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13 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely

For senior managers at many firms, the shift to remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic came with a huge concern: Would the loss of in-person conversations keep them from mentoring or simply establishing rapport with employees,... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

08 Nov 2021
Blog Post

4 Ways the MS/MBA is Preparing Me for a Career in Health Care and the Life Sciences

stimulating, and growing community, especially as the new cohorts come in. What was something you did not expect coming into HBS, but found? The openness of the students and the supportive community. The people I have interacted with and... View Details

27 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

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

choose an all-white group. Decades of diversity initiatives have failed to drastically alter the American executive suite, especially for Black people, who hold only 3.2 percent of senior executive roles. While the #MeToo and Black Lives... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

Profile

Peggy Mativo-Ochola

Peggy took advantage of Harvard’s flexibility and explored courses at the Graduate School of Education. Her desire for "visible impact" led to tutoring through the Harvard Allston Education Portal and working with Teach for China. Taking a gap year between... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education

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K–12 Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

K-12 schools in the US had access to the ... Featured MBA Course Transforming Education through Social Entrepreneurship This course (formerly Entrepreneurship in Education Reform) explores the central role that education plays in our economy and society and is designed... View Details

13 Jan 2015
First Look

First Look: January 13

timing of the national college entrance exam and introduced early admissions, and we propose a game-theoretic model that matches those facts. When applications reveal information about students that is of common interest to all colleges,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

head of the chemical engineering department at MIT, and Jerome C. Hunsaker, head of the aeronautical engineering department at MIT, served as technical consultants. With Doriot's support, Dorothy Rowe, who started as Doriot's administrative assistant at ARD, eventually... View Details

26 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 26, 2010

Leadership—An Ontological Model' Authors:Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron, and Kari L. Granger Abstract This course is designed to leave students being leaders and exercising leadership effectively as their natural... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster

ventures I was advising as the senior advisor for social entrepreneurship at the Harvard Innovation Labs. They said: “Hey, we’d like to learn more about that solution, and we think our colleagues might too.” So they set up a pitch day for... View Details

03 Nov 2021
Blog Post

Recent Grad Reflections: From Being Cold Called to Becoming a Case Protagonist

was that a majority of the protagonists from the 500+ cases I read as an HBS MBA student did not look like or have a similar background as me, an Asian female immigrant. After receiving repeated and direct feedback from students, the HBS... View Details

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Harvard Business School

Baker Library Special Collections Exhibits More Exhibits Explore the Exhibit Student Pioneers The Value of Business Education The Golden Age of Black Business AASU Early Years & Influence AASU Founders Core Demands & Proposals Early Years... View Details

01 Aug 1998
News

High Honors

Field remain strong. From 1994 to 1997, he headed the HBS Canadian Initiative, a program conceived by former HBS Dean John H. McArthur in part to enable a geographically and culturally diverse group of qualified Canadian students to... View Details

01 Oct 2002
News

Michael F. Cronin

that needs our capital and strategic advice but also has a solid organization and lots of operational know-how.” As a scholarship student at Harvard College, Cronin was president of the Harvard Student... View Details

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

epidemic of business scandals would be to speak of a widespread failure among CEOs and other senior executives (along with board members, auditors, financial analysts, and others) to uphold their professional obligations. To speak of the... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

01 Feb 2021
What Do You Think?

Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?

involve initially educating the senior leaders, as these are the folks who can open the right doors, make the needed resources available, and align the D&I process with all of the business objectives. Additionally, leadership must be... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Mar 2020
Blog Post

Black New Venture Competition and Black Tech Master Series Recap

The last weekend in February marked the African-American Student Union’s 47th Annual H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference and the first-ever Black Tech Masters Series and Black New Venture Competition. What started as an independent project,... View Details

04 Jun 2018
What Do You Think?

Are There Conditions Under Which Directors Should Consider Hiring a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior?

senior executives who have lost their jobs for actual or alleged inappropriate workplace behavior. My attention was called to the sensitivity of these terms because of what is going on in Syria, Myanmar, and other places in the world. In... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Blog

What Black Executives Really Want

WHY DID YOU START RESEARCHING BLACK EXECUTIVES? I am not an expert in diversity and inclusion, but I had thought about marginalization, both as a child growing up in India, where I saw the marginalization of some minority groups, and as a View Details

02 Apr 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Making the Move to General Manager

this transition into general management." For new general managers—or just as likely in companies these days, senior functional managers who operate as part of an executive team or who have important cross-functional or... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2024
News

The Internet's Next Frontier

about One outgrowth of the lab’s work is the MBA elective that debuted this spring, Building Web3 Businesses. Created by Bernstein, Kominers, and Senior Researcher Liang Wu (MBA 2018), the course evolved from the Short Intensive Program... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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