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Behrad Mahdi
efforts and provide incentives." Seeking a more sustainable leadership experience, he became a special assistant to the founders of City Year. Learning leadership through regular practice "Working at the national level," Behrad says, "I got a... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Jennifer L. Scott
curriculum. Participating students developed their business plans in elective courses and field studies, honing their ideas with the help of some 25 HBS alumni who also evaluated the plans based on their commercial viability. Nearly 20 percent of the Class of 1997... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 08 Sep 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Capitalism Works Better When I Can See What You're Doing
information, revealing too much can benefit individuals but hurt businesses. Why Managers Should Reveal Their FailuresIf you want to get your messages through to employees, be ready to confess your own View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Connections & Relationships | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Enterprise Club had organized for prospective students. From that first encounter, I was really impressed with the caliber of people, their creative thinking, and their sense of urgency to see the world change. Why SEI @ HBS? A lot of... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Value Added
Now in the midst of his second three-year term as managing director of McKinsey & Company, Rajat Gupta sits in a corner office on the 29th floor of a Chicago skyscraper, overlooking Lake Michigan and the Windy City's financial district.... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
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Luana Bichuetti
Encouraged by her father, an alum of HBS' Owner/President Management Program (OPM), Luana applied and was accepted to three prominent MBA programs. Visiting the HBS campus tilted her choice in HBS' favor. "I was surprised by the... View Details
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry
1960, electronic data processing as well as information storage and retrieval had made a lasting impression in both the private and the public sectors, and discoveries and improvements in areas such as circuit design and solid-state... View Details
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Suchita Prasad
that I came to HBS was to discover how to make an impact on people and organizations. To be able to achieve my goals, I needed to complement my human capital background with thorough business knowledge. Prior to HBS, I had worked with Unilever India as the HR View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
Built to Last or Bought to Sell?
the authors of Built to Last (creating the impression that "built to last" is Twentieth Century management thinking) may help sell books, there are perhaps fewer contrasts in the conclusions of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Starting Off on the Right Foot
in a new job, Waldroop urges managers to: Take notes on key colleagues. Especially for the first few weeks, jot down notes on your boss, team members, and direct reports at the end of each day. “Write down what you notice about them,”... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
PublicationsUnconscious Thought Works Bottom-up and Conscious Thought Works Top-down When Forming an Impression Authors:Maarten W. Bos and Ap Dijksterhuis Publication:Social Cognition 29, no. 6 (2011) Abstract We tested and found... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Andrew Holmberg
just the bottom line. Leadership isn’t just about the P&L, it's about people and your relationships with them. It’s about understanding how the decisions you make affect not just the balance sheet, but the web of personal relationships within an organization.”... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- News
Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans
of effort on his part. Wilkins moved to the Crescent City four years ago from Boston with his wife, New Orleans native Ginny Wise, and three sons. Prior to his arrival, he had been a brand manager for Proctor & Gamble, a marketing vice... View Details
- 07 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
How One Organization Increased Their Internship Yield
Murphy continues. “But she has other options, and is taking the time to weigh them. Meanwhile, the company sends so many emails, so many phone calls – even direct texts from managers.” Over a few weeks, Sara’s impression of the company... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
distinguished group of people: this year's 25th Reunion class. Over the last two years I have had the opportunity to meet and speak with hundreds of alumni, and I have been deeply impressed by and grateful for our graduates' leadership... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Victory Lap: Frazier, Olympics COO, Reviews the Games
A.D. Frazier, Jr. (85th AMP), COO of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG), was featured in a June 1996 Bulletin article about the Olympics. Now a partner at Invesco, an Atlanta-based investment management firm that View Details
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Ari Medoff
business's founder, helping him manage transactions and operations for more than forty hotels in twenty-three states. Pursuing distinct careers "Many people come to the HBS/HKS joint degree program to find the intersection among... View Details
- 19 Jun 2018
- Research Event
Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?
stellar cast of practitioners, management researchers, and business and environmental historians. As co-organizer of the event with HBS Professor Amy Edmondson and Swedish business historian Anki Bergquist, I was thrilled as the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Learning from Global Immersion Experiences
case the students had discussed in Boston in preparation for the immersion. “As a market, Turkey seems quite ‘emerged,’” he observes, “but when you’re there, you see fractures with security, openness, and authoritarianism. That up-close perspective leaves a lasting... View Details
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IFC India 2025: From Gray to Green: A Glimpse of the Future of Green Hydrogen in India - Blog - Business & Environment
dust and particles found in the product, highlighting that each particle had undergone a kaizen process to reduce contamination. Managing Complexity of Production We were impressed by Ohmium’s clean and... View Details