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goal setting, and action steps. Apr 10 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 10 Apr 2025 Virtual Fireside Chat: Planning for a Successful Career Break and Return Whether you're actively considering a break or simply want to be prepared for the unexpected,... View Details
- 11 Oct 2023
- News
Soldier On
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In November of 2022, 33-year-old Phillip Jones (MPA/MBA 2021) was elected mayor of Newport News, Virginia, where he had spent part of his childhood. The son of two Air Force veterans, he served six years in... View Details
- 02 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities
Entrepreneurs have to have a clear sense of the opportunity and how to build the business. But the best ones are willing to reexamine their assumptions and are willing to veer left or right or pivot all the way around when the data... View Details
Keywords: by Lauren Barley
- 09 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Where Will You Be in 30 Years: Behind the Scenes of the 5 Big Life Decisions Documentary
their own companies. Singer and Hackett wanted to see how those plans were put into play right after HBS and over the course of a career. All of these stories needed to start somewhere, and Singer and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?
the office when you are there.” CJ added, “The most unproductive days I’ve ever had have been in an office environment. The open plan offices are laughable Maybe we should just schedule one social day a week in the office and call it what... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project
Lisle, IL Subjects: AP U.S. Government, College Prep/Honors U.S. History NC Scott Nolt Gray Stone Day School Misenheimer, NC NE Brittney Norton Boys Town High School Boys Town, NE ID Toni Norton New Vision High School Post Falls, ID NY Kyle Novak Academy Of Urban View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The War Within
When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
head to this day,” he says. “As an entrepreneur, leadership is the most important quality to have—you need it to attract the right people and get the optimum performance beyond any employee numbers or resources you control. And the case... View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping
was based in Alabama and had shipping and docking rights in prime eastern port cities. Buying Pan-Atlantic for $7 million, McLean noted that the acquisition would "permit us to proceed immediately with View Details
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Speed has gotten a pretty bad rap, says Anne Morriss (MBA 2004). The Silicon Valley mantra of moving fast and breaking things has led to waves of high-profile... View Details
- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
focuses on those issues and tools of greatest relevance to the managers being trained. For example, managers of a firm like Microsoft need to know how to preserve the patentability of inventions, how to avoid infringing on the intellectual property View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles
Education Club, Latin America Club Adriana Garcia Ceja As Adriana makes plans for her future – “growing a business through operations and investments” – she reflects on the key leadership insight she has gained so far. “Humble inquiry,”... View Details
- 16 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders
that more intensive people management is a worthwhile investment of a founder’s time.” Effective human resource management is more than just keeping the paperwork flowing. “You also need to focus on the strategic part of managing people to make sure they are working on... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Aug 2023
- Blog Post
Aaron Sabin (MS/MBA 2023): Engineering a Climate Change Solution by Cutting the Cost of Carbon Capture
pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. (Harvard GSAS) So, what’s the catch? “The solution right now is sensitive to oxygen and water, which are present in the atmosphere in much greater quantities than CO2,” Sabin says. “Sometimes... View Details
- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Capital Connection
Vernon Beckford (MBA 2013) saw the gap almost immediately. From the beginning of his career in commercial real estate finance—first at Credit Suisse and then later at CW Capital and Global Atlantic Financial Group—Beckford observed Wall Street’s obsession with... View Details
- 14 Oct 2021
- In Practice
Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return
commitment, and trust in the long term. What do employers need to get right with their return-to-work policies? 1. Make sure your policy has legitimacy. Take a close look at what employees were able to do during the pandemic. Many... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Budgeting Kills Your Company
decisions are often blind to their impact on long-term value. "Resource allocation should be about putting funds behind the right high-value opportunities," Baxter continues. He recommends creating an all-in-one process in which... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
- 23 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation
talking about enlisting product users, critics, and experts for a fresh view. He says the question for this tension is: “How do you best sequence the knowledge of others inside and outside the organization to solve the right problem with... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
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Demonstration Policy This policy outlines guidance and requirements for and restrictions on demonstrations and other forms of dissent on the Harvard Business School campus. It complements the University-Wide Statement on Rights and... View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
mask on first, before attempting to assist others” is a potent metaphor. In the blink of an eye, self-care for leaders of organizations has transformed from a feel-good nostrum to a strategic first priority. Companies cannot afford to lose leadership View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne