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- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
passed, often twelve to twenty-four months. Such a clause, for instance, sparked a public legal battle two years ago when Google hired away a top Microsoft executive, Kai-Fu Lee. But disputes and tensions over noncompetes are not isolated... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
Participation, Pluralism, and Public Ethics. Ebrahim teaches the required MBA course Leadership and Organizational Behavior, and chairs the Executive Education program Governing for Nonprofit Excellence. Q: Mario, tell us about Venture... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 18 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
SIPs in 2021
mayhem, but it is also a waste of very good ideas that may never see the light of day.” Partnerships, she says, are even more complicated than marriages. The pressures from courting investors, managing employees, speaking to the public,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
politics. "It had extremely high inflation rates and extremely low economic growth rates." But then two things happened, says Domínguez: First, the government began enacting serious reforms—the kind of fiscal and public policy changes... View Details
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45847 August 2013 Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Get Excited: Reappraising Pre-Performance Anxiety as Excitement By: Brooks, Alison Wood Abstract—Individuals often feel anxious in anticipation of tasks such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
the best possible solution to complicated public policy problems,” he says, weighing all the evidence against a gut feeling. Beyond his business acumen, it’s also possible that Mitsotakis inherited a bit of political instinct. The prime... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
delivery business in a number of countries, including the UK, France, Italy, Brazil, and Canada. It went public in 2014, became a FTSE-100 company in 2017, and is currently worth $5 billion. That’s the price of an incorrect answer to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
that you have published on leadership and management, which one speaks most directly to the challenges you face as Dean? I’d say In Their Time because it highlights the importance of the broader context and how profoundly it shapes the... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 05 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference Across Borders
said I needed to come live with them.” At 11 years old, Westphal moved to Massachusetts to be with his parents where he learned English and attended public schools in the Greater Boston area. As Westphal neared the end of high school ,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
years” in a Financial Times poll of 4,000 executives. He recently spoke about the public policy and business challenges ahead. U.S. consumers complain loudly that prescription drugs cost too much. What’s your response? We have a... View Details
- Web
2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
outlets. Professor Wingfield is the author of several books, most recently No More Invisible Man: Race and Gender in Men's Work, and is the recipient of the 2018 Public Understanding of Sociology award from the American Sociological... View Details
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
now channel that in a different way? That’s what led me to this realization that public speaking and experience sharing could actually be my mission. Instead of being employed by someone else, I could be an... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
outcomes for the city groups we worked with and hopefully higher impact for the residents of San Francisco.” Nora Barr (MBA 2016), who recently finished two projects with the SF Public Library, says Community Partners not only allowed her... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
working years in book publishing, which is both highly regulated and furiously competitive. We need pro-business champions of the public interest like Teddy Roosevelt of my father’s time or Thurman Arnold of my youth. John M. Pickering... View Details
- Blog
Two-Year Action Plan Update: Q+A with Terrill Drake, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Harvard Business School
We want to be the catalyzing force that empowers folks to work on their own behalf, for their colleagues or the constituents they serve, and the institution. There continues to be much interest and excitement about the work that our office is doing. I've had the... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
Stewart (MBA 1983) address Black female leadership. Noting that a group of unicorns is called “a blessing,” the authors present “an unapologetic look at our often-overlooked role in America’s social, political, psychological, and economic history” and describe their... View Details
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
High School, formed teacher teams to take on leadership responsibilities for the school, something that was relatively new in public education. The 40 or so BBC leaders to whom I spoke under Dyke's predecessor multiplied into the 400... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
on these teams. As non-native English speakers attempted to counter the apprehension they felt when having to speak English, and native English speakers fought against feeling excluded and devalued, a cycle of negative emotion ensued and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
absolutely well placed. WK: We've been speaking of the founder's leadership; what about corporate leadership and the public's confidence in it in this era of accounting scandals? It seems that the entire corporate community is in its own... View Details
- Web
Past Issues - Alumni
asked five alumni to revisit their hopes and dreams Complete Table of Contents June 2023 Curb Appeal Can Jessica Tisch (JD/MBA 2008) clean up New York City in her role as commissioner of the Department of Sanitation? Alumni Achievement Awards 2023 As leaders across the... View Details