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- March 2011 (Revised April 2011)
- Case
State Bank of India: Transforming a State Owned Giant
By: Rajiv Lal and Rachna Tahilyani
February 2011: O.P. Bhatt reflected contentedly on his five-year term as Chairman of State Bank of India (SBI), India's largest commercial bank. He had led SBI on a journey of transformation from an old, hierarchical, transaction oriented, government bank to a modern,... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Customer Relationship Management; Commercial Banking; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Banking Industry; India
Lal, Rajiv, and Rachna Tahilyani. "State Bank of India: Transforming a State Owned Giant." Harvard Business School Case 511-114, March 2011. (Revised April 2011.)
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
to achievement (e.g., "this person has won an award for his work"), references to potential (e.g., "this person could win an award for his work") appear to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 under 30' Edition
This is a repost from the Alumni Stories blog. In this special First Five Years post, four alumni recently named to the Forbes 2019 “30 Under 30” list—Akash Pradhan (MBA 2017), Kiran Gandhi (MBA 2015), Anthony Tucker (MBA 2017), and Anish... View Details
- October 2012
- Article
The Preference for Potential
By: Zakary L. Tormala, Jayson Jia and Michael I. Norton
When people seek to impress others, they often do so by highlighting individual achievements. Despite the intuitive appeal of this strategy, we demonstrate that people often prefer potential rather than achievement when evaluating others. Indeed, compared with... View Details
Keywords: Preferences; Persuasion; Uncertainty; Risk and Uncertainty; Performance Expectations; Attitudes
Tormala, Zakary L., Jayson Jia, and Michael I. Norton. "The Preference for Potential." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 103, no. 4 (October 2012): 567–583.
- 02 Apr 2013
- Video
Plexx - Episode 2 - New Name, New Challenges
- Career Coach
Sarah Bua
Sarah (HBS ’98) is an executive coach and career advisor with 15+ years of experience coaching students, alumni and executives at Harvard Business School. She has a diverse business background, having worked across multiple industries and... View Details
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
medicine is that most therapeutics were directed at symptoms, not causes.—Eric S. Lander With that in mind, about 200 HBS alumni working in the healthcare field converged in mid-November at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge to learn from... View Details
Gerald C. Chertavian
Gerald Chertavian is the Founder of Year Up, one of the nation’s largest and most effective youth workforce development programs. Chertavian was a successful technology entrepreneur and Wall Street banker, but it was through his many years as a Big Brother... View Details
Lynda M. Applegate
Lynda M. Applegate is a Baker Foundation Professor at HBS and is Chair of the Advisory Committee for Harvard University’s Masters Degree of Liberal Arts in Finance and Management at the Harvard University Extension School. She has also played a... View Details
- 19 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
From Retail to HBS: How I’m Building a Career Path at the Intersection of Arts, Culture, and Business
eventually. However, it wasn’t until a few years later that I seriously considered getting an MBA. I had achieved one of my dream jobs as a fashion buyer and was ready for a new challenge, but I wasn’t sure what that next step might be.... View Details
- 15 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Health is Wealth | The Path to Creating a Venture
elsewhere.” Leveraging the HBS alumni network, Rachel secured an internship between her RC and EC years at naviHealth, Inc... a digital health company. This internship allowed her to make an impact at the organization by working on... View Details
- 24 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Is the MBA Worth It? Hear What Recent HBS Grads Have to Say (Part 2)
We asked recent HBS alumni to reflect on their time at—and after—HBS to answer the question “Is the MBA worth it?” Here are their thoughts on the business school experience, the value of an MBA degree, and how to best prepare for HBS.... View Details
Robin J. Ely
Robin Ely is the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She conducts research on race and gender relations in organizations with a focus on leadership, identity, and organizational culture change.... View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition
In this special First Five Years post, four alumni recently named to the Forbes 2019 “30 Under 30” list—Akash Pradhan (MBA 2017), Kiran Gandhi (MBA 2015), Anthony Tucker (MBA 2017) and Anish Pathipati (MBA 2016)—talk careers, HBS, and why... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
on what you need to achieve as a company, you're toast." Daniel Gulati and Vivian Weng (both MBA '11) were semifinalists in the 2010 contest with FashionStake, a "community-curated marketplace for independent fashion" that circumvents the... View Details
- 21 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to Sink a Startup
Tim Westergren of Pandora and Evan Williams of Twitter. YouTube cofounder and former CEO Chad Hurley has called the book "an invaluable alternative to real-world trial and error." A past recipient of the HBS student-voted award for... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
Hakeem I. Belo-Osagie
Hakeem Belo-Osagie is an accomplished Nigerian professional and entrepreneur. He earned a degree in Political Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University as well as a law degree from Cambridge University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
He is the... View Details
- 25 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
Michael Schrader (MBA 2012) on Finding Entrepreneurial Success with HBS Resources
It took achieving success to teach Michael Schrader (MBA 2012) how to be successful. "Find something exciting and that you are passionate about that has meaning beyond just financial gain," Schrader, co-founder and CEO of... View Details