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January 2008
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Where Will We Find Tomorrow's Leaders?

Unless we challenge long-held assumptions about how business leaders are supposed to act and where they're supposed to come from, many people who could become effective global leaders will remain invisible, warns Harvard Business School professor Hill. Instead of... View Details

Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Globalization; Innovation Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Situation or Environment; Personal Characteristics

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21 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 21, 2010

performance arts empire with a global brand. The story has a personal as well as professional dimension to it, including the launch of the Blue School (with their spouses), to provide children with the kind of education they wish they'd... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 May 2023
News

India's New Money Managers

use of excess cash; and the veritable dos and don'ts of personal loans. It's an ecosystem, the company says, that cultivates the financially fearless. "People always tell me women are risk adverse. What I View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

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Working Groups Update | About

increase learning and deepen understanding in our classrooms in this new term. Let me repeat what I have said before: as grateful as I am to the chairs and members of these working groups, ensuring that we live our community values will... View Details

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Mollie Breen

contest. But Girl Starter did get Mollie started in the interdisciplinary world of business. "In the show, every episode ended with a pitch," Mollie explains. "I focused mine on data and algorithms. Then I realized I didn't fully understand how a... View Details

Keywords: Tech; Nonprofit/Government/Education

31 May 2023
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2023

Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2023 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2023 recipients, and... View Details

Keywords: leadership; management; work-life balance

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Doing Business in a Divided World - Alumni

societal goals beyond shareholder value. Reading Materials Case Study: General Mills: Responding to the Killing of George Floyd For your personal use. Further posting, copying or distribution is not permitted. Report: Doing Business in a... View Details

28 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration

published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in July 2020. She co-authored the study with recent doctoral graduate Michael Rosenblum and Assistant Professor Juliana Schroeder, both of the University of California, Berkeley. A... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Digital Innovation - Alumni

harnessing the latest technology to educate students, conduct real-world research and share impactful insights with practitioners worldwide, and provide lifelong learning to alumni. Reinventing the Future of Business As rapid... View Details

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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

three-year value-creation plan 6-8 hrs Module 5 Project Week Identify a performance or opportunity gap within your division, unit, or organization and develop an action plan to address it. Identify personal leadership development... View Details

Blog

Is AI Coming for Your Job?

supply. "ONCE COMPANIES LEARN HOW TO EXPLOIT GENERATIVE AI, WE CAN ANTICIPATE RAPID RESTRUCTURING AT MANY COMPANIES THAT INVOLVE SUBSTANTIAL CUTS IN WHITE-COLLAR STAFF." Historically, companies have asked, "How can this new technology... View Details

30 Aug 2018
Blog Post

My Difficult Decision to Leave Google for HBS

I was way off about timing. HBS paid off before I left campus. Let me share three reasons: First, I learned to ask what else? That question has helped me create richer solutions. I remember leaning forward in my seat during a class... View Details

05 Feb 2019
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The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)

fashion quotient quickly!” How do you use what you learned at HBS in your work at PCL? “Given that my role involves working extensively in strategy and growth, what I learned in my classes on finance,... View Details

25 May 2011
HBS Case

QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off

hundreds or thousands of stores, retailers struggle to learn from employees who see problems, talk to customers, and have great ideas for improvement. But retailers like QT and Mercadona have created ways to institutionalize improvement.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

07 May 2012
Research & Ideas

The Art of Haggling

openly reveal their own interests from the get-go. The seller learns that the buyer plans to use the cottage only in the summer, and in the course of negotiation agrees to look after the property in the off-season. Here both sides win:... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Johnston

14 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?

rate as must-do's entirely on your own, Andrus says. "After I go through this process myself, I go see my boss to make sure I'm aligned with him and with his stakeholders. You have to learn to be open and to listen to how your boss... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

gone. This is an opportunity to learn Slack and Zoom and have a mentor teach you how to use these tools. The second thing is, working remotely is very effective if you can also restructure the organizational processes for how... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

10 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business

there are stumbling blocks and challenges when creating something so new as an agile network. The most powerful person who reported to Davidson hated the dual system and "everything that went with it," Kotter writes. He argued there was... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Renewable Generation and Energy Storage Investments” with Simone Marinesi, and Serguei Netessine. Himabindu Lakkaraju : Honorable Mention for the Workshop on Trustworthy and Socially Responsible Machine Learning (TSRML) Outstanding Paper... View Details

25 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker

great migration northward by African Americans, and the opening up of consumer capitalism." Women Take The Stage As Consumers Walker may have catered primarily to an African American clientele, yet her ideas and methods—such as View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Beauty & Cosmetics

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