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  • 09 Jun 2016
  • Blog Post

Pursuing an Interest in Nonprofits at HBS

meetings. The opportunity to develop leadership skills and practice MBA skills while giving back to the community makes BFSEC a truly unique program. Independent Projects ... View Details
  • 16 Mar 2022
  • Blog Post

Taking Your Shot in the Sports Industry with Adam Laitsas (MBA 2016), SVP, Head of Marketing for Madison Square Garden Sports

professional who was gearing his career towards general management and loved the game of basketball. Overseeing P&L, strategy, finance, merchandising, marketing, and social purpose further developed Laitsas’ general manager View Details
  • 28 May 2019
  • News

Leading Questions

Synthesis, a leadership assessment and development company. She’s seen a new generation of leaders who have grown up in a culture comfortable with personal therapy turn the C-suite stigma into a strength. “Getting help for the things you... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • January 1998
  • Case

Staples (B)

By: Myra M. Hart, Marco Iansiti and Barbara Feinberg
Keywords: Marketing; Personal Development and Career; Entrepreneurship; Management Skills; Retail Industry
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  • Profile

Brooke Boyarsky

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I felt that I had a lot to learn. I knew that the cases and skills taught at HBS would give me the foundation to be an effective general manager, and the case study method at HBS would... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Technology
  • 01 Jun 1997
  • News

Go Team!

January cohort students attempt to swish ten free throws as one of many tasks in a "treasure hunt" that took place in February as part of Technology and Operations Management's Project Management module. The hunt involved student teams in a campus-wide search for clues... View Details
  • 25 Feb 2020
  • News

Q&A: William Kerr and Joseph Fuller

those macro trends and present information in a way that can help business leaders make their best choices. The HBS faculty have always focused on managing technological change, demographics, and work skills adjustments, but it’s been... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle

lives of their men and women. In other words, the IDF is a factory for developing potential business leaders, with many of the kinds of leadership skills underscored at HBS. And those View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; National Security and International Affairs; Government
  • Profile

Robert Leke

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? An MBA at HBS was important in providing the opportunity for me to step back, assess my current capabilities, and develop the additional skills I lacked to... View Details
Keywords: Investment Management / Hedge Fund; Venture Capital / Private Equity; Financial Services
  • 08 Dec 2015
  • Research & Ideas

You Won't Make It If You Fake It

fields. Can you imagine doing brain surgery without proper training? Or playing the cello at Carnegie Hall or tennis at Wimbledon without years of training and practice? Just as you cannot learn these skills solely in the classroom,... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 26 Jul 2022
  • Blog Post

Driving Change in Education-to-Employment

are working around the world to develop skills and knowledge while having significant responsibility and high impact. What are you working on this summer? I’m working at Year Up, a leading workforce View Details
  • 14 Dec 2016
  • Blog Post

Career Paths: From Finance to Social Enterprise

would be to consider what your career goal is 5-10 years from now, and distill the role into the skills and experiences that you’ll need to succeed. Luckily, I realized prior to starting at HBS that I needed more industry exposure, and... View Details
  • 04 Sep 2001
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Getting Back on Course

possibilities." Though developed as a program for Harvard alumnae, Charting Your Course could become a model for similar programs offered to interested women elsewhere. Data collected from women in the reunion classes of 1981, 1986,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • December 1998
  • Supplement

John Trani on Leadership, Video

By: Hugo Uyterhoeven
John Trani, President and CEO of The Stanley Works, gives his thoughts on leadership in his first year at Stanley, advice to MBA students, and some of his General Electric experiences. View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Knowledge Acquisition; Leadership Development; Management
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  • 20 Nov 2014
  • News

Strengthening America's Public Education System

“For young Americans to succeed in today’s workforce, they must out-innovate and out-produce the world’s best,” says Jan Rivkin, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration. He explains that because of this, education is an area of study in HBS’s U.S.... View Details
  • 2019
  • Book

Becoming a Manager: How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership

By: Linda A. Hill
In your career, or anyone's, there is one transition that stands out as the most crucial—going from individual contributor to competent manager.

New managers have to learn how to lead others rather than do the work themselves, to win trust and respect, to... View Details
Keywords: Management; Leadership; Leadership Development; Management Skills; Learning
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  • 15 May 2017
  • Blog Post

Exploring Career Options at HBS

interest for the future. My choice of second year courses was largely driven by desire to build a broad base of leadership skills and develop better understanding of how technology is changing the underlying... View Details
  • 13 May 2015
  • Blog Post

Former Engineer Gives Consulting a Test Drive

direction of companies facing critical issues in the case method. This motivated me to aim for a consulting internship. I chose to work in a frontier market, as the stage of development of businesses there gave me a good chance of being... View Details
  • Profile

Kaki Ettinger

experienced. How has Harvard Business School prepared you for your current role and your long term career? Every aspect of HBS, from my classmates and professors to Career & Professional Development and the amazingly responsive alumni... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media; Technology; Entrepreneurship
  • March 9, 2023
  • Article

Linking Growth and the Frontline

By: Frank V. Cespedes, Jay Galeota and Michael Wong
Most strategies are about growing the business. But about one quarter of companies do not grow at all and, even before the pandemic, only one in eight achieved more than 10% revenue growth annually, according to data from S&P Global regulatory filings. One reason is a... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Customer Focus and Relationships; Competency and Skills
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