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2+2 Program - MBA

HBS MBA Program. We're looking for innovative thinkers who have demonstrated leadership and analytical skills and want to develop their knowledge and passion to make a difference in the world. After being admitted through 2+2, students... View Details

    Caroline M. Elkins

    Caroline Elkins is the Thomas Henry Carroll/Ford Foundation Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government and International Economy unit at HBS. She is also Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, an... View Details

    • 13 Jan 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: January 13, 2009

    American Civil War, Maggie Lena Walker did her best to actively effect change by finding solutions to the social and economic problems facing blacks and especially black women. Taking charge of the flailing Independent Order of St. Luke... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Research Summary

    Simultaneous Distinction, Democratization and Omnivorism Effects: A Longitudinal Analysis of Dynamic Symbolic Boundaries in Counterfeit Consumption Networks

    Sociologists have long examined the interactive relationship between social structure, taste and power.  This literature has overwhelmingly fallen into three, ostensibly competing, theoretical “camps”: Distinction, where high-status consumers use... View Details
    • May 2006
    • Module Note

    Leading Culturally Diverse Teams

    By: Robin J. Ely
    Describes the Leading Culturally Diverse Teams module (eight class sessions), which teaches students the leadership perspectives and skills necessary to develop high-functioning, culturally diverse teams (teams diverse in, for example, race, ethnicity, gender,... View Details
    Keywords: Competency and Skills; Diversity; Leadership; Groups and Teams; Perspective; Culture
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    • 01 Mar 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: March 1

    Review 89, no. 3 (March 2011) Abstract Job requirements at the top of corporations have changed. Companies have come to expect much more from their C-level executives, who need new and different skills to deal with today's business... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 27 Sep 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Catherine Tinsley, Georgetown University McDonough School of Business

    • 16 Sep 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: September 16, 2008

    firms otherwise sheltered from entry by standalone rivals may be vulnerable to an adjacent platform provider's envelopment attack. We analyze conditions under which envelopment strategies are likely to succeed. Download the paper:... View Details
    • Article

    Managing a Polarized Workforce: How to Foster Debate and Promote Trust

    By: Julia A. Minson and Francesca Gino
    One of the toughest challenges leaders face is managing diverse perspectives—and given heightened tensions over politics and movements such as #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, that’s more difficult today than ever before. At the same time, productive disagreement and... View Details
    Keywords: Polarization; Employees; Perspective; Interpersonal Communication; Organizational Culture; Trust
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    • September 2013 (Revised June 2017)
    • Case

    IBM and the Reinvention of High School (A): Proving the P-TECH Concept

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
    IBM's Corporate Citizenship office created a social and organizational innovation in public education through a business-school partnership. IBM's Stanley Litow was the key architect in designing Pathways in Technology Early College High School, known as P-TECH. The... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Partnerships; Leadership; Partners and Partnerships; Education; Business and Community Relations; Change; Innovation and Invention; Education Industry
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    • 01 Dec 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions

    social enterprise (WISE), a type of organization that helps people transition back into the labor market after long-term unemployment. It also exemplifies what organization theorists call a hybrid: Rather than depending on charitable... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 20 Mar 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: March 20, 2007

    different forms of leadership. Each requires different skills and processes for effective performance, and therefore, requires different forms of organization, resourcing, skill-building, practice, and other preparation in advance.... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • August 2021
    • Technical Note

    Brand You: Crafting Your Personal Brand

    By: Jill Avery and Rachel Greenwald
    Selling oneself is something that we have to do every day in both professional and personal settings. We face it when we apply for a job, advocate for a promotion or a raise, vie for a leadership position, attempt to land a new client, write a dating profile, or meet a... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Brand; Brand Management; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Identity; Opportunities; Talent and Talent Management; Jobs and Positions; Strength and Weakness; Communication
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    • November 2003 (Revised May 2005)
    • Case

    Beverly Stern: Retail Executive

    By: H. Kent Bowen and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
    Beverly Stern has been a successful operating manager in three prominent retail chains: GAP, Pottery Barn, and Williams-Sonoma. Stern's last job at a start-up did not meet her expectations, and she must now decide what to do next. She has an offer to start a new retail... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Experience and Expertise; Personal Characteristics; Jobs and Positions; Decisions; Retail Industry
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    • Profile

    Michael R. Bloomberg

    cultural issues put his abundant management skills on display. He would win re-election twice and serve until 2013, equaling the longest-serving mayoralties of Fiorello LaGuardia, Robert Wagner and Ed Koch. During his administration, his... View Details
    • February 2011
    • Exercise

    Pitch Your Project!

    By: Thomas Steenburgh
    No matter what you do later in your career, you are going to have to learn how to pitch ideas. Perhaps you will want to convince a venture capitalist to invest in your new business idea. Perhaps you will want to convince your company to develop an innovative product.... View Details
    Keywords: Business Plan; Change; Venture Capital; Governing and Advisory Boards; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Marketing; Product Development; Interests; Complexity; Chicago; New York (state, US)
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    • Article

    Entrepreneurial Creativity Through Motivational Synergy

    By: T. M. Amabile
    This paper defines and describes entrepreneurial creativity, which is the generation and implementation of novel, appropriate ideas to establish a new venture. Entrepreneurial creativity can be exhibited in established organizations as well as in start-up firms. The... View Details
    Keywords: Creativity; Motivation and Incentives; Organizational Culture; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention
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    • 18 Nov 2021
    • Op-Ed

    5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation

    Without leaving the hallways of their public high school, dozens of students from the economically distressed city of Newburgh, New York, have earned associate’s degrees in cybersecurity, arming them with in-demand skills and preparing... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • 05 Apr 2021
    • Blog Post

    The MBA Response: A Calling to Leadership & Service

    graduates recognized that many struggling organizations could benefit from those with MBA skills -- marketing, finance, strategy, etc. -- to navigate unprecedented challenges. As they spoke to friends about this, they found hundreds of... View Details
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    Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management

    nonprofit management course is presented jointly with the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative. Key Benefits This program delivers the strategic perspectives, practical frameworks, and leadership skills you need... View Details