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- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
Higgins and Nohria also wanted to understand why the 128 Venture Group was successful. "We wanted to know which pitches were most effective in which situations," explains Higgins. "For example, why would one management candidate be... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 07 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips
mistake I’ve seen others make is to be dishonest or subtly disparaging of other job market candidates. Accounting academia is a small, friendly field. Everyone knows everyone else. If a candidate says something mean or untrue at one... View Details
- 18 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs
toward heroic entrepreneurs.” "A big weakness of the existing qualitative studies is that they're very biased toward heroic entrepreneurs," says Matthew Lee, a doctoral candidate at Harvard Business School whose research focuses on social... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Feb 2005
- What Do You Think?
If You Blink, Will You Miss?
studies helps an MBA candidate gain the capability to thin slice? Or is the typical business decision so much more complicated and less repetitive than, say, evaluating the authenticity of a rare object, that a manager never gains the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
How to Communicate your Organizations’ People-Centered Values
facilitate these complex conversations, and organizations who invest in bringing in external facilitators can build a higher degree of trust with employees. Communicating with Candidates at HBS HBS Recruiting Partners are encouraged to... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 26 Nov 2018
- News
New York Alumni Explore Risks and Opportunities in Climate Change
family matter, the group can be totally candid in ways other people in your life may not be. They can define the issue for you and help you move through it.” Confidentiality is the key to a successful forum and many groups include some... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
away many of the influences that corrupt sound decision-making. However, neither Bradley nor McCain, the candidates who were running on campaign reform in 2000, was able to sell it to the American people. We haven’t talked very much yet... View Details
- 02 Nov 2016
- What Do You Think?
Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?
and I have researched and written about. In our work, we found that an “owner”—either a loyal employee or customer who takes responsibility for improving relationships, products, and processes as well as referring new employee candidates... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Apr 2005
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?
according to the authors, is a candidate for knowledge coaching, can an organization afford to allocate sufficient time to the practice, including training? Conversely, are these questions merely symptomatic of a basic problem in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows
patented a lead drug candidate that increases lifespan in a mouse model of a non-small cell lung cancer model by 50 percent. This lead drug is the first in Lime's planned pipeline of medicines that will be working their way towards human... View Details
- 23 Sep 2021
- News
Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies
transformation, and more. Rogers says the goal is to help companies already focused on growing, so candidates need to have a minimum annual revenue of between $10 and $25 million, a clearly-stated plan for growth, and no more than two... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Karen Tumulty Reports on America
pooled coverage, even of presidential candidates - I think you lose something without having those different perspectives." Another big change she has observed is that women journalists, once rare, are everywhere. And she further notes... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
the percentage of women entering the sector annually remained stubbornly stuck around 9 percent, according to findings by HBS professor Paul Gompers and Harvard University PhD candidate Sophie Calder-Wang. This disparity in representation... View Details
- 14 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides
Urbana-Champaign. The team's research suggested the contrary: that the higher a woman rose to power, the less likely she might be to help other women do the same. According to their studies, female tokens in "high-prestige workgroups" showed less of a preference for... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’
of Leading Innovation, was written by Hill, the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, with Greg Brandeau, former CTO of The Walt Disney Studios and current COO/president of Media Maker; Emily Truelove, a PhD candidate... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 11 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t
though, Confucianism teaches that women should have access to education, which, in addition to democratization, likely has helped to increase the number of qualified female candidates for management positions. Deep Talent Pool Indeed,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Web
Smaller Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
shows, exhibitions featuring planes in flight and on the ground, and meets took place in several parts of the country. Candid shots feature biplanes, monoplanes, and gliders on the ground and in flight. Locations include the International... View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
we served and to see all of the day-to-day stuff.” Quainton’s dream job was interrupted in 1964 when he was drafted. After training at the Naval Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island, he was sent to the Panama Canal to serve... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 14 Dec 2015
- News
A Leader’s Call to Action
collection of essays written by leaders of all ages (one as young as 15) and experiences. The book is intended, says Nick, “to provide candid insights, helpful tips, memorable quotes, and inspiring anecdotes about how to lead effectively... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 14 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout
to speed COVID-19 vaccination—to dig into the economics of the virus. The group noted in the paper that many countries worked to ramp up vaccine development and production over the last year. The US, in particular, launched Operation Warp Speed, which invested in... View Details