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  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

Trading Up — Kenneth D. Brody (MBA 1971)

On a summer evening in 1991, after a small, invitation-only dinner in New York City, Ken Brody took aside the guest of honor for a private conversation. The longer the two men talked, the more Brody sensed he had found a kindred spirit. Like Brody -- a milkman's son... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 15 Mar 2017
  • Blog Post

An Average Day at HBS

Prospective students often visit campus to learn more about life at HBS. They’re curious about things like case method, housing, and the section experience. But once you get on campus, what is the day-to-day student experience like? We... View Details
  • 07 Jul 2011
  • What Do You Think?

So We Adapt. What’s the Downside?

we convince ourselves that there isn't much to be learned from a mistake because the mistake doesn't matter. He prescribes such things as the utilization of spaces like universities in which to experiment safely, or a personal critic or... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Introductory Reading for Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model

By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron and Kari L. Granger
This paper is the sixth of six pre-course reading assignments for an experimental leadership course developed by the authors over five years (2004-2008) at the U. of Rochester Simon School of Business working with students, alumni, executives, and faculty from various... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Development; Curriculum and Courses; Strategy; Performance Capacity; Attitudes; Behavior; United States; Netherlands; Texas
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  • 13 Feb 2024

Student Perspectives: Life at HBS

Join us for a unique opportunity to hear firsthand from current HBS students about their MBA journey. Students will offer a comprehensive discussion about the student experience including academics, RC sections, social activities,... View Details
  • 23 Jun 2022
  • Research & Ideas

All Those Zoom Meetings May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness

Americans are lonelier than ever—a problem the COVID-19 pandemic may have exacerbated. Could interactions on platforms like Zoom and Twitch come close to replicating the real-life contact people crave? New research suggests that’s more likely to happen if the virtual... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • Article

Front-line Staff Perspectives on Opportunities for Improving the Safety and Efficiency of Hospital Work Systems

By: Anita L. Tucker, Sara J. Singer, Jennifer E. Hayes and Alyson Falwell

Objective To link safety-related concerns raised by frontline staff about hospital work systems (operational failures) to the safety and efficiency of hospitals, and to contrast these concerns with national patient safety initiatives.

Data... View Details

Keywords: Perspective; Opportunities; Safety; Performance Efficiency; System; Failure; Conferences; Employees; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Experience and Expertise; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States
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  • 11 Apr 2022
  • Research & Ideas

A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive

sometimes what feeds that instinct is experience. Experience and expertise are not bad things, but sometimes they narrow the way we think about problems because we think we have the right answer. "e’ve never seen an organization that... View Details
Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint
  • 12 Oct 2021
  • News

Apollo Hires Legendary Banker Bill Lewis (MBA 1982) to Boost Top Ranks

Photo source: Apollo Global Management Inc. Investment banker Bill Lewis (MBA 1982) has joined Apollo Global Management Inc. as a senior partner and a member of Apollo’s Management Committee. Lewis had previously been Chairman of Investment Banking at Lazard, which he... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Banking on Success

was a bit of an adjustment," he laughs, "but the best thing about this experience is that it's given me a chance to assemble a great group of people and work with them to create what I hope will be an extraordinary fund and firm." Waters... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
  • 17 Oct 2023
  • Blog Post

HBS Section I Celebrates Parents, Mentors, and Partners Day

was able to participate. “I had a great time at Parents’ Day,” shared Christy Chen, mother of Sandie Xu (MBA 2024). “As someone who never studied in the US, I loved seeing the classroom dynamic at HBS. It was great to get an inside look at my daughter’s View Details
  • 09 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

War in Ukraine: Soaring Gas Prices and the Return of Stagflation?

nowhere near de-escalation. My personal assessment is that it is likely to get worse." Since the conflict seems poised to get worse before it gets better, what impacts should businesses and consumers expect to experience as a result?... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Energy
  • Profile

Ahmed Alimi

What's a natural childhood ambition? To be an astronaut? A firefighter? For Ahmed Alimi, the attraction was to number crunching. "My parents tell me that as a child, I said I wanted to be an accountant when I grew up. I loved math." In fact, Ahmed became... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Financial Services
  • Web

Online Management Course | HBS Online

participants throughout the course. Learn about bringing this course to your organization . Learner Stories 87% acquired new skills that were immediately applicable This program debunked many myths about management. I highly recommend anyone with or without managerial... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Bridging the Gap

experience while earning a high school degree. One of Hamilton County’s Future Ready Institutes, the program was inspired in part by a YALP case study. Now director of community relations at BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, Wilson is... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • 16 Mar 2009
  • Research & Ideas

When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses

infrastructure is largely private. ISPs make their own decisions about what systems to install, and what services to provide. Certainly governments can offer incentives, but when Japan experimented with IPv6 deployment incentives at the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Telecommunications
  • 08 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?

How a company decides who is authorized to make what types of decisions can have a profound effect on its business, both in terms of everyday effectiveness and the bottom line. Consider the experience of one global conglomerate that... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
  • 30 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 30, 2007

are relevant to strategic choice, as well as how our model complements both other theories of choice that view the role of experience as central and recent work in population ecology that emphasizes cognitive processes. Download the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat

we see so frequently in the real world." The Lab Experiments The research team conducted a series of experiments to study the effect of two important hormones: testosterone (associated with decreased fear... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Financial Aid - Alumni

of experiences and perspectives to the classroom and make it possible for recipients to pursue career paths based on interest and potential impact rather than student debt. A Tradition of Philanthropy Watch this 3-minute video to learn... View Details