Learning Direction - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2018
News

Digging Deep

operations, creating 400,000 direct manufacturing jobs since 2010. PwC predicts that in the years ahead “manufacturers in all industries will find themselves in a race to efficiently produce products at the point of demand.” BCG... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2015
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Ink

Book Review: The Future of Learning To educate America’s youth, we treat them like products in a factory, according to the education experts who wrote Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools. We march students through... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Contemporary Corporate Archives | Baker Library

Muriel F. Siebert (1928-2013) was the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange and the first woman to own and direct a brokerage firm that was a member of the NYSE. Henri A. Termeer Papers Document the career of an... View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Right from the Start: Common Traps for the New Leader

In this excerpt from Chapter 1 of the their book, Dan Ciampa and HBS Professor Michael D. Watkins describe some of the common traps into which new leaders can fall. Falling Behind The Learning Curve Not using the time before entry... View Details

Keywords: by Dan Ciampa & Michael D. Watkins

01 Mar 2019
News

Action Plan: Fruit of the Vine

father’s that evolved into a hobby that turned into a business,” she says. “We not only wanted to be excellent stewards, we wanted to enhance its value.” As managing partner of Knudsen Vineyards, Knudsen Cowles now provides strategic View Details

Keywords: Ryan Jones

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Margarita de la Piedra Carrillo

interpretations of policy." Simultaneously, she volunteered once a week with Junior Achievement, "teaching the fundamentals of banking to high-school boys and girls who wanted to learn how banks work." Moving from back... View Details

Student-Profile

Jaylon Sherrell

agency over the direction of my career,” she says, explaining her decision to return to academia. Jaylon attended The PhD Project’s annual conference in 2020, where she met others like her and learned more... View Details

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Georges F. Doriot: Educating Leaders, Building Companies

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details

01 Jun 2003
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John Read

What is Outward Bound Professional? We have five centers across the country specifically directed at a wilderness-based learning experience for corporate groups. We use the same principles that inform the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Outward Bound; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services

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Special Collections & Archives | Baker Library

Special Collections & Archives Ask Us Discover, Research, Engage Learn about collections Find and use resources Explore exhibits Collection Highlights See All Collection Highlights Polaroid Corporation Collection Records from one of the... View Details

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Connections & Relationships | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Connections & Relationships Background People always tell you that business school isn't just about the available resources and what you learn in class—it's about the other students. My first experience with the social enterprise... View Details

20 May 2020
Blog Post

Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12

online, and Surette is embracing his role as an organizational leader. For Peters, the key learning at HBS was changing his way of solving problems. “In the Navy and in regulatory consulting, there was a very View Details

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Eryn Schultz

me have the confidence to leave consulting and to take an operations job at a Texas-based grocery retailer. Not only would I get direct P&L responsibility, but I would also get to try moving back to my hometown and working in the food... View Details

Keywords: Services; Consumer Products

Portrait Project

Matias Ruiz

Growing up in Argentina with loving parents and finding the love of my life were the strongest things that shaped the person I am today. Early on when I started this fantastic experience I promised myself that I would gather some of the lessons View Details

01 Jun 2012
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Giving Through HBS

disseminating pathbreaking ideas is supported by alumni, whose gifts allow faculty to focus on research and teaching rather than on securing grants from outside sources. Similarly, alumni donors have a direct impact on future leaders by... View Details

Keywords: Professor Howard Stevenson

01 Mar 2017
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Expanding Horizons

his country, India, and more broadly, the world at large. “HBS changed my career direction and broadened my horizons,” he says. “I was going into the health care sector, but a summer in equity capital between my MBA years convinced me to... View Details

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Katy Lankester

where in healthcare I wanted to build my career, and in what types of companies. I wanted to work in healthcare, but I didn’t know what the big verticals were, or which types of competencies were most important. I learned that I wanted to... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

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Visit | MBA

Visit By virtue of its immersion in the case method, the richness of its section life, and the depth and breadth of its extracurricular activities, the MBA Program is best appreciated through direct experience. If you are interested in... View Details

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Oliver Bladek

timeline." After a few years at McKinsey, Oliver became restless. "Consulting is good for thinking, but I wanted to learn about doing," he says. Oliver moved to Bell Canada, where he led teams tackling projects, such as... View Details

13 Jun 2016
Blog Post

Is HBS Cutthroat or Collaborative?

techie, and me (a science teacher turned dental-startup enthusiast) convert into a confident, informed team providing direction to a momentous company, potentially affecting accessibility of millions of Cambodian lives to the internet?... View Details

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