Publications

28 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Managing Your Health and the Recruiting Process: Advice from HBS Alumni

With recruiting events, networking, interview prep, travel, it’s important to recognize that navigating recruiting with learning disabilities, physical disabilities, chronic illnesses, and mental health challenges can also bring about... View Details

May 2004 (Revised October 2007)
Background Note

Best Practices: Decision Making Among Venture Capital Firms

By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon

Describes investment decision-making processes, based on interviews with 56% of the top 38 venture capital firms in the country. Discusses some implications for the future growth of the industry. View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Venture Capital; Investment; Industry Growth

June 1994 (Revised December 1997)
Case

Safeway, Inc.'s Leveraged Buyout (C): Media Response

Focuses exclusively on the controversy by presenting the media responses to the LBO and its aftermath, including full text of Faludi's interview with Safeway CEO Peter Magowan, and her subsequent Journal article. View Details

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Media; Retail Industry; United States

Harvard Business School professor Robert Eccles comments on a recent video interview with Gro Harlem Brundtland, a U.N. Special Envoy on Climate Change.

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20 Aug 2018
Blog Post

Summer Snapshot: Interning for the City of Philadelphia

the U.S. have enjoyed recent economic gains, but all too often those gains are concentrated in particular segments of society based on race, zip code, and income level. So far, my work has involved interviewing government, non-profit,... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

13 Oct 2015
News

Is Getting Business Done the Same in Emerging and Developed Countries?

07 Jul 2013
News

Harvard academics find rituals can be the rite stuff for business

12 Sep 2013
News

Mobility and Organizational Culture

07 Aug 2015
Video

Starting a for-profit social enterprise at HBS

Career Coach

Minoshka Narayan

Minoshka can guide students who are looking to pivot into tech and help them better understand how to utilize resources within and outside HBS. She has extensive writing experience and can review cover letters and resumes, and networking emails. Having worked in... View Details

10 Oct 2013
News

Seib & Wessel: Porter on Why U.S. Business Is Stalling

26 Apr 2018
Video

2018 G&WS: Conversation with Zachary Green and Diane Forbes Berthoud on the Role of Leadership and Authority in Sociopolitical Movement

April 2003 (Revised April 2009)
Case

Paul Levy: Taking Charge of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

By: David A. Garvin and Michael Roberto

On January 7, 2002, Paul Levy became CEO of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He took over a troubled organization, in serious financial difficulty. This multimedia case describes the situation Levy inherited, his negotiations prior to taking the job, and his... View Details

Keywords: Communication Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Managerial Roles; Organizational Culture; Health Industry