Strength and Weakness - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Aug 2017
Blog Post

Redefining the Term Networking at HBS

Every year, Harvard Business School welcomes 900 new business students. The campus buzzes with excitement, which never fades as the days, weeks, and months pass. As relationships are forged, dreams shared, View Details

Career Coach

Ildi Nielsen

almost 1000 people and offers this real world perspective to help job seekers appreciate their strengths and present themselves effectively and... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Commercial Banking; Financial Services (All); Consumer Finance; Financial Services (All); Corporate Finance; Financial Services (All); Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Retail

01 Jun 1998
News

New Releases

creative departure from the current wisdom, Bradach focuses on a powerful organizational arrangement he identifies as the "plural form"; that is, chains composed of both company-owned and franchise units. Plural form chains, Bradach says,... View Details

20 May 2013
Research & Ideas

The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness

beginning of the Industrial Age that the advent of mass production would mean there would be no jobs for the vast majority of the population, but we reinvested and gained productivity and expanded the... View Details

Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette

Web

Prompt-a-thon Invites HBS IT Staff to Sharpen GenAI Skills | Information Technology

Prompts: Learn about the tool’s strengths and weaknesses through trial and errors Join the Fun! If you wished you could have participated, you’ll... View Details

30 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers

ownership patterns that help to explain the dispersion. For instance, government-owned organizations tend to receive low management scores across all the sectors and countries in the study. "They are particularly View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

25 Sep 2015
Blog Post

4 Challenges All Early-Stage Startups Face

skill-set to create a competitive advantage while others try to round out as many weaknesses as possible. Some form around friend groups, while others form around shared interests and commitment levels. Each... View Details

04 Jun 2014
What Do You Think?

Does Internet Technology Threaten Brand Loyalty?

information technologies will punish weak brands faster and more severely than in the past. That's the general sense I received from responses to this month's column. There was a minority opinion, however.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising; Consumer Products; Technology

09 Aug 2024
Blog Post

Addressing Inequities in Education: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Amal Tariq (MBA 2025)

leverage my strengths and interests to address major challenges in public education. Lastly, I wanted to clarify my aspirations for where I thought I could have the most impact within the education... View Details

14 Sep 2021
Blog Post

How to Support Your Employees’ Career Development

role and isn’t looking to move on. “Sometimes in our world it’s all about ‘what’s the plan?’ and ‘what’s the next step?’, but if an employee is happy, concentrate on keeping them happy View Details

Keywords: All Industries

09 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit

slower to recover than other European nations. Government has focused on lowering taxes, decreasing regulation, and imposing fiscal austerity, but not really addressed deeper weaknesses such as overstretched... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

18 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs

In recent years, business schools and investors alike have been paying more attention to social entrepreneurs, those who create ventures with the primary goal of achieving positive social change. But most people encounter the field only... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

09 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools

engaged in education in ways that are generous, well-intended, effective at alleviating the symptoms of a weak education system, and thoroughly inadequate to help strengthen the system," says Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

25 Feb 2017
Blog Post

3 Reasons I Chose to Attend HBS

physically and emotionally taxing, but the reflection that I did before I started the process provided me the strength and focus that I needed to go through it. View Details

24 Jun 2014
Blog Post

Journey to my Summer Internship

and interviews later, it was clear that I needed to narrow down my focus. In a conversation with my HBS career coach, she asked me “what would be your ideal internship?” “Well”, I said “perhaps something that allowed me to learn a new... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

Profile

Kim Chen

program prompted me to think on an individual level about what makes me tick and the strengths I can bring to the table. But then in the classroom we discussed leaders - from the junior analyst who sets a... View Details

Keywords: Retail; Nonprofit / Government

08 Dec 2015
First Look

December 8, 2015

strength of this greedy signal is normally unobserved, the answer is theoretically unclear, and corresponding empirical evidence is mixed. I overcome this ambiguity by examining individuals for whom the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

America the Principled to offer a perspective about those enduring values that have always been so important to America's prosperity and role in the world, while also providing 21st-century ideas for how we could restore our View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Rethinking E-Leadership

by transforming" the existing business or creating a new one. An effective e-leader, Hargrove continues, must shift from "being a productivity and efficiency junkie to being an opportunity seeker View Details

Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni

Career Coach

Thoba Grenville-Grey

Thoba wants to help students interested in investing careers from international backgrounds break into US roles by highlighting the nuances of the process and the potential resources and View Details

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