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- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
advice when thinking about making a difference in the world. There’s a purpose larger than oneself. Of course, a leader can feel successful in conventional terms, but for advanced leaders, the main focus is on the bigger goal of impact.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2023
- Blog Post
The Importance of Mentorship: A Conversation With Professor Ting Zhang
In this blog, Loujaine AlMoallim (MBA 2024) interviews HBS Professor Ting Zhang about her personal journey, her time at HBS, and her advice for HBS leaders. Can you briefly tell us about your journey that got you to where you are today?... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
sales and earnings. Some of these businesses will have very interesting futures; as for others - I'm not so sure. What is the best business advice you've ever received? Before I started working as a runner on Wall Street, my dad told me... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
this moment for introspection, an opportunity for intense personal growth. To learn more, read Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research Arthur C. Brooks, Arthur C. Patterson Faculty Fellow. Tip: Attend to your physical and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'
all of us. DeLollis: When it comes to race, technology, and tomorrow’s business outcomes, what advice would you give to CEOs, CMOs, and other top decision makers? Turner: I advise them that if marginalized people and women weren’t... View Details
Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
might have any advice for her own daughter, a young singer-songwriter who was trying to break into the business. Dixon took the meeting largely out of a mix of courtesy and kindness—anything for a beloved teacher—and figured she’d give... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details
- 25 Oct 2010
- HBS Case
Tesco’s Stumble into the US Market
hours. Do you have advice for companies about revisiting original assumptions? Do companies new to the American market have to do this reassessment more frequently or look for different things? A: Tesco has not been afraid to listen to... View Details
- 22 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees
advice for the new office reality comes down to giving workers the space they need and then trusting them to do their best work. Those lessons, she says, apply in the same way no matter where they are working, whether in the office or in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Case Study: Staking a Claim
(like a blog) and search engine marketing won’t be particularly effective if no one is looking. My advice: Before you build an audience, borrow someone else’s. Home in on where your customers are already gathering, and whom they trust for View Details
- 07 Aug 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?
the proper role of judgment in decision-making? What do you think? Original Article In the last several years, a veritable tsunami of advice on how to make decisions has hit the Internet and what few shelves remain in our local... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
People Have an Irrational Need to Complete 'Sets' of Things
compelling as a researcher—that completing this totally arbitrary set is so motivating to people that they are willing to participate in an obviously bad bet.” Future research and advice for managers The researchers acknowledge that it’s... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 30 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Recruiters: Highlight Your Company’s Diversity, Not Just Perks and Pay
of Human Capital Creation Career Advice for Minorities and Women: Sharing Your Identity Can Open Doors Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: iStockphoto/Charday Penn View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Networking Opportunities - Recruiting
company build relationships with students to reach your recruiting goals. Networking Events Network with Alumni Network with Alumni Insights & Advice 13 Mar 2025 Shoma Simkin Launching leaders: HBS's new initiative fuels first-generation... View Details
- 02 Nov 2022
- News
Strong Finish
investment from Sontag’s firm, Prelude Growth Partners, Sol de Janeiro’s sales more than doubled. Yang credits Sontag’s investment—and well-timed advice to invest in talent acquisition and inventory, not office space—for that success,... View Details
- 23 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming Nervous Nelly
some cases, anxiety caused negotiators to be more likely to leave the bargaining table altogether. The Wrong Advice In another study, Brooks and coauthors Schweitzer and Harvard's Francesca Gino considered the effects of anxiety on one... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Feb 2024
- News
Startup Shepherds
By their count, Catalina Daniels and Jim Sherman (both MBA 1991) listened to approximately 300 startup pitches in 2016, the first year the HBS classmates worked side by side as angel investors in New York. “You meet a lot of very smart people, with what sound like good... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Web
Becoming an Entrepreneur - Alumni
Center for Entrepreneurship The Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship is a vital resource to HBS students and a champion for entrepreneurship at HBS. Are you an entrepreneur? Need advice on pitch feedback or startup challenges? HBS... View Details
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Madison McIlwain
one piece of advice to prospective students, what would it be? Keep a journal of your thoughts and actions amidst complex work dynamics. You may want to look back at those vignettes through the lens of the new frameworks you're learning... View Details
- 12 May 2020
- Blog Post
Leaving a Career in Tech for Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship
entrepreneur and I knew I needed something more fulfilling and challenging like that again. Being in Silicon Valley, I was fortunate to find mentors who helped me do some soul searching on the path ahead. After a period of self-reflecting and View Details