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2012
Working Paper

An Outside-Inside Evolution in Gender and Professional Work

By: Lakshmi Ramarajan, Kathleen McGinn and Deborah Kolb

We study the process by which a professional service firm reshaped its activities and beliefs over nearly two decades as it adapted to shifts in the social discourse regarding gender and work. Analyzing archival data from the firm over eighteen years and... View Details

Keywords: Professional Service Firms; Social Institutions; Organizational Learning; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Employment; Gender; Society; Service Industry

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May 2021
Teaching Note

From Globalization to Dual Digital Transformation: CEO Thierry Breton Leading Atos Into 'Digital Shockwaves'

By: Tsedal Neeley

Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 419-027 and 419-046. Thierry Breton, chairman and CEO of IT company Atos, faces a pivotal juncture. After spending eight intense years scaling the company globally to over 100,000 employees in 70 countries, he sees digital shockwaves... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Transformation; Strategy; Disruption; Employees; Competency and Skills; Training; Organizational Culture; Digital Transformation; Information Technology Industry

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02 Sep 2022

Top Business Schools Discuss: India

Join Columbia Business School, Chicago Booth School of Business, Harvard Business School, Kellogg School of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management, Stanford Graduate School of Business, The Wharton School, Tuck School of Business, UCLA Anderson School of Management... View Details

01 Jun 2002
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Up to the Challenge: Profiles from the Class of 2002

Pictured from left to right: Ken Baumgartner, Ipsita Dasgupta, Martin Gonzalez, Lori Schock, Tony Sanchez, and Demola Gbadegesin (photography by Robert Schoen) Members of the Class of 2002 graduate this June into a world transformed by... View Details

02 May 2023
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Sustainability Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office

to connect with. Are there any other common questions that you get from students or last pieces of advice? If a student is new to this space, I often suggest they talk to ECs and faculty. It's a safe environment to View Details

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From Classroom to Workplace: Theory to Practice | Baker Library

From Classroom to Workplace: Theory to Practice Portrait of Phyllis Cary, 1954. Radcliffe College Archives, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. TC 172-5-1 Jane Clifton completes field work at John Hancock Life... View Details

18 Aug 2021

Top Business School Discussion Series: From Israel to the MBA

Join Columbia Business School, Chicago Booth School of Business, Harvard Business School, Kellogg School of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management, Stanford Graduate School of Business, The Wharton School, Tuck School of Business and UCLA Anderson School of... View Details

07 Oct 2021

Top Business School Discussion Series: From Africa to the MBA

Join Columbia Business School, Chicago Booth School of Business, Harvard Business School, Kellogg School of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management, Stanford Graduate School of Business, The Wharton School, Tuck School of Business and UCLA Anderson School of... View Details

2019
Article

Creativity from Paradoxical Experience: A Theory of How Individuals Achieve Creativity while Adopting Paradoxical Frames

By: Goran Calic, Sébastien Hélie, Nick Bontis and Elaine Mosakowski

Purpose: Extant paradox theory suggests that adopting paradoxical frames, which are mental templates adopted by individuals in order to embrace contradictions, will result in superior firm performance. Superior performance is achieved through learning and creativity,... View Details

Keywords: Cognition and Thinking; Creativity; Learning

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December 2006
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Reputation and Transparency: Lessons from a Painful Period in Public Disclosure

By: Robert G. Eccles Jr., Robert M. Grant and Cees B.M. van Riel

Keywords: Reputation; Learning

September 2018
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An Exploratory Study of Product Development in Emerging Economies: Evidence from Medical Device Testing in India

By: Budhaditya Gupta and Stefan Thomke

Recent research has studied innovation in emerging economies. However, microlevel product development processes in these economies are relatively unexplored, and the mechanisms by which the emerging economy context might affect such processes are still unclear. In this... View Details

Keywords: India; Product Development; Emerging Markets; Situation or Environment; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; India

31 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast

that might be in or near or not even close to your professional network. Those are real learning opportunities for what might be needed from the companies that are out there.” Know how to connect the dots... View Details

01 Sep 2020
News

Happy New Year: The HBS Alumni Board's Newest Members Look to the Future

to learn from and serve as a resource to the Dean, faculty members, staff, and students of the School, representing the perspectives and interests of HBS alumni worldwide, and serving as advocates for alumni... View Details

Keywords: Linda Kush; alumni events; lifelong learning; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2012
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From Fellowship Recipient to ‘The Most Influential Business Thinker On Earth’

Leaders can come from anywhere, so by establishing a fellowship at HBS, you never know when you will be launching the next Clay Christensen. To hear more from Clay Christensen and to View Details

Keywords: awards

17 Apr 2025
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From Tech to Coaching: Empowering Women and Minority Leaders with Yue Zhao (MBA 2013)

Learn about the career resources available to HBS alumni through HBS Career & Professional Development When I decided to attend Harvard Business School (HBS), I knew I was ready to transition from... View Details

2024
Book

When Democracy Breaks: Studies in Democratic Erosion and Collapse, from Ancient Athens to the Present Day

By: Archon Fung, David Moss and Odd Arne Westad

Democracy is often described in two opposite ways, as either wonderfully resilient or dangerously fragile. Curiously, both characterizations can be correct, depending on the context. When Democracy Breaks aims to deepen our understanding of what separates democratic... View Details

Keywords: Government and Politics; History; Culture; Failure

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Achieving Value in Highly Complex Acute Care: Lessons from the Delivery of Extra Corporeal Life Support

By: Michael Nurok, Jonathan Warsh, Erik Dong, Jeffrey Lopez, Mayumi Kharabi and Robert S. Kaplan

We applied a value (outcomes and cost) analysis to extracorporeal life support (ECLS), a relatively rare but very expensive ICU therapy with highly variable outcomes. To address the outcome component of the value approach, we created guidelines for ECLS delivery; to... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management; Value; Analysis

January 2005
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The University and the Start-Up: Lessons from the Past Two Decades

By: Josh Lerner

Keywords: Higher Education; Learning

2019
Working Paper

From Know-It-Alls to Learn-It-Alls: Executive Development in the Era of Self-Refining Algorithms, Collaborative Filtering and Wearable Computing

By: Mihnea Moldoveanu and Das Narayandas

We examine the future of executive education on a technological and cultural landscape that is imminent but different to the one we are accustomed to. We show how the contextualization, socialization and personalization of learning—avowed but distal goals of current... View Details

Keywords: Executive Education; Leadership Development; Technological Innovation; Customization and Personalization; Management Skills; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Sharing