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- 06 Jun 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?
the office to benefit from the stimulus of solving client problems while "preferably working in a garden or even petting the dog or cat." If the problem is us, the solution may lie with us. Joe Fernandez recommended that we View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Alumni Career Journey: Rob Self (MBA 2021) – Integrating Climate into Consulting
strategic response to data center penetration as well as residential solar penetration. In my role at BCG, I also had the opportunity to attend a weeklong immersive training at Columbia Climate Institute in New York with other BCGers... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
kerosene heaters. You can see the kerosene tanks in the picture, one per unit. Frequently, it seemed, my dad would have to transport kerosene from the outside tank to the one inside heating unit in the dining area, which did a great job... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
physicians are skeptical of recent innovations. Their “first do no harm” training favors a trial-and-error approach based on treating for the most likely diagnosis first, and moving on to something else if that doesn’t work. Third,... View Details
- 31 Oct 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: In Tackling #MeToo, Don’t Ignore Micro-Insults That Harm Women’s Careers
diversity training programs aimed at attitudes are less effective than putting men and women together to accomplish tasks, which makes both competence and compatibility salient. FOSO is reasonable for some women in circumstances where... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 03 Jan 2008
- What Do You Think?
Does Judgment Trump Experience?
effort? If so, what kind of training would be required for those teaching "judgment"? To what degree could this supplement and perhaps accelerate a process of individual self-discovery in the real world? What do you think?... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
non-executive Merrill directors even attended the meeting. Stories of boards and CEOs failing to do their jobs on behalf of shareholders can also be told about AIG, Bank of America, Bear Stearns, Citigroup, Countrywide, Fannie Mae,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
the potential to write a new chapter, to set an example. But he was also a realist. On that trip to Caen, it became clear that saving the company and the workers’ jobs would require a new factory and new equipment—in short, way more money... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
it a fad that amounts to little more than sensitivity training in New Age clothing, or does it reflect something more profound about the way we are beginning to conceive of and relate to work? In the following pages six HBS alumni who are... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
Gamble's leadership training programs. There's nothing like having to step into a decision maker's shoes to learn about leadership." ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "If you can find work that both stretches you and plays to your strengths,... View Details
- 06 Nov 2017
- Research Event
Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?
over a period of months.” With or without government support or collaboration, technology will continue to disrupt cities. “Autonomous driving, electric cars, it’s all happening,” said Christian Irmisch, sales manager for commuter and regional View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Feb 2004
- What Do You Think?
Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?
people: 1) those who "will never agree with the CEO and are always in the minority," 2) those who help "clean up the decision-making process," and 3) "true 'yes men' ... [who] get the job done." Cheryl Price... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer Merck & Co., Inc. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education Union College, 1963 B.S., Electrical Engineering Other Jobs Eastman Kodak Company, 1963-66 "I was the first... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
papers. He noted while “some of the first-year students felt that their painful literary efforts deserved male consideration,” HBS had discovered that “competent young ladies could be employed and trained to do a more careful, dependable... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
alongside the official engine productions. Many craft industries, specifically metal industries, have traditions of homer making. In a recent survey conducted in France, 28 percent of male factory workers reported that on the job they... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
think in successful businesses there is both a sense of strategy and how you allocate resources to get the maximum impact.” His humility allowed Eisenhower to play a long game—working under other officers and learning how to bring out the best in people. In a View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
kicked out of the game?” The first case HBS Archives Photography Collection, Baker Library Special Collections In 1980, just as he was joining the HBS faculty, Bill Sahlman met an interesting character named Jeff Parker. Parker, then 37 years old, was in the process of... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
Conversely, I’ve heard investors say they wish the leaders of their portfolio companies would be more transparent about challenges they are facing and ask for help. As one investor said to me, “They already sold me on the business and have our money. It’s now our... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 30 Apr 2025
- News
A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado
donate $50 or what have you. They’re not wealthy. But now in DC, many of those same donors might have very well have lost their public sector jobs and could need United Way’s services. So, they’re still constituents but in a new capacity.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 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