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Resumes & Cover Letters - Alumni

up to 10 times to track improvement Resumes: Sections, Templates & Examples + – Expected Sections Contact details - Let others know who you are and how to get in touch with you. In addition to your name, you should list your mailing address, phone number, and email... View Details
  • 22 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 22, 2016

found (or potentially found) in practice and whose hypotheses connect independent variables within the control of practitioners to outcomes they care about using logic they view as feasible. I provide several suggestions for how scholars... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

Innovating in the Hot Market of Cold Brew

Jackson Shuttleworth (HBS MBA 2020) had his first cold drip in a New Orleans coffee shop in February 2019, from which began his journey to obtain a decent cold drip device for the home. After giving up on four different cold drip makers, he’s View Details
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Effects of Cultural Ethnicity, Firm Size, and Firm Age on Senior Executives' Trust in Their Overseas Business Partners: Evidence from China

By: Crystal Jiang, Roy Y.J. Chua, Masaaki Kotabe and Janet Murray
We investigate trust relationships between senior business executives and their overseas partners. Drawing on the similarity-attraction paradigm, social-categorization theory, and the distinction between cognition- and affect-based trust, we argue that executives trust... View Details
Keywords: Ethnicity; Culture; Management Teams; Cognition and Thinking; Networks; Globalized Firms and Management; Partners and Partnerships; Business Growth and Maturation; Size; Trust; China
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  • 16 Jun 2015
  • Blog Post

Military Alumna Reflects on Time at HBS

were a dynamic experience from start to finish. I found myself surrounded by so many smart and inspiring people who collectively brought such diverse perspectives. My first seat-mates were-- on my left,-- a young man from Baltimore who... View Details
  • 07 Nov 2023
  • Research & Ideas

When Glasses Land the Gig: Employers Still Choose Workers Who 'Look the Part'

study, Troncoso and Luo looked at six months of data collected by Freelancer.com in 2018. It covers more than 160,000 freelancers, over 2 million applications, and 63,014 completed jobs. They found that freelancers with certain attributes... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
  • 13 Feb 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking Through the Self-Doubt That Keeps Talented Women from Leading

Collis and Leena Kulkarni, former research associates at HBS. “We found that candidates were talented, and yet they self-selected out,” Coffman says. Ultimately, that means many businesses advertising for executive positions may wind up... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 23 Sep 2019
  • Blog Post

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

depression and anxiety can be reduced by coaching employees to increase their resilience, the ability to maintain good mental health despite psychological or physical setbacks. In fact, one study found that over a two-month period, a... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 19 Dec 2023
  • Research & Ideas

$15 Billion in Five Years: What Data Tells Us About MacKenzie Scott’s Philanthropy

Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution. What Motivates People to Give Generously—and Why We Sometimes Don't Why Giving to Others Makes Us Happy Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge View Details
Keywords: by Matthew Lee, Brian Trelstad, and Ethan Tran
  • 05 Feb 2025
  • Blog Post

Leadership with purpose: Redefining success and impact with Satpal Singh (SELP—India 4, 2019)

found leadership is not just achieving results but inspiring teams and creating meaningful impact. One of the most transformative parts of the program was the dynamic interaction with my peers. Our group... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 09 Jan 2020
  • Blog Post

Navigating Grey in the Ever-Evolving Tech Community

Carlyn Strand Sylvester (MBA 2016) leads a small team at Netflix focused on creative testing and innovation for the streaming service’s global paid digital and acquisition channels, with an emphasis on growing the Netflix audience through... View Details
  • December 2004 (Revised February 2006)
  • Case

Executive Decision Making at General Motors

By: David A. Garvin and Lynne Levesque
Describes the evolution of General Motors' strategy, organizational structure, and management processes from its founding to the present day. Focuses on the role of GM's management committee—the senior-decision-making body at the company, now called the Automotive... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Structure; Competitive Strategy; Decision Making; Management Teams; Auto Industry
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  • 12 Mar 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Publish or Perish: What the Research Says About Productivity in Academia

research—as well as how risky they think their colleagues see their research—on a scale from 0 to 10. Interestingly, the team found a correlation between personal risk-taking and how researchers perceive the... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Education
  • 13 Mar 2019
  • Blog Post

There's No Quick Shortcut to Success: Zorpads Takes Off

member – don’t worry, they won’t reveal who – took off her shoes, they knew they had found their problem to solve. "She knew [the smell] was bad, but then she started listing out all the reasons current products on the market don't... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products / Retail
  • 14 Nov 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The Network Effect: Why Companies Should Care About Employees’ LinkedIn Connections

individual employee relationships at 7,715 public US companies representing 19 industries. The researchers found that companies whose real-world employee connections put them at the center of their professional communities performed... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 10 Jan 2017
  • Blog Post

From Product Development to Business School

I sat there silently screaming. Eyes flitting across the room at the faces sitting around the table gathered for a Brita leadership team meeting. They couldn’t possibly do it, I thought to myself, clutching my 3D-printed prototype like a... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Manufacturing; Consumer Products / Retail
  • 05 Sep 2023
  • Book

Failing Well: How Your ‘Intelligent Failure’ Unlocks Your Full Potential

trying to develop a new type of storage battery: “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” “It’s natural to hunker down and imply that failure is to be avoided in tough times, but this is exactly when innovation is... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 16 Feb 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Is Your Workplace Biased Against Introverts?

passion can quietly enable organizational biases against more introspective employees, Jachimowicz and his team say, as studies show that extroverts get more attention from managers in the form of resources, raises, and promotions. The... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 10 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

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

At HBS, I learned how to be decisive with limited information, and that being decisive requires also being a team player, allowing the opinions and knowledge of others to fill my own experience gaps while being able to persuasively... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 22 Nov 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Humans vs. Machines: Untangling the Tasks AI Can (and Can't) Handle

Consulting Group employees work with AI: Humans are still needed to make that call. To operationalize AI successfully, managers must carefully select its applications, train workers in using it properly, and quickly move the line as AI improves. A multidisciplinary... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology