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- 06 Mar 2017
- News
Leading in the Community and the Boardroom
Benaree Pratt Wiley (MBA 1972) has gathered many takeaways over a long career that has spanned consulting, the nonprofit sector, and entrepreneurship, but one in particular has had lasting resonance: Success is personal. “It’s easy to get on a treadmill of View Details
- 21 Oct 2010
- News
Hell? Maybe Not.
companies expect only one or two hires to come out of the process. “Our team works hard to provide a seamless experience, and we manage all the logistics and details at no cost to the employer,” Fitzpatrick points out. On the student... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
Teresa Amabile grew up near Buffalo, New York, the third of seven children. Her parents were first-generation Americans who used their childhood Italian language when they didn’t want the kids to understand what they were saying. Her father and his brothers were... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Action Plan: Whole Sale
phenomenon that retailers have also seen in categories such as home and fashion, but beauty’s more accessible price point makes it a natural space for retailers to experiment with the hybrid shopping model. The everyday presence of beauty products in a consumer’s View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Does My Résumé Work?
done in the interim. Is my trouble normal? “Unemployment or underemployment is anxiety-provoking,” observed Davis. “This is especially true of MBAs who think they are expected to have ‘perfect’ careers.” Davis said she helps people... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Whitehead Urges MBAs to Become Lifelong Leaders
event hosted by the SEI and several student clubs, Whitehead spoke with HBS students at a session titled “John Whitehead: A Life in Leadership,” moderated by HBS professor of management practice Bill George. George asked Whitehead about... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- News
Inside Africa
become chairman, CEO, and executive editor of Africa.com LLC. In this capacity, she has traveled with President Obama to Africa, produced and directed a documentary about Africa, and lectured at numerous Ivy League universities on Africa. This is very different from... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 18 May 2011
- News
U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?
Don’t give up on American manufacturing yet. There are signs of new life that give rise to optimism about a U.S. manufacturing renaissance. A new analysis by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) estimates that within the next five years the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right
than mere life phase. Take how they were raised. This is a generation that’s grown up as the center of attention, thrust into the nucleus of the family, with parents orbiting around them. They have been told they can be anything they want... View Details
- 26 Nov 2018
- News
New York Alumni Explore Risks and Opportunities in Climate Change
to monthly meetings and expect to remain involved “for the long term.” While that sometimes seems daunting at first to busy professionals, Sheets says it’s critical to the forum’s effectiveness. “If you’re busy in a career, and busy with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
Peru. Later, Lewis decided to pursue a career in business, prompting him to apply to HBS. LEWIS: I was expecting Harvard University to be a more racially diverse campus, but because the location of HBS was isolated from the undergraduate... View Details
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
expectations of employees, how companies are reacting to this push, and what the future of family care might look like. READ MORE April White: Stephen, you've been CEO of Bright Horizons for the last seven years, but I know you've also... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Theory & Practice
complex and troubling questions of what to do when "doing the right thing" requires doing something else wrong or leaving a right thing undone. It examines choices in work and life and the critical points at which the two become one.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Committed To HBS’s Success
about practice. Having practitioners on the faculty is perfectly consistent with that approach,” Tukman observes. He expects that many of the senior lecturers will be HBS graduates who have succeeded in business and are succeeding in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems
and leverage the skills and experience of already-accomplished leaders. It will prepare them to make an impact on public life through, for example, leading a cause campaign; establishing a foundation; running for political office as a way... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
October 3–6 to toast the HBS Rugby Football Club's 50th anniversary. Jim Johnstone: It got started, quite simply, by a notice I posted in Kresge dining hall, in September 1963, for a meeting to be held about playing competitive rugby. And something like 35 people... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
spring Harvard Business Press will publish an edited volume of the colloquium papers, which we expect to serve as the foundation for a doctoral course on leadership research and scholarship. We’ve also established the Leadership Research... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Anjali Vaidya (MBA 2010)
enjoy team management for the teaching aspect. It’s personally very rewarding to see someone take my advice or general direction and produce useful results. I enjoy turnarounds because they are very difficult and no one expects the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Take Time to Transition (If it’s Time)
Don’t rush into the market. “Take some time to consider what you want to drive the next career decision. Is it long-term objectives, or do you want to focus on what’s going on in your life right now?” One of Burton’s clients is about to... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Going For The Summit
CANDICE CARPENTER has led some high-profile enterprises - Time Life Video and Television and the electronic retailing enterprise Q2 Inc. among them. But nothing, she says, has prepared her for the rocky terrain of online business better... View Details
Keywords: Caroline Chauncey