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- 22 Jul 2014
- Blog Post
From FIELD to Field, Putting What I’ve Learned at HBS into Practice
the case facts. Rather, it was the persistent pushing and prodding by my professors, section-mates, and discussion group members that I remember the most. As I dove deeper into the managerial and operational issues of working in Zambia, I View Details
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LaToya Marc
Growing up in small towns in Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas, LaToya Marc found her passion for social justice tempered by the practical need to make a decent living. "I was raised by a single mother who stressed the importance of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Jeff Cruikshank
one of the endless interviews that were required to become the editor of the Bulletin. Now it can be told: I had low expectations of the place. I suspected that the HBS community would be exclusively interested in stocks, bonds, and other mysterious recesses of... View Details
Keywords: Jeff Cruikshank
- 18 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.
employees believe it’s too risky to speak up, many decide it’s safer to put their heads down and keep their opinions to themselves—but that muting of views creates barriers to learning and collaboration that can be detrimental to both View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
high impact." After a series of promotions, she became a member of the founding executive team of Apple software spin-off Claris, where, as VP international, she grew international revenue to 50 percent of... View Details
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Leadership with purpose: Redefining success and impact with Satpal Singh (SELP—India 4, 2019) - Recruiting
expertise. I had been fortunate to work in various domains, from strategic sourcing to operations, but I was searching for something more—a vision for the kind of leader I wanted to become. My time at HBS gave me clarity: I found... View Details
- 27 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
Fighting Cancer with a Novel Cell Therapy: Ananya Zutshi (MS/MBA '21)
started to really think about what I wanted to do, and where a Ph.D. would get me,” Zutshi said. “Did I want to be calling all the scientific shots? Or was I good with being part of a team and helping make things happen?” Realizing her... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
that I have.” Neeley’s research focuses on the challenges organizations face when coordinating operations across linguistic and national boundaries. As a doctoral student at Stanford, she participated in a large-scale global teams study... View Details
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
problems. Werker's research adds to a body of work, largely in Africa, that examines fragile states, foreign aid and investment, and conflict and governance. Into Africa Werker found his way to Africa after taking a leave of absence from... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 25 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.
into the issue, however, Kerr found that wasn't necessarily the case. Collaborating with William Lincoln of the University of Michigan and Prachi Mishra of the International Monetary Fund, Kerr tapped into a database of lobbying... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
on an undefeated team that earned a #5 national ranking, Swearengin ended his playing career as part of a thrilling 38-31 victory over the Washington Huskies in the 1993 Rose Bowl.) Football, Swearengin says, gave him self-confidence,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
Case Study features alumni and faculty offering advice on strategy to alumni who are leading businesses at a crossroads. Charles Philp (MBA 2006) started Colorado-based Sneakz Organic with his business partner in 2012 after a lightbulb moment in his kitchen. While... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
the successful founding teams I interviewed were made up of classmates, sectionmates, and even study groups from HBS. Michel and his Military.com cofounder, classmate Anne Dwane (MBA ’98), met on their first... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
HBS-Harvard Collaboration Fosters New Ventures
Since its founding in 2011, the Harvard Innovation Labs (HIL)—a collaboration between HBS and Harvard University—has nurtured some 2,500 ventures founded by students, alumni, and faculty members from all 13... View Details
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
enemy's found laptop, for instance, would be flown back to HQ experts in another country, resulting in valuable time lost, also called decision latency. By contrast, a team of View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
he performed in the operating room as doctors tinkered inside his brain. All the while, Bennet and his team monitored the tremors as neurosurgeon Lee inserted the electrodes, making sure that each found its... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 03 Oct 2018
- What Do You Think?
How Should Managers Deal with the Challenges of Building an Inclusive Workplace?
This curiosity needs to start with our existing team. Who is in our team and how can we map their skills to see the gaps? Then how can we approach the process of finding new people with a view of filling these gaps ?” NickC addressed the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
percent of board members are women. They teamed with Fletcher, who is pursuing a doctoral degree in organizational behavior, to answer questions on gender, competition, and cooperation that have not been addressed in previous research: Do... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
brought home to many students that offshoring could affect them personally." Nearly 900 members of the MBA Class of 2009 participated in the exercise, with students divided into learning teams of five or six individuals. The exercise was... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 05 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference across Borders
During the pandemic and the disruption in business worldwide, the HBS Career & Professional Development team made an appeal to alumni and recruiting partners that resulted in nearly 1,000 new full-time and internship opportunities for... View Details