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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office
IV (MBA '66), who has led this august institution for the last twenty years, is neither. In fact, Lazarus claims no formal artistic training beyond auditing a single art history class in college. "When they interviewed me for the... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
- 14 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
How to Support Your Employees' Career Development
one on one meetings between managers and direct reports are the norm and the career development conversation is ongoing. “I tend to think about things in 90-day terms, so managers and their reports look at what the employee needs to accomplish in their View Details
- 26 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees
gift cards for pulling off impressive projects, or even just by saying “thank you” for a job well done. “Cash matters in people’s lives, but it’s not all that matters,” says Whillans, who researches what makes people happy. “What really... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
candidacy requirements and training programs. Promote constructive engagement in the workplace. Implement policies that encourage respectful dialogue and acknowledge diverse political views among employees. Provide View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 23 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick
providers, and financing to at-risk youth. The nonprofit created alignment among all the entities for shared measurable outcomes—youth successfully placed in jobs with the shortest time and lowest cost possible. Not only did 95 percent of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
chief regulator of America’s securities markets. To make matters worse, Donaldson hardly had time to settle into his new job before revelations surfaced of wrongdoing in the mutual-fund industry, triggering a new round of regulatory... View Details
- Profile
Bryan Guerra
experience shaped your goals & career path? HBS has been really instrumental in giving me exposure to so many different varieties of industry, business model, job function, and potential future opportunities that I've opened my eyes... View Details
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
too poor to afford college, he traveled to find work in Johannesburg after losing his job as a barman in Port Elizabeth. When a job eluded him, he wound up living on the streets for nearly seven months. “The... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
development opportunities, or proper rewards. Expanding on their previous books, The HR Scorecard and The Workforce Scorecard, the authors recommend that workforces be managed like portfolios, with more investments in the jobs that create... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
Leadership Fellow Ming Min Hui: Figuring Out Her Mission
Program job posting at Boston Ballet gave her a chance to explore it as a reality. Executive Director, Max Hodges (MBA 2010), was seeking a Chief of Staff with a business background and MBA skills in strategy and quantitative analytics.... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Cathy A. Nichols
office, which looks out on the park, Nichols pauses to reflect on her career. Thanks to scholarship assistance, Nichols was able to attend both Cornell and, later, Harvard Business School. "In a way, the HBS experience foreshadowed my theme park View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
Prevention programs disrupted "The pandemic threatens to dismantle all the gains made in the US in the recent six-year fight against opioids and heroin,” says Jim Langford (HBS MBA 1984), Executive Director of the Georgia Prevention Project (GPP). "Grief and trauma,... View Details
- 11 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation
they will spend much of their lives playing "economic catch-up" before they can feel financially independent and secure, she told the audience. Team sports give girls early training in learning how to lose and learning how to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 May 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Do Managers Think?
"Interesting to make analogies, but the basics of medical decision making are grounded in scientific fact whereas there is no unified body of knowledge based on science for the manager." As Todd Rhoad put it, " doctors are View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- Web
Burden Park | About
expressed the sentiment behind the gift. “The men whose memory is preserved by this building had, I think, somehow finished their jobs sooner than most,” she noted. “I believe they are worthy of having their names made, in this way, a... View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
existing strengths and capitalize on those,” advises Duch, who is currently applying that strategy to the challenge of helping rural farmers in Haiti sell their produce directly on world markets. Since joining the World Bank in 2013, Duch has taken bimonthly trips to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
We’re in the middle of a Great Resignation. This past April, 2.7 percent of Americans quit their jobs, the highest rate on record. And according to a study by Microsoft, more than 40 percent of the global workforce would consider leaving their View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
people web development for fun, and getting them amazing jobs and careers. I was blown away. That’s when the light bulb went off. Since then, we’ve done fairly well. We’ve trained over 500 graduates and... View Details
- 16 Jan 2014
- News
Learning from Helping Others
remembers, was "the hardest two years of my life." "However my training as an actress really worked in my favor. Class participation counted for 50 percent of our grades and I was never afraid to raise my hand. Having an authoritative... View Details
- 21 Nov 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms
twentieth century was a learning century, then the twenty-first century is a performance century." In considering whether job performance is a matter of each person's innate natural ability or a matter of how well a company View Details