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- 01 Sep 2012
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Curb Your Smartphone Habit
Review Press), Perlow, the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, describes an experiment she conducted (with Jessica Porter) at the Boston Consulting Group, where teams of supercharged professionals collaborated to reclaim precious... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Customizing Couture Online
The way Áslaug Magnúsdóttir sees it, her new website, Tinker Tailor, which uses interactive web technology to customize high-end designer clothing, is an old-school approach to fashion. “Couture always was a collaboration between the designer and the customer,” says... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Clay Christensen (MBA 1979)
intention of getting divorced or having an unhappy family life. But because MBAs so often focus too narrowly on professional achievement, he admonished us to include success in family and community endeavors in our definition of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
Similarly, Prysm’s online courses are designed to help working professionals grasp the business implications of emerging technologies, regardless of sector. If you want to trade in digital assets, for instance, it doesn’t matter whether... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
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Lessons from Everest
reasons, to reach the summit — undermined the better judgment of professionals and amateurs alike. A lesson for leaders, Roberto noted, is that even the most qualified and experienced people can make mistakes. Yet experts are often... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
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Power Trip
professional credentials was another path. A lot of the outsiders on our list, especially those who were foreign-born, were more highly educated than those who traveled the inside track. Personal networking was a third factor. You could... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Clark Bids Farewell to HBS
values will be an important legacy. Do you have a stronger sense of the role and influence of HBS in academia? I believe our deep commitment to teaching as a critical and important professional activity is something that is sorely needed... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
employ and train a cadre of professional directors to serve on corporate boards (see sidebar, page 35). And HBS professors, drawing on their areas of expertise, have attempted to influence the debate through opinion pieces in major... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
New Idea: State of the Art
previous iteration, the new Cooper Hewitt “finds that merely looking at things is a hopelessly passive way of experiencing the world.” The museum work was familiar territory: Belsky’s career has focused on developing better ways for the Internet to serve creative View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
New HBS, KSG Joint Degree
each school to become professionals skilled at devising innovative approaches to a broad range of complex challenges in society. There is also a wealth of increased opportunities for faculty collaboration in research, course development,... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
considerable research attention from several HBS faculty members, including Bob Hayes and Kim Clark. And as developing economies took off, “students could no longer be counted on to spend their entire professional careers in the United... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
else’s problem — until now. A phone call from the IT department reports that your company’s computer systems have been accessed by an intruder. Troves of business and financial data, your customers’ as well as your own, have been compromised. Is this the work of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
In the course of their outstanding professional careers, this year’s five recipients of the Alumni Achievement Award — the School’s highest honor — have had an enormous impact on the world of business. A surprising key to their success?... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
A Student Plan Goes to Washington
of time and lack of knowledge. Their solution? Elevate board service to a profession by creating a nonprofit, public-private Corporate Governance College (CGC) to employ, train, and coordinate the placement of full-time professional... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
In Brief
professional stories embody all that make HBS such an enriching community. Their ambition and integrity hint at the contributions these remarkable young people will make as the School’s newest alumni. Mission Possible. In social... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Emmons Heads Christensen Center
impact of the center’s activities will extend over time to professional education more broadly within and outside Harvard University. Says Emmons: “I could not be more excited about this opportunity to build on the legacy of Chris... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
cited miscoordination, miscommunication, poor access to resources, and bad planning as barriers to accomplishment. These are management basics, but if they are ignored, they not only impede creativity, but also make life absolutely miserable for the View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Identifying why the path to the top for women and racial minorities remains elusive
While diversity in hiring has increased markedly among professional service organizations, the changes are not reflected at the senior-most levels. For example, in US law firms, women comprise 46 percent of associates but only 19 percent... View Details