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- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
Coverdale (MBA '71) and Margaret M. Hennig (MBA '64), who were faculty members at Simmons College where Fudge was an undergraduate, encouraged her to apply to HBS. Fudge's achievements are all the more remarkable given that by her junior... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers
this business issue, members of Fuller’s team surveyed two groups. They asked 301 human resource leaders and business owners in the United States how they approach caregiving benefits. And they asked 1,500... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Task Force
Above: At Zubale, Monroy (left) and Campbell connect independent contractors with merchandising tasks. (photo by Rodrigo Ceballos) Allison Campbell and Sebastian Monroy (both MBA 2018) met on their first day of classes at HBS. Members of... View Details
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Industry Information - Alumni
design. It sets out to "chronicle how changing companies create and compete, to highlight new business practices, and to showcase the teams and individuals who are inventing the future and reinventing business." Inc.com Founded in 1979... View Details
- 10 Jul 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?
excites, and pushes the team or, you could say, choreographs an output that (moves) the company towards the vision." The mix of control, delegation, and theater employed by successful leaders depends on the timing and circumstances... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
End Game
Yvon knew what it meant at the time,” Conn admits. Ultimately, the founder tasked a small group of board members with the job of figuring that out. Given the name Project Chacabuco, after a conservation area in Chile, the group was... View Details
- 17 Jun 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Excellence Comes From Saying No
capital firm Polaris Partners, and former executive at Pfizer, Schulman has worked in some 90 countries around the world. "The key to creating collaborative teams within diverse environments, is to find strategies that increase the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online
conditions 5-6 hrs Module 5 Ecosystem and Ethics Understand the unconscious and systemic biases in the startup ecosystem and assess a business model’s impact on society . Highlights Bailey Richardson, former Instagram Community Team View Details
- 21 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now
uncertainties of the future and the strains of the present." Acknowledge the feelings. When sharing difficult news—or even beginning an ordinary staff meeting, some days—acknowledge the uncertainties of the future and the strains of the present. Likewise, when View Details
- 05 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software
employees on company time to make updates and edits to the software for community use that could be used by competitors? New research by Assistant Professor Frank Nagle, a member of the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School, shows that... View Details
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Helping and harnessing business to address society’s greatest challenges. | Institute for Business in Global Society
business' role in society and developing a thriving ecosystem for translating that research into action. Our Mission & Team BiGS Research BiGS Fellows Tools & Resources Societies worldwide are facing pressing social, environmental, and... View Details
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
responsibility for the problems, often as a result of the direct or indirect pressures they put on their people. Authentic leaders find ways to resolve this struggle. Expressing humility is a great skill because it not only brings leaders closer to their management... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
from them. Discourage exclusionary social activities, and make sure that teams don’t treat women as outliers or extraneous. Development. Assess how managers assign training and development opportunities, and ensure they use objective... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Guy de Chazal: Changing Focus
"but it needs the support of a solid management team at a fairly early stage in the company's evolution." Having reached the top echelon of a profession that has been both financially and personally rewarding, de Chazal is at a point in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 19 Aug 2021
- Op-Ed
Don't Ignore Your Employees' Misery—TAKE Control
people they oversee. Command climate surveys help direct reports and junior-level team members give honest, anonymized upward feedback to the organization and its leadership. Most importantly, the surveys... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- 12 Mar 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Firing the CEO
the CEO, with manageable consequences that are generally positive. Factor 1: Fit High performing companies require CEOs with the right skill set, decision style, and values. They have strong credibility with key stakeholders. They build strong executive View Details
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
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Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity
was perceived as “too nice” to be a manager (my male boss actually said this). I also experienced harassment from male colleagues and more subtle gendered/sexual comments, which undermined my professional authority within my team and in... View Details
- 04 Nov 2015
- What Do You Think?
Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?
(Danielle); “Winning in this age requires more cross-disciplinary thinking... Women, in my experience, are better thought integrators.” (Allison S. A. Graves); “Many studies suggest that women tend to score higher on tests of social sensitivity than men do ... great... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
in case of a contagion, and also increased the reliance on individual team members for psychological concerns regarding safety, pre-existing conditions, and family needs related to children. Management... View Details