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Alumni Forums - Alumni
confidentially. The experience helps them to live more fulfilled lives and to be better leaders and humans. Forums often are described as a personal board of directors. Forums use proven best practices in... View Details
- 04 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
From Lone Star to Team Player
can obtain both benefits: fierce focus on individual business units, which produces solid performance in each of the businesses, and an appropriate level of cross-unit interactions, which produces extra economic value through things like cost reductions, View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Case Study: A Good Fit
gym, for example—and sustaining it over time, says Sean Eldridge (MBA 2009). He and his cofounders at Gain Life, an early-stage startup based at the Harvard Launch Lab, have an app for that. By combining behavioral science and marketing View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 16 Jun 2015
- Blog Post
Military Alumna Reflects on Time at HBS
gentlemen from India who had excelled in mobile payments and was now considering moving in to management consulting. I also met one of my best friends that first week— she heard that I had served in the Marines, in an officer corps that... View Details
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
the DA. In designing the DA career conference initiative, Harris and her team polled DA faculty representing all promotion tracks and length of service. They also captured best practices from across other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Fast Answer
Sustainability in Construction Industry
information for industry practitioners and academia including best practices Construction Industry Institute Knowledge Base Smart Cities World Back to Baker Library's Sustainability Research... View Details
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Management Consulting: Build a List
Criteria To screen by number of employees, move down to Company Statistics and enter Value and click Add Criteria Published Lists and Rankings of Consulting Firms Vault Consulting 50 (via FirstHand):... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
better. To this end, they offer a set of management tools drawn from best practices in successful companies, the military, and government agencies. After showing why the federal personnel system needs... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
make better leaders, and the practical steps to kicking an addiction to success. There’s been increasing academic interest in the topic of happiness in recent years. We’ve seen it at HBS with the work of Ashley Whillans, Leslie Perlow,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- Portrait Project
Noah Brodsky
people make memories, is what makes me happy. I can't walk past a lost tourist without pointing out the way, or let friends dine on anything but the best at my favorite restaurant. It's in my very nature to want to give the finest... View Details
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Courtney Behm
them begin to know each other, trust each other, and hear – really hear – each other. They thrive when idiosyncratic is not a dirty adjective, when different points of view are rewarded. In 1999, I left corporate America to found a consulting View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
in part, by how much it gave away. If that seems counterintuitive at best and downright crazy at worst, think again. The Bridgespan Group, the consultancy they created, has turned the standard business model on its head. While consultants... View Details
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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise Course Number 1504 Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice Willy Shih Senior Lecturer Derek van Bever Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Paper Overview: BSSE at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA
Gene Markowski Unlearning some of the lessons of the military Unlearning some of the lessons of the military Richard Kondo Blending military leadership and private industry best practices Blending military... View Details
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Maurice Taylor
Maurice Taylor was raised in Detroit, where his family still lives. “As a city, we’ve seen difficult times,” he says. “I’m driven to make a positive impact.” The challenge? “I needed to find an education with the optimal mix of practical... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Buckley (Profile Books) Beginning in the mid-1990s, Sabis, a private, for-profit education provider, transformed the Alfred Glickman School from a failing school in one of America’s most violent cities into a silver medalist in U.S. News & World Report’s annual... View Details
- 24 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Growing the Seeds of an Early-Stage Startup
perspectives on the internal workings of an early stage startup. Concurrently, I was able to share some best practices that I learned in my prior consulting role and from the HBS network to the team. There’s... View Details
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Teaching Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
and administrators — to improve the value of care they deliver. It also permits benchmarking across the group's multiple hospital sites to identify best practices that can be shared. The case concludes with... View Details
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Jorge-Luis Leon
“Maybe you should consider other options.” These were the first words I heard after finishing my first SAT practice test. The dream of studying in a U.S. college started to crumble before my eyes. I listened to them say how I might not be... View Details
- 06 Sep 2005
- What Do You Think?
What are the Lessons of New Orleans?
forward? Who should take the lead in the teaching—that is, identifying best practices in the public and private sectors and making sure that they are disseminated and acted upon? Rather than putting primary... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett