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- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
top executive. Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, we are all taking in vast amounts of new information every day and adjusting to an entirely new set of behavioral habits. In addition, most of us are dealing with unprecedented tasks and decisions on the job and in our... View Details
- 12 Jan 2023
- News
‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data
a matter of pragmatism, cannot expect to sustain social and political advances that aren’t built on a firm economic footing,” Ballard says. “He believed this was the unfinished business of Martin Luther King Jr., and that it remains unfinished to this day.” Digging... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
not see their role ‘as an enabler of direct public participation in decision-making through formats such as deliberative meetings, and do not believe there are personal benefits for investing in these activities.’ And yet if society is to... View Details
- 24 Jul 2017
- Blog Post
Transitioning to Product Management at HBS
‘Cambridge Trek’ for students to meet the founders of the hottest startups around Boston. How did I learn more about InsightSquared once it piqued my interest? My section-mate Cole Shelton just happened to be a PM there before HBS. Lest... View Details
- 08 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
International Women's Day Featured Stories
School became the first school to reintegrate students and I personally was the first student on the ground, working in a relief COVID-hospital. I am grateful for the opportunity to serve my community and challenge the status quo to... View Details
- 08 Feb 2017
- Blog Post
How I Chose My HBS Recommenders
all walks of life. As an example, my section’s classroom last year had 38 flags hanging on the wall, celebrating the countries we all come from. There is so much to learn by engaging with classmates in a deep and meaningful way, both... View Details
- 09 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent
learned first-hand about this inequity as a child in Philadelphia’s public schools. During a recent interview with Manny Maceda, Bain & Company’s worldwide managing partner, Frazier reflected on his experience: “My younger sister and... View Details
- 10 Jul 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?
to lift me up and help me achieve my desire in life." Ed Hare asks, " why doesn't anyone write on the subject of 'Followership'? Maybe aspiring 'leaders' would learn more if they understood how those they are charged to lead... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 29 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The History and Influence of Andy Grove
If you look at some of the principles by which he ran that company, you can see that in an upside-down way, he learned them in Hungary. Everything Intel was, Grove's experience in Hungary was not. Here are a couple of examples.... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences
procurement and manufacturing) where arbitrage economies were being pursued. What's more, it was able to coordinate its widely dispersed operations by applying centrally developed learning templates. In particular, Immelt applied the... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
that he has seriously injured, and probably killed, persons of another race. “I have an anger problem,” confesses the soft-spoken Mike, who’s spent twenty years, off and on, in some of California’s toughest prisons. But now, with a job... View Details
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The de Gaspé Beaubien Reading Room | About
the future without learning from the past.” About the Name A member of one of the oldest merchant families in Quebec, Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien, after graduating from HBS, transformed Telemedia Communications, Inc., into a major media... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
global and a series of regional B Climate Collectives designed to support businesses to share what they are learning on topics such as how to move to a regenerative business model. How might you explore ways to reimagine your business... View Details
- 16 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be
one had to live with that decision for some time. Today, the movement is toward settings that aren't "matchy-match"; Steuben's new lines of glassware work together and meet the needs of a consumer who wants a differentiated, View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
shareholders—even stronger. They move fast and fix things. Based on her work with fast-moving companies, Frei reveals the five essential steps to moving fast and fixing things. Audiences will learn to: Identify the real problem holding... View Details
- 01 Nov 2019
- What Do You Think?
Should Non-Compete Clauses Be Abolished?
use should be further restricted or they should be redesigned. But just how to redesign them poses a further question. In a nutshell, that’s one reading of reader responses to this month’s column. Russell Beck commented that “based on both View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping
essays posted on the HBS Business and Environment Initiative’s Blog that highlights their reflections. Learn more about this IFC course on Decarbonization and Sustainable Production by watching this five minute video summary. As part of... View Details
- 10 May 2020
- Blog Post
Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers
my daughter (instead of thinking about the events that I’m missing). No kidding, I also try to plan as much as possible to be able to balance it all! And no procrastination! Most memorable quarantine moment: My daughter wanting her own facemask and View Details
- 03 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2010
dispersed around the globe. But the one theme that has attracted the most HBS Working Knowledge readers over our 11-year history is how to improve personal leadership skills. A third of the articles on this page relate to improving work... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
and with a family to support, “living in a dump over a hardware store with kerosene heat,” one biographer wrote. But the Army learned that MacDonald had done well in Industrial Procurement at HBS and offered him a job. He enlisted in... View Details