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- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
person, and neither is Taylor, so the thought that the two of us would naturally go into entrepreneurship was anything but obvious. Now that we have, we’d both tell you it has been the best professional experience of our lives.” Wiegele:... View Details
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
Standard Setters in Standard Setting Authors: Abigail M. Allen and Karthik Ramanna Abstract We investigate the idiosyncratic influence of standard setters in standard setting. In particular, we examine how FASB members' and SEC commissioners' length of tenure, past... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Past Issues - Alumni
and Again How rituals help us create order from chaos, affect performance, and ascribe meaning to the mundane details of our personal and professional lives Quantum Leap Quantum computing has revolutionary potential, but it’s been stuck... View Details
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
as a recruitment tool, and 43 percent are using these sites to screen candidates. LinkedIn continues to be the most popular social media tool, but organizations also report using Facebook, Twitter, professional association sites, and... View Details
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
112-048 This auto parts company has just ousted its longtime CEO and founder, and the new, professional CEO is badly in need of a coherent strategy, clear objectives and metrics, and initiatives that are aligned with the strategy and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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1.5 Attendance | MBA
Exams). Excused Recruiting Absences are not permitted for the following sessions due to their unique format: RC: START, FIELD Global Capstone EC: Kickoff, IFCs, and Bridges For more information, please see Recruiting Standards of Conduct and reach out to MBA Career &... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
business and financial-market orientation. Louis Gerstner Jr. (MBA 1965), former CEO and chair of IBM, has written that you always get more of whatever you measure. Certainly, the constant measurement of professional money managers... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
were the reinforcements needed to staff the new organization and make it fully functional and credible as the collective voice of black students at HBS. We were the first student group at HBS formed on some basis other than professional... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
participation and leadership, nurturing, and tending." Kay Wallace points to "night-and-day" differences that coexist at ACOG. "At one level," she says, "you have proven management types with fifteen years of professional experience. On... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
hand and exposing areas that will never be competitive on the other. The pool of capital may be more limited. But I’m not sure that’s a bad thing. The VC industry went through a phase where it expanded enormously in capital and attracted View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
leadership, finance, and operations skills that senior health-care professionals need to transform care delivery in their organizations. Presented in three one-week modules offered over a nine-month period, the program is structured... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
sources advance; the scale and existing network effect of traditional fuel sources is simply too large to dismantle in any short period of time. “To answer the second question, on which courses were most relevant or germane to my View Details
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
activating best selves in workplaces and communities. Her publications, “How to Play to your Strengths” and “Creating a Positive Professional Image,” are among the most popular articles from Harvard Business Publishing and have been... View Details
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
Reinsurance developed at the fringe of financial services and, for most of its existence, was largely unnoticed outside the expert community. However more recently public and professional sensitivity towards managing risks has increased.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
SIPs in 2021
the four days focused on a separate strategy: public market opportunities and risks, large scale investments through pension funds, measuring and integrating physical risks into investments, and scaling early stage technology solutions. Guest speakers included senior... View Details
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Katherine Switz (MBA 2000) is the founder of the Stability Network, which aims to ease the stigma of mental illness. They hope to achieve this by having professionals share... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
direct evidence that incentive contracts distort judgment and beliefs, even among trained professionals with many years of experience. Loans evaluated under more permissive incentive schemes are rated significantly less risky than the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
professionals in venture capital firms or who were cashed-out entrepreneurs acting as angels for small start ups. Both sets of people had certain expertise that they were trying to transmit to highly inexperienced entrepreneurs.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
1985. "I was known as 'the Prussian General' by my HBS friends because I was a big, powerful, fearless guy," he recalls. "I always commanded from the head of the table, shouting, 'This is not a democracy!' Then a series of personal tragedies and View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 17 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper
When working professionals were shifting to home offices a year ago as COVID-19 was spreading, comedians and pundits predicted that people would no longer need bras and pants that aren’t stretchy. Instead customers would make room for... View Details