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  • Career Coach

Mo Fong

change, accelerating in their current role or looking to make a career pivot. Mo has experience in building teams, transforming people managers to great leaders while navigating through life changes... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Education; Government; Social Enterprise; Consumer Finance; Financial Services (All); Commercial Banking; Financial Services (All)
  • Profile

Frank Spencer

United States, providing ministers and teachers of the church with pensions, medical benefits, life and disability insurance, financial assistance, and mid-career education. Asked to consider his impact, Spencer says, "I know I haven't View Details
Keywords: Real Estate; Services
  • June 2012 (Revised August 2013)
  • Case

Driving Towards a Disruption?

By: Willy Shih and William Noble
As Clayton Christensen drove to the studio to deliver an online executive education class, he pondered the future of management education. How big a threat did online degree programs, corporate universities, and other innovations in the delivery of management training... View Details
Keywords: Disruptive Technology; Performance Trajectories; Disruptive Innovations; Business Education; Business School; Internet And Online Services Industries; Disruptive Innovation; Higher Education; Corporate Strategy; Internet; Performance; Education Industry; Boston
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  • 30 Nov 2021
  • Blog Post

Searching for Professional Passion Through My VC Summer Internship

jobs challenged me intellectually and exposed me to some amazing colleagues, but I often struggled to feel passionate about the work itself. I was intrigued by the challenges inherent to the tech business landscape, but I realized that I needed a better understanding... View Details
  • Profile

Cherian Kurien

ability to engage and communicate such analysis in a clear and easy to understand manner with your fellow colleagues. I was keen on such a collaborative and dynamic learning environment as opposed to a lecture based one. How has your overall HBS experience shaped your... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products; Retail
  • April 2016
  • Teaching Note

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Junko Yoda and Her Collaboration to Address Sex Trafficking in Asia

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ai-Ling Jamila Malone and Tessa Natanay Hamilton
Following a successful career as the first female Vice President of Goldman Sachs in Asia, Junko Yoda became a 2010 Advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard University. During her fellowship, she set out to promote awareness, and prevent and alleviate the effects of human... View Details
Keywords: Crime; Business And Community; Community Impact; Communities; Economic Development; Innovation; Leadership; Change Management; Crime and Corruption; Social Entrepreneurship; Business and Community Relations; Gender; Asia
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  • 11 Jun 2019
  • Book

These Aren't Beach Books, but Managers Should Read Them Anyway

social change has been at the center of many entrepreneurial efforts by Harvard Business School alumni. Howard Stevenson discusses their pragmatic approaches to overcoming long odds. Unlocking the Customer Value Chain Technology doesn't... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 2016
  • Teaching Note

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Richard Fahey and Robert Saudek—Lighting Liberia

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Tessa Natanay Hamilton and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
Teaching Note for Case 313-032. After successful careers as lawyers and Fellows in Harvard's Advanced Leadership Initiative, Richard Fahey and Robert Saudek set out to tackle a large-scale infrastructure challenge in a complex environment by ultimately using advanced... View Details
Keywords: Solar; Solar Power; Electricity; Clean Technology; Scaling-up; Economic Development; Partnerships; Sustainability; Innovation; Leadership Skills; Renewable Energy; Energy; Infrastructure; Information Technology; Economy; Partners and Partnerships; Distribution; Innovation Leadership; Leadership; Social Entrepreneurship; Change Management; Energy Industry; Africa; Liberia
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    Chasing Stars

    It is taken for granted in the knowledge economy that companies must employ the most talented performers to compete and succeed. Many firms try to buy stars by luring them away from competitors. But Boris Groysberg shows what an uncertain and disastrous practice... View Details

    • 04 Mar 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness

    organization or in a decision-making role,” Chang says, “you can have optimism that any progress you made will probably persist beyond your tenure.” You Might Also Like: Career Advice for Minorities and... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 05 Oct 2017
    • Blog Post

    Working as a Software Engineer in Industrial Technology

    Tell us about your career prior to HBS?I like to joke that prior to HBS I went from a career in abstract to applied philosophy, with an ever increasing focus on the applied. I started out on a very academic... View Details
    Keywords: Technology
    • 2022
    • Book

    Purpose + Profit: How Business Can Lift Up the World

    By: George Serafeim
    The roadmap and best practices to reap the enormous value that can emerge when your business prioritizes social and environmental goals—such as climate change, diversity and inclusion, and sustainability—right alongside the pursuit of profit.

    We not only... View Details
    Keywords: ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Profitability; Business And Society; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Goals and Objectives; Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Value Creation; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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    • March 2016
    • Teaching Note

    Advanced Leadership Pathways: Richard Fahey and Robert Saudek – Lighting Liberia

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Tessa Natanay Hamilton and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
    After successful careers as lawyers and Fellows in Harvard's Advanced Leadership Initiative, Richard Fahey and Robert Saudek set out to tackle a large-scale infrastructure challenge in a complex environment by ultimately using advanced leadership skills to increase... View Details
    Keywords: Energy
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    • 23 Jan 2021
    • News

    Lessons And Rewards Of A Serial Entrepreneur’s Life

    • Profile

    Naiyya Saggi

    were top of mind for them. Classes such as Business at the Base Of the Pyramid and Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital in Healthcare led me to question basic assumptions about how societal change could be created. Outside HBS, working... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care; Consulting
    • September 2007 (Revised October 2017)
    • Case

    Still Leading (A): Issues in Transitioning to New Forms of Service Later in Life

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Lance Pierce
    Identifies the challenges for experienced leaders who transition from their primary income-earning careers to a next phase of public service or social-purpose work, based on interviews and published sources. View Details
    Keywords: Leadership Development; Personal Development and Career; Transition; Social Entrepreneurship; Social Enterprise; Society
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    • 27 Oct 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?

    navigating the corporate ladder remains a strategic exercise for underrepresented groups. “There's a lot of pressure for many organizations to have certain amounts of diversity,” Chang says. “If you’re part of an underrepresented... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost
    • July 2022 (Revised January 2023)
    • Case

    Vicky Tsai and Tatcha: Confronting Stereotypes

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Veronica Tong
    Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 323-007. This case examines the career of Vicky Tsai, the creator of San Francisco-based TATCHA, a Japanese-themed luxury beauty brand launched in 2009. It explores how Tsai developed the concept, assembled management, and successfully... View Details
    Keywords: Cosmetics Industry; Japan; Startup; Marketing; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development; Product Development; Product Marketing; Acquisition; Identity; Brands and Branding; Ethnicity; Gender; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; United States
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    • 16 May 2015
    • Blog Post

    Using an MBA to Reimagine the Music Industry

    When we meet prospective students at information sessions around the world they’re often curious about the student experience at HBS. How does HBS prepare students for the challenges of leadership? What is section life like? Why do so many MBA students View Details
    • 31 Aug 2021
    • Book

    Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

    should do: “agitate, innovate, and orchestrate.” Ordinary people can effect change After all, people lower down the organizational ladder, who may seem to have little influence, often have far more power than they realize to View Details
    Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald