Kim Scott - Publications - Faculty & Research

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AASU50 - Alumni

Glenn-Smith, MBA 2002 Keith Gordon, MBA 2002 Arianne Graham, MBA 2009 Oneica Greaves, MBA 2015 Lisa Hall, MBA 1993 Scott Hilton-Clarke, MBA 1992 W. Cecyl Hobbs, MBA 2001 Michael Holt, MBA 2002 Damien Hooper-Campbell, MBA 2009 Marissa... View Details

01 Apr 2000
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Student "Treks" Lead to Jobs and Opportunities

search consultants. The program featured a banquet and keynote address by Scott D. Cook (MBA '76), cofounder and chairman of Intuit, Inc. At the London-based Eurotrek, a program featuring the topics "Entrepreneurship in Europe,"... View Details

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Campaign Leadership Committee - Alumni

Co-Chairs Mark E. Nunnelly MBA 1984 Mark A. Stevens MBA 1989 Honorary Chairs Jane Batten The James S.C. Chao and Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Family Kim B. Clark Margot Connell Ian M. Cumming MBA 1970** Raymond T. Dalio MBA 1973 Thomas F. Frist... View Details

March 2020 (Revised August 2022)
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Racial Discrimination on Airbnb (A)

By: Michael Luca, Scott Stern, Devin Cook and Hyunjin Kim

Facing mounting criticism and evidence of widespread racial discrimination on the platform, apartment rental platform Airbnb needed to decide a path forward. For years, Airbnb had given hosts extensive discretion about whether to reject a guest after seeing little more... View Details

Keywords: Platform Design; Digital Platforms; Design; Prejudice and Bias; Trust; Problems and Challenges

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Equity (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) Nori Gerardo Lietz Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Real Property John Macomber Camille Douglas Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Strategies for Value Creation - Abridged (SVC-S) (also listed under Strategy) View Details

30 Jun 2021
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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

20 Nov 2019
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Lifting Fallen Families

Scott Roth (MBA 1994) in the Black Hills of South Dakota as the pair discussed ways to help. What Kim wanted to do was build a foundation that would aid in funding the college educations of military children... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

Cofounder and activist in residence, B Lab UK Kim Coupounas (MBA/MPA 1995) Global Ambassador, B Lab and Head of Impact, B Lab US & Canada Business as a Tool for Activism BIO BIO As the recent IPCC report made clear, this is a “Code Red”... View Details

01 Mar 2008
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Creativity from Many Angles

legitimacy and identity in the emerging field of satellite radio. A panel discussion moderated by HBS professor emeritus Jim Heskett that included Scott Cook (MBA ’76) of Intuit, Mark Fishman (AMP 163, 2002) of Novartis, View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

17 Apr 2019
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Give It to Me Straight

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Early on in Kim Scott’s career, she had a few wake-up calls that set her on a mission to become a better boss—a leader who was highly effective but still very... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

02 Jan 2018
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Reconsidering Retirement

Mitch Tuchman and Scott Puritz (photo by Kim Marshall) Mitch Tuchman (MBA 1982) was a successful software entrepreneur in the exuberant 1990s when his first son, Jack, was born. A year later, Tuchman’s life... View Details

Keywords: April White; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Jun 2003
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Fellowships Celebrated

Michael F. Cronin (MBA ’77) poses with recipients of three of his fellowship funds: Jennifer Fung (MBA ’03), who holds the Harvard Student Agencies Fellowship; Daniel Cook (HBS ’04), who holds the Pub and Galley Fund; and Scott Cullerton... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

19 Jan 2017
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Finding Purpose in Profit

Photos by Scott Clark Kim Riether Coupounas (MBA/MPA 1995) has an easy laugh. It erupts when the opera-trained singer and accomplished martial artist is asked whether hitting a high C helps power her fist... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; B corporations

01 Dec 2017
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Ink: Alumni Book Recommendations

what equality really means. It means rethinking everything.” Recommended by Marketing expert Kathleen Harrington Clark (MBA 1990) Stretch by Scott Sonenshein Sonenshein on recognizing your abilities: “We routinely overestimate the... View Details

01 Jun 2005
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Fellowship Campaign Approaching Goal

Wien, advisory board member Laurene Sperling (MBA ’82) views fellowships as a way to ensure that students with broad interests come to the School. Having served on several nonprofit boards, she sees the need for leadership skills in a wide variety of organizations.... View Details

Keywords: HBS; MBA; Fellowships; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2022
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Ink: Comfort in Discomfort

recommend Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How it Changes Us, by Brian Klaas, and Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity, by Kim Scott (MBA 1996). —Christa Quarles (MBA 2000) Mindset:... View Details

01 Mar 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

Humanity by Kim Scott (MBA 1996) (St. Martin’s Press) Using stories of her experiences at Apple, Google, and several start-ups, Scott offers advice on such fundamentals of... View Details

01 Sep 2007
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Last Look

02163. We’ll update you on what we have learned in the next issue. Thank you! LAST ISSUE’S LAST LOOK: Surprisingly, members of two different MBA sections recognized themselves in these Groucho Marx disguises. Thanks to MBA ’78I sectionmates View Details