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The Moral Leader: Challenges, Insights and Tools

Successful leaders – at any level and in any arena – are inevitably presented with moral and ethical choices. This unique and innovative textbook is designed to encourage students and managers to confront those fundamental moral challenges, to develop skills in... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Future Vision

seashells washing up on the shore—all of which would also require time and attention, be they challenges or opportunities. You can’t ignore them; but you also can’t let them consume you, because you still have to manage the rest of the... View Details

Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Jun 2012
News

Catherine Kuehn Price (MBA 1986) and Malcolm Price (MBA 1987)

Innovation Lab. “I think it is fantastic that all first-year students are spending time abroad, and the increased integration with other areas of Harvard really recognizes the importance of interdisciplinary learning. I wish I could go... View Details

20 Jan 2022
Op-Ed

3 Steps to Help Companies Rebuild Trust During the Pandemic

support they need. For example, a team member may wish to have flexibility in their work schedules when school starts and ends to get their children settled. The ability to schedule meetings around those times can enable them to do their... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

cost performance of IT technologies over the first forty years changed by roughly 107, and for the foreseeable future will continue to evolve at the same rate. That is in sharp contrast to a train, which after eighty years moved six times... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

01 Oct 1997
News

L.E. Simmons

time to invest in this industry because it was depressed, yet the long-term fundamentals were sound." By all indications, Simmons's gamble has paid off. SCF Partners, the private equity fund his firm manages, has achieved net returns to... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

02 Apr 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Making the Move to General Manager

People achieve success in the early years of their career by specializing and becoming functional experts—in essence, they succeed by knowing more and more about less and less, says Benjamin C. Esty, chair of the General Management Program at Harvard Business School.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Apr 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

perspective is at the same time grounded in theory and in the experiences of particular places. Reviewing state-of-the-art of economic geography, setting agendas, and with illustrations and empirical evidence from all over the world, the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

were by no means evident to the pioneers of academic business education—and, as we suggest, they remain by no means evident today. During the time that the first business schools were being constituted, at the beginning of the twentieth... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

25 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Fool vs. Jerk: Whom Would You Hire?

When given the choice of whom to work with, people will pick one person over another for any number of reasons: the prestige of being associated with a star performer, for example, or the hope that spending time with a strategically... View Details

Keywords: by Tiziana Casciaro & Miguel Sousa Lobo

12 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association

leader. I still feel anxious remembering tense and chaotic moments from my deployment to Afghanistan. I lost count years ago of the number of times that I “quit my job” as an Officer in my head, but every single View Details

18 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?

And so, there’s a lot of uncertainty around crypto; and in times of overall financial market uncertainty, people pull away from riskier assets. At the same time, a lot of the basic technology investment and entrepreneurship in crypto is... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Financial Services; Technology

04 Jun 2018
Blog Post

Reapplying to HBS

time, however, my perspective was much different. Since graduation, I had spent significant time in more than a dozen manufacturing facilities working with both plant management and shop floor employees. I had presented a recommendation... View Details

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John H. McArthur | About

football, and worked part time in a local saw mill. After graduating from high school, McArthur enrolled at the University of British Columbia, earning a bachelor’s degree in forestry in 1957. McArthur was a star athlete in college. He... View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

From Retail to Real Estate

(Drake Real Estate Partners LLC) (Drake Real Estate Partners LLC) When Nicolas Ibañez’s (MBA 2011) grandfather opened the doors of a grocery store in the 1950s, it was Chile’s first supermarket and an immediate success. Over time the... View Details

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Considering Retirement - Alumni

place for life after work, everything else about retirement – what we intend to do with our time – remains vague or utterly unexplored. Important considerations include: Identity Who will you be in retirement? What aspirations,... View Details

06 Jan 2021
Blog Post

My HBS Student Loan Story: Gorick Ng (MBA 2018)

time and money around that goal. There are so many opportunities at HBS; you can literally have 3 opportunities for every slot on your calendar, so I imposed a yes/no framework that helped me prioritize: Is this something that would help... View Details

21 May 2012
Research & Ideas

OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?

killing jobs at a time when the United States can ill afford to lose them. Few regulatory agencies have a more direct effect on businesses than the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the federal agency responsible for... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

28 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, February 28

of promoting from within, particularly with its chefs, and it took time to develop the necessary talent. Now DO & CO faced a decision: What type of growth should it pursue, and at what pace? Purchase this... View Details