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- 01 Mar 2021
- What Do You Think?
What Does Remote Work Mean for Middle Managers?
the faster, smoother, more responsive, cross-functional process design that characterized Michael Hammer’s and James Champy’s pathbreaking work in the early 1990s. However, one could also make the argument that middle managers have the most complex View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
decline in student enrollment, not the size of the fellowships. Fellowships amounted to 7 percent of the School's total operating costs in fiscal 2021, consistent with the prior year. Helping students navigate a difficult job market... View Details
- 18 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education
theory of disruptive innovation, often applied to a variety of other industries, such as technology and health care. Christensen's theory was first explored in his two New York Times bestsellers, The Innovator's Dilemma (1997) and The... View Details
- 04 Jul 2005
- What Do You Think?
How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?
solution to bringing practical focus into the curriculum is "a year-long on-the-job exposure" for students after the first year of the MBA curriculum as well as "mandatory association with industry projects." "One... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
casino.” With lucid and compelling prose—drawing from a 25-year career in the software industry—Dixon shows how the internet has undergone three distinct eras, bringing us to the critical moment we’re in today. The first was the “read”... View Details
- 14 Jun 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in East Asia
good for humankind," said the Dean. "If you look at the billions of people lifted out of poverty, the standard of living we have created, the kinds of jobs we've created it all came from the enormous force for good that is business." This... View Details
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consumers. At HBS, he helped found and was the first chairman of the African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA). In 1996, the HBSAAA launched a fundraising campaign to endow a professorship in his name. Frederick "Fred" Wilkinson Jr.... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
- 08 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Ashley Zumwalt-Forbes (MBA 2017)
business, but then the ability to step out of big business at an identified point to make my transition. How long was your deferral (2,3, or 4 years)? I deferred for three years: I left my job at ExxonMobil at three years on the dot,... View Details
- 30 Nov 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?
influence on whether or not an organization crosses the line from pride to arrogance. (3) It is possible to lead close to the line between pride and arrogance without crossing it; several suggestions were offered for how to do this. Ken Johnson made the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
Harvard Business School, where he teaches the (MBA) Foundations business history course, Creating Modern Capitalism. He also serves as co-editor of the Business History Review. Al Chandler is appropriately regarded as the founder of the field of business history. He... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
cognitive-behavioral therapy, as well as mindfulness and meditation-based stress reduction. This first group logged in to complete various activities and games at least twice per week that showed them, for example, how to savor the... View Details
- 24 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Career Advice for Minorities and Women: Sharing Your Identity Can Open Doors
that there's so much research showing how women and minorities are often disadvantaged in different situations,” he says. The researchers say this is the first in a series of studies on the topic, and they plan to look deeper at how... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
innovative solutions, especially Black female knowledge workers. We found that 42 percent of Gen Z Black women are “the first to know when something new or cutting-edge is released.” The gap with the other races was almost two-to-one. Jim... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
to name the building Madikizela, in honor of the late South African political activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, a symbol of Black female resilience.) The upper floors will contain well-appointed rentals, whose target market includes single moms working low-wage View Details
- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
group at my first job that I was able to recognize this internal tension and explore ways to do well at work while staying true to my values. While I have yet to find the right balance today, I hope that one... View Details
- 29 Nov 2023
- News
A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway
HBS was its global alumni network,” says Ayengar. “After HBS, my first job was in Hong Kong, which has a vital HBS alumni club where I got to know people and build a network. When I moved to Mumbai, I found... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 May 2015
- Blog Post
Tips for Applying to Business School
stronger applicant. Sam: I worked for six years before deciding to apply for an MBA, so first I’d encourage applicants not to feel rushed by anyone else’s timeline. For me, the right time to apply to MBA programs came when I realized that... View Details
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
new book, Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads. Employing a wealth of interviews and quantitative data, their book takes the first comprehensive approach in decades to examine the evolving MBA marketplace and its threats... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
news hook, although it may not be as obvious as, say, a breakthrough in cancer research. Remember the aforementioned research by Bazerman et al., which explained the unconscious biases that cause auditors to do a bad job of auditing?... View Details