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Government and Politics (455) Groups and Teams (37) Growth Management (12) Growth and Development Strategy (40) Growth and Development (16) Happiness (29) Health Care and Treatment (96) Health Disorders (3) Health Pandemics (32) Health... View Details

18 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent

why it happened, and how it could be done better. Insight: Leaders must pull the best ideas from their teammates and gain their insights in order to produce the best outcomes for the organization. Action: If the team is aligned on goals,... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson

05 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures

success. “If you’re highly successful, your achievements are obvious. It’s more novel and inspiring for others to learn about your mistakes,” says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Alison Wood Brooks. “What’s exciting about this... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

09 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

organizations use AARs selectively given the significant amount of resources required to do them well. AARs should also focus on areas that are mission critical for the greatest payoff. They offer four fundamentals of the AAR process: the View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

10 May 2021
Research & Ideas

Who Has Potential? For Many White Men, It’s Often Other White Men

assessment-oriented cultures, managers act as if employees’ talents are set in stone, and they make snap judgments about who on the team has talent and who doesn’t. “When they talk about what it takes to be successful, managers will often... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

17 Jan 2020
In Practice

6 Traits That Set Top Business Leaders Apart

include many viewpoints, learn from critics, and remain aware that trends could shift quickly. And then they are better armed when they act quickly and decisively." Rosabeth Moss Kanter (@RosabethKanter), Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

06 Sep 2016
Blog Post

What Makes the HBS MBA unique?

the core curriculum. Finally, the core curriculum underpins the give and take of the section experience. While someone coming from finance can help a section mate with finance and accounting, he/she might learn from a section mate who ran... View Details

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What Can You Do to Foster Gender Equity?

usual—after all, assessing your own biases and shifting the way you think and act at work can be hard. By doing your part to close the gender gap, however, you can help your organization hold onto talented women and ensure that each team... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

Leadership Transition for External Relations

MESSAGE FROM ANGELA CRISPI AND DEAN SRIKANT DATAR To: HBS Faculty and Staff From: Angela Crispi and Srikant Datar Re: Leadership Transition – Janet Cahill, External Relations We write to let you know that Janet Cahill (AMP 189) has decided to step down from her... View Details

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Independent Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

individuals or teams of students work on a project of strategic importance to the organization and report their recommendations at the end of the term. Students undertaking a Social Enterprise Independent Project may be eligible for the... View Details

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

team members received training in various technical crafts—one became a licensed electrician, another a machinist, another learned some carpentry skills. Q: Was this unique? A: Absolutely not. We saw the... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

30 May 2024
Research & Ideas

Racial Bias Might Be Infecting Patient Portals. Can AI Help?

to an inquiry? Researchers analyzed more than 57,000 message threads between patients and physician teams at Boston Medical Center and found that white patients were more likely to receive answers from their attending physicians, while... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Health

27 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

reads like a tagline for a dramatic feature film. “He thought he was signing up to run a law enforcement agency,” Rivkin says. “He ended up with a job he didn’t sign up for. And God bless him, he pulled it off.” Mueller’s major challenge was also a major View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

24 Apr 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Courage: The Defining Characteristic of Great Leaders

team to deliver strong near-term performance while continuing to invest in her transformation strategy. Nooyi’s arch-rival, Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent, decided instead to concentrate on sugar-based soft drinks while ignoring these obvious... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Auto; Food & Beverage

26 Aug 2024
Blog Post

HBS Lingo 101

place in the second semester. Field Global Capstone builds on interpersonal and team-based skills learned in START, LEAD, and Inclusion and culminates with student teams going into global markets around the... View Details

22 Feb 2024
Blog Post

It’s Time to Build: Why the MS/MBA Is Right for You!

generally applicable, I also hoped to stay technical where possible, especially in 2021 amid the changing environment for AI and Web3. A conversation with a friend and mentor Emily Batt (MS/MBA 2020) convinced me that Harvard’s MS/MBA was the right fit for me. You get... View Details

26 May 2023
Blog Post

Bringing Space Tech Back to Earth

into engineering in the first place. While taking a technology and engineering class at her Massachusetts high school, she worked on a search-and-rescue vehicle that could help divers search for people who’d fallen into frozen lakes. Her View Details

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Apply - Crossover Into Business

Apply Apply Name Email Phone Sports League Years in the league The program is for active and recently retired professional athletes. Are you an active athlete? Yes No If yes, what is your current team or league? If no, when did you... View Details

05 May 2022
HBS Case

College Degrees: The Job Requirement Companies Seek, but Don't Really Need

than 70 percent of Black, Latinx, and rural workers from landing jobs, even though they may have the actual skills to do the required work. Many companies rely on machine learning algorithms that automatically weed out job applicants who... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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Harshini Chengareddty

thought there were clear-cut ways to be an effective or ineffective, good or bad leader but I’ve learned that there is no “one size fits all” approach to leadership. Every team and organization operates... View Details

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