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  • December 2023
  • Article

Recover, Explore, Practice: The Transformative Potential of Sabbaticals

By: Kira Schabram, Matt Bloom and DJ DiDonna
Sabbaticals have seen an exponential growth in adoption over the last two decades and are ascribed extensive benefits by employers and employees alike. Little is known, however, about how individuals spend their time or how their experiences impact them after they... View Details
Keywords: Sabbatical; Personal Development and Career; Employees
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  • 2016
  • Teaching Note

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Shelly London and Ethics Education

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Tessa Natanay Hamilton and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
Teaching Note for Case 313-028. Following a successful career as a Senior Vice President, Vice President, and Chief Communications Officer at two large corporate companies, Shelly London became a Harvard Advanced Leadership Fellow. During her fellowship she set out to... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Education; Moral Sensibility; Behavior; Decision Making; Leadership; Innovation and Management; Change Management; Social Enterprise; Education Industry; Service Industry; North and Central America
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  • 10 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)

Learn about the career resources available to HBS alumni through HBS Career & Professional Development As a youngster, I used to create “stores” in my driveway, selling things to other neighborhood kids.... View Details
  • 13 May 2019
  • Blog Post

The Many Facets of Becoming a Mother at HBS

professional moms sharing their advice with me on how to manage career and family.  I cannot imagine a more supportive environment during pregnancy and I’m incredibly grateful for it.  What do you wish you knew before coming to HBS?  The... View Details

    Leonard A. Schlesinger

    Leonard A. Schlesinger is Baker Foundation Professor at the Harvard Business School where he serves as Chair of the School’s Practice based faculty and faculty Chair of the MBA Field Global Immersion program. He has served as a member of the HBS faculty from 1978 to... View Details

    • 10 Sep 2024
    • Blog Post

    Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)

    As a youngster, I used to create “stores” in my driveway, selling things to other neighborhood kids. It was an entrepreneurial inclination fostered by growing up in a family that owned retail stores and enjoyed telling stories of their sales. Advertising was a popular... View Details
    Keywords: All Industries
    • 08 Feb 2021
    • Book

    How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect

    think like a social scientist about what would actually lead another person, one I didn’t know well, to change his behavior. I am confident that my effort flopped and that Doug understood the psychology of View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding

      Sara McKinley Torti

      Sara Torti is a senior product and operating executive who has focused extensively on creating and scaling technology-based businesses that require a combination of detailed execution, business insight and technical acumen. She has grown products... View Details

      • Teaching Interest

      Overview

      Professor Mukunda teaches Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD.)  This course focuses on how managers become effective leaders by addressing the human side of enterprise.

      The first modules examine teams, individuals, and networks in the context... View Details

      • 12 PM – 1:30 PM EST, 29 Feb 2024
      • Webinars: Career

      Considering Retirement

      "So you're actually thinking about retiring?!" Retirement can inspire not only excitement for new possibilities, but also fear for the future. How can you keep the parts of work you love but enjoy more balance in your life? What work will you do? How will this... View Details
      • 11 Aug 2003
      • Research & Ideas

      Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

      of contract. "And there are usually financial incentives attached: Career prospects and bonuses ride on this contract—incentives for hitting the targets amount to as much as 97 percent of a U.S. manager's annual salary. "There's... View Details
      Keywords: by Loren Gary

        David A. Thomas

        David Thomas is H. Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.  His research addresses issues related to executive development, cultural diversity in organizations, leadership and organizational change.  He recently served as a... View Details

        Keywords: biotechnology; consulting; consumer products; education industry; financial services; media
        • 23 Jun 2021
        • Blog Post

        How I Sourced My Internship Outside of the US: Abena Nyantekyi-Owusu

        When Abena Nyantekyi-Owusu (MBA 2021) came to HBS after seven years at GE Healthcare in Ghana, she brought with her the support of key mentors, a strong interest in technology, and trust in her intuition. All three would play a part in her View Details

          Ethan S. Bernstein

          Ethan Bernstein (@ethanbernstein) is an associate professor in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. He has spent his career researching novel talent management practices and their effect on employee behavior, collaboration, and performance.... View Details

          • 08 Sep 2021
          • Blog Post

          Building the Bridge from Nonprofit to VC with Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)

          A career pivot into venture capital from a “nontraditional” HBS professional background can seem daunting, or perhaps even impossible. In truth, it is a significant challenge to secure a full-time or internship role in venture capital... View Details
          • January 2005 (Revised July 2010)
          • Case

          Anne Mulcahy: Leading Xerox through the Perfect Storm (A)

          By: William W. George and Andrew N. McLean
          In 2000, Xerox faces bankruptcy amid a liquidity crisis, collapsed profitability, and an expanding SEC investigation. Traces the career and leadership development of Anne Mulcahy, a former sales executive unexpectedly named COO of the beleaguered company as a last... View Details
          Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership; Financial Liquidity; Organizational Culture; Crisis Management; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Gender; Corporate Governance
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          • 20 Aug 2008
          • Op-Ed

          The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism

          resources—people, innovation, traction, money, and execution—business is the most powerful force for change on the global stage right now. No other set of institutions—not religious organizations, not the nation-state, not individual... View Details
          Keywords: by Nancy Koehn
          • 28 Apr 2021
          • Blog Post

          Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

          Cissy Chen (MBA 2019) reflects on her how experience at HBS shaped her career and inspired her to make a difference in her home region of Asia through impact investing. How has your education at HBS helped to shape your View Details
          • 19 Jul 2023
          • Blog Post

          A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations

          While Mizuho Kanai (MBA 2018) was fulfilling her summer internship at NPR, her manager recommended that she read an HBS case study about how the Sesame Workshop CEO, Jeff Dunn (MBA 1981), was changing the institution. “I was blown away,”... View Details
          • 01 Aug 2006
          • First Look

          First Look: August 1, 2006

          lectures of Robert Merton and Myron Scholes as a backdrop to this literature. Publisher's link: http://www.nowpublishers.com/product.aspx?product=FIN&doi=0500000005 The Changing Structure of the Legal Services Industry and the View Details
          Keywords: Sean Silverthorne