Mentoring - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 5

of one-off contributions, constant mentoring and co-authorship with younger colleagues, distillation of advice into accessible and memorable forms, and investment in an institutional legacy. Beyond these aspects, which I elaborated in a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 May 2022
News

Bidding Up

innovations in auction design. JH: Wilson humorously refers to his Nobel-Prize winning students, who include Milgrom, Al Roth, and Bengt Holmstrom, as “my trifecta.” With that track record, he’s often asked for his secret sauce in View Details

20 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 20

mentors can―and should―play in cultivating and sharing juniors' career narratives. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/413122-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 313-111 Venture Philanthropy: Its Evolution and Its Future This note... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

23 Jan 2019
Blog Post

The First Five Years: '30 under 30' Edition

have all done as a team. Personally, I hope it serves as an example for others. Any success that I have had has been the product of peers and mentors who have provided support and inspiration for me along the way. So, it’s nice to think... View Details

17 Jan 2019
News

The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition

example for others. Any success that I have had has been the product of peers and mentors who have provided support and inspiration for me along the way. So, it’s nice to think that I can be that for others in some small way.” Pathipati:... View Details

22 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

mentors and offering girls information about the returns to education), suggesting that negotiation skills themselves drive the effect. Further evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment, which simulates parents’ educational investment... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 Aug 2014
First Look

First Look: August 12

doing this financial analysis, Marisa received lots of mentoring from the vice presidents she worked with. Marisa believed that she had done well and would soon be promoted so that she could originate her own deals. However, she is... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2012
News

The Accidental Pioneers

which she'd done research. George Kozmetsky [MBA 6/1947, DCS 1957], cofounder of Teledyne, was another advocate. "He believed that women needed mentors to help get them onto the playing field," remarks Lack, who served on a board with... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia

19 May 2022
News

Leading to Salvation

time over the years to mentoring students. In talking to Michael Noonan about the fate of Estes, he remembered a conversation he’d had with a Cornell student who had benefited from financial aid. BR: I was working with a young lady who... View Details

07 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

We all know the importance of mentors and other early career experiences in shaping the kind of leaders we ultimately become. But how important to that development are the particular companies we work for? For Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

18 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light

some coursework similar to what I had been doing at JPL." As his doctoral work progressed, Light became "more and more interested in the Business School side of the joint program." He found mentors in Raiffa and finance... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Imperial College, London, a MRCPsych from the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and a Bachelor of Medicine from Southampton University. A recipient of NHS London’s prestigious “Prepare to Lead” mentoring scheme, Emma is author of multiple... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

John McArthur

a good grade on the paper. A week later, he smiled and shook my hand as I received my diploma. I still cherish the photo I have of that handshake. —John Roush (MBA 1992) Dean McArthur was absolutely pivotal in my career steps and choices, as he became a View Details

Keywords: Dean

06 Sep 2016
First Look

September 6, 2016

her mid-60s, Rabbitt was preparing to turn over the reins of the company to Couch, whom she had partnered with and mentored for 18 years. What should Rabbitt do now? What should she plan for the future now that Couch was gone? Purchase... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

and mentored a bevy of other scholars who explored and explained the coming of managerial capitalism through their research, writings, and course development. Thirteen years after Professor Chandler's retirement, that tradition of... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

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

16 Apr 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom

his struggles as a young, somewhat tongue-tied student with an engineering degree, "intimidated by all those articulate British students and all those history majors who were used to the give-and-take of case-method teaching." Christensen, who would become a... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education

01 Mar 2008
News

Classroom Legend

“intimidated by all those articulate British students and all those history majors who were used to the give-and-take of case-method teaching.” Christensen, who would become a close mentor and friend, sent him an encouraging note, sought... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Roland Christensen; George Albert Smith; Fritz J. Roethlisberger; Richard Meriam; Edmund P. Learned; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management

12 Jan 2018
Cold Call Podcast

Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.

only reading at an eighth grade level. George: That’s right. He had some very famous teachers: Dr. Benjamin Mays, Dr. George Kelsey. Mays was then president of Morehouse, but they all became mentors to him, and they were ministers that... View Details

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