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- 21 Mar 2012
- Op-Ed
Finding the Right Jeremy Lin Storyline
New York Knicks basketball sensation Jeremy Lin has attracted worldwide attention because he crosses so many boundaries and defies so many stereotypes. Lin, an Asian-American (rare in the NBA) who played college hoops at Harvard (even rarer in the NBA), was cut from... View Details
- 26 Mar 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!
Can leaders anticipate disaster? How Does Disaster Change Leadership Goals? Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival On a trek across Antarctica, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance became trapped in ice. How did Shackleton lead his isolated View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
all its emphasis on data and number crunching, conventional strategic planning is not actually scientific. It lacks the hypothesis generation and testing that's at the heart of the scientific method. To produce novel and successful strategies, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
terminating an employee for a seemingly innocuous act of expression. Danielle Brown, Google’s new vice president and chief diversity and inclusion officer, hired just a few weeks before the memo was leaked to the public, must now advise Google’s top leadership View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity
disrupted by substantial changes in membership during the downsizing had poorer work environments and lower levels of creative behavior than those that remained stable amidst the chaos. Overall, lower creativity resulted from the degraded... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- Profile
Wendy Lim
breadth of experiences, especially if you’re running a team responsible for many things. For example, I took a course in ‘Managing Service Operations,’ I never expected to use immediately. But at Yelp, that’s exactly what I’ve been doing... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
envisioned had not materialized. In a last-ditch effort to jumpstart the stalled exchange, the team built some software that created email templates and provided easy access to sales-contact data to personalize them quickly, making the... View Details
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
be its strongest regional ally. Yet because Israel's formal membership might have kept numerous Arab states from joining the coalition, the U.S. government pointedly excluded the Israelis, starting negotiations elsewhere. Careful... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- Profile
Vivek Garg
joint MD/MBA program gives Vivek an opportunity to explore ideas that are not commonly addressed in medical school alone. "HBS will allow me to try ideas in health care that aren't directly clinical," he says. Among the faculty and his fellow students, he'll... View Details
- 12 May 2020
- Blog Post
The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership
Economic Recovery Council to forge a strategic path forward for inclusive revitalization. “On a personal level,” Pasricha says, “I appreciate the coordination of multiple sectors that will have to play a big part of any recovery; that’s... View Details
- 28 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership
Economic Recovery Council to forge a strategic path forward for inclusive revitalization. “On a personal level,” Pasricha says, “I appreciate the coordination of multiple sectors that will have to play a big part of any recovery; that’s... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
implementation of our organizational strategy and budget. I work with our team and other stakeholders to think through research questions, and partner with funders to identify funding to investigate questions and disseminate our results.... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
contracts abroad, number one, what I want to make sure I do is to not offend the team that's offering a contract. In most cases, my players get multiple offers from multiple... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
the question of where to apply it to a team of experts—tech gurus as well as specialists in asset management, regulation jurisdiction, and operations. The team eventually landed on private equity. O’Grady... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology
several reasons. First, we both had been involved with prior research in hospitals and found them to be fascinating organizations. They are filled with highly trained professionals working in team settings on a regular basis. What's more,... View Details
- Web
Supporting Careers | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
understanding of the complexities of leading in the social sector. Who Gets that Opportunity Right Out of Business School Clive Chang Making an Impact Multiple Students Summer Fellows The Summer Fellows Program enables students to apply... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Leading Questions
teams of consultants who did extensive and time-consuming one-on-one interviews. Synthesis, launched in 2017, aims for a middle ground: a focused but customized evaluation. “We ask ourselves what are the things you need to know right now... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Profile
Brandon Gayle
Bartending Course — it was a great opportunity to turn around a business that was struggling, which my team and I did," says Brandon. Approached by recruiters in investment banking and consulting, Brandon chose the latter. "I... View Details
- Profile
Abena Nyantekyi-Owusu
Born and raised in Ghana, Abena Nyantekyi-Owusu saw “the impact that business and the private sector have on developing nations.” After graduating from Ashesi University College, she pursued a dynamic career at General Electric where she fulfilled View Details
- 05 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Summer Internships in the JD/MBA Program
business in other languages and cultures. While both law and business were of interest to me in college, the importance of an integrated, multidisciplinary approach became clear in my first job after graduation during a meeting in Mexico City with a group of real... View Details