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01 Mar 2009
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Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems

will complement the skills and wisdom the fellows acquired during their “first” careers in the public and private sectors. “People who have accomplished a great deal during their careers are uniquely suited to lead and to envision... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

2009
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Collaboration Across Knowledge Boundaries within Diverse Teams: Reciprocal Expertise Affirmation as an Enabling Condition

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Kate Roloff and Lucy H. MacPhail

We review research on expertise diversity, psychological safety, team collaboration, and role identity to propose a model in which reciprocal affirmations of expertise identity among team members—a feature of the team environment that we conceptualize as a dimension of... View Details

Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Experience and Expertise; Learning; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Groups and Teams; Familiarity; Identity; Cooperation

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30 Mar 2015
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Raising the bar to provide quality education

California. Our goal is to give these children the academic and social/emotional experiences they need to be able to go to and get through a competitive four-year college. “Every type of skill you would find in a business, you would find... View Details

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Outdoors Club | MBA

Outdoors Club The Outdoors Club provides opportunities, education, and community for adventurers at HBS. Whether you are an experienced outdoorsperson or a beginner weekend warrior, this club is for you! In addition to a great line-up of... View Details

Portrait Project

Jennifer Keedy Banks

I have touched, ways I've demonstrated my love for my family, and how I have used my skills to aid my church and my community Investing in my most valuable assets, my precious children, by taking the time to... View Details

10 Jan 2017
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Capturing the Personal Side of the MBA Experience

As an MBA student, Tony Deifell (MBA 2002) was intrigued by the idea of reflective leadership, so he decided to combine his skills as a photographer with a question from a Mary Oliver poem: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your... View Details

12 May 2016
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Cooking Up America’s Food Culture

food-education spaces and food-business incubators, Duda has combined his MBA with the lessons he learned in restaurants. He’s also actively involved with the resurrection of the Redland Farm Life School, near Miami. When it opened in 1917, the school taught sewing and... View Details

01 Dec 2012
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Taking Time to Make Time

takes a lot more than organizing your schedule to be productive. I wanted to discuss skills that have been critical in my own career. Communication is one—reading, writing, and speaking. Another is how you... View Details

Keywords: Time management

08 Apr 2019
Blog Post

Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career

C-suite executive. “I took a year off to decompress and do some fun things,” Kloeblen explains. As a skilled woodworker, an experienced health coach, and a licensed sea captain, he had many interests to explore and enjoy long subordinated... View Details

Keywords: Technology

01 Mar 2011
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Local Hero

lives in the Bay Area and has closely followed the career of his first-year HBS study group friend. “The park was a keystone in the team’s rise, and Larry was all over that, but he also has great competence in media, marketing, and View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

10 Aug 2015
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A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges

In 2001, Monisha Kapila (MBA 2005) went to India to help its people emerge from the devastating Gujarat earthquake. As she worked with artisans to reach new crafts markets, she knew she had found a perfect way to use her business skills... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Dec 2014
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Clubs Hopping

York as those most in need of skilled midlevel workers and focused on community colleges as a solution. In partnership with the LaGuardia Community College in Queens, the group... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Oct 2021
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HBS-Harvard Collaboration Fosters New Ventures

Thrive! helps communities of color Roughly 84 percent of children born into poverty will live in poverty for the rest of their lives. Thrive! is a software-as-a-service that helps local governments break the cycles of poverty in View Details

Profile

Margo Cramer

she could be successful in both sectors—if she had the right skills. "The MBA," says Margo, "is the best way to get traditional business skills that can be applied across sectors." At HBS, Margo continues to advocate... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education; Retail/Hospitality

01 May 2015
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How Being an HBS Partner Changed My Life

are many opportunities through the Harvard community to enhance my skills and partner with experts, so I don’t feel like I’m setting out alone. I’ve met with HBS students and partners for advice,... View Details

01 Feb 2011
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An Exercise in Understanding People

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

Issue Focus: Leadership Issue Focus Li & Fung's Global Footprint Reimagining the MBA Leaders come in all colors, ages, shapes, and sizes, with all manner of skills and temperaments, a variety and diversity seemingly matched only by the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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Session Types | Information Technology

pianist Lisa Qiya Li ‘23 and cellist Maddie Tucker ‘23. Play Video duration: 1:28 The Arts of Communications Candace Bertotti, adjunct lecturer in public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, used the HBS Live Online Classroom to help MBA... View Details

07 Jan 2015
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Improving health care delivery

Elaine Goodman (MBA 2015) will combine her business and medical skills to improve health care — and avoid the mistakes she witnessed when her mother died of cancer. (Published January 2015) View Details

06 Sep 2024
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Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows

training, and college and career prep programs. Over the past two years, she also worked as an investment associate at ICA Fund, a nonprofit venture capital fund that uses investments to address the gender and racial wealth gap. She said, “Through the fellowship, I... View Details

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