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- 13 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview
because I'm such a perfectionist." The researchers hired 122 college students to explain how they would answer the interview question, and why they would answer that way. Two independent coders evaluated the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2025
Edited by Julia Hanna; photographs by Susan Young Award Recipients Video MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2025 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2025 recipients, and learn... View Details
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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
financial world. "You gave, as needed, advice, encouragement, criticism. Always you have urged us into original and constructive thinking upon difficult problems." HBS students to Georges F. Doriot, quoted in a letter from Georges F.... View Details
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Contemporary Black Artists and Public Art | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Research & Data Services Curriculum See all... Service Audience Faculty Doctoral Students MBA Students Alumni Executive Education Staff Visiting Researchers Ask Us Ask a Question Fast Answers Policies Staff... View Details
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Burden Park | About
state-of-the-art auditorium. The Burden family’s extensive Harvard connections date back to Florence’s father, Hamilton McKown Twombly, who graduated from Harvard College in 1871. Subsequent generations included Robert Livingston Burden... View Details
- 04 Feb 2020
- News
In Harmony
to go to a good college (Carleton); you get a good job (General Mills); you go to a great MBA program (HBS); you take the highest-paying job you can get in the ‘hot’ field (consulting). That was the first time I actually thought about... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing
example. Many nonprofits and other organizations can't afford to hire data scientists, so DrivenData taps into college students and professionals who are looking to work with real-world data sets. For... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows
ventures as MBA students and start their fellowship year with the largest seed financing raised as a new cohort. I am excited to work with them and carry on the program’s mission to inspire young life science entrepreneurs as they enter... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
how it all happened. I have been a traveler and a student of a world that has become more complex and more diverse." Jack of Many Trades Since graduating from Harvard College in 1963, Chuck Mercer has worked... View Details
Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
- 06 Aug 2014
- What Do You Think?
What Is Warren Bennis’s Legacy?
sustenance for many of us helping prepare students for leadership.) His legacy is found in other influential practitioners and scholars of leadership. As I prepared the original piece on Bennis, Jay Lorsch, a colleague, reminded me that... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980
his focus to the nonprofit world and launched Bridgespan, an organization dedicated to helping address society’s most complex problems. Tierney has a knack for making it seem like his success is accidental. As a high-school student when... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Profile
Deborah A. Farrington
Farrington said. Given the timing of her career, Farrington’s journey has been remarkable. She graduated from Smith College in the early 1970s as the women’s movement was gaining momentum. At Smith, she learned leadership skills and a... View Details
- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
actually had no intention of being a civil rights leader. His desire was to be a great minister, and he had been extremely well schooled, certainly for an African American in those days. He'd gone to Morehouse College at the age of 15. By... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
students to fill the remaining six floors. In relatively no time, Russo had turned a high-risk acquisition into a high-profile success. Her name now personified the company, and her determination propelled it to new heights. Even then,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
Alumni Books Surviving the College Application Process: Case Studies to Help You Find Your Unique Angle for Success by Lisa Bleich (MBA 1992) (Morgan James Publishing) This book follows the college... View Details
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
mention” candidates, Tony Hsieh, Jack Ma, and Richard Branson. Musk did his undergraduate work at Wharton and completed a graduate degree in physics at Stanford. Hsieh displayed entrepreneurial skills as a student at Harvard View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
order to accelerate their expansion efforts, Jump Start, an early childhood education program that pairs college students with pre-schoolers struggling in Head Start, began entering into affiliate... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 26 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni Explore a Changing Hong Kong; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Singapore
of local and global companies, government organizations, and universities in Hong Kong. A group of high school students also attended at the invitation of the club’s Board Director Max Burger (MBA 1981). “Hong Kong, today, is in the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 18 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 18
the survey in Korean, demonstrating how cultural frames influence the contents of gender stereotypes. In Study 3, American college students rated a male student as higher on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace