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- 30 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Deal
a reasonable request and deliver it with a smile, hopefully you can keep the other person in the room and see what happens next." Mohan—former managing director and now senior advisor of $15 billion VC and private equity firm Summit... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
From Das’s Desk
life) and Neil Pasricha (MBA 2007) (on the happiness equation), as well as The Reflective Leader, an exclusive HBS alumni lifelong learning program welcoming its third cohort this month. And at the reunions, it is evidenced by section and... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- 17 Sep 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Is “Business as Usual” After September 11?
personal levels—needed to achieve the "peace of mind" with which we did business on September 10? How will they and other changes affect business and consumer costs and, at a more basic level, the global economy? And what can we... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Nancy Hall (MBA 1974)
everything. There’s so much predigested information out there, but that’s not where creativity comes from. There’s much more to life than what goes on in the classroom or the boardroom. And yet, the classroom is important. I still use what I View Details
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Mental Health | MBA
learning how to simultaneously balance academic, personal, and recruiting obligations, adapting to American culture, or navigating extenuating family circumstances, SAS is committed to helping students find the most appropriate resources... 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
- 31 Oct 2014
- Op-Ed
Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness
First of all, many more Americans will die of heart attacks than will ever die of Ebola. This is not like smallpox, whose spread can only be controlled with great difficulty. The nature of the disease is that, because it can only pass from View Details
- 13 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Life of Leaders
"Managers and Leaders: Are They Different?" As you think about business 31 years after that article appeared, do you see changes in the roles you described back then? What have you learned about leaders and managersin business... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- April 2000 (Revised October 2002)
- Background Note
Career Strategies and Tactics in Professional Service Firms
By: Ashish Nanda, Thomas J. DeLong and Scot H. Landry
Presents suggestions for ensuring a good start in a professional services career. View Details
Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Performance Expectations; Performance Effectiveness; Customization and Personalization; Practice; Valuation; Performance Evaluation; Business Startups; Competency and Skills; Learning; Talent and Talent Management; Management Skills; Consulting Industry
Nanda, Ashish, Thomas J. DeLong, and Scot H. Landry. "Career Strategies and Tactics in Professional Service Firms." Harvard Business School Background Note 800-375, April 2000. (Revised October 2002.)
- 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
- Portrait Project
Margarita Golod
me into the person that I am today. I now know how to cook Russian hamburgers using a special tomato sauce recipe that was given to my mother by my grandmother. I have learned what it takes to survive indoor... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership
Graham retraced the unusual path that brought her to the top position at the Washington Post in 1963. It is a story that she chronicled in Personal History, her best-selling memoir that, one week after her HBS visit, was awarded the... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
fulfill its independent fiduciary responsibilities in overseeing this global organization? While there is a temptation to pile on, I would prefer to comment on what can be learned from this situation. This and other leadership crises of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Alumnae Chart Career Choices and Transitions
focused on future direction rather than past achievements and was attended by fifty women, primarily from the 10th, 15th, and 20th Reunion classes. This new HBS lifelong learning program was designed to bring alumnae together to discuss... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Faculty Research Online From HBS Working Knowledge
disclosure. Women Find New Path to Work Recently retired professor Myra Hart’s New Path program helps HBS alumnae reenter the work world. Here is a look at what participants learned about life, work, and the rapidly changing world of... 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
- 02 Jan 2013
- What Do You Think?
Should We Rethink the Promise of Teams?
objectively (be) willing to learn continuously . Not be afraid to fail accept responsibility for failures as a team leader and accept credit for success as a team." Regarding the use of teams in the innovation process, Vimi Jain suggested... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 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
- 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
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
and pursue my personal passions of women's economic empowerment and education. I began at Merrill Lynch, but in pursuit of independence, I eventually became an entrepreneur, founding and building a venture capital firm. I still enjoy... View Details