Advice Taking - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers

what he calls the negative outliers. The estimated cost—based on turnover triggered by the toxic worker and the cost associated with new hires and training—is likely on the low end, Minor says, because it doesn’t take into account... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

center, 2001. Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress, LC-DIG-highsm-15224. Vartan, Vartanig G. "Peterson Is Named Chief Executive by Lehman: Former Commerce Secretery to Take Ehrman's Post." The New York Times , July 27, 1973.... View Details

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Judges - Alumni

Building a Team, Co-Founder Dynamics, Company Culture, Customer Acquisition, Fundraising Strategies, Go-to-Market Strategy, Pitch Feedback, Scaling, Brand Building, Board Roles Advice #1 - Keep the pitch tight. Avoid confusing details or... View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

Case Study: Testing the Waters

picture of its demographic: 70 percent of its customers are women. They are generally physically active, average about 42 years in age, and most of them are parents. In interviews, Cure found that its customers also tend to take other... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

11 May 2022
Blog Post

MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

have found that taking things in stride is the best way to stay sane. However, it does take a village! My husband and my mom have been extremely supportive. What advice do you... View Details

11 May 2023
News

How FOMO Became a Fixture

personally and professionally, and why he just trademarked it. You were able to trademark the term "FOMO" recently. What motivated you to take this step? "I coined the term FOMO in a May 2004 humor column in the HARBUS, and I hadn't... View Details

02 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

experienced negotiators make mistakes in all three dimensions. Let us start with the least familiar kind of mistake. Flaws in our third dimension, the set-up of a negotiation, can take many forms: wrong parties, wrong issues, wrong... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Investor - Entrepreneurship

(TEM) SUMMER Intern with a VC firm and serve as a Rock Summer Fellow. FALL Take EC Courses applicable to VC/Investing: Venture Capital and Private Equity Private Equity Finance Financial Management of Small Firms Launching Technology... View Details

09 Jan 2023
Blog Post

How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Sam Perez Diarte

post-MBA. However, after four years, I moved in with my partner, got engaged, and got married. Life changed. I knew from the beginning that I would go back to HBS, and it would take a lot for a first-generation Mexican immigrant to say no... View Details

24 Sep 2019
Blog Post

Launching a Career in Clean Energy

scale. We’re bootstrapping and taking our time. What were some of the most helpful career resources you tapped into while you were an MBA? The best thing I did was be the career rep for my section—in other words, I was the liaison... View Details

29 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Delving Deeper into Development with the MBA/MPA-ID Program – a Q+A with Zainab Raji (MBA/MPA-ID 2022)

African countries. I feared that during and after the outbreak populations living in poverty would be much worse-off and new populations would fall into poverty because the outbreak was taking away lives, sources of income, foreign... View Details

27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future

startup’s vision or step back altogether after a larger company takes possession. In 144 of these transactions, the deal effectively closed a failing business. Another 2.9 percent of the companies examined, or 317 ventures, went public... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

My HBS Student Loan Story: Ina Foalea (MBA 2018)

will be able to pay off your debt. As I got closer to graduation, I had a sense of security because of the strong connections with my classmates. I knew that, for example, if anything were to happen to cause me to be out of a job, I would quickly be able to get back... View Details

22 Sep 2022
News

The Beauty Guide

Freyre learned early on the importance of mentorship in the corporate world. “Mentors have helped shape my career. They have pushed me to explore new areas of the business, to take risks, to not stay in one lane because I was... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

23 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Overcoming Nervous Nelly

some cases, anxiety caused negotiators to be more likely to leave the bargaining table altogether. The Wrong Advice In another study, Brooks and coauthors Schweitzer and Harvard's Francesca Gino considered the effects of anxiety on one... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

22 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees

have been recipients of it say that it’s humiliating,” she says. "It became really important for managers to ask, ‘How’s it going? How are you doing? How can I help?" Instead, Neeley takes a page from the late J. Richard Hackman, an... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

03 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

IRS argues that the difference in stock price is actually income to the entrepreneur. # 9: Issuing founder shares without vesting. Simply put, vesting protects the members of the founding team who take the venture forward. If people... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Oct 1999
News

Banking on Success

really are shooting for zero defects, but if you don't have some failures, you're probably not taking enough risk." When asked to share his proudest achievement, Kennedy looks instead to the career of his wife, Karen, who enrolled in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

29 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?

Job-hopping doesn’t benefit lower-level workers. Women in lower-level positions did not gain the same advantage over men that senior executive women did. Men still take home more. Salaries for men were still 14 percentage points higher... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

04 Sep 2017
Blog Post

HBS Startup Bootcamp and Founders Unfiltered

inception to MVP (minimum viable product) in a short period of time. We covered things like running experiments to test a new business idea, finding early customers, calculating unit economics, and how to think about different types of funding. We were given tactical... View Details

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