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Leila Meliani
In the January break between semesters this year, Leila Meliani participated in the Tech Club's WesTrek to Silicon Valley and arrived at a welcome epiphany. "We heard several venture capital partners speak to the need for talent –... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Cracking Conferences
essential. It’s not optional,” she says. “There’s almost an animal instinct to it. When you take someone out of their environment, and give them a lot of constraints and not many resources, certain traits become more prominent. Connecting with View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
The CEO and the Functions of Leadership
budgeting, management development, and performance reviews are needed to ensure timely implementation of the organization’s goals and strategy to the highest standards desired by its leadership. Selection: The leadership in any... View Details
- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
home-grow them ...." A third group concentrated on why theory has had less impact on results than we might expect, essentially identifying reasons for a gap between theory and results achieved in practice. Several pointed out that since View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Disaster Master
documents to businesses around the world for nearly 30 years. “We have a natural tendency as humans to neglect low-probability events, even if the impact is very high,” he says. “The most basic analogy is the difficulty some people have... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 31 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies
the Organizational Behavior Unit at HBS. "And as a result, the resulting policies are defensive in nature, and they don't tend to produce the high quality of relationships that you need across differences. For example, there are some... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
opportunities for executives to reap enormous personal gains from gaming accounting and SEC rules. If Enron-type breakdowns are to be avoided in the future, corporate boards need to keep in mind seven propositions that collectively... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS
among US millennials. Climate Change Challenges Facing the Real Estate Industry Arthur Segal and a Boston Properties EVP talk about the difficulty of financing development in coastal cities and the need to retrofit buildings to reduce... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Short Takes
companies gain flexibility in the range of projects they may undertake. "Hiring outside contractors is a way for managers to access the talent they need to get the work done," says Bradach. Independent contractors reported a greater sense... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 28 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)
wanted to leverage my knowledge & experience in finance to focus on making a difference in my home region of Asia through impact investing. In China, for example, the sector lacks quite a bit with regards to human capital and... View Details
- 29 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Leni Peterson R. (MS/MBA 2023): Solving Big Problems Through Entrepreneurship
Who are you & what are you building? I am Leni Peterson R. (MS/MBA 2023), CEO and cofounder of Celeste. My background is in Mechanical Engineering and Human Centered Design, product leadership, and innovation consulting. I am... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
started World War I, and it all collapsed. As percentages of GDP, we didn’t return to those earlier levels of global capital flows until the 1990s. Global free trade is not the natural order of things. Globalization is a project, and projects View Details
- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)
to a law degree that spoke to Ramirez. “Econ was the one that made things make sense. It was quantitative enough and also just theoretical enough,” she shared. “Also, I needed to make sure that I could get a job. So, it was transferable... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
expertise can easily slip out the door when an employee leaves or retires. You need to capture and transfer that knowledge. One way to do that is through coaching, and the following book excerpt discusses the identification and... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
humanity discovered how to use fire,” says Enriquez’s colleague, HBS associate professor Jonathan West. West, who had been researching the semiconductor industry for some ten years, came to the life sciences field rather recently.... View Details
- 03 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains
customers? We might need to buy more cloud storage.” CEO: “Ugh, I was hoping to keep our spending down before we close our A round next quarter, but I guess that’s a good sign that we’re selling. Revenue, yay!” “It became a unique badge... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 11 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
2+2 Admit Experiments with Career Options
been limited solely to technology. I decided to take my first foray into business through UT’s inaugural M.S. Finance Program directly following my bachelor’s degree. I began to see the impact technology and business could have together, but I View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
model is where we need to get to—fast." POWERING PRINCIPALS "Principals are the most effective lever for creating change in a school. A principal is a pure manager-leader, dealing with a myriad of issues: View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Replicating Toyota's Success
The idea of human cloning is controversial, but cloning a successful business concept remains as desirable as ever. For HBS assistant professor Steven J. Spear, this pursuit led him to Toyota, whose perennial leadership in quality... View Details
- 02 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Leading Professional Service Firms
It's a funny image that touches the underlying anxiety some firm leaders express about managing and maximizing human resources. When their people get on the elevator at night, there's no guarantee they'll be back the next day. More than... View Details