mentoring - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 1999
News

Banking on Success

important in this life, and it certainly isn't the latest budget meeting! I'm now a balanced career and family executive. Mentors? From my earliest days at ManHan, I had a strong senior mentor who helped make sure that I was getting the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

17 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?

friends and relatives or start small businesses as a new source of fulfillment. One woman who had been mentoring junior workers at her old firm volunteered her coaching services through a community organization. Putting a material stake... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Entertainment & Recreation

28 Jan 2016
Blog Post

Why Get an MBA?

element of an MBA is whether you learn true, hard skills. How can you teach accounting and finance through the case method? A mentor of mine put it best when he said “HBS will teach you how to think about accounting as a CEO.” Don’t... View Details

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Philippe Rival

help and mentor on projects, cases or even startup brainstorming! This is clearly a network for life, one that is here for you. As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? I have always been interested in building things and... View Details

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

and lateral, internal and external to the organization). From these developmental relationships (e.g., mentors or sponsors), potential managers can better learn from their own experiences by receiving feedback, advice, and emotional... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

11 Jul 2016
HBS Case

Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities

when the CEO sends out a companywide email, are you supposed to reply? That’s where the soft skills training comes in. After landing a job, Autism at Work participants are given mentors and team buddies—existing SAP employees who... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology

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Enrico Ferrari

the growth of a portfolio of more than a hundred companies all over the globe. Yet Enrico's desire for entrepreneurship did not dissipate. "Someday, I want to launch another company." In the meantime, Enrico applies his expertise to View Details

Keywords: Tech

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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Goldenberg : Selected as a 2023 Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science. 2022 Francesca Gino : Received the Wyss Award for Excellence in Doctoral Student Mentoring in 2022. Ashley V. Whillans : Winner of the 2022 SAGE... View Details

01 Jan 2004
News

D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954

multinational's facilities around the world but enabled him to be mentored by some of McKinsey's most influential partners, including Bower. Named a principal (or junior partner) in 1963 and a director (senior partner) five years later,... View Details

27 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding

company and a “culture carrier” who has an ongoing relationship with the employee—albeit, a virtual one. Regularly scheduled conversations would give the employee opportunities to ask questions they might not otherwise ask and the mentor... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg

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Ahmed Alimi

things done, cultivating relationships as well as leading people. I thought I needed these 'next level' skills and felt HBS was the right place to get them." Gradually, Ahmed also felt "a greater calling. I had been doing some work View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Financial Services

18 Dec 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Grooming Next-Generation Leaders

according to Sasser, a Baker Foundation Professor. These employees enjoy access to talent-identification systems. Big organizations can point to formal programs led by individuals whose sole responsibility is to find and mentor... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

27 Mar 2017
Blog Post

Should Entrepreneurs Get an MBA?

who had gone through this startup thing before, the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship put me in touch with entrepreneurs at every stage of growing a company: from seed ventures to those that have grown to $1 billion+ in valuation. That's not to mention the several View Details

01 Oct 2021
News

Furthering the Legacy of Whitney Bowman (MBA 2006)

same opportunities that we did.” Giving back to HBS was very important, offers Brittanie, noting that “Whitney was a mentor to so many people. He wanted to help make students’ experiences at HBS less stressful.” While future generations... View Details

14 Jan 2022
News

Nohria’s Next Move

continue to play the role of teacher and mentor that is so meaningful to me.” (See the company’s announcement.) Nohria will remain engaged at Harvard University as the chair of the board of the Harvard Allston Land Company and teaching in... View Details

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Summer Associates | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

summer, and how the experience can help meet the goals of both the student and organization Create opportunities for interaction with other members of staff and key constituencies, including clients, board members, and partnering organizations Be ready to act as a... View Details

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Get Involved - Entrepreneurship

Judges travel to campus on Super Saturday and are assigned to panels based on expertise. Each panel reviews and rates 4-6 teams' pitches. Rock Accelerator Mentor A highly competitive accelerator supporting 20 teams over the course of two... View Details

20 May 2022
Blog Post

Nucleate Eco: Connecting Aspiring MBA Entrepreneurs with Cutting Edge Climate Research

where we find and match PhD candidates with MBA’s to create the cohort of teams for the year. Then, we’ll reach out to find mentors for the teams. Some of these mentors are from the investment community,... View Details

31 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

these hypotheses with HBS colleague and mentor Max Bazerman, a leading ethics scholar, who had a different theory. "Max told me, 'I'll bet people are doing this because they feel bad that their papers aren't being downloaded as much as... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Peggy Mativo-Ochola

additional tutors and have to make do with what’s available." Through Pacemaker, local youth support professional teachers by mentoring younger students and engaging them in a variety of afterschool activities. "The idea is... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education

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