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Beau D'Arcy
pleasure of taking courses with some of the best: Rakesh Khurana, Clayton Christensen, and John Macomber just to name a few. But the one that had the greatest impact on me would have to be Jan Rivkin, who taught my section Strategy.... View Details
- 19 Oct 2022
- News
If I Were You
some advice based on their experience. And in this episode of Skydeck, we share some of our favorite responses. READ MORE Joelle Grapfer-Kaufman (MBA 1996): Joelle Grapfer-Kaufman, class of 1996, section B. Try everything. Open your... View Details
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy
diffusion of new technologies. A networked incubator can provide tremendous value to a start-up team through connections that help forge crucial strategic partnerships, recruit highly talented people, and obtain important advice from... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Joe Toplyn (MBA 1979)
souvenir, and not as a potential exhibit in a libel suit. My advice to others is to try to make your living doing something you really enjoy. It’s not the most original advice in the world, and it may not be... View Details
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
client service and threatens to further accelerate misguided growth. The way forward There appears to be a misalignment between management consulting firms’ internal practices and the advice they offer their clients. While most are View Details
- 16 Dec 2013
- Blog Post
A first semester reflection
internships and jobs before HBS, and they always responded with an emphatic “yes.” It felt like classmates were coming out of the woodwork to offer help with prepping for interviews, and I’ve been listening to their advice intently. The... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- Op-Ed
'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year
Credit: iStockPhoto Who are the editors of HBS Working Knowledge most thankful for as the new year begins? It’s the readers who take time to contribute comments to our stories, more than 1,000 in 2017. Since our readership extends to more... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Sarah Talley’s Key Negotiation Principles
When you have a problem, when there’s something you engage in with Wal-Mart that requires agreement so that it becomes a negotiation, the first advice is to think in partnership terms, really focus on a common goal, of getting costs out,... View Details
- Student-Profile
Aurora Turek
one-on-one with a faculty member, and to be sure I wanted to apply to doctoral programs,” she explains. Upon arriving at HBS, Aurora was thrilled to become part of such a supportive community. “I had heard that graduate school could be isolating,” Aurora remembers.... View Details
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Best Practices | Information Technology
about taking simple actions which keep us safe and healthy when using the Internet. Small changes like these will not only help you protect Harvard’s information but will help you protect yourself and your family. The following are... View Details
- 07 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips
strategy, and develop a hobby—all to face weeks on the road interviewing at far-flung institutions. Rouen teaches in the Accounting and Management Unit, having recently completed his own job hunt, which brought him to Harvard. Although his View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
GE’s Immelt Urges MBAs to Dream Big, Work Hard
Immelt In June, Class Day speaker Jeffrey R. Immelt (MBA ’82), chairman and CEO of General Electric, sent 878 MBA graduates off into the world with a pep talk in which he cited competitiveness and creativity as keys to business success. Immelt also dispensed lots of... View Details
- 24 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
On Pride and Community
Pride parade fully out as queer! What advice do you have for prospective LGBTQ+ students? At a recent PRIDE event, a 2000 HBS alum said it best, “Sometimes business school felt like two years at a straight cocktail party.” It can be a... View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Would Have Applied to the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
interested in really hard technical problems - robotics, biotech, AI - Boston is the place to be. I think the bottom line is, being at Harvard means you're situated between several of the best institutions to learn and build on the planet. You can View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Neil MacKenna on Effective Job Search Strategies
expertise with HBS alumni by leading a job counseling workshop, titled On Effective Job Search Strategies, to Boston-area graduates and at reunions. “Neil’s insights are time-tested, his advice is unique, and his words of wisdom are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Art Collecting’s New Egalitarianism
informed, to track art transactions and auction results,” Weidner says. Where’s a collector to start, though? We asked him to share a few pieces of advice for burgeoning aesthetes. READ MORE Is the Auction House of the Future Online? 1)... View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women at Work
Boston—and she found out she was pregnant again. By now the Chicago office was thriving, but she was going to quit Bain to stay home and take care of her growing family. But Bain did an unusual thing. Realizing the value she brought to... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Building Your Own Dream Team
generally cover each other’s back. “Once you’ve established a safe place with a group of trusted advisers, you’ll find that you’ll start taking more risks, individually, within your group, and in your company,” writes Ferrazzi, who is CEO... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
quarter-century of HBS startups? To celebrate the New Venture Competition’s 25th anniversary, we asked some past participants about the hardest lesson they’ve learned as an entrepreneur—and what it looked like to learn it. The 2022 finale will View Details