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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
director of one of America’s largest private companies and chair of the governance committee of an S&P 500 company. He distills governance research into a handful of insights and includes candid interviews with exceptional board chairs,... View Details
- 19 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Connecting School Ties and Stock Recommendations
information flow, and price evolution, in security markets." Cohen explained more in an e-mail interview with HBS Working Knowledge. Martha Lagace: What made you think that there might be an interesting link between educational... View Details
- 20 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono
escalating, high-profile campaign against Third World debt, poverty, war and disease. “Any CEO who thinks his or her job is about maximizing shareholder value is living in the past.” Koehn, a Harvard Business School historian who has... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
almost any job and then that very rapidly declines and your career is subsequently path dependent, so I certainly didn't appreciate how much it impacts the overall trajectory of your life if you have a failure earlier on. I am one of the... View Details
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
industries and roles completely from what I'd been doing before school, and the financial crisis was really hard for me. It took about a year to find a job, and I took the first reasonable offer I got. The first job was a bad fit. It... View Details
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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
School 1908-1945 (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1987), 171. 11 Walter J. P. Curley, interview by Carole Kolker in National Venture Capital Association Venture Capital Oral History Project: Venture Capital Greats , 24 March 2010.... View Details
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
In our January 2 update, we featured the first part of a two-part interview with HBS professor Michael E. Porter, an internationally influential expert on strategy and competition. (Porter was recently appointed to a University... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Happy Monday
matters, the study suggests, because people who are more connected are 36 percent more likely to stay in their job and 37 percent more likely to perform at a higher level. As leaders consider flexibility as a tool for retaining and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
important for company leaders to see themselves as facilitators of progress, as being there to serve the people who are in the trenches. If they do a good job of planning and organizing projects, and keeping in touch with how things are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Brown and Company) Beginning in 1979 as a cable channel televising sporting events in Connecticut, ESPN is arguably now the most successful network in TV history. The authors tell the inside story of this amazing rise, drawing on over 500 View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
whiffed management assignment, an unceremonious firing, or a failed marriage. Whatever the circumstances, one point becomes clear: The only real failure is not learning from one. Catch those stones While I have had “whoopsies” at jobs as... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors
better search and retrieval of information. Committee members are also developing survey questions and coordinating interviews with career liaisons and club career coordinators to assess alumni awareness, preferences, and needs in career... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Borders and the Self By Chinwe Ajena-Sagna (MBA 2003) Masobe Books “Who are you?” Every border tells a story. Every story has its origins. Tracing a cultural lineage from the beginnings of Igbo history in the ninth century by delineating... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
in and turn the tables on things,” Herp says with a smile during an interview at the offices of Linear Air, an air-taxi service based in Concord, Massachusetts. “Just ask my wife and kids.” As VLJs were being developed, Herp, his e-Dialog... View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- News
Well Said
for her job interviews. So that's when on the personal level that inspiration struck me. And then I feel like on a professional level, my career up until this point had prepared me for this opportunity. I had developed a career in tech,... View Details
- 04 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
Rico, Denver, and many other incredible locations. I was in the middle of a few other interview cycles for various health care roles, and I was completely torn. Do I accept the role with NPS, or continue to engage with the career path I... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
interviewed were struck by Gerstner's interest and active involvement in the development of high-potential minority and female senior managers and junior executives; he took a personal interest in how they were being mentored and what... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
that your survey found that 70% of working parents call work-life balance a "non-negotiable" when they're job hunting. So are you seeing businesses respond to the pressure that their employees are feeling? SK: We are. I think that... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
much better job at work and probably always wonder if you aren't missing out on one of the great life experiences. You can decide to have kids and give up your career, and always wonder if you are not maximizing who you could be. You... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
Anglo American, one of the world’s largest mining companies, Cynthia Carroll traveled to 14 countries, visiting mines and interviewing staff, meeting with government officials, and talking to miners and local community members. “I needed... View Details