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- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. We all have early memories of on-the-job learnings—those moments that had a lasting impact on how we see the world of work and our place in it. This... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
really are shooting for zero defects, but if you don't have some failures, you're probably not taking enough risk." When asked to share his proudest achievement, Kennedy looks instead to the career of his wife, Karen, who enrolled in medical school at the age of 37 and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
1890s, a commissioner and Civil War veteran named Col. George Waring introduced such modern practices as street-sweeping and a uniformed workforce organized along military lines. He even launched something resembling a modern recycling... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
generated an operational loss. "My feedback was, 'You're in trouble,'" recalls Kahn. By the spring, Kahn was in Mumbai, part of a team tasked with turning Agrovet around—the first foreigner the Godrej Group had ever hired in a leadership... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
Photography by Jared Leeds "Our students use traditional academic theory to take on problems that have fundamental relevance in today's business world," says Janice McCormick, executive director of the HBS Doctoral Programs. "Many come in with View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
on practical economic grounds. You want a strong economy, a strong country, and, if you’re anything like me, a strong stock market. Well, note first that stocks do better under Democratic administrations than Republican. (“You can look it... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
conditions favor imprinting. Consider companies that have the following characteristics: distinctive corporate cultures, strategies, and structures, with large cohorts of young managers who are hired at roughly the same time and who... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
together an ambitious agenda for change and hired a charismatic leader named John Stanford, a former Army major general with no ed-ucation administration experience, to be superintendent. Stanford would die tragically of leukemia three... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Research Brief: Where Top-Down Tops Out
these large institutions is too powerful for one leader to overcome within the limited time frame of tenure—a finding that could apply to other organizations as well. Sadun is hopeful this evidence will influence hospitals to rethink their View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Job Hunting in a Tight Market: Strength in Numbers
creation tactics, the club uses small-group strategy sessions led by trained career coaches to guide members through the job search process. “It’s a practical yet sophisticated approach to the job hunt,” said Angela Piscitello (MBA 1995),... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
the lives they want, and how the different generations can collaborate more effectively at work. Fortune & Freedom: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Success by Jim Hirshfield (MBA ’66) (Millennium Ventures Press) Based on his experiences over years of entrepreneurial... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
@Soldiers Field
the founding fathers of behavioral economics. Their longtime collaboration would eventually affect every field imaginable, but Lewis said the practice of it was less dramatic: “What it was, was two guys who loved each other sitting in a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
An Advocate for Women's Equality
the armed forces came at this time. On the policy side, Nixon's Labor Department enforced new requirements for contractors to hire and promote women; conducted compliance reviews of universities; and gave the Equal Opportunity Commission... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Value Added
regardless of location. "A handful of senior consultants will go out and open a new office," he says. "They hire the best talent available in that country and train them to assume total responsibility from their mentors within five to ten... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
professor Michael A. Cusumano identify the common magic mojo management practices of a trio who were individually very different people but who shared a similar drive. “All three were enormously ambitious and dreamed big dreams—not so... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Emmons Heads Christensen Center
In addition, the center will conduct and disseminate research on best practices and innovations in case-method pedagogy, and serve as a convener for symposia on teaching and learning. Funding for the center has been an important goal of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
changes in its workforce and shifts in the broader social narrative," she observes. "This type of study adds to our understanding of how organizational and societal practices work together." McGinn notes that over the past few decades... View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
[Editor's note: Since this case study was posted, two faculty members have also offered their insight to the BlackBerry situation. Read their comments below and keep the conversation going!] BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins was hired in... View Details
- 03 Feb 2014
- News
Eyes on Medical Breakthroughs
offered research jobs at the same big firms that were hiring her male classmates as executives. So she opted for a job at a small investment bank that came with a lower salary, but also a chance to prove herself. "They gave me the chance... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
miles south of Kabul previously unknown to cartographers. In the Taliban-influenced south, entering a village to build a cell phone tower was a task to be handled with great tact and cultural sensitivity. Khoja consulted with early Afghan View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna