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- 30 Sep 2014
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Life Lessons on the Open Seas
everyone is trying to reach the same goal, but contributing in different ways, or if you’re trying to make a transaction with another company, inevitably the process works,” says Callahan. That approach plays out every day that Sail to... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Getting on Board
very effective advocates.” When your search narrows to a particular organization, use the interview process to discover as much as you can about its culture, priorities, and problems. “Find out how the company makes its money,” urges... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
Higgins: Some organizations create much stronger imprints than others. How the early years on the job make a lasting imprint Associate Professor Monica Higgins’s interest in the relational context in which careers are shaped led to her study of the career paths of over... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
When you became Dean, were there surprises for you nonetheless? It wasn’t a complete surprise, but one of the interesting things was to see how information dries up when you become the head of an organization. For years I had been a close... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
Dean Light, the only participant who appeared on all three panels, gave an overview of the market events leading up to the crisis and outlined a three-part process for dealing with it. Using the metaphor of an emergency room, Light... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
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Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
match with which career paths. READ MORE When we talk about a career path, we often talk about it as a journey of discovery. You go out. You try a few jobs. And if the stars align, you gradually find something that suits you best. But what if that View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
“establishing a sense of urgency” — is told by a middle manager who sought to spur change in his company's purchasing process by highlighting its inefficiencies.The manager hired a summer intern to catalogue all the types of gloves being... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
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The First Five Years: Raymond Hwang (MBA 2010)
unfiltered data: history, symptoms, test results, examination findings, and patient preferences. The surgeon’s job is essentially to distill this diverse information into a diagnosis and treatment plan. In the operating room, the View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
turning by the end of the 1950s. A 1959 article informed readers that women would be allowed to attend the School as second-year MBA students and doctoral candidates. "It is conceivable that a few young women would see good reason for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Fortune magazine estimates that 75 percent of all strategies and projects fail; this book offers a proven system to ensure being among the 25 percent that succeed. It provides interactive analytical tools and a step-by-step process to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
Issue Focus: Leadership To keep pace with a fast-changing global business environment, “You’ve got to institutionalize the process of reinvention,” says William Fung. Photo courtesy Li & Fung Ltd. Issue Focus Making the Leadership Case... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
In 2010, Maria Gotsch (MBA 1989) called a meeting with the chief information and technology officers at five of the largest banks headquartered in Manhattan. The session would last for three hours, but as Gotsch recalls, the executives in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
met an interesting character named Jeff Parker. Parker, then 37 years old, was in the process of resigning from a lucrative job at Fidelity Investments to launch a venture aimed at providing analytical View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
The sci-fi future for cancer treatment has become a reality, with breakthrough therapies that can use a cancer patient’s genetic information to create personalized treatments or employ the body’s immune response to treat disease. But for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
favorite HBS class? Christine: "My favorite class was TOM, which helps you understand operating systems and processes behind how people and organizations work. One of my favorite memories was when Professor Christina Wing took us on a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Managing Change
from HBP and now HBX as well—Das has shepherded a process through which Executive Education has enhanced its reputation as a premier provider of executive development to leading firms and institutions around the world, while engaging more... View Details
- 30 Aug 2018
- News
Sharing a Passion for Art
color, are an integral part of the experience. Visitors can come just to stroll or picnic on the grounds. Creating that same close-to-nature ambiance inside the building required imaginative technology and painstaking attention to detail throughout a three-year design... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
There’s a lot of self-learning that goes on in the process of adjusting to a different environment. “Some students are better at reaching across cultures and being effective communicators in ambiguous situations,” continues Abrami, who... View Details
- 22 Oct 2018
- News
Sharing a Passion for Art
exhibition space set among forests, meadows, and dunes on the Netherlands’ west coast, where, as van Caldenborgh puts it, “there is nothing to distract people from looking at and enjoying art.” The three-year process of building the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
scores. What’s your outlook on the overall impact of research in this area? ZC: For me, each paper’s feedback opens up so many new questions, and the whole process happens so organically, it feels like you’re having a conversation with... View Details