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- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
characters, and through these emotions the characters live inside us, sometimes just for the length of time it takes to read and discuss their story, but often for much, much longer. That means that the lessons we take from the stories become part of us, a very deep... View Details
- 30 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men
personal persuasion. Kearney, her twin sister, is an entrepreneur and scholar whose research is fueled by both a frustration with and curiosity about the dearth of venture capital for women. (In the first half of 2013, companies with at... View Details
- 04 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Female Stars Succeed in New Jobs
females. In the process of due diligence, star women learn a lot of valuable information about the company that helps them make good strategic decisions. They scrutinize prospective employers on receptivity to women, managerial support,... View Details
- 08 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?
learn Kahn’s study on the effect of managerial quality on baseball team performance and Belichick’s example in practice offer valuable lessons that support the hype generated when coaches are hired. First, all other things being equal,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Origin Story: Ricky Cordova (MS/MBA 2025)
making music in our free time.” “My first exposure to HBS was through Tom Eisenmann’s course Tech Venture Immersion. That’s where my mind was really blown. I knew I had to be here.” Bioengineering 101: “At Stanford, one of my professors posed a question: Which organism... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Once a Fulbright…
dream come true for a young girl who learned early to listen to my instincts — to pursue the seemingly impossible.” Active on several boards and a frequent speaker on corporate governance, Owades, who also founded Gardener’s Eden (later... View Details
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
had a "system" of hiring MBAs in cohorts of ten to fifteen. These young MBAs were generally placed into "assistant to" positions (assisting the head of a division, for example) for a couple of years to learn the... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 16 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘The Strategist’
there—the great execution challenge—or how it will capitalize on the learning it accumulates along the way. But this is not so. What's been forgotten is that strategy is not a destination or a solution. It's not a problem to be solved and... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
classroom culture or standards. But what hasn't changed is that case-method teaching requires mastery of the subject, the ability to engage students as partners in creating a positive learning environment, and a deep, View Details
- 02 Apr 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?
Wegrzyn cited (1) "incredible pressure from the economic side," (2) "incredible instability," and (3) a resulting "dog-eat-dog attitude." Dennis Hopwood said, "In the end, it's all about making the numbers." Akhil Aggarwal... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Harvest Time
learned in her youth in Scotts Ferry. "Everybody pitched in," she said. "Everybody worked hard. We talk a lot about the value of humility at Wildfire, about not getting ahead of yourself" (New York Times, January 26, 2013). View Details
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
pace due to the increased rate at which we now exchange information. That’s why it is more important than ever for managers to make increased efforts to stay relevant and protect against skill obsolescence. Might they learn something... View Details
- 03 Jan 2018
- News
Finding Faith in an NFL Locker Room
of family members, taking care of bills, managing personal relationships, balancing work-life with family. You've got a lot of players who are married, that have children. And spend a lot of time away from their children, and oftentimes... View Details
- 05 Nov 2024
- Research & Ideas
AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen
London’s School of Management, and Amirhossein Zohrehvand, assistant professor at Leiden University. Turing, meet Wade The Turing Test is an imitation game in which a person must guess whether they’re communicating with a machine or... View Details
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Sheila Marcelo
stood by the window and waved goodbye until he couldn’t see me anymore,” says Marcelo, who learned math alongside her older brothers. “They did not have certain expectations just because I was a girl,” she recalls. As a student at Mount... View Details
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
executive who dared "speak truth to power" about Ford's Model T myopia—and this man, Ernest Kanzler, was his relative! (He was the brother-in-law of Ford's only child, Edsel.) A firm that deals with bad news by literally or figuratively dismissing the View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
episode of Skydeck, Warwick and I talk about how he lost his family’s company, how he overcame that loss, and how he is working to help others get through these same sorts of deep, personal challenges—and come out stronger on the other... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Turning Point: Life Cycle
Lorne Adrain (MBA 1983) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) Lorne Adrain (MBA 1983) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) For years, I dreamed of crossing America by bicycle for the physical and spiritual challenge, as well as the opportunity to meet people and View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Turnaround Situation
businesses, he began drinking heavily and eventually lost it all,” the Albuquerque Journal (December 7, 2000) reported. Cordova said that he wound up “high-class homeless — that means I lived in a van.” Later, he learned about RS&VP, a... View Details