mentoring - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Oct 2015
Blog Post

LGBTSA Spotlight: Alterrell Mills

career mentors who helped me navigate being at the intersection of two communities – either as allies or themselves LGBT, minorities or both. It has been these experiences that have shaped who I am and how I see myself giving back to the... View Details

13 Jun 2017
Blog Post

What is the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program? A Q&A with Professor Tom Eisenmann

marketing, finance, and managing teams. You can acquire the necessary knowledge and skills to launch a new venture on the job, but success requires having the right mentors and advisors—and some time to step away from day-to-day demands... View Details

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Latin America - Global Activities 2021

at Good Foods Group, is the type of leader who believes in constant learning—from colleagues and mentors to her professors and classmates in the HBS Executive Education program in which she participated, Program for Leadership Development... View Details

21 Mar 2018
Blog Post

Telling Your Story: How to Create a Powerful Personal Digital Brand

to amplify our personalities through digital media, the opportunities for personal branding have both grown more numerous – and more intimidating. Grinshpun draws upon her experience mentoring executives, MBA alumni, and students to offer... View Details

13 Mar 2018
News

Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission

we're getting ready to take off. And at that point, my boss, Major Stephen Reich, the guy who'd been mentoring me the whole time, gets on board and asks me about my plan. And he said, OK, I like it, everything except the parts that... View Details

04 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

How Female Stars Succeed in New Jobs

research department of Lehman Brothers took steps to create a comfortable environment for women, and to evaluate all their analysts fairly and mentor them intensively. This paid off: The bank developed a lot of stars and benefited from... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

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Lisa Cousins

difficult time engaging mentors and students while staffed on consulting projects 1,000s of miles away from home. It was only successful for one year at the time, and I’m open to recommendations on how to make this work sustainably! View Details

Keywords: Services; Entertainment / Media

07 Sep 2021
News

Embracing Activism for Social Change

status quo isn’t working for those without power and privilege, Mendu, a 2020–2021 HBS Leadership Fellow, believes “the more fortunate among us have a deep obligation to disrupt it.” Her HBS mentors included former United States Small... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Oct 1999
News

The View from the Pit

to HBS faculty member involved relating to former professors and mentors as colleagues. "I had a hard time calling them by their first names," she says. Now the William L. White Professor of Business Administration and a senior associate... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

14 Dec 2015
News

A Leader’s Call to Action

time when she was reflecting on her three-decade career working in the gas and electric utilities industry and realized that she could credit a series of strong leaders and mentors for helping her rise through the ranks. Starting as an... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2007
News

Power Trip

professional credentials was another path. A lot of the outsiders on our list, especially those who were foreign-born, were more highly educated than those who traveled the inside track. Personal networking was a third factor. You could create your own advantage if you... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019

Bootstrapper’s Playbook for Breakthrough Success on a Shoestring Budget by Marty Schultz (OPM 31, 2002) Self-published Marty Schultz is a bootstrapping expert: he's bootstrapped five highly successful companies in his career. He is a View Details

01 Jun 2017
News

Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award

made her a perfect candidate to lead Catalyst, a nonprofit that advances women in business leadership roles. “When being mentored and paying it forward is part of your company culture, you have the foundation for inclusion, where... View Details

28 Jan 2014
First Look

First Look: January 28

high-impact entrepreneurs for mentoring and aid in scaling up their businesses from committed local business leaders. In summer 2012, Endeavor received an invitation to replicate its model in Miami, Florida, and the Endeavor board was... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Dec 2021
Blog Post

Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967) - Recruiting

also an HBS grad. They became a demanding mentor who offered guidance, helping me to mature as a manager, develop good business habits, and inform my intuition for decision making. As I progressed in my career, taking on positions with... View Details

08 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’

prioritize family over work. It's that all these other factors are also at play for women" that lead them to cut back their hours in a way that men often don't—factors such as exclusion from informal networks in the workplace, a lack of View Details

Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette

01 Dec 2020
News

Well Matched

over five feet tall, Rapaport was the number-one draft pick of Orlando Magic forward Al-Farouq Aminu, who saw her experience at Jefferies, JP Morgan, and Goldman Sachs as a definite plus in helping chart his own financial future. Rapaport View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; venture capital; diversity; inclusion; tennis; leadership; women; Finance

28 May 2019
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2019

and feel the products.” Acquire an advocate: “When Leonard Lauder walked into our first store I pitched him hard. He said no for a year or two, but since then he’s been our champion. So find a champion. Mentors give you great advice, but... View Details

01 Dec 1999
News

Christensen and Vernon Remembered

teacher and gentle man, he was always eager to share his insights and wisdom with students and colleagues alike. A mentor to many members of our faculty, Ray inspired us all with the extraordinary quality of his work and his life." Born... View Details

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