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  • 03 Aug 2016
  • What Do You Think?

How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?

profit for shareholders and directors. Pfeffer is also tired of seeing so-called leadership development services offered in a sanitized vacuum by a “leadership industry” under... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
  • 10 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

had previously successfully developed the landmark Xintiandi retail and entertainment district in Shanghai. Lo must decide if the opportunity is the right fit in terms of place, timing, government support,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Jan 2024
  • Blog Post

Meet The HBS African American Student Union

to thrive academically, socially, and professionally from the moment they get admitted to HBS, to when they graduate, and beyond. Our membership includes more than 200 students View Details
  • January – February 2011
  • Article

Stop Holding Yourself Back

By: Anne Morriss, Robin J. Ely and Frances X. Frei
After working with hundreds of leaders in a wide variety of organizations and in countries all over the globe, the authors found one very clear pattern: when it comes to meeting their leadership potential, many people unintentionally get in their own way. Five barriers... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Personal Characteristics
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  • Career Coach

Ryan Kennedy

hone their career visions, craft their job searches, and take the next steps towards a meaningful career. Work Experience: Product Manager at LendingHome.com (mortgages), Risk & Operations Manager at... View Details
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Smaller than We Thought? The Effect of Automatic Savings Policies

By: James J. Choi, David Laibson, Jordan Cammarota, Richard Lombardo and John Beshears
Medium- and long-run dynamics undermine the effect of automatic enrollment and default savings-rate auto-escalation on retirement savings. Our analysis of 401(k) plans incorporates the facts that employees frequently leave firms (often before matching contributions... View Details
Keywords: Personal Finance; Saving; Retirement; Behavioral Finance; Compensation and Benefits
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  • September 2011 (Revised October 2012)
  • Case

Ganging Up on Cancer: Integrative Research Centers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (A)

By: Heidi K. Gardner, Edo Bedzra and Shereef M. Elnahal
Dr. Barrett Rollins, Chief Scientific Officer of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, attempts to engender cross-scientist collaboration by applying project management principles to medical research. The resulting innovation, Integrative Research Centers, are novel in... View Details
Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Motivation and Incentives; Employees; Performance Evaluation; Leadership Style; Leadership; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management
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  • 2009
  • Book

The Adventures of an IT Leader

By: Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan and Shannon O'Donnell
Becoming an effective IT manager presents a host of challenges-from anticipating emerging technology to managing relationships with vendors, employees, and other managers. Ultimately, a good IT manager must be a strong business leader, not just a technical... View Details
Keywords: Books; Leadership; Crisis Management; Personal Development and Career; Relationships; Safety; Information Technology
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  • 20 Aug 2018
  • Blog Post

Summer Snapshot: Interning for the City of Philadelphia

HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) asked students to describe their career interests and what they are up to this summer. Current... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
  • 05 Dec 2017
  • Research & Ideas

What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets

Harvard Business School’s exploration of the evolution of business leadership in Africa, Asia, and Latin America has reached an important milestone. This month the Creating Emerging Markets project will... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 1, 2006

of "organized" retailers such as Pantaloon. Pantaloon's management faced some exciting opportunities as well as some potential competition both from global retailers planning to enter the Indian market View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Sep 2021
  • Blog Post

Driving Social Impact Through Consumer Behavior: Nonprofit to Finance to Retail with Nicole Krantz (MBA 2022)

to the for-profit way of thinking and solving problems.” With this shift, Krantz then sought out opportunities to build a strong foundation for a career in for-profit AND... View Details
Keywords: Retail
  • October 1998 (Revised December 1998)
  • Case

CRA Managed Care, Inc. (B)

By: Myra M. Hart and Susan Harmeling
An entrepreneur's transition from chairman/CEO of a large privately held company, to chairman of a public company, to leadership in several large nonprofit organizations is chronicled. View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Nonprofit Organizations; Governing and Advisory Boards; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career
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  • September 2017
  • Case

Christine Lagarde

By: Julie Battilana, Carin-Isabel Knoop, Vanessa Ampelas and Noemie Assenat
The case covers the youth and career trajectory of Christine Lagarde across her time at Baker & McKenzie, as a minister in the government of France and as the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The case highlights the challenges and opportunities she faced... View Details
Keywords: Change; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence; Leadership; Gender; Leading Change
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  • 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
  • 27 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Take Responsibility for Rising Stars

directors was very good at these activities. The CEOs of savvy companies realize that their boards are well placed to help them plan for new leadership to take the reins. Detached from day-to-day operations... View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey M. Cohn, Rakesh Khurana & Laura Reeves
  • 29 Apr 2020
  • Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • January 2011
  • Case

Shar Matin (A)

By: David A. Thomas and Elisa Farri
The head of the subsidiary of a US company faced the decision to present an aggressive growth plan despite his CFO's lack of support. View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Decision Choices and Conditions; Globalized Firms and Management; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; United States
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  • Profile

Seth Moulton

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? HBS has given me an excellent introduction to a wide range of business topics, while also giving me the opportunity to pursue particular interests in greater depth. As someone coming out of the military with great View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Entrepreneurship
  • 13 May 2013
  • Blog Post

Alumni: Where are they now? Featuring Aaron…

laptop, at work and at home! How has having an MBA impacted your career? Every day I am faced with an issue to which there is usually no real precedent and thus no clear answer. The training I received at... View Details