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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
insights into how managers can engage frontline workers to solve problems. Reunion presentation: Designing Care, Professor Richard Bohmer Health care–related programs and courses are nothing new at HBS; in recent years, 10 percent of every graduating MBA class has... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
unheard of to a time when women shape decision-making at the highest corporate levels. With the arrival of women students in the 1950s, when the School partnered with the Radcliffe Management Training Program, Associate Professor... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
whose jobs rely on getting ideas to market. All of a sudden, you’re not in the car business. You’re in the business of being fast. Local Motors’ 3D-printed car, the Strati, takes about 44 hours to print and has an electric engine that can... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
and cutting wages, this will reduce the purchasing power of Americans, shrink the tax base, and eventually undermine the business environment in America. Conversely, if workers get higher pay while American-based companies are not able to compete successfully, wages... View Details
- 01 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Investing in Career Switchers - Cyril Straughn-Turner & Invesco US
growing up in Atlanta, Delta was like a second home,” he shared. “I was also a big train geek as a kid, so I’ve always loved transportation, and I found there was a lot happening in terms of the future of mobility and the customer... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
And she succeeded. A veteran of the peer group industry, who has trained and mentored hundreds, Corner-Stolz cracked the code for MX as well as for how to skillfully moderate PaCs. She’s been teaching her formula for success through her... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
bring along more successful people, and you’ll have more career endurance. Thirty-three million Americans have quit their jobs since the spring of 2021. What can good leaders do to make sure that workers are engaged and happy? The Great... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 18 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 3/5
for predominantly white spaces is still not be enough to keep Black people safe – and there isn’t a job title or degree in the world that can protect Black communities from institutionalized and systemic racism. Members of the HBS African... View Details
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
people buy and read books. Steve Jobs and Apple were similarly influential in the sale and distribution of music through iPod and iTunes. Successful leaders possess the ability to understand the impact of the context on their business and... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
contributions to product design, but the same cannot be said for services. Undoubtedly many examples of outstanding service design exist, and we will mention some later in this work. But recognition of service design as a discipline, as a management function, or a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Less Risk, More Reward
firm, they can’t offer benefits; they can’t offer health insurance; they can’t even offer job stability. And in many cases, they pay with equity rather than with high wages. That’s a very risky thing to do, to join a small firm. And you... View Details
Keywords: April White; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
agencies focused on development projects and private-sector growth in emerging economies often seen as too risky for most investors. But this new assignment was something else entirely. “I have a phenomenal job and I’m living in a safe... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Web
Figuring Out Her Mission | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Leadership Fellows Program job posting at Boston Ballet gave her a chance to explore it as a reality. Executive Director, Max Hodges (MBA 2010), was seeking a Chief of Staff with a business background and MBA skills in strategy and... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
many Cicero employees now volunteer or work pro bono on company time mentoring, coaching, and training, as well as gathering and analyzing data to frame the best approaches to ending homelessness. One outcome of this work is a database Cicero created with 2,500... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
Photos by Louise Agnew The day he returned home to Australia from three months in Harvard Business School’s General Management Program, Benjamin Gower (GMP 19, 2015) quit his job as senior vice president of operations for Australian... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
with fewer resources available to address them—or even the training to keep up with technology. Oishi discovered this firsthand toward the end of her pregnancy in 1997, after the second of two ultrasounds by as many doctors. “Your baby... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
what's really the job is to oversee a production from start to finish. But really, when you're deep into the production process, to hand over the keys to a director and then continue to work with that director and the whole production... View Details
- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
As Major League Baseball camps reawaken for spring training over the next few weeks, the same scene will repeat across the country: A pitcher will take the mound. A batter will stare back. And behind him, an umpire will tense in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
the December/ January 2008 issue of the Academy of Management Journal in which they question the value of business school research. Henry Mintzberg of McGill University in Montreal devoted a book to his contention that “conventional MBA programs View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
HBS, he found the case method to be an eye-opener, not only for its analytical training but also for its power to shape an entrepreneurial mindset. “Sometime later,” Stevenson recalls, “I realized that you acquire an entrepreneurial... View Details