Publications

04 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Heard on the Street (HOTS) - bringing the HBS community together through harmony

Introduction to Heard on the StreetOur a cappella group represents the HBS community with members from MBA and PhD students to their partners. Originally founded in 1987 as an all-male group, the ensemble recently became a co-ed group... View Details

05 May 2017
News

Harvard program aims to equip Indigenous communities with keys to financial success

July 2019 (Revised May 2020)
Case

AT&T, Retraining, and the Workforce of Tomorrow

By: William R. Kerr, Joseph B. Fuller and Carl Kreitzberg

By the late 2000s, rapid changes in the telecommunications industry forced AT&T’s management team to take on a task that CEO Randall Stephenson called the “biggest logistical challenge” they had ever seen: retraining 100,000 workers by 2020. In 2012, internal company... View Details

18 Jun 2024
Blog Post

Alumni Career Journey: Ben Schutzman (MBA 2016) - Driving Positive Impact on Community and Climate

thinking about what I wanted from a career standpoint, I realized that I didn't want to be consulting for other businesses in the long run. I had a small business in college, and I knew that pursuing an MBA would help me develop stronger business foundations and the... View Details

18 Mar 2014
News

Virtual Teams: Off and Running

Keywords: virtual teams; communication

30 Jan 2014
News

Calling All Voices

Keywords: meetings; communication; foreign workers

April 2011
Case

Kay Sunderland: Making the Grade at Attain Learning

By: Linda A. Hill and Heather Beckham

Kay Sunderland is an account director at Attain Learning Inc., a business training solutions company. In January 2011, one of Attain's most important clients, Juan Nunez of Gramen Equipment Company, contacts Sunderland with a request: Nunez would like Attain content... View Details

Keywords: Communication; Interpersonal Relations; Personal Strategy ＆ Style; Creativity; Conflict; Interdepartmental Relations; Talent Management; Management Style; Interpersonal Communication; Talent and Talent Management; Relationships; Conflict and Resolution; Communication Strategy; Power and Influence; Service Industry

24 Aug 2017
News

Unlocking Potential

professor for a father and an enthusiastic community volunteer for a mother, Anderson recalls that talk at the family dinner table often revolved around social problems such as the exploding US prison population, and how to fix them.... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Community Partners; Legal Services; Professional Services

December 2018 (Revised February 2020)
Case

Fishbowl: Scaling Up

By: Leslie K. John

Fishbowl is a social media app that allows professionals to connect with other relevant professionals both within their company and across industry. Unlike many other social media apps, on which users typically present idealized portraits of themselves, on Fishbowl,... View Details

September 2019 (Revised February 2020)
Teaching Note

Fishbowl: Scaling Up

By: Leslie K. John

Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.

Teaching Note for HBS No. 919-013. Fishbowl is a social media app that allows professionals to connect with other relevant professionals both within their company and... View Details

01 Mar 2003
News

All in a Day's Work

“There’s a lot of relationship-building behind a development like this,” Oakes says of the housing project. “I’ve always wanted to be the bridge between ‘hard’ business skills and nonprofits — and since I didn’t always speak the language... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Boston Community Capital; Samsung; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Real Estate

2020
Book

Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Over a decade ago, renowned innovation expert Rosabeth Moss Kanter co-founded and then directed Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative. Her breakthrough work with hundreds of successful professionals and executives, as well as aspiring young entrepreneurs, identifies... View Details

Keywords: Leaders; Advanced Leadership; Advanced Leadership Initiative; Community; Change Leadership; Innovation; Problem Solving; Cross-sector Collaboration; Institutional Change; Leadership; Change; Leading Change; Communication; Innovation Leadership; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business and Community Relations; Civil Society or Community

Find at Harvard

01 Sep 2023
News

Action Plan: In Context

she moved to Beijing in 2012 after graduating from HBS, Ho saw a need for the skills she’d learned: not a set of rigid social rules but the ability to feel comfortable in any situation. China was in the midst of rapid expansion, evolving... View Details

Keywords: April White; communication; manners; business; entrepreneurship; China; human behavior

04 Mar 2014
News

Learn Your Local Praise Culture

Keywords: corss-cultural communication; globalization; human capital; leadership

2014
Tool

Girls Arise! Working Together for a Better Future: Negotiation Curriculum

By: Kathleen McGinn, Corinne Low and Nava Ashraf

This negotiation curriculum provides a reference guide to train Zambian girls to adopt the communication skills needed to negotiate health and education decisions with power figures in their lives. View Details

Keywords: Negotiation; Communication; Competency and Skills; Gender; Age; Training