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- 25 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
tremendous value to our target audience.” The main focus of YAM is to shrink that management talent gap in Africa. It does this by providing networking opportunities; educating companies and young business people about the opportunities... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 14 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
How to Support Your Employees’ Career Development
department keeps everyone on the same page with how an employee wants to be spending their time, and what is necessary for them to succeed in their current role. Understand Your Employees’ Motivations A critical part of these ongoing... View Details
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- 14 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
How to Support Your Employees' Career Development
department keeps everyone on the same page with how an employee wants to be spending their time, and what is necessary for them to succeed in their current role. Understand Your Employees’ Motivations A critical part of these ongoing... View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
actions and motives are constantly under scrutiny. Time to manage your own professional image before others do it for you. An interview with Laura Morgan Roberts. Music Downloads: Pirates-or Customers? Published: June 21, 2004 Professor... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Research Brief: Hear Me Out
Image by Lincoln Agnew Image by Lincoln Agnew It’s usually not hard to spot the extroverts in the office—or anywhere else. The butterflies of any social gathering, extroverts tend to restore their energy levels by being around other people. But for all their... View Details
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Dan Vallone
it’s a great fit with my goals: to widen equality and close achievement gaps. That’s how I want to spend my time. How do you think HBS has prepared you for your new role? In classes, the case method motivates you to develop and refine... View Details
- 14 Feb 2018
- News
A ‘Hopeaholic’ Promotes Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality in the Workplace
motivated to search for novel information and anticipate alternative perspectives, leading to better decision making, problem solving and innovation. Time and again, analysis confirms this improves the bottom line of companies. “Working... View Details
- 23 Feb 2015
- News
Preserving a Musical Tradition; Inspiring Future Generations
seed for iASO Records, de Menil’s record label, with the mission of promoting traditional music. It wasn’t an easy sell. Like de Menil, few people outside of Latin America had heard of bachata, and even in the Dominican Republic it was... View Details
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James Reinhart
but it was never unexpected for Reinhart who started his first venture when he was 10 years old. He lined up lawn-mowing customers all over his New Jersey neighborhood and then motivated friends to tend to the lawns. He charged $15 per... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
Skydeck podcast BRUNELL: Human motivation for supporting or catalyzing change only comes from within. We can’t “make” people’s behavior or “mandate” mindset. Citizens must have reason to care, want, and believe in the change agenda—and to... View Details
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Brett Gibson
the Carlyle Group. While he appreciated the opportunity to apply values and skills he had developed in the Army – "integrity, motivating people, delegating responsibilities to a team" – he felt a need to go further. "I'm... View Details
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
people could be ready for general management assignments. In one case, Gerstner and his team were discussing the next job for a high-potential female executive. Most felt that she needed a bigger job in her functional area, but Gerstner... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
pandemic has motivated and facilitated lift outs in two key ways: Market volatility has motivated searches. Market agitation at any level, from firm to industry to global, can View Details
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Clarissa Quintanilla
opportunities for people like the women lining the highway will require joint action from the public and private sectors,” says Clarissa. Not surprisingly, Clarissa’s college and postgraduate experiences reflect her dual interests. She... View Details
- 18 Jan 2012
- News
Charter Supporter
Burke: A need to close the income gap. After her graduation from HBS, few people could accuse Mary Burke (MBA 1985) of having led a dull life. As reported in the Madison, Wisconsin Capital Times (October 5, 2011), Burke first worked for... View Details
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Blake Landro
Motivated to make a difference in the world, Blake Landro seriously considered law school. But while working at a law firm after college, Blake found that he “liked the business side of the firm more than the law itself.” He felt a career... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Intellectual Debate: The Business of Business
should be the firm's only motivation if social welfare is to be maximized - provoked a round of spirited discussion centered on the social role and responsibilities of corporations. The next session, on "Ethics, Economics, and... View Details
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Naeill Leigh
a more effective, a more influential leader. I’m gaining insight about the kind of leader I can be. The way I would’ve led people before is very different from what I would do now. I have more self-awareness, a broader understanding of... View Details
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Benjamin Peterson
thinks about how to maintain it. In the end, the Haitian government built the most kilometers of high-quality roads, because it was incented to maintain them. The experience got me interested in incentives, in what motivates View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Research Brief: Launching into a Downturn
High-Tech Start-Up Outcomes,” Roche and coauthor Annamaria Conti found that high-tech and medical-device startups launched in uncertain financial times underperform those whose founders have better job security. As a result, the bar for good ideas goes down for View Details