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Career Support - Business & Environment

School, you are part of a larger community that includes alumni working in many sectors and industries — often in key leadership positions. BEI maintains relationships with a number of organizations and individuals who can offer career... View Details

01 Jun 2024
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Firm Foundation

Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009) has been playing the long game as long as she can remember. The former Berkshire Hathaway executive grew up in a family business: Her father was a third-generation farmer in Manhattan,... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; private equity; Warren Buffett; career path; investment strategy; family business; Finance

24 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

institution where the top twelve executives had Executive Scorecards detailing their goals, measuring their contributions, and defining their priorities. Because Executive Scorecards state the exact role that managers are to play, they are useful in assessing the View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu

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Tom Adeyemi

section mates sharing their personal experiences during a Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD) case on a senior executive who was debating whether to reveal her sexual orientation at work. The vulnerability that people showed in... View Details

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Summer Associates | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

How to Post Your Commitment Why Hire a Summer Associate? HBS students offer exceptional talent, a record of accomplishment, demonstrated leadership potential, cooperative spirit, and a commitment to making a difference. As part of their... View Details

18 Jan 2018
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The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast

change management process. Morrell: You come into a new situation where you have a lot of veterans who've been there for decades and you are building on the skills, your listening skills and being able to react to people in general. I... View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

04 Feb 2014
What Do You Think?

Has Listening Become a Lost Art?

people feel they can't afford." That is why, she continued, it is so important to have real friends with good memory who can be our sounding boards. "Listening to others works better if you can show empathy and put yourself in the other peoples' shoes." Several argued... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Sep 2006
What Do You Think?

Are We Ready for Self-Management?

in how their jobs affect the customer in how their jobs can be improved in getting work done more effectively is most definitely welcome." Birgi Martin said, "I think self-management is needed at all levels of staff." Lavinia Weissman characterized... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

24 May 2017
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Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973

an executive who understood technology, knew how to market it, and had the leadership skills to take on difficult challenges, she also focused on paving the way for more women. “I see it as a virtuous... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

16 Sep 2020
Blog Post

Turning a Moment into a Movement: Interview with Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders Kenneth and Kevin Chenault

his passion for media. Meanwhile, Kenneth was completing his first year as an Investor at General Catalyst. Both were excited about building careers in industries they loved while utilizing their unique skills and interests. Then, as the... View Details

October 2015 (Revised November 2024)
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A Challenger's Strategy: Pinar Abay at ING Bank Turkey

By: Paul Healy, Gautam Mukunda and Esel Çekin

In 2013, Pinar Abay was appointed as the CEO of ING Bank Turkey. At 34, she was the youngest bank CEO in Turkey's history. Her appointment raised eyebrows because of her youth and because her career at McKinsey had given her no day-to-day bank management experience.... View Details

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01 Dec 2018
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Innovation Outside the Boundaries

introduced as part of the field method, which complements the School’s case method pedagogy. “As future leaders in a global business environment,” Thiry says, “MBAs need skills and insights informed by real-world, hands-on problem solving... View Details

28 Oct 2022
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Latina Women in Leadership: Shirley Verónica Cardona (MBA 2012)

program for youth living in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. This work was deeply gratifying, and it also helped me realize that in order to be most effective and drive scalable impact, I needed to build strategic, analytical, and View Details

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Online Business in Society Courses | HBS Online

social, and economic factors driving change. 4 weeks, 6-8 hrs/week Pay by July 24 $1,850 Certificate Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Professor Nien-he Hsieh Develop a toolkit for making tough leadership decisions with... View Details

01 Aug 1998
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High Honors

innovative ideas and excellent instincts has demonstrated a knack for revitalizing the old and cultivating the new. Assuming leadership of Seagram-owned Tropicana in 1993, Marram presided over an organizational restructuring that has... View Details

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

deficiencies—for example, that they lacked skills or were objects of charity, and also that they were not to be taken seriously as tech innovators. After establishing Code Fever’s Urban Innovation Lab in Overtown—a neighborhood that has... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

23 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

slogan from Apple. And thinking differently leads them to act differently. From our research, consistent patterns emerged that led us to identify five primary discovery skills that underlie innovation: associating, observing, quetioning,... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

13 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis

simplicity to free and empower employees in a similar way. Q: Aside from inspired musical choices, what leadership decisions by Davis enabled this creation? Carl Størmer: Davis was looking for ways to break out of the straitjacket of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

19 Aug 2021
Op-Ed

Don't Ignore Your Employees' Misery—TAKE Control

execution is paramount. Surveys should be short and focus on a few key points to encourage employee engagement. To promote the most candid dialogues, an organization should segment members by seniority and leadership levels. Leaders may... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

11 Jul 2019
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Meet the MBA Class of 2020

EXPERIENCE Rocket Internet SE, Shopwings Australia Pty Ltd, Carmudi GmbH Erin Kaivan “HBS REALLY RESPECTS LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE.” HOME REGION Swoope, VA UNDERGRAD EDUCATION James Madison University, Political Science/Government, 2011... View Details

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