mentoring - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 1998
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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

01 Dec 2019
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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
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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

19 May 2022
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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

01 Mar 2018
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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)

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Oral Histories | Baker Library

did, when I finished the MBA, interview in insurance companies and other kinds of companies that were in the Hartford area. Career I loved mentoring people, training people. I set up little programs for individual assistant buyers and I... 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

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising

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
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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

29 Aug 2018
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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
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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

05 May 2023
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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
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

13 Feb 2020
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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

10 Aug 2022
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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

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Print View - Course Catalog

Health Care” businesses have been funded by mentors and investors they met through the course. Who Should Enroll? Students who want to focus seriously on health care innovation because they are either running or want to start a firm... View Details

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

student-focused initiative has collectively raised more than $30,000 in less than 3 weeks, has mentored more than 350 prospective business school and graduate students, and started a fundraiser to procure oxygen concentrators and channel... View Details

01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

he thinks it’s his ticket out of small-town captivity. What he lacks in connections and Beltway polish, he makes up in smarts, and he soon finds a friend and mentor in fellow staffer Ariel Lancaster. That is, until she winds up dead. As... View Details

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