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Risk Management for Corporate Leaders—Virtual

extended period of time from work related activities Develop an action and implementation plan and engage as a team in a post-program session with an HBS teaching leader Expand your personal and professional network Extend your network by... View Details

05 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots

meetings and repeat frequently that the Internet is overhyped. Form a committee to create a new corporate Internet offering, staff it with people from unrelated areas who are already doing five other things, and don't release them from... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

28 Jun 2010
HBS Case

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

details how one institution has implemented its own version of health-care reform, taking overall performance levels from well below average to the top 10 percent in the industry. Coauthored by HBS assistant professor Anita Tucker and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

11 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

Secrets of the Successful Businesswoman

change; be resilient; and make every decision based on whether or not it's good for the business." If you take the extra time to staff the best people rather than operate in the interests of expediency, you'll save yourself trouble... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

community service projects such as serving as classroom aides in inner-city schools or assisting staff at neighborhood Boys and Girls Clubs. Expansion of the relationship over the ensuing decade found Timberland supplying City Year's... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

13 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action

In his book, Learning in Action: A Guide to Putting the Learning Organization to Work (Harvard Business School Press), HBS professor David Garvin argues that Nike left open a critical gap between encouraging innovative thinking and... View Details

Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron

18 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Embracing Activism for Social Change

behavioral health professionals in situations where their expertise would make a critical difference in resolving crisis situations, or even preventing them in the first place,” explains 2020–2021 HBS Leadership Fellow Sarika Mendu (MBA... View Details

16 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Creating a Candidate-Centered Recruiting Process

Looking around a Harvard Business School classroom, you will find students who bring a diverse range of experiences, skills, and perspectives to the conversation. That can include diverse abilities; those that are physical and mental, visible and invisible. It is the... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

06 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

several of the key elements that the XTV staff believed were critical to that company's success, such as a considerable degree of autonomy and high-powered incentives. The experience of Xerox Technology Ventures has several implications... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner

04 Oct 2016
Blog Post

The Peek Weekend Stem Cohort Experience

That’s for consultants and bankers” I think HBS intentionally targets Peek to STEM majors who never saw themselves going to business school, and that’s the beauty of it. You don’t realize what you could do until you push yourself to try... View Details

Blog

In-Person Programs: Q&A with Portfolio Directors

After a long hiatus, HBS programs have started to return to campus. Vicki Good and Lisa Hughes, portfolio directors for the Advanced Management Program (AMP) and the Program for Leadership Development (PLD) respectively, weigh in on the... View Details

14 Nov 2019
Blog Post

Future Leaders Dive into the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

Lying in bed each morning, Emily Batt (MS/MBA 2020) yearned to sleep a little longer, but had no way of knowing when her roommate would finish her seemingly endless shower. That frustration inspired a team project in the new MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program,... View Details

16 Apr 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom

corporate strategy and business planning. Jeffrey Cruikshank, former editor of the HBS Alumni Bulletin and author of historical works about HBS, describes Christensen and his colleagues as "transitional... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Race Does Matter in Mentoring

demotions to transfer from staff jobs into operations, where they saw a better match for their skills and a greater opportunity for professional growth. Stage 1 was thus a time for minority executives to gain the three C's: confidence,... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

12 Aug 2002
Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

of managers to set up and serve as a board of directors. The corporate partners would also recruit a larger group of corporations, called WDC Affiliates, to the effort. Partners and affiliates, as appropriate, would then undertake the WDC's actual projects. View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge

15 Mar 2021
Blog Post

REFLECTIONS ON MY TIME AS BEI DIRECTOR

At the end of March, I will retire from my role as Director of the HBS Business and Environment Initiative and turn the reins to BEI’s new Director Lynn Schenk and Coordinator Elise Clarkson. What has changed since I started in the... View Details

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Disruption: The Art of Framing

mistake companies make is to rely on employees from the core organization to staff new ventures.— Clark Gilbert and Joseph L. Bower It's important to note that calling a business separate and making a business separate are two different... View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower

25 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

expert to her team, and started hiring staff from nail salons and department-store cosmetics counters. "It feels really good to have something you worked so hard for come to reality," she almost bubbled. Still to come were the... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

20 Feb 2006
HBS Case

Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive

last day of class this past spring, "everyone did a double take," Koehn recalls. Oprah Winfrey was in the house. How the icon of daytime television and chief executive of a major media empire came to HBS after three years of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

24 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

Managing Alignment as a Process

fulfillment). Finally, learning and growth synergies would be achieved by rotating experienced professionals to key jobs in the new companies (key staff rotation), by sharing computer systems (common systems versus plan) and knowledge... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Retail

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