Advice Taking - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 May 2004
What Do You Think?

How Much Is Enough?

for another. What advice do respondents have for those facing these challenges? John Cockerill suggested that "looking forward to the future is the motivation for the present... Just remember where you came from. Be realistic about... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Two sides, same coin: How I left the Bay Area as an operator and returned as an investor

those spaces. Being immersed in Silicon Valley, I started to observe that entrepreneurship and financing were very much two sides of the same coin – who your capital providers were and the advice they gave could adversely affect a young... View Details

21 Jan 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Market Basket’s Lessons About Buyouts

the family that unity in the family is priceless, and work to achieve it. By taking this advice seriously, you won't necessarily avoid needing to buy out relatives, but you will be able to meet this... View Details

Keywords: Retail

01 Jan 2004
News

A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977

Gamble's leadership training programs. There's nothing like having to step into a decision maker's shoes to learn about leadership." ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "If you can find work that both stretches you and plays to your strengths,... View Details

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS

times and came from many countries, the alumni who filled Burden that morning all shared an intense curiosity about where the new Dean intended to take their School. Just shy of 100 days into his tenure, Nohria came prepared with answers.... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

21 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The New Math of Customer Relationships

customers. And they take time. So it's not surprising that not all of the organizations that have implemented parts of the concept have utilized it as a driving force for an entire business. Hardest of all is the cultural change that you... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Profile

Marla Malcolm Beck

disciplines and yet nobody wanted to take on the role of team leader. Beck raised her hand and volunteered and suddenly found herself leading a group whose members were all older and more experienced than she was at the time. One McKinsey... View Details

Profile

Arthur Rock

Computer. Rock has had a remarkably intuitive sense of the people with whom he invested and his steady hand and ever-curious intellect provided invaluable mentorship and advice to a legion of technology giants. What has become standard... View Details

04 May 2017
News

Going the Distance

would become very homebound. So we turned our Plan B into a big adventure, choosing to sail around the world as a family while Lily was still portable,” he says. “In 2013, we spent nine months sailing the beautiful islands of the South Pacific. For Lily, her Mt.... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

09 Mar 2021
News

Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges

her new ways to lead through a crisis and the ability to tap into a network of peers when she needs advice and support. She plans to take the last course later this year. “As you look at COVID-19 and how we... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Dec 2015
News

Case Study: Bionic Banking

contemplates moving forward with an actively managed robo-advisor. First, Alpha Architect has an overarching concern about pricing: Current passive robo-advising fees run about 0.25 percent, and have already begun to trend downward. And yet, traditional portfolio View Details

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Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online

the top two pieces of advice to prioritize as it prepares to launch Module Review and Capstone Free E-Book So You Want to Be an Entrepreneur: How to Get Started In this guide, you’ll learn about what characterizes a successful... View Details

21 Mar 2025
News

What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Byron Wien (MBA 1956) was a Wall Street icon. He had a 50-year career that included chief investment strategist roles at Morgan Stanley and Blackstone, and was well... View Details

Keywords: Finance

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Race Does Matter in Mentoring

peers were being promoted. Instead, he concentrated on strengthening his technical proficiency, taking numerous in-house courses and seminars. He also chose his assignments judiciously, consciously avoiding being sidetracked into... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

11 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers

the world, PennApps, takes place. Fang was an undergrad who participated in and eventually helped to organize the hackathon, seeing firsthand how participants shared information with one another—whether it was a superstar developer... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

Profile

Michael R. Bloomberg

career plan. “I was supposed to go to Vietnam,” Bloomberg recalled during a recent Bloomberg TV interview. “But at the last minute they wouldn’t take me because I had flat feet. A friend of mine said to `Go to Wall Street.’” Bloomberg... View Details

02 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market

art was redefined as a new product category—modern Indian art—by a variety of participants including artists, academics, commercial auction houses, and critics. And as Western museums and collectors began to take notice, prices for pieces... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

individual's portfolio to his or her age (young investors should take more risk with stocks) and attitudes toward risk (conservative investors should hold more cash). Research done by Harvard Business School finance professor Luis M.... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

01 Dec 2010
News

The Transformers

organizations. That may sound like standard practice today, but ten years ago a lot of nonprofit leaders were deeply suspicious of “suits” showing up with advice lifted wholesale from the for-profit arena. They had tried that before, and... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jan 2003
News

Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969

helpful as I built my own business." COMMUNITY OUTREACH Board of Directors, HBS African-American Alumni Association Board of Visitors, Howard University School of Business Former Director, University of Maryland Foundation, Greater Washington Urban League View Details

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