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- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
We all know the importance of mentors and other early career experiences in shaping the kind of leaders we ultimately become. But how important to that development are the particular companies we work for? For Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
formally retired in 1990, he continued to write, teach, and offer seminars on case-method teaching until the last months of his life. Thousands of his students, including HBS professor Michael E. Porter, have never forgotten the impact he... View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
culminates in a violent takeover of the mine in May 2005, whereupon BHP Billiton staff are forced to shut down operations, abandon the mine site, and devise a new strategy for winning back local support.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset
others are bidding for what you want? One solution to distinguishing yourself in competitive environments is to build your bargaining endowment—storing up credibility and resources by developing... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
ANDRUS: Unemployed at graduation, an unlikely and inspiring odyssey takes him from his parents’ basement to the corner office of a company on the cutting edge. Photos by August Miller HBS Alumni of a certain vintage might recall a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
while promoting opportunities for all? How can we manage the core business while innovating for the future? For many of us, these competing and interwoven demands are a source of conflict. Since our brains love View Details
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
he says. BGIE also drove home the idea for him that a well-educated country will be better able to compete in the global economy. Magwegwe immediately set about deploying all that he had learned in the AMP... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
Tulip, a four-star hotel in Festac, into a position as a telephone operator at the Radisson Blue Hotel in Victoria Island. WAVE is expected to train 25,000 people by 2019. “We have to start leveling the... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
losses, improve his finance department with the help of a Wall Street private equity firm, and make it a matter of policy to pay closer attention to managing the balance sheet. Makihara then turned his... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Leading the Way
is facing a crisis of confidence. We all must work to regain the public trust. HBS is committed to educating and developing leaders—as Nitin has described, people of both View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
travel from countries as far-off as Slovakia and Poland. The workers stay in dormitories — homes in town that the Husteads have renovated — for a nominal fee. “Getting and training good people is a core competency for us,” Hustead... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
beginning to recognize many of the same concerns that other sectors face, such as the effect of work-life balance issues on women and the “double bind”—the tension between the perception of competence and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
which I remember it very, very well about strategic competence and trying to figure out what kind of unique competence we might have, which were essentially the kinds of things... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
involved in projects abroad for over twenty years, Fischer observes that his company must compete for human capital with larger, more established concerns as well as other small companies that have begun to... View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- What Do You Think?
Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
themselves and learn to respect non-docs who are competent managers." If management cannot lead the charge in saving the US health care system, from where will the leadership come? What role will... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
started. And during his tenure, Eisenhower leaned on “the Gang,” a group of corporate leaders who had become advisers, to bring their business skills into his administration, saying, “I must learn the value of a dollar.” “Military is all... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
question was, do we get out of it or increase our stake? In view of the long-term trends that we are seeing, generics is a field that is here to stay. And if we want to be in that field, we need View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
their hybrid-fiber-coaxial (HFC) network lose out to the All Fiber Network (AFN) developed by the electric power companies in concert with RCN-inspired entrepreneurs. No, wait. It's 2010, and the channels are controlled not by any one... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
to pay people as little as you can, or work them as hard as you can; it’s a choice to maintain pleasant working conditions or, alternatively, particularly harsh ones: to offer... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
Jamie_Hall SUMMING UP: Does West Coast Management Need Adult Supervision? There is a distinctive West Coast style of management in the United States. It is characterized by, among other things, open-minded leadership, fast decision-making, and adaptive strategies. So... View Details