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The Challenge of Maintaining Passion for Work over Time: A Daily Perspective on Passion and Emotional Exhaustion
Passion for work is highly coveted, but many employees report struggling to maintain their passion over time. In the current research, we explain the challenge of pursuing passion by conceptualizing passion as an attribute with temporal variation. Viewed through... View Details
- 12 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
Optimizing the Coaching Experience for Midcareer Professionals
organizational culture, what have you learned about the places where you work and where you would like to work? "Often, you've learned the hard way that culture has an enormous impact on your job satisfaction. As you gain experience,... View Details
- 30 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Finding Pride
on the evening news speaking at a gay rights rally. I arrived at HBS in 1980. There seemed to be no one like me—a lefty, feminist English major, and most of all, gay—in this conservative, straight white male world, with a not... View Details
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Working Groups Update | About
within and across groups based on considerations like our calendar, complexity, and a range of other factors. These plans complement other work done over the break—including in the MBA Program, for example, to incorporate lessons from the... View Details
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Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity
incidents involved sexualized conversations and remarks. Women up and down the organizational hierarchy experienced similar levels of harassment. At the junior, mid, senior, and even C-level, about half of alumnae cited harassment at their current workplace. Women of... View Details
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
2000. At current growth rates, 2015 purchases via the Internet will likely exceed $250 billion. Online sales tend to be highly concentrated in several categories, and are so significant that it is increasingly difficult for physical... View Details
- 29 Jan 2024
- News
On the Road to Recovery
first company while still at HBS and recently sold his investments, was intrigued by the opportunity. Travel nursing got its start in the 1980s, and its biggest player had recently gone public, revealing a wealth of data about the sector. “To me, it looked View Details
- 02 Nov 2022
- News
Strong Finish
heard that classmate and former beauty industry executive Alicia Sontag (MBA 2001) was starting a growth equity fund focused on brands like hers, with an all-female leadership team, she was intrigued. “They knew the industry so well,”... View Details
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Serving the Public Interest Through Competition: British Railroads - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
public interests.” 9 It was leading political figures like Gladstone, economist Mark Casson contends, who “believed that the right of a railway to interfere with private property, in the interests of merchants and industrialists, could... View Details
- 12 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Pay Workers More So They Steal Less
than retaliate. Next, since higher-paid workers want to hold on to their jobs, they would not be as likely to steal as lower-wage workers might. In this case, not stealing is "not a matter of being loyal to your employer,"... View Details
- 10 Sep 2001
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Do MBAs Need More Street Smarts?
addressing. The first is, just what are street smarts anyway? The contexts in which the term has come up seem to indicate that they include things like knowing how to close a sale, when to walk away from a deal, when to remain silent, and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
How HBS Financial Aid Can Help You Meet the Cost of Your MBA
As a first-generation college student, I understand firsthand what it’s like to have to figure out how to pay for school. Education is an investment, and I’m here to tell you that it IS possible to afford an HBS MBA. With generous support... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)
first-hand what it’s like to work on a startup, which should help them assess career fit. How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life This SIP focuses on a pervasive, unavoidable, and profoundly important part of the human experience:... View Details
- 09 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back
take. It allowed them to integrate everything they learned into situations they were likely to encounter in the workforce. As someone who is pursuing a career that requires me to evaluate businesses but also learn its operations, this... View Details
- 13 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely
Zoom time with senior managers were 4.7 to 7.3 percent more likely to be offered a job than the other two groups who didn’t have regular online contact with supervisors. (What’s more, interns had a 9 to 13 percent better chance of... View Details
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Cali Tran
they were about mundane things like test-scores, student-body elections and after-school sports. Unlike my mother, I grew up with the privilege of choice and I fully intend to indulge in this privilege. I choose to remember my family... View Details
- 05 Sep 2014
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Keeping Education in Check
studying hard. Chess, Berman says, even gave him the smarts to get into HBS. Berman treats the game like a religious vocation and he preaches its virtues wherever he goes, often sending chess sets to friends with small children in the... View Details
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- 29 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on Social Enterprise
leading figures in various fields. This includes socially impactful alumni leaders like Kwame Owusu-Kesse of the Harlem Children Zone and media leaders like Oprah, who openly share their personal and... View Details
- 18 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Relocating to Boston with Your Partner
students travel across the world to attend the MBA program, we felt like we may as well have been moving to another country when we left for Boston. With a great job, family, and friends in Los Angeles, Megan had to make a very difficult... View Details