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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
2003. He is now active mentoring young entrepreneurs, investing in companies, and painting. The interview is part of the Creating Emerging Markets series sponsored by the HBS Business History Initiative, in which business leaders in... View Details
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
topics and concerns that are similar across different disciplines. This paper reports on the consortium outcomes and insights from mentors who took part in it. We develop a set of observations to guide the evolution of the sciences of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
51 years later? First, my years in the Navy were anything but a dead end. I supervised 70 sailors, providing accounting and logistic services to a scout submarine squadron. My boss, commander, and later a Rear Admiral, Ted Walker, was one of the best of several View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
course," says Light, "but no one at HBS had thought about it before. We need student input to know how to help." HBS also offers services that attend to the needs of students' families. One important resource is a mentoring network, made... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- Web
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
- 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
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
encouragement. Entrepreneurship is like an intellectual onion, one of his Finance advisors told him. You peel it and peel it, it makes you cry, and there’s nothing in the middle. There were some exceptions to this institutional indifference, including Sahlman’s View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
of experience that you gain by working for a reputable firm and getting training, mentoring that will lower your risk of failure later on. Everyone wants to be Bill Gates and Zuckerberg, but those are the outliers. That's not the norm.... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
gender or the wider issue of diversity that is of most concern to HBS students considering a career in tech, Louneva says. She certainly doesn’t feel like a pioneer in the industry. “There are already women there to look up to,” she says, quickly listing five women... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
before moving on to join the newly-formed firm of Wasserstein Perella & Co. He names Joe Perella as an early sponsor and mentor in his career, and describes two moments of failure— one professional, one personal, in which Perella played a... View Details
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
easy to assume that the state of the business environment here is a given. In fact, businesses can improve the environments in which they operate—by investing in the local workforce, by mentoring local suppliers, and so on—but that's hard... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka intensify, so does Maya’s disillusionment, but contact with a mysterious mentor whose wisdom she once ignored holds the key to her future. Fans of Paolo Coelho, Amy Tan, Vaddey Ratner, and Khaled Hosseini... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
collegial. So there's mentoring going on. There are people who might compete during the day but have a beer at night and talk a little bit about their business or their music. It's also very fluid, so that it was not uncommon in New... View Details
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Print View - Course Catalog
benefits of a larger course, including opportunities for guest speakers, development of a network, feedback from your peers, and clearly delineated deliverables and milestones. A substantial number of “Innovating in Health Care” businesses have been funded by View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
opportunities for young executives coming up when there are senior executives who have a lot of wisdom and a lot to contribute who want to stay on and stay and be engaged? And so, I'd be curious what your wisdom is on best practice for kind of, I mean, beyond just... View Details