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01 Sep 2023
News

That Was Then, This Is Now

It started with a question. But before that, it started in the classroom. Tony Deifell (MBA 2002) loved the discussions in his LEAD course, taught by Professor (and now former Dean) Nitin Nohria; wanting to make them more tangible, Deifell adapted the idea of... View Details

Keywords: Photographed by Tony Deifell (MBA 2002); edited by Julia Hanna. Above: Heidi Brooks, photographed in 2003 and 2023.; life experience; family; leadership

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C. Roland Christensen - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

spanned half a century. At the time of his death in 1999, he was the Robert Walmsley University Professor, Emeritus, at Harvard. Beloved and revered by generations of HBS students, Christensen regarded himself first and foremost as a... View Details

18 Apr 2023
Research & Ideas

The Best Person to Lead Your Company Doesn't Work There—Yet

are external hires, and roughly two-thirds are “complete outsiders,” finds a recent working paper by Paul Gompers, the Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. In contrast, one recent analysis found... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

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Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship | About

office branch, and a barbershop, was repurposed several times as faculty and administrative office space before its extensive renovation and rededication as the hub of the School’s entrepreneurial education activities in 2003. Today, the... View Details

16 Oct 2023
HBS Case

Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta

qualifications, while expanding new apprenticeship and professional development programs. Now, three years later, Delta is making progress toward hiring and developing more Black talent, with and without college degrees, says Linda Hill, the Wallace Brett Donham... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Air Transportation

01 Dec 2023
News

The Exchange: Help Wanted

Image by John Ritter The path to a job in the C-suite isn’t what it used to be. For many years, companies could lean on financial expertise and industry connections when recruiting candidates, but HBS professors Raffaella Sadun and Joseph Fuller say that so much has... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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HBS - Key Metrics

Staff headcount includes employees classified as administrative & professional (exempt); research associates; internal post docs; service & trade hourly employed by Harvard Business School (HBS); and support staff (non-exempt). It does... View Details

17 Jan 2020
In Practice

6 Traits That Set Top Business Leaders Apart

include many viewpoints, learn from critics, and remain aware that trends could shift quickly. And then they are better armed when they act quickly and decisively." Rosabeth Moss Kanter (@RosabethKanter), Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

for the MBA classroom. While I originally enrolled in CORe to determine if I wanted to pursue an MBA, I ended up using the knowledge I gained from CORe to interview for and land my current job. Kali Pfaff Operations Strategist at View Details

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Events - Business History

Administration at Harvard Business School, spoke about his new book, Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China (Harvard University... View Details

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Our Team - Impact Investments

Our Team Our Team Principal Investigators Shawn Cole John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration Shawn Cole is a professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches and conducts research on financial... View Details

01 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind." —Henry James As a professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at the Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson

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MOC Network reaches 20 year milestone - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard University. Kiril's Keynote Presentation (video) Elisabeth Reynolds Former Special Assistant to... View Details

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Guides to Archival Collections – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Human Relations at Harvard Business School from 1937–1990. Documentation includes correspondence, minutes, research materials, teaching materials, conference papers, articles, and administrative materials. Elton Mayo Papers Online finding... View Details

27 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance

Administration in the Strategy unit. “Originally it was like a bet—can we quantify management?” Conventional management strategy would say no, emphasizing that practices a company puts in place are contingent on any number of factors that... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

13 Mar 2023
Op-Ed

How Leaders Should Leave

handle on what you’re going to do. If you stick with that timeframe, you won’t risk being out of sight and out of mind and can look forward to starting fresh in your new role. John Quelch is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

21 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 21

http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609094 Mina O'Reilly at Logan Airport's TSA Harvard Business School Case 409-116 Mina O'Reilly, an officer at Logan Airport's Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Oct 2015
First Look

October 13, 2015

2015 Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World By: Friedman, Jeremy Abstract—The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has... View Details

07 Jul 2019
HBS Case

Walmart's Workforce of the Future

explores how technology and demographics are changing the way companies like Walmart, and their workers, operate. “The pace of change in the retail sector is truly extraordinary,” says Kerr, the D’Arbeloff Professor of Business View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

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Doctoral 100 Years - Doctoral

Georgia State University, Arkansas AM&N (now University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff), and North Carolina College (now North Carolina Central University). He became the third Dean of the School of Business and Professor of View Details

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