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- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Tales of the Newly-minted MBA
failing," he said. "Begin with the end in mind, and remember that faith is power—you have to believe in something, whether it's fruit flies or God." Beverly Anderson (HBS MBA '97) had ten years of experience in financial services before coming to HBS;... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
the learning organization: organizations with the capacity to sense and act upon opportunities for positive change. Around this time, I thought I'd better go to graduate school to learn and explore these ideas more carefully. Early on, I... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 02 May 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can the “Leadership Industry” Fulfill Its Promise?
from in-house leadership programs to offerings by outside organizations. It encompasses a growth industry that spans various types of endeavors. (Several of Harvard's graduate schools include the terms "leader" or... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
Initiation to Graduation By: Raisch, Sebastian, and Michael Tushman Abstract—Large companies initiate many new businesses, but few of them reach scale. The ambidexterity literature describes how companies create exploratory businesses,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leadership Lessons From Outer Space
graduate of the General Management Program, an intensive seven-week Executive Education curriculum at Harvard Business School. On April 22, beaming in from space via satellite feed, he spent half an hour addressing a packed audience of... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places
Nitin Nohria as a graduate student in 1994. To learn the extent to which chief executive turnover affects corporations, they studied the performance of two hundred of the largest U.S. companies before and after chief executive... View Details
- 15 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding the Design of Livable Cities
Editor's note: This article originally appeared on Harvard University's Real Estate Academic Initiative website. If Harvard Business School and the Graduate School of Design seem miles apart both literally and culturally, John Macomber is... View Details
- 27 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Researchers Cheat (Just a Little)
Leslie K. John is keenly aware of the pressure researchers feel to get results. When her graduate studies in behavioral decision research didn't produce significant findings that led to publication in a prestigious journal, John felt... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
India. "The case raises an uncomfortable question: Why should Monitor pay a Harvard MBA top dollar to conduct business research in the United States while an Indian Institute of Management graduate could do the work just as effectively in... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research Event
What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?
women have made Some conference speakers pointed out that it’s important to celebrate the gains women have made over the years. For example, white women have made strides in education circles; these days they represent the majority of students in high school, college,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
28 U.S. cities. In its early decades, City Year provided a variety of services to a variety of organizations in need. Over its most recent decade, City Year had pivoted to having all corps members serve in low-income public schools to keep students on track to View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
decisions, trying to understand how they make decisions now is pretty important. Q: Please describe how the research got started. A: Jim Poterba and I started the project at the end of my time in graduate school. There had been earlier... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
initiative to provide practical business and management education to 10,000 women around the globe. The initiative recently celebrated its first anniversary, and over 1,200 women were either enrolled in, or graduated from, sponsored... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
public education linking an employer, the New York City K-12 public education system, and the city's two-year colleges. P-TECH (Pathways in Technology Early College High School) was a new concept, a six-year high school running to grade 14, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
2014. Based in Oakland, California, GCY was a five-year-old not-for-profit with a fiscal year (FY) 2015 budget of $3.5 million. Its mission was to make it much more the norm for graduating high school students in the U.S. to choose a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
216-079 The Role of the Chief Financial Officer This note profiles the role of the modern chief financial officer (CFO). It presents insights based on a variety of surveys and descriptions of HBS graduates who hold or have held the CFO... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
Cases & Course MaterialsGLOBIS Mukti Khaire, Akiko Kanno, and Nobuo SatoHarvard Business School Case 811-061 Yoshito Hori, dean of the Graduate School of Management, GLOBIS University, was planning to launch a full-time English MBA... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
Education Leadership Project (PELP), a unique partnership between the Harvard Business School, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a network of urban school districts. This rich array of cases explores the managerial challenges... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
and obtaining his high school equivalency diploma. Blakeman went on to earn a business degree at Ohio State University, graduating with honors. However, he was rejected for the more than 80 positions he interviewed for after background... View Details
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
transactions, products, and customers. Anderson, after graduation in 1995, worked at McKinsey where he got the idea for using time equations to estimate how the capacity demands by a transaction vary based on all the contingencies that... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert