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03 Oct 2017
Sharpening Your Skills

7 Effective Ways to Lead Teams

Ferguson's Lessons on Leading Sir Alex Ferguson. perhaps the most successful professional sports coach of all time,discusses why building a team is less important than building a foundation. Leading a Team to the Top of Mount Everest How... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Doing Business in a Divided World - Alumni

which issues or stakeholders most require or deserve a corporate response both inside and outside the firm? And are there lessons to be learned from how firms have dealt with recent high-profile issues, such as Russia’s invasion of... View Details

15 Jul 2020
Blog Post

From Teacher to Student: The Important Ways HBS Professors Showed Me How to Lead

leadership. They both require being deeply committed to and supportive of the development of your people, making the extra effort to get to know them fully, and showing care even in the smallest moments. My professors were not only teaching us how to be leaders; they... View Details

Portrait Project

Janie McDonough

else it might have been just a messy whiteboard. As a kid, I worked at Flexo-Graphics—my dad’s small printing business—every weekend. Over time, I realized that his whiteboard wasn’t just a lesson in operations, but also an agent of... View Details

30 Apr 2020
Book

Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy

29 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Delving Deeper into Development with the MBA/MPA-ID Program – a Q+A with Zainab Raji (MBA/MPA-ID 2022)

this task, he frequently got in trouble with extended family members for choosing formal schooling over the family trade and lost sight in his left eye due to a fight on the issue. Armed with the lessons from such stories, I learned to be... View Details

22 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees

get work done." Just how flexible should companies be? That’s a question many business leaders are wrestling with as they try to balance the needs of the business with the preferences of their employees. Applying lessons gleaned from... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

the opportunity for self-expression is indeed directly related to employee retention. Lessons For Businesses For employers, the implications of the findings are pretty clear: "Given that the standard, organization-focused approach of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Web Services; Service; Telecommunications

01 Mar 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

April 4, 2009
Article

The Return of State-Owned Enterprises: Should We Be Afraid?

By: Aldo Musacchio and Francisco Flores-Macias

The global financial crisis of 2008-2009 has prompted many industrialized states worldwide to increase their stakes in private corporations. This wave of partial nationalizations has come amidst full-scale expropriations in developing countries such as Venezuela,... View Details

Keywords: History; Private Ownership; State Ownership; Financial Crisis; Business and Government Relations

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Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content Exhibition Homepage Exhibition Introduction The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography Documenting the Wartime Effort Labor Practices Post-war PR Campaigns Reaching Wide Audiences... View Details

25 Apr 2024
News

Origin Stories

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details

15 Mar 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business

This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Green Technology

11 Jul 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Deconstructing 'Customer Experience'

customer-centric. Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain LayoffsCutting the wrong employees can be counterproductive for retailers, One suggestion: Pay special attention to staff who handle mundane tasks such as stocking and labeling. Your customers do. Starbucks’ View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Service

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Negotiation Course Online | HBS Online

concepts and techniques. At the end of the program, you will receive a PDF compilation of all of the module summary documents. In addition, you will also receive a personalized workbook that tracks your own performance, your lessons... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

Pacific Last fall, the center and the HBS Club of Shanghai hosted the 15th Annual HBS Entrepreneurship Forum. Titled “Convergency in New Dynamics,” it included both an online webinar and an in-person fireside chat that explored branding and innovation in Asia Pacific,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

evolved in recent decades. We will then engage in an interactive case discussion focused on a subset of New York City schools that are delivering vastly superior outcomes for more than 20,000 students. We will assess whether this success is real, replicable, and... View Details

15 Feb 2024
News

Startup Shepherds

By their count, Catalina Daniels and Jim Sherman (both MBA 1991) listened to approximately 300 startup pitches in 2016, the first year the HBS classmates worked side by side as angel investors in New York. “You meet a lot of very smart people, with what sound like good... View Details

Keywords: April White

Portrait Project

Wabantu Hlophe

pastime; it was a trusted teacher, imparting lessons of creativity, exploration, and resilience. In the worlds of God of War, Far Cry, and Uncharted, I internalized a simple truth: the power to affect change comes from imagination and the... View Details

08 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

Are Paywalls Saving Newspapers?

will likely fail.” About the Author Kristen Senz is a writer and social media creator for Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: diane39] Related Reading: Digital Change: Lessons from the Newspaper Industry HBS Cases: What... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Journalism & News; Media & Broadcasting

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