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- 01 Feb 1998
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Not Your Typical Business Conference
to signals the CEO and the firm's literature send about company mission and values. Focus on getting a quality boss over a good job title. Don't be afraid to take seemingly circuitous career paths once inside the organization. Have... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
something in the mind of the individual. People perceive a problem or opportunity and have some thoughts on how to approach it. But when individuals come together as a team, ideas can be built on and modified to become something larger. There has been a notion in the... View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
degree in Russian literature from Harvard. The colonel offered to write a letter of recommendation for Hall, but only if it was addressed to Harvard Business School. "I told him I couldn't see myself at Harvard. I was in a war zone, and I... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
high-profile California. To the consternation of the trial bar, his advocacy group placed three initiatives (ultimately unsuccessful) on the state's March 1996 ballot. On the smoking front, Tobias, a Slavic languages and literatures major... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 14 Dec 2015
- News
A Leader’s Call to Action
Republic as an undergrad majoring in English literature at Arizona State. “Plato shaped my worldview of leadership,” recalls Nick. “He said a leader is a philosopher king. A leader is someone who thinks deeply, knows deeply, and is a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Outtakes with Russ Wilcox
thought — being able to carry many complexities in your brain at the same time — is a certain skill that people who grow up reading literature develop. People who read IMs don’t.” Why e-readers are a good thing for civilization: “E-books... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Japanese Connection
notion for Williams, who stopped work on his Ph.D. in English literature at Princeton in the late 1970s when an IBM executive recruited him for a sales position. “There were no teaching jobs at the time,” explains Williams, who worked at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Research Brief: Better Brainstorming
extroverted may have the most information to share,” says Koning. “But the best ideas are generated by open and creative people who are connected to these loud mouths.” This was not what the researchers expected to learn. “There is a strong belief in the View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Rethinking Call Centers: Effective Delivery of Service is Key
that recent literature has discussed "various ways to steer customer interactions to sale opportunities," the authors assert that the topic of effective service delivery has almost entirely been overlooked. "Before being able to generate... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
needed. In his working paper, "Sustainability and the Firm," HBS associate professor Forest L. Reinhardt draws on the economics and accounting literature in developing a two-part test for sustainability that makes sense from an economic... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 16 Jan 2014
- News
Learning from Helping Others
class and a Robert Coles-taught seminar called Moral and Social Inquiry. "We read literature and discussed what the characters had done and what decisions they had made. It allowed us to then think about our own lives and what kinds of... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
all these benefits come faster and more naturally. Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Literature By Zibby Owens (MBA 2003) Little A Zibby Owens has become a well-known personality in the publishing world. Her infectious energy, tasteful... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
intensive discussions of the spiritual dimensions of leadership and how their personal beliefs govern their lives and positively influence the roles they play in society. Sessions use relevant excerpts from religious and classical View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Ink
Korea is one of the best-imagined pieces of literature on life under authoritarianism I have encountered. The protagonist, Jun Do (think ‘John Doe’), goes from obscure orphan to absurd hero, all the while exposing the fragility of the... View Details
- 20 Dec 2018
- News
Baker Library Webinar Features Resources for Alumni
acquisitions, and exploring literature on thought leadership. But many didn’t realize they had access to Baker and wanted to know how to navigate all that it offers. The webinar showed participants how to find information on any business... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
quite centrally and rapidly: The number of early-stage ventures that people were backing had exploded. Young, inexperienced teams were getting a chance to try their ideas in a way that hadn’t happened as much in the past. Why? Reading the View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
also a lot to be optimistic about. Just 20 years ago, the economics literature was in a mode of documenting gender differences, whether it was about discrimination or the different outcomes for men and women. But more recently we’ve... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
recruiting women, and lobbying for updating the School's literature "to reflect the fact that MBAs are not all men." By the 1980s women were a fully integrated part of the School, and the pages of the Bulletin reflected this new era. As... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: That’s Classic
“For the Romans, being an emperor is all about contradictions, because they’ve got to be wildly ambitious, almost a lunatic, but they also have to...consult their peers and carefully use every segment of Roman society.” What can MBAs learn from the Roman emperors... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Mar 2023
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Carbon's Second Act
literature about how to go do that. And that was just going to prove to myself that the technology could work and was viable. DM: Turns out it was. I'm Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck, and this is the third and final episode of Clearing the... View Details