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Disability Pride Month | Baker Library
leadership, confidence, and navigating challenges. Their stories provide valuable lessons for organizations aiming to foster inclusive leadership pipelines, support gender equity initiatives, and cultivate workplace cultures that empower... View Details
- 14 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team
cultivate stars. But if there are only a few stars, these individuals will tend to have a tougher time sustaining top performance. Q: What else are you working on? A: We also examine the portability of performance in a different labor... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
culture that’s best cultivated in person, as well as the kind of collaboration that’s unlocked when people gather around a whiteboard with their best ideas. Even so, there are continued uncertainties around the pandemic and what the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?
Scotty is Unitarian, which is a very eclectic kind of religion; neither of us wants to beat people up with religion. So I wouldn't want to be misunderstood, but nonetheless to say, "This is a very important part of people's lives. Don't underestimate it. And why... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Vision: To Go-Go
funding led by Andreessen Horowitz and the Brazilian venture fund Base Partners. In addition to developing its own brands, Foodology has begun cultivating partnerships with established industry players such as Amor Perfecto, a leading... View Details
- 12 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Spent this Summer Coding
cultivate technical talent in the institution given the swelling interest, such as offering the new computer science class CS50 for MBAs that’s designed for future managers, product managers, and founders. The new joint MS/MBA program... View Details
- 03 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Van den Ende Rozen
50% of the water used in rose cultivation is captured, treated with UV light, and reused for future crops. The Van den Ende brothers also continue to explore ways to reduce the use of chemical pesticides. They have already transitioned... View Details
- 24 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 24, 2008
how to manage up; Cultivate a mutually beneficial relationship with your manager; Communicate effectively with your boss about priorities and problems; and Negotiate win-win solutions to on-the-job challenges with your supervisor.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
have those important conversations, create those moments of meaning, and deliver great words to the people we care about at the office, at home, and in all areas of life. The 7 Laws of Enough: Cultivating a Life of Sustainable Abundance... View Details
- 04 Aug 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are We Facing an Attitude Shortage?
'attitude problem' is at the top, not the bottom!" Meenal Dandavate concurred: "[Attitude]...can be cultivated consciously, but mostly it has the tendency to flow/cascade from the top down." Others concentrated on reasons... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
What I Learned in the Africa Rising Short Intensive Program
African-focused ventures enter higher-skilled sectors, they are being forced to contend with talent scarcity in addition to capital scarcity. In response to this constraint, Africa-bound business leaders will need to come up with differentiated strategies to overcome... View Details
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
long-time faculty members, the late Walmsley University Professor C. Roland Christensen and Abraham Zalesnik, now Matsushita professor of leadership emeritus, "is his willingness to take risks, to decide upon and implement action based on limited knowledge."... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
think," says Robert S. Huckman, the Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. "In particular, when this type of work is outsourced it should not be viewed as a mere commodity." Instead, he says, View Details
- 02 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 2, 2009
books, and movies has increased sharply. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-132.pdf Firsthand Experience and the Subsequent Role of Reflected Knowledge in Cultivating Trust in Global Collaboration Authors:Mark... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career
network they need. Careful integration is a key. Q: From the point of view of someone's career in the current economic climate, it would seem wiser to cultivate portable skills as opposed to company-specific skills. Based on your... View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
partnerships, strategy, and marketing,” Condo notes. “We prepare them to go back to their home countries and become catalysts for positive change and growth.” Recently launched student start-ups include Agrovita, which combines tilapia farming and the View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
graduating with honors from HBS. After eight years with GM — including a stint as treasurer of GM España in Madrid — O’Neal had cultivated an “appetite for the deals business.” So when Merrill Lynch came knocking, he gladly opened the... View Details
- 03 Feb 2018
- Op-Ed
How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility
Larry Fink recently created a shockwave. As cofounder, chairman, and CEO of BlackRock, one of the world’s largest global asset management firms, in an open letter to CEOs he caught the attention of financial markets and beyond by insisting on the importance of... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Battilana
- 12 Feb 2016
- Op-Ed
The Real Jobs Tragedy in the US: We've Lost the Skills
workforce ages, their skills “asset base” erodes, making the logic of relying on alternatives more compelling. That problem is compounded by the failure of many U.S. employers to cultivate relationships with local educators to help ensure... View Details
- 09 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Reflections on Student Conferences in 2020
vegetables and cultivating nutritional value through plant breeding. The conference keynotes, Ndidi Nwuneli (MBA 1999), CEO of Sahel, and Eric Soubeiran, Managing Director of Danone Ecosystem Fund, shared their cautious optimism for the... View Details