life experience - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 May 2024
What Do You Think?

Have You Had Enough?

You’ve made the experiment work.” The column drawing the most comments from among the 287 columns was “Why Isn’t ‘Servant Leadership’ More Prevalent?” in 2013. Many respondents posed the question of whether or not the term “servant... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Aug 2015
Blog Post

What I Was Not Expecting: Rerouting Towards My Passion at HBS

mind. Nevertheless, already a year in the MBA program, I now realize that an MBA means lots of different things to different people and that it is my responsibility to make sure I tailor my experience to my own goals and passions. For the... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports

27 Jul 2020
Book

Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity

Many of us feel time-pressured, tethered to our smartphones so we can stay on top of work and home responsibilities. It can be tough to step off the daily merry-go-round, put our phones, laptops, and to-do lists aside, and find decent chunks of quiet time to reflect on... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

17 Apr 2019
Blog Post

Making Sabbaticals Mainstream Series: Marty

Soon afterwards, his company was acquired and he began talking with career-focused individuals who had also taken sabbaticals. Despite the diversity of their backgrounds and the experiences had while off work, the sabbatical-takers... View Details

16 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults

mother’s education, final results still showed that a mother’s work experience is strongly linked to her daughter’s future work performance, according to the recently published full study, Learning from Mum: Cross-National Evidence... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

05 Nov 2020
Blog Post

12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition

would I be able to pick up the necessary skills to succeed in a new role and build meaningful relationships with the team and the entrepreneurs? Would I enjoy this experience? I had some previous experience working remotely, but being new... View Details

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Harvard Business School Online Courses & Learning Platforms

collaborate, give feedback, and share experiences and expertise across industries to grow or transition your career. You’ll build lasting connections that support you wherever life takes you next. Learn More... View Details

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Help - Alumni

(MPP/MBA and MBA-MPA/ID) Joint Program with Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences) Joint Program with Harvard Law School /Master in Business Administration (JD/MBA) Joint... View Details

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Sam Walton: Great From the Start

States in 1945. Why wouldn't this one be among the many that didn't make it? Surely, any analyst of the situation in 1945 would have found in Walton a good candidate for failure. As he himself put it, "For all of my confidence I hadn't had a day's View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow; Retail

12 Dec 2023
Blog Post

Bridging Science and Business: My Summer Internship at Eli Lilly

Earlier this year, I had the incredible opportunity to further cultivate my intersecting interests during a transformative internship at Eli Lilly. It wasn't just a summer of tasks and projects—it was an experience that tied together my... View Details

09 May 2016
Blog Post

What Is the Difference between RC and EC Year?

three key differences: who you meet, what you talk about, and what you do in your free time. Who You Meet RC year is when the section experience is at its strongest, and you find yourself spending most of your time with your 90-person... View Details

17 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

(pre-registered Experiment 3), and then were divided into minimal ingroups and outgroups in the laboratory. The findings offer mixed support for the hypothesis that novel rituals generate intergroup bias. Modest evidence from rituals... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

Surgical to develop some, but not all, of Incept's IP. The specifics of which IP Confluent would develop were described by a licensing agreement between Incept and Confluent. Venture capitalist Charles Warden of Schroder Ventures Life... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Research Summary

Dissertation: A Relational Perspective on Boundary Work: How Attorneys Manage Work-Life Boundaries

Many professionals struggle with managing boundaries between work and life outside of work. For decades researchers have been trying to understand this issue but we still have much to learn about it. With my dissertation, I aim to improve our understanding of... View Details

07 Jul 2022
HBS Case

How a Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Startup Melted Down (and Bounced Back)

experience life changes that also change the direction of their interests. Learn from mistakes. It’s not enough to grieve and reflect. Pivoting entrepreneurs need to apply the lessons they learned to their... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

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Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research

our findings. June 2025 Case That's Bananas! Art, Value and Our Capitalist way of Life By: Sophus A. Reinert and Rafael Di Tella 2025 Working Paper Public Displays of Alignment: Firm Speech in Autocratic Regimes By: Joris Mueller, Jaya Y.... View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

The Burden Legacy

reforms. Burden Hall was made possible by the Burden family, leaders in business and the arts. A big space designed for big moments, it became the focal point of community life at HBS. In the fall of 2017, after 46 eventful years, Burden... View Details

Keywords: Linda Kush

16 May 2023
HBS Case

How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’

the road.” “That’s what I remember from growing up, this constant conflict and fight over hours,” recounts Stavros, a partner at private equity firm KKR, in a new series of Harvard Business School case studies that detail his radical View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

14 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

When a Vacation Isn’t Enough, a Sabbatical Can Recharge Your Life—and Your Career

he needed to take a break—and not just a one-week vacation. He decided to take time off and explore neglected interests in the outdoors and in spirituality—by spending six weeks walking 900 miles as part of a Buddhist pilgrimage in Japan. The View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Jun 2023
News

3-Minute Briefing: Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966)

company went bankrupt. I wrote up that experience as an investing principle for a quarterly newsletter: It’s always good to have a mother to buy your bad stocks. After business school, I went into management consulting, which is quite a... View Details

Keywords: climate change; finance; sustainability; prediction; Finance

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