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African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

05 Nov 2021
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Video Blog: Why I Decided to Pursue an MBA at HBS

into these amazing people's lives. And I've developed really incredible friendships that I think I'll carry on for years and years to come. So people is definitely number one. Number two, I would have to say the case method, for sure. The... View Details

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Doug Marsan

can feel a bit scary. Others, like recruiting for that dream job or going on that trek to another country, are experiences that you never thought would be available to you. While you only get to “ride the rides” for two years, the learnings and View Details

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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

AP World History, AP Psychology MD Stacey Billingsley South River High School Edgewater, MD Subjects: AP US History CO Cody Blackburn Mapleton Expeditionary School Of The Arts Thornton, CO NC Logan Blaylock Trinity School Durham, NC DC Eric Blood View Details

28 Sep 2023
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Screen Time

friends. “At HBS, even in a section, there are some people you might not talk to because they don’t sit near you, or you have nothing in common,” he observes. “So these virtual section gatherings have expanded my acquaintances and View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

08 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

culture. Best practices include: Foster mutual reliance and friendship among coworkers. Much has been written about how to manage remote teams and encourage collegiality. Teams that have only recently gone remote because of the pandemic... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

03 May 2023
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Five Ways to Build Community at HBS

advance. I had the opportunity to backpack with a few other incoming students over the summer, and it led to some of my closest friendships on campus. Having these friends before the beginning of the first semester helped me feel like my... View Details

12 Oct 2022
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11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

ups-and-down of my friendships or relationships. I drew lines between who was allowed to know and who wasn’t. And in my career, I shamelessly allowed myself to work for people who did not affirm who I was. Doing all this having to... View Details

28 Jun 2021
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7 Things HBS Taught Me the Last 2 Years

hours. This is only possible because the community –including professors, alumni, and classmates – is mission-driven, selfless, and deeply believes in paying it forward. #5 Friendships make HBS one of a kind. In the first few weeks at... View Details

24 Nov 2015
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What is an HBS MyTake?

and the friendships they’ve formed at HBS. Each year we bring together over 900 diverse people from all over the world – all of whom are invested in becoming leaders and making some kind of difference in the world. During their time at... View Details

09 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty

to nurture a friendship via Facebook. Consequently, participants fell into one of four conditions: professional/low-power, professional/high-power, personal/low-power, or personal/high-power. After the online networking activity, everyone... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

14 Oct 2021
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Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return

should come back to office. My ongoing research with the all-remote firm Zapier suggests that while workers can work-from-anywhere, temporarily colocating with peers a few times a year (in the case of Zapier at a retreat), strengthens workplace View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

09 Oct 2001
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Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

can come to the defense of one another by providing help in times of crisis. They can take significant satisfaction in developing bonds of partnership and friendship and feel free of concerns about being double-crossed. Relations of this... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria

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Tim Kluska

with amazing relationships and a friendship base, spanning around the globe and across countless industries, that I can rely on, just as they can rely on me for anything. How have diverse perspectives in your section contributed to your... View Details

22 Sep 2021
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Meet LASO: The HBS Latino Student Organization

community and friendships LASO members made at HBS. During my first year, I served on LASO’s Admissions Committee because I wanted to encourage more diverse candidates to apply and to pay it forward for the coffee chats that I had the... View Details

04 May 2020
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6 Things You Should Know About the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

weekend in Cape Cod before classes started and this getaway truly catalyzed what have been, and will continue to be, amazing friendships for years to come. My jointee cohort serves as a forum for both professional and personal guidance.... View Details

07 Jan 2016
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Is HBS Too Big?

discussions on women in the workplace to tutoring sessions for finance. My best friends are mostly my section mates. Generally, friendships formed when I had the opportunity to spend more time with them in small group settings and found... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Dilan Gomih

what business school is about: it helps you find people you can help, and it comes back to you. There's an authenticity to the friendships among students and faculty. I got to know people quickly – people who will probably be at my... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Entertainment/Media

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What Does PRIDE Mean to You? - MBA