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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
A New Path for Alumnae
offering, A New Path. Hart’s survey of HBS alumnae indicates that 60 percent of respondents between the ages of 35 and 45 dialed down the volume on their professional careers to care for their young families. Although 40 percent continued... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
FLEMING: Scientists make wrong assumptions about MBAs. PHOTO BY STUART ROSNER Despite earning two engineering degrees at Stanford, HBS associate professor Lee Fleming says he always knew he “wanted to study more than electrons.” Even so, the former View Details
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
authority of running the business. Chandler described this management culture as "managerial capitalism. "Owners' delegation of responsibility to professional managers established a corporate norm... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Batteries and Chocolates
the gender biases of those who control them, then historically male places will tend to be harder on women and to promote only those women who essentially behave "like men." Conversely, once an organization becomes dominated by women, the View Details
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Secrets to a Successful Social Media Strategy
a successful social strategy. In A Social Strategy, he contends that the real world comes with certain social norms of conduct that keep people from saying what they really want to say, or acting how they really want to act. Successful... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Curb Your Smartphone Habit
Review Press), Perlow, the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, describes an experiment she conducted (with Jessica Porter) at the Boston Consulting Group, where teams of supercharged professionals collaborated to reclaim precious... View Details
- 15 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Learning from Mistakes and Leveraging Personal Experiences: Tiffany Kent (MBA 2001)
Learn about the career resources available to HBS alumni through HBS Career & Professional Development I graduated from Harvard Business School at the tail end of the dot-com bubble and was fortunate to join Goldman Sach’s high-tech... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Authentic Leadership
their own leadership style and determine their inner compass. They are invited to draw up a contract establishing norms and confidentiality, allowing for openness about vulnerabilities as they share their life stories and confront... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
MBA 101: HBS Commencements Pass the Century Mark
sometimes glacial pace and antiquated norms of cancer research; doubled patients’ lifespans; and raised in excess of $165 million for research. Giusti urged graduates to set goals and build a plan around their passion; choose colleagues... View Details
- 09 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Manager in Red Sneakers
Want to gain more respect at the office? Consider wearing red sneakers to work. OK, so maybe it's not quite that cut-and-dried. But recent research does find that people who wear offbeat clothes in a professional setting are often... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Investigation Leads to Sanctions, Recommendations
year. On April 9, a letter to the HBS community from Dean Kim B. Clark and a statement from the Faculty and Staff Standards Committee (FSSC) reported the results of an investigation that had found a pattern of behavior within one class section that "violated basic... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- Blog Post
11 Ways to Reengage Employees in the New Year
team members individually to talk about their professional and personal development goals. With more information about their team, managers can deepen interpersonal connections and recommend specific conferences, projects, courses, and... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
mailing address, their capital needs are minimal. People are intimately aware of the fact that too much structure will disenfranchise the very people who make the most successful open source projects possible. —Siobhán O'Mahony Second is the tension between embracing... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 15 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Learning from Mistakes and Leveraging Personal Experiences: Tiffany Kent (MBA 2001)
inner turmoil and a loss of direction. All of which was aggravated by feeling that I lacked a supportive network as one of the few professional women on Wall Street. I realized I had stopped growing. Though I invested in growth companies,... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
from the institutional status quo, namely, (1) changes that diverge from the institutionalized template of role division among organizations and (2) changes that diverge from the institutionalized template of role division among View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo
grueling to most people, for Lirio Marcelo it has been more or less the happy norm since she matriculated atHLS in 1995. "The busier I am, the more motivated I get," explains the active dynamo, whose interest in business prompted her to... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 06 Sep 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom
Despite earning two engineering degrees at Stanford, HBS associate professor Lee Fleming says he always knew he "wanted to study more than electrons." Even so, the former professional musician and bike racer, who worked at... View Details
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Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors - Course Catalog
a board of directors as you create and grow your company. Others will join private equity or venture capital firms where you will serve on the boards of the firm’s portfolio companies. Still others will be consultants or advisors to boards, or investment View Details
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
pervasive in the China business context characterized by heavy reliance on personal relationships or guanxi, it went against the founding principles of CDG-professionalism and service quality. Yang had to decide where to draw the line between adherence to principles of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
reflects the same flawed assumptions shared by many otherwise astute individuals having no experience or expertise in the power industry. I am an energy industry professional of 28 years, one who has no quarrel with nuclear in principle.... View Details