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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Paulson Sees World of Opportunity
most successful of you will embrace change.” A 32-year veteran of Goldman Sachs who was named the firm’s chairman and CEO in 1999, Paulson urged his audience to pursue careers in areas that may not be trendy but that best conform to their View Details
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
at the Highest Levels By: Groysberg, Boris, and Deborah Bell Abstract—The article examines the gender gap that is present in boardrooms in U.S. corporations and internationally in 2013 as more women attempt to reach executive-level... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 21 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 1: HBS/HKS Faculty Reflections
develop outstanding leaders, skilled in management and the shaping of innovative public policy, who will assume positions of influence spanning business, government, and non-profit organizations, through which they will contribute... View Details
- Web
Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month | Baker Library
Business Leaders is a biographical guide of 96 Asian Americans who have had successful business careers. These life stories reflect individual triumphs as well as the trials of families and ethnic groups who have applied their skills and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
plants, you don’t need to employ highly skilled technicians to maintain equipment. Suppliers of production equipment also tend to cluster near manufacturing. (The countries with the highest production of machine tools—Germany, Japan,... View Details
- Web
The Arts of Communication - Course Catalog
speaking skills and coasting is an easy road to a 1. This class is for those ready to receive feedback . This may include feedback about your ideas, your presence (including posture), and more. Career Focus Exceptionally effective leaders... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
Math is where, historically, you see the biggest learning loss occur, and when those skills atrophy, it’s very hard to engage in the next level. Everything builds on the level before it. That’s true in other subjects as well—reading is... View Details
- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
education; provide case studies showing how leading MBA programs have begun reinventing themselves for the better; and offer concrete ideas for how business schools can surmount the challenges that come with reinvention, including securing faculty with new View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Books: Winning the Influence Game
The authors outline seven principles — involving skills such as relationship and coalition building, cooperation with competitors, and using influence as a competitive weapon — that can help managers protect their interests and become... View Details
- 17 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?
what should you be doing with this information?” Testing companies use a rash of custom-designed assessments, including personality tests, skills assessments, math and logic problems, and judgment tests, on hypothetical work situations.... View Details
- 15 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience
product, technology, and security teams should be able to find out whether software updates will be or should be rolled out in waves and where this might present a comfortable or uncomfortable level of risk to the business. Technology:... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
Almandoz Abstract—A case study is presented on business ethics and bank management. The situation facing the president of a community bank established to operate as a green business and to consider ethical issues of bank loans when it is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
The General Shoe Company, 1921 | Baker Library
The General Shoe Company, 1921 What I love about General Shoe is it allows students to practice a core skill of general managers: how do you go into an ambiguous situation and get to the bottom of it? . . . That View Details
- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
I initially considered "the wrong direction." This presented a puzzle. Did better-led teams really make more mistakes? I simply did not think that could be accurate. Why else might better teams have higher error rates? One... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- Web
Field Course: Ideation and Prototyping for Innovation - Course Catalog
the solution is inferior to rival offerings. This course will employ a learning-by-doing approach to help you to avoid such failures. Through team project work, you will build skills at applying tools and frameworks for rigorous problem... View Details
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In-Office, Remote, or Hybrid: Strategies for Success - Recruiting
with the skills to lead in any environment, explore our resources for recruiting HBS talent . Technology: Use It, Don't Let It Use You Remote collaboration is easier than ever thanks to platforms like Zoom, Slack, Google Workspace,... View Details
- 11 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
What You Need to Know about Recruiting at HBS
Career and Professional Development Office over the past thirteen years, as well as my own experience as an HBS student who found herself at more than one company presentation wondering why on earth I was there. In order to recruit... View Details
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Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog
(mergers), turnarounds, crisis management, scaling, reinvention, and career action planning. The course will develop skills in diagnosing, designing, and executing complex actions. It forces students to contemplate the managerial... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
leadership style to “drain the swamp” of the Washington bureaucracy and deliver results for the American people. The United States is not a company, of course, and its citizens are not employees, but voters still were drawn to his promises of a fresh approach to... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
Deborah L. Soule and Lynda M. Applegate Abstract This paper examines virtual team learning in new product development situations. New product development activities manifest novelty, uncertainty and complexity, presenting an extreme need... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace