Meaningfulness - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Mar 2024
Blog Post

Empowering Future Leaders: Meet the HBS Women’s Student Association

gender equity at HBS and beyond. We have an incredible list of sponsors who, through their funding and support, help us deliver extensive programming for all members. In the 2023-2024 school year, our focus for the WSA centered around community. Our 3 focus areas were... View Details

27 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too

night. Unlike the routine habits or obligations people feel they must get done, relationship rituals are pleasurable experiences that hold significance, acting as symbolically meaningful signs of a solid and happy partnership. Couples who... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Dean Nitin Nohria | About

team-based learning, particularly to support MBA field method courses. September 2011 FIELD Course Introduced The Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development (FIELD) year-long field course gave first-year MBA students View Details

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Global Activities 2020

collaboration, which is leading to meaningful results for a microfinance organization in Santiago, Chile. Middle East & North Africa South Asia Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Kazakhstan Professor Victoria Ivashina introduced... View Details

22 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

Can Amazon Remake Health Care?

we desperately need more meaningful innovation for a whole host of diseases—diabetes, cardiovascular disease, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and ALS. We want cures, not chronic disease management. How does Amazon’s foray into health care help... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Health

04 Jun 2018
Blog Post

Reapplying to HBS

when I received the good news. For applicants who get the “ding” as I did, my suggestion is to brush it off, gain some meaningful work experience to prepare for your career and to contribute in an MBA classroom, and then don’t hesitate to... View Details

07 May 2024
Blog Post

Opportunity to Offset Travel Emissions with Carbon Credits that Meet HBS Criteria

rating agencies; and, the types of risks related to projects delivering the promised GHG emissions, such as additionality and permanence. Many organizations are using carbon credits as a strategy to meet their carbon neutral goals, so it is important that leaders are... View Details

Portrait Project

Milly Wang

challenging moments. Even the smallest gestures can have a meaningful daily impact. Instead of discovering anything big and spectacular in space, I want to become someone who others can turn to for comfort and reassurance, who can be... View Details

11 Apr 2024
News

Mission Control

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details

25 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Is Baseball Ready to Compete for the Next Generation of Fans?

popularity? Greyser: My own sense is that it remains to be seen the degree to which betting becomes a meaningful in-game proposition—where you can bet on whether somebody’s going to strike out or going to get a run home or how many men... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Media & Broadcasting; Sports

29 May 2023
News

Nurturing Breakthrough Ideas

alumni and friends affirms its mission—to serve as an educational springboard that fosters peer collaboration beyond the boundaries of a particular Harvard school, enabling innovators to create meaningful impact across industries,... View Details

14 Apr 2022
Op-Ed

Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned

quickly allows employees to assess their options and find new opportunities within the industry, pivoting to another sector or starting an entrepreneurial venture to find more meaningful work. Two things companies should be doing now:... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

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Considering Retirement - Alumni

meaningful and satisfying post-work life. Because so much of what needs to be planned is subjective (only you can say what is or is not meaningful to you), there is no one path or formula for effective... View Details

14 Jan 2022
News

Nohria’s Next Move

continue to play the role of teacher and mentor that is so meaningful to me.” (See the company’s announcement.) Nohria will remain engaged at Harvard University as the chair of the board of the Harvard Allston Land Company and teaching in... View Details

27 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Recovering from the Need to Achieve

real sense of purpose and a "flatness"—in career and in life. They often go through patches of life without creating or enhancing meaningful relationships, and even lack strength to deal with life's failures. A former chief... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

07 Oct 2021
News

Planning Ahead

established a fellowship fund that supports MBA students. “If someone deserves to come to HBS but cannot afford it, it is incredibly meaningful to me to help close the financial gap for them,” he says. Ketchum recalls when he was admitted... View Details

Portrait Project

Justine Lee

something meaningful she can learn. When I was younger, I found this embarrassing. But as I got older (to my horror), I started to say “Hello” too. Smile. Strike up conversation. And the more I wanted to keep doing it. People from... View Details

Portrait Project

Ahmed Farag

can I look at my younger reflection and not desire for them to have ambition? Without my own parents, I would’ve just been another statistic of illiteracy in a third world country. My moral insomnia continues to drag. If I can’t find enough motivation to act for them,... View Details

06 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge

Stanton surmises that the structured meetings helped employees talk through consistent problems that bedeviled their performance, and to make lasting changes. When the researchers looked at transcripts from the sessions, they found employees talking through View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

27 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?

all managers’ performance evaluations, he says. Chang, who has been part of anti-racism discussions at HBS, says that companies that are serious about inclusion must go beyond checking boxes. Meaningful change will require more than a... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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