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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Getting Personal
It’s the same as when you meet someone with whom you share similar interests, but despite that, you never really click because you find something in that person’s manner off-putting. In human interactions, we often can adjust our approach and delivery to better View Details
- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 20 Sep 2016
- Webinars: Career
Become an Entrepreneur Without Leaving Your Day Job
What if there was a way to pair the stability of a day job with the excitement and upside of entrepreneurship? Using proven strategies and a range of case studies, author and serial "10% Entrepreneur" Patrick J. McGinnis (MBA 2004) will explain how you can integrate... View Details
- Profile
Kanwaljit Bakshi
and go to Harvard.'" And that's what she did, working for McKinsey and Co. before getting into Harvard. But she enrolled in the law school, not the business school. While Brochu says she enjoyed HLS intellectually, she didn't feel it was a very good View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- Portrait Project
Carolyn Wintner
"Put me down as Frank, please." As a five-year-old on the birthday-party circuit, Frank was my name-tag preference of choice. My naïve, tomboy self thought that all I needed was a new name, and then I would finally fit in with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
A Smooth Stretch
explained, “Yoga became a great way to work my body and quiet my mind at a time when my life as a full-time mother of two small children was feeling quite chaotic.” And yoga also offered a great business opportunity, Hanna realized, for fashionable View Details
- 05 Aug 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?
parts to design complementary products that fitted together. Successful platform leaders exert a great deal of influence. At times, they must build trust among those that choose to utilize the platform as partners. At other times, they... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Profile
Evelyne White
start-up with limited resources. Your product is intently geographical. Concentrate on markets large enough to become profitable where you have no competition so you can spend your energy running the business rather than fighting wars. If big cities View Details
- 27 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
Joining a Start-up: 10 Lessons Along the Way
voice and discover where I wanted to contribute to the conversation. For me, this was the thrill of the uncertain, where I could run off into a world full of 'what if ?' Turns out that's a personality fit for entrepreneurship. 7. My... View Details
- 14 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM
or fitting into the mold of what was considered the “typical” engineer – which was white, straight, and overly masculine. This led to feelings of isolation and impostor syndrome during my undergrad studies. I overcame these challenges by... View Details
- 28 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
Nairobi Love: Heading Home
take initiative is in the top 5% of analysts I have ever worked with now that’s what makes you stand out”. I reached out to my recommenders 3-4 months before deadlines, informing them why I wanted them specifically to write my recommendations and provided a one page... View Details
- 11 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Leadership and Diversity at HBS
but also raise the excellence bar for AASU by organizing a best-in-class event. How has HBS changed what kind of leader you are? HBS has taught me that there is no “one size fits all” solution to leadership. The people you seek to lead... View Details
- Web
South Asia - Global Activities 2021
of the unmet needs of senior executives from fast-growing companies operating in India and other emerging markets,” explains Krishna Palepu, faculty chair of SELPI and the Ross Graham Walker Professor of Business Administration. “The program's modularity enables... View Details
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
machines that took up more than twenty square feet of scarce factory floor space at the semiconductor facility. Teradyne engineers knew that CMOS technology could enable tighter integration of the test system architecture. With this advance, the entire system could be... View Details
- Web
Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: ASIA - Alumni
outlined below. PERSONAL STATEMENT (approximately 500 words) explaining: Your interest in Asia and how you hope to make a difference by working in the region; Your long-term career goals and how working in Asia fits with your goals and/or... View Details
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two
Determination to make what they regarded as best-of-class offerings tailored specifically to consumers' emerging needs. They knew their products and services fit consumers' preferences because each had spent enormous time and effort... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
extent to which their work overlapped. If they could combine findings from across their assorted research projects, they could fit together a big-picture view of office-space configurations and how well they support different kinds of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
check the masthead wind vane. With the muscle fatigue of three months at sea, this last phase was the hardest for me. But you must stay disciplined: study the weather data, make the sail changes, write for the schools, grind the winches. I’ve been View Details
- Career Coach
Adam Shimer
House’s National Economic Council. Adam is well-equipped to help students in 3 areas: (1) all things consulting recruiting – including students who are trying to figure out if it’s a good fit for them, (2) government / non-profit... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
all. But Branson, whose career began in the late 1960s when he launched a student magazine and then a record company, told the audience that his enterprises all fit the company's brand. He defined the Virgin brand as representing service... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Rowing Upstream
intervene when there’s a downslide? I always try to push the students to consider how these questions and possible solutions can be extrapolated to organizational settings.” Concludes Polzer, “The best teams are those that not only combine the skills of their members... View Details