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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
Real Skills for Real Jobs with Real Success by Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992) (Viking Adult) As a Big Brother, Chertavian saw how many young, disadvantaged, yet motivated workers were stranded at the bottom of the View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
success. So You Want to Be a CEO: The Path from Middle Management to the Top Job by Thomas F. Faught Jr. (MBA 1953) (Fortis Publishing) Based on over 40 years of global management experience, including more than a decade as a CEO, Faugh... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Turning Point: Living History
needed to quit my job and focus on the museum full-time. Suddenly I needed to understand climate-control systems and lighting. Then there was the business model and hiring our team. It was a completely mad period of bringing an entire... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Surviving Success
surrounding the key moment at which a founder hands off his or her “baby” to a new CEO. “In my initial research on founders, I focused on the question of compensation and issues around building a board,” says Wasserman. “After View Details
- 04 Oct 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Surviving Success: When Founders Must Go
Wasserman. "After interviewing seven or eight founders, I was struck by the fact that a far more critical moment in a founder's life is when that person is told he can no longer lead the company he started." With the help of... View Details
- 04 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Energy and Cleantech: Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office
I coach and company I meet with, from climate tech startups to renewable energy investment funds. You’ve worked with CPD for over 10 years. What trends have you noticed over that time? Specifically, what have you noticed about the types of View Details
- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
research and practice that can guide and improve the selection process and its outcomes. Their message was: "We know how to do it. And here's how." As Al Shealy commented, "The research isn't being used." Dan Erwin suggested that "...... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- Web
Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
suitable education, and in the spring of 1921, Doriot enrolled at HBS. His first job the next year was at the New York & Foreign Development Corporation (an affiliate of the investment bank Kuhn, Loeb & Company), where he assessed... View Details
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
with them we were able to create a very different organization—less top down, more participative, one that offered more challenging jobs and informed people about results of the business on a regular basis. That began my intellectual... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Profile
Paris Wallace
maternal health and create an ability to predict significant outcomes such as birth defects and autism. In an interview with HIStalk.com, Wallace said, “Research shows that 40 percent of fertility treatments are not needed because these... View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 under 30' Edition
it’s through informational interviews or coffee meetings, can really help ‘put a face to a name’ when the job opportunity does come up.” Gandhi: “The rules of the music industry today change every few... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
do you have for current HBS students interested in pursuing a career in your field? Pradhan: “Force yourself to be an outbound person and spend time researching and getting to know people at various private equity or investment firms. The downside of recruiting for... View Details
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It
he knows he has to do something—for example, pull staff members off other jobs so they can help check people out, or offer free coffee to everyone who's standing in line." Familiarity with the aggregated survey data, in other words,... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
- 17 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream Series: Marty
take them. DJ created the Sabbatical Project to explore questions like this through interviews with individuals who have experienced sabbaticals, as well as with companies which offer them to their employees. During these interviews, DJ... View Details
- 28 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Meet Professor Elisabeth Paulson: A Conversation on Life, Research, and Teaching
In this blog, Loujaine AlMoallim (MBA 2024) interviews Technology and Operations Management Professor Elisabeth Paulson about her personal journey, her time at Harvard Business School, and her advice for HBS leaders. Can you briefly tell... View Details
- Web
The new industrial state? | Institute for Business in Global Society
senior leaders from business, government, and the nonprofit sector, alongside nine Harvard Business School faculty members. This roundtable generated a candid exchange of perspectives on the early outcomes of the United States' industrial policies, especially the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
for anyone who has watched their business — or job — go overseas. As the 2004 presidential election nears, many wonder if, when, and how the issue will be addressed. U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow has visited China in an effort to... View Details
- 08 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Building the Bridge from Nonprofit to VC with Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)
his career decisions and professional passions. “I grew up the youngest of five children raised by a single mother,” he shared. “To lift my family out of poverty, my mother worked two full-time jobs while re-credentialing herself as a... View Details
- 31 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Setting Interns Up for Success at Your Startup
experience.” Internship to Extended Interview Reflecting on summer 2021, Belsito and her team at Mori was thrilled with what Sani was able to deliver over ten weeks and even happier to learn he would continue doing project work with the... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
considering such a path, the authors offer practical advice for each stage of the process. Think it through. Do you have the right qualities for the job (managerial skills, confidence, persuasiveness, persistence, a thirst for learning,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne