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21 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

and not just inside the Beltway. At HBS, a group of MBAs last spring crafted and sent to Washington a bold proposal to create a nonprofit, public-private Corporate Governance College to employ and train a cadre of professional directors... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

01 Mar 2004
News

New Horizons for Iraq

sense of relief when it’s over but we have only a short time to relax before climbing into the cockpit again. (JEA, ed.) Coppa, in middle, at Kuwait staging area Courtesy Michael Coppa A graduate of West Point, Captain Michael N. Coppa (HBS ’05) was View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; James E. Aisner; Julia Hanna; National Security and International Affairs; Government

16 Sep 2015
News

Built for Speed

whose jobs rely on getting ideas to market. All of a sudden, you’re not in the car business. You’re in the business of being fast. Local Motors’ 3D-printed car, the Strati, takes about 44 hours to print and has an electric engine that can... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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Departments | Employment

Culture The work of the individuals in the Financial Office tends to be autonomous, with cross training a major priority to ensure coverage when needed. Staff in the Financial Office must have varying levels of technical expertise, high... View Details

13 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

The Inner Life of Leaders

did you draw on your background in psychoanalysis to approach contemporary characters and issues in leadership? Abraham Zaleznik: When I wrote my first book on the job of the foreman (1950), an observation and an idea took hold: Leaders... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Jun 2021
News

HBS Addresses Racial Equity

committed to diversifying their workforce. Supporting staff members is another important part of the REP. Unconscious-bias training is being offered across departments to help promote racial equity, and those who are responsible for... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

23 Oct 2018
News

Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart

journey from St. Louis to Yale, committed suicide. And a few months after that, he came to me in a dream, and he said, "You know, we did a lot of things that we wouldn't advise anybody we love to do." And I knew exactly what he meant. I knew that the ways that we were... View Details

13 Feb 2020
News

Not Throwing Away My Shot

think that may be where he picked up the cornet and began to get some early training and maybe participate in some jam sessions out after hours. So he becomes Kid Bolden. He's clearly a very creative guy and you have to now understand the... View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

Higher Ground

had an engineering degree from Princeton and an MBA from HBS. He had a good job at a sugar company in his native Mexico City. His career path seemed set. Music, though, was innate. His grandparents on his father’s side had been friends... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2020
News

Homeschooled

platforms like Khan Academy and others are part of the solution, but not everybody can access these. SK: In the past 10 years, schools have done a pretty good job of getting internet access and devices. The huge thing that this is... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; online learning; Educational Services

09 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times

with them we were able to create a very different organization—less top down, more participative, one that offered more challenging jobs and informed people about results of the business on a regular basis. That began my intellectual... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 19

the drivers of customer churn and uncover opportunities to increase customer retention across the customer selection, selling, and training processes. Students assess a metric, CHI (Customer Happiness Index), which HubSpot uses to predict... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2008
News

Building a Better MBA

the December/ January 2008 issue of the Academy of Management Journal in which they question the value of business school research. Henry Mintzberg of McGill University in Montreal devoted a book to his contention that “conventional MBA programs View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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One-Year Action Plan Update - Advancing Racial Equity

senior associate Dean for culture and community, and also one of the chairs of the Dean's anti-racism task force, Professor Jan Hammond; and Terrill Drake, who is on day two in his new job as Harvard Business School's first chief... View Details

17 Apr 2019
News

Give It to Me Straight

in the case of Sheryl, it really boiled down to two things. Sheryl cared about me not just as an employee but as a human being. When I moved from New York to California to take the job at Google, I didn't really know very many people in... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

10 Mar 2015
News

Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

student-run answer to the popular Training The Street program offered to those interested in finance. “When you are working in the tech sector, it’s important to be tech literate,” says copresident Tatiana Louneva (HBS 2015). “You need to... View Details

Keywords: April White

20 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

system) and multiplies contacts through a shareholder newsletter, a toll-free number, events, and training sessions. Q: Total is French yet part of a highly visible industry that has reaped very high profits in recent years. How can 1... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

13 Mar 2019
News

The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)

class. The case was all about this Australian train safety video that went viral. I remember someone showing it to me at a party in San Francisco and loving it. Like, ‘share it with everyone I knew for a week’ loving it. When we dove into... View Details

16 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 16

Publications December 2014 Management Science When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint Versus Separate Evaluation By: Bohnet, Iris, Alexandra van Geen, and Max Bazerman Abstract—We examine a new intervention to overcome gender biases in hiring, promotion, and View Details