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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
What’s Next for You?
cautioned that those who are used to corporate perks often underestimate the challenges associated with work in other fields. “You need to be realistic about the degree of difficulty,” stressed Tierney. “In nonprofits, for instance, lack... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- Blog Post
BaubleBar Brought to Life, and Other Tales of Joining a Start-up
at? Final words of wisdom for would be start-up joiners? Katharine admitted that she herself didn’t take the advice she was about to share. “Really, do not stress about waiting for the right role”, even if your section-mates are all set... View Details
- 06 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine
Months of binge watching, doom scrolling, home schooling, and stress eating have left many people more determined than ever to start a new fitness regimen in January. Even a global pandemic that is closing gyms and keeping people indoors... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
Every public health crisis—whether it’s the availability of highly addictive opioids or junk food marketing to children—prompts consumers to question how far companies will go for profit. It’s not an unwarranted concern. After all, cigarette makers once used... View Details
- 04 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Heard on the Street (HOTS) - bringing the HBS community together through harmony
say hello and residents of SFP2 cheering us up from their balconies. Rehearsals are both musically and socially fun. Hearing beautiful harmonies when we strike the right chords helps us forget about all the stress and worries we may have... View Details
- 04 Nov 2002
- What Do You Think?
What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?
to be transferred into the corporate brain," a formidable task in many organizations. Those stressing the importance of memory placed the greatest value on the retention of talent in the organization. As C. J. Cullinane put it,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Meditations on the Bottom Line
guests a year in a wide array of yoga, meditation, and other health and wellness programs. "It's a safe and sacred place where people can come - regardless of their religious background - to unwind from the stresses of the world and... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector
fundamental importance of education to the future of the individual and the community, he stressed the value of very early education (from prenatal to age three), teacher/principal development and training, and mentoring relationships for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
factors matter for the Fed’s outlook on spending, employment, and inflation, I would imagine that they could influence the timing and pace of the Fed’s interest rate policies. Let me stress that within the Fed there is tremendous focus on... View Details
- 02 Jan 2014
- News
The Power to Change
and the stresses on the planet's environment he saw in places like India and Africa, helped to shape his next move. Fast forward to a TEDx New England Conference, when he first saw grad students Mark Massie and Leslie Dewan. Russell... View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
challenges as opportunities and we really meet the occasion with our effectiveness and with a greater ease. And then there's leader B mode, when we are less effective, when we're resisting the moment and we're just a little more stressed... View Details
- Profile
LaToya Marc
Growing up in small towns in Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas, LaToya Marc found her passion for social justice tempered by the practical need to make a decent living. "I was raised by a single mother who stressed the importance of... View Details
- Profile
Damali Brown
undergraduate. "A lot of the distinguished speakers who came to visit Spelman had MBAs, many of them from Harvard," she says. "I equated excellence early on with having an MBA from HBS." Reflecting on her background, Damali observes that while... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Value Added
first non-Westerner to hold that position) in 1994 at the age of 45, Gupta stresses that his duties bear little resemblance to those of a corporate CEO. "The partners in the field make most of the operational decisions and bear most of... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Getting on Board
she leads a popular series of “On Board Bootcamp” seminars for aspiring board members. (The next is June 26–27 in New York City.) Both women stress that launching a successful board career requires some preliminary research. “You have to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
"near-peers," helping kids to stay in school and on track. City Year was founded by Harvard Law School graduates Alan Khazei and Michael Brown with Jennifer Eplett Reilly (MBA 1990). Similarly, health care could use paraprofessionals to bolster a View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?
yourself and what you can deliver. All these things are typical stresses in the business environment. Where would religion fit in there? Well, religion could fit in a number of ways. One is, first of all, the personal perspective, that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
large, but we have not made progress in measuring it. That is a future question for research." Despite the difficulty of assessing the effects of regulation, Srinivasan stresses the importance of continuing to look for ways to do so,... View Details
- 05 Sep 2008
- What Do You Think?
Is Case Method Instruction Due for an Overhaul?
"Cases help to develop 'pattern recognition' skills that are very important in decision-making ...." Dave Schnedler added that cases help develop "critical thinking," teach that "digging hard pays off," View Details
- 03 Jan 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
5 Career-Related New Year’s Resolutions (and 5 Tips for Keeping Them)
get to do those jobs is not expanding,” says Robert Simons, the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “People feel more pressure to own their roles and they’re stressed because they’re being... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel