also have to help them as they transition to pursuing social View Details

Keywords: by Julie Battilana

27 Sep 2017
Blog Post

Meet the Latino Student Association

community inside and outside of HBS, and look for members who excel academically and want to make a positive impact in the world. Objectives... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Oct 2018
News

A Transformative Experience

Dr. Claudio L. Haddad (OPM 12, 1987) is chairman of the board of Insper Institute of Education & Research in Brazil and a 2018 recipient of the HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this interview, he explains the View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

12 PM – 1 PM EST, 11 Feb 2016
Webinars: Career

Sales Skills Everyone Needs

Are you a sales professional looking to break through the noise? Could you use some insight into leveraging social dynamics and modern persuasion techniques? Whether you are a seasoned sales rep looking to sharpen your skills, or an entrepreneur looking to unravel... View Details

Career Coach

Jonathan Shepherd

expertise, Jonathan welcomes conversations ranging from self-assessment to goal setting to tactics and execution - always acknowledging how each of these is just one piece of that thing called life. Work... View Details

16 Oct 2018
Blog Post

A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations

still has lots of potential outside the U.S. Given my background and my passion to contributing to my home country and the Asian region in general, this role is very appealing to me.” Mizuho has three View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

Profile

Tricia Lee

divisions at Microsoft. It was an incredible journey, but I realized that to achieve the goals I had in mind, I'd need to round out my knowledge base. I wanted to learn the formal language of business (i.e. finance, ops, marketing), best... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media; Technology; Entrepreneurship