Strength and Weakness - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Feb 2024
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees

have a career that spans the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Through the joint degree program, I am building skills that will allow me to leverage the strengths of each sector to drive economic View Details

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Organizing the Family-Run Business

evaluate the performance of the CEO, identifying his or her strengths and weaknesses and helping the CEO to establish trusted leadership of the... View Details

06 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Are You a Level-Six Leader?

percent of revenue, down from 6 percent during the 1990s, the Carly Fiorina/Mark Hurd team "saved" HP about $4 billion—about the equivalent of half the profits earned during Hurd's last year. HP's once formidable technological View Details

Keywords: by Mitch Maidique

27 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Recovering from the Need to Achieve

real sense of purpose and a "flatness"—in career and in life. They often go through patches of life without creating or enhancing meaningful relationships, and even... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

15 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

This Workplace Certification Made Already Safe Companies Even Safer

New research finds that companies that took steps to meet an international safety standard further improved their working conditions after adoption, logging 20 percent fewer cases of illness and injury than non-certified firms. The... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

09 Jun 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge

value of their intellectual property. Q: How effective are copyright law and patent law, both here and globally, in protecting IP? What are the weaknesses that companies need... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

01 Jun 2000
News

Going Public: Margaret M. Crotty

how aptly those words apply to her own inner strength and exceptional ability. Photography by Webb Chappell Shari P. Hubert Scott C. Bolick Herman I. Safin Margaret M. Crotty Christopher S. Yeh Raymond M.... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

14 May 2024
Blog Post

Video: MBA Moms Celebrate Mother’s Day

son. His name is Christian, born in my first semester of my second year of my MBA. Cecilia Liu: There's no best time to have kids. I had the kids before I applied for grad school. In fact, I think I find myself deriving a lot of my View Details

24 Feb 2021
Blog Post

My HBS Student Loan Story: Les Williams (MBA 2005)

viewed HBS as an investment and I preferred to take the loans and pay them off over time. My employer had been sponsoring select MBA students via partial salary and full... View Details

19 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Company Loyalty

company uses assessment tools and career coaches to identify employees' strengths and decide how to best leverage those talents for the company's good. The company also... View Details

Keywords: by Lauren Keller Johnson

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HBR Classics - Alumni

HBR CLASSICS Through the years, a number of Harvard Business Review articles written by Harvard Business School faculty and others have risen to “classics” status – articles that are so groundbreaking in their scope or elemental in their... View Details

06 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge

pairs and filled out worksheets about their strengths and weaknesses as salespeople. They then compared notes and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival

nature," the strengths and possibility of a given person or enterprise, leaders must also be able to see an individual or organization's weaknesses. And the case points to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Web

Our Values | About

suggestions and ideas. We want our campus to be safe, secure, and vibrant. Closing Thoughts We must find a way forward. Why? Because if we can’t do it here—drawing on the View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

3-Minute Briefing: Frances Haugen: (MBA 2011)

I went to a Montessori preschool. My parents were very big on the idea that children are people and treated me with great seriousness. If they asked me to do something, I was allowed to ask why. Debate was a big part of my high school experience. Coaching debate... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; whistle blower; Facebook; leadership; social media

Teaching Interest

Overview

Globalization and Emerging Markets (Elective Course) The world order has changed significantly in the last two decades. The influence of western-style varieties of capitalism has been challenged by new forms of capitalism that rely less on private enterprise and on the... View Details

24 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Harvard’s JD/MBA: Viroopa Volla (JD/MBA 2021) Answers Your Questions

of fun and speaks to the strength of joint degree relationships! Is the joint degree schedule really challenging? Can JD/MBAs still do extra things like the law clinics, law review? Although JD/MBAs... View Details

10 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Key to Doing Your Best at Work? Be Yourself

personal strengths and talents, to make sure that you are leveraging them in the work that you do, or in your personal life, rather than quieting them down. Gazette: How does authenticity affect someone’s... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

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Interviewing - Alumni

the conversation ask about next steps. Thank the recruiter for his/her time, and follow up with a thank you note. Interview Questions + – General Interview Questions Tell me about yourself. What are your View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

A Continuum of Innovation

it is the heart of what makes the HBS MBA a shared educational experience across generations. It is deeply important to us, therefore, to continuously invest in the RC, building on its long tradition of strength while leaning into change... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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