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Andrew Goldin

Andrew Goldin's academic interest in socio-linguistics proved its practical value where it matters most: in a middle school classroom in New York City. "My research in reading curricula," Andrew says, "made the transition to being a teacher much... View Details

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Alex Furleigh

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? I was ready for a change. Having spent my entire career before business school in operations—helping organizations do better with the resources that they have—I realized that I was lacking skills in how to... View Details

Portrait Project

Allison Floam

Once I start... I literally can't stop. Laughing, that is. Everyone who knows me or has been in class with me has experienced one of these uncontrollable outbursts in which I find something so funny that I laugh until I start wheezing, then the entire class starts... View Details

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Andrea Coravos

I’m still not sure how Muhammad found me early that Saturday morning. Waiting in line to see the Taj Mahal, I darted my eyes away from the tour guides. I wanted to explore alone. The young student walked up next to me and I was whisked away by his stories of the... View Details

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Ann Chao

In her previous HBS profile, Ann Chao, MBA 2013, said she hoped to be one of those people who "can bridge the gap between creativity and business." She didn’t waste time. "After graduation," Ann says, "I didn’t apply for anything—I went... View Details

Portrait Project

Aditya Bindal

Win. I want to win my family's safety, by never failing to protect them. I want to win humility, by never forgetting that I come from Gwalior - a small, obscure Indian town. I want to win at preserving my innocence, by never failing the 7-year old in me. I want to win... View Details

31 Jan 2024
Video

Alumni Perspectives: Value of the HBS MBA

02 Aug 2023
Video

Entrepreneurial Insights: Dimitri Dadiomov, Co-founder and CEO of Modern Treasury

06 Dec 2021
News

Rescue & Recovery

day-to-day work grinds on. In August, after the withdrawal of the United States from Afghanistan, scores of Mercy Corps staff members (also the organization’s longest continuous international presence) were... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Stephen Voss; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

22 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

How to Build a Better Board

minds, there are times when we really wonder if they are 'getting it.'" Therefore, the warning signal to all of us, not just in the United States and the U.K., but also around the world, is that there... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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The Critical Minutes After a Virtual Meeting That Can Build Up or Tear Down Teams | Working Knowledge

frontstage, and that’s for all the world to see,” she says. “And then there’s the behind the scenes, where you take off the mask, and what do you unveil?” In studying backstage interactions among employees working for a global company in the View Details

01 Apr 1996
News

Technology for Learning's Sake

view PC users from the United Kingdom discussing their computer-related preferences and needs and then heard European marketing managers from Intel Corporation state the company's marketing priorities. Those... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig

30 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

cases. The wide geographical coverage includes not only the United States and Europe but also less studied settings, including Chile, Costa Rica, New Zealand, and Japan. The book serves as a warning against... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

15 Mar 2016
First Look

March 15, 2016

examples—GE, Mahindra & Mahindra, Hasbro, IBM, United Rentals, and Tata Consultancy Services—and testimonies of leaders who have successfully used this framework, this book solves once and for all the practical dilemma of how to align... View Details

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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

University of Massachusetts Boston. She studies how the ideology of meritocracy is invoked to legitimate inequality in the United States and thereby impedes efforts to address poverty. She also examines how... View Details

06 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work

identified four different approaches people used to perform necessary evils effectively, so that the task got done and the victims were treated with decency and respect.” Margolis, an associate professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

August 2017 (Revised May 2019)
Case

Hilti (A): Fleet Management?

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Oliver Gassmann and Roman Sauer

This case explores the strategic decision-making process of premium power tools manufacturer Hilti in 1999, when the company was considering implementing a fleet management system in the construction industry. Fleet management would involve a shift from selling power... View Details

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Educators

Purchase

21 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation

be ineffective, since nothing in this legislation or prior law prevents banks from proprietary trading outside the United States. Another instance of poor regulatory design is the new Consumer Financial Products Commission (CFPC). The... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

23 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 23

for ideal pay ratios. Moreover, data from 16 countries reveals that people dramatically underestimate actual pay inequality. In the United States-where underestimation was particularly pronounced-the actual pay ratio of CEOs to unskilled... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Jun 2024
News

Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories

the Lifetime Achievement Award, given to The Honorable W. Mitt Romney (MBA 1974/JD 1975), United States Senator; the Entrepreneurship Award, given to Ilana D. Weinstein (MBA 1995), founder and CEO of The IDW... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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