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The Section Experience | MBA
introduce innovative ideas and approaches to learning. In turn, students exercise their team-building and management skills to develop protocols for effective learning and shape the distinctive norms and... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship in General Management
of frozen pizza and snacks. How did your RC year shape what you wanted to do last summer? I felt that the array of courses in the RC helped me understand the range of business skills that exist. I was intrigued by my exposure to the field... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Leadership Project Codifies Elusive Traits
” adds Mayo, who rattles off examples of Henry Kaiser’s ability to work with government, Robert Wood Johnson’s talent for cooperating with labor, and Dee Ward Hock’s skilled use of emerging technology. The entire content of the database... View Details
- 24 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
Learning to Code at Business School
the problem and created something awesome out of scratch. You get to be creative and analytical at the same time. Plus, it's always fun to make something tangible. How do you plan to use this skill set in the future? Samuel: I now work... View Details
- 2021
- Working Paper
Multi-location Workers in Multinational Firms? Tradeoffs in Contextual Specialization of Employees and Organizational Outcomes
By: Hise O. Gibson, Ryan W. Buell and Prithwiraj Choudhury
We study how “contextual specialization,” the act of focusing workers’ organizational tasks within a particular locational context, and “contextual non-specialization,” the practice of diversifying workers’ organizational tasks among multiple locational contexts,... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Performance; Experience and Expertise; Selection and Staffing; Strength and Weakness; Personal Development and Career
Gibson, Hise O., Ryan W. Buell, and Prithwiraj Choudhury. "Multi-location Workers in Multinational Firms? Tradeoffs in Contextual Specialization of Employees and Organizational Outcomes." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-007, August 2021.
- 06 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
A Conversation on the FIELD Method at HBS - Facebook Live
differed from their other courses and the role they played in their EC year. Learn what makes this method unique and the rewarding experiences that result. *FIELD Foundations is now called Interpersonal Skills View Details
- 24 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Who Sets Your Benchmarks?
that they waited too long to develop good habits for honing their skills or for thinking deeply about what they wanted. Does any of this sound like you? Are you making the most of your capabilities? Do you... View Details
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Amy Sennett
Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton, I was exposed to many international crises, but I felt that I didn’t have the hard skills to tackle problems in a tangible way.” In her second year in China, Amy worked with the dean of the Woodrow... View Details
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Ben Faw
prides itself as a leadership development organization — and the infantry is the epitome of that. Once ankle deep, I figured I might as well go up to my chest.” As a first lieutenant, Ben served as a platoon leader in northern Iraq from... View Details
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Jake Flomenberg
long-term strategy. The broad skill set I developed at HBS will make it easier for me to take on new roles and hopefully start my own company one day. The HBS network is unparalleled - there is always... View Details
Keywords: Technology
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Manasi Maheshwari | MBA
experience at the intersection of technology and business: After attending Girls Who Code Summer Program in 2015, I was inspired to found STEMgirls, an afterschool coding program for young girls in my school district. Through this experience, I not only honed my... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Research Brief: Ahead of the Game
As a lifelong runner who spent countless hours training and competing his way up to the national level, Professor Paul Gompers has always believed that his athletic experiences were critical to shaping who he is, both as a competitor and in the professional sphere. Now... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Keys to the Kingdom
RHEA, WITH FRIENDS: Bringing financial skills from the private sector to public housing. Who’s the Big Apple’s biggest landlord? That would be John Rhea (MBA ’92), who oversees 178,000 apartments in 2,600 buildings at 340 complexes,... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 2019
- Working Paper
Breaking and Reconfiguring the Boundaries Between Domain Experts and Crowds to Solve Complex R&D Problems through Partial Decomposition
By: Hila Lifshitz - Assaf and Zoe Szajnfarber
The need for domain experts is all but universally assumed when organizing for scientific and technological innovation. In contrast, we are witnessing a burgeoning of citizen science, crowdsourcing, and other “open” methods based on the opposite assumption that crowds... View Details
- July 2011
- Teaching Note
Buro Happold (TN)
By: Robert G. Eccles and Erin McFee
Teaching Note for 409021. View Details
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How to Register & Key Dates | New Venture Competition
Summaries due. Register for the New Venture Competition 5. Develop Your Idea Over the course of the Competition, students have the opportunity to develop their own skills as... View Details
- 07 May 2015
- Blog Post
Career Change: From the Military to Consulting
Exposed to new functions and industries through case studies, classmates, and the resources of our Career and Professional Development (CPD) Office, nearly 70% of HBS students will pursue ventures very different from the ones that led... View Details
- 07 Oct 2014
- News
Network Effect
Harvard geneticist focused on finding genetic links to the disease. He had already discovered three of the four then-known genes associated with Alzheimer’s. “Part of my skill set is I can recognize world-class talent when I see it,” says... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
- November 2008 (Revised January 2011)
- Exercise
Breaking Through Action Plan
By: David A. Thomas and Karen J. Watai
The "Breaking Through Action Plan" is a developmental tool based on the book, Breaking Through: The Making of Minority Executives in Corporate America by David A. Thomas and John J. Gabarro. The Action Plan was originally designed as part of a facilitated session but... View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Personal Development and Career; Relationships; Power and Influence; Trust
Thomas, David A., and Karen J. Watai. "Breaking Through Action Plan." Harvard Business School Exercise 409-059, November 2008. (Revised January 2011.)
- October 1998
- Case
CRA Managed Care, Inc. (C)
By: Myra M. Hart and Susan Harmeling
Chronicles an entrepreneur's transition from chairman/CEO of a large privately held company, to chairman of a public company, to board member, to president of several major nonprofit boards, to founder of a new nonprofit for women business owners and founder of a new... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Leadership; Nonprofit Organizations; Governing and Advisory Boards; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Gender; Management Skills; United States
Hart, Myra M., and Susan Harmeling. "CRA Managed Care, Inc. (C)." Harvard Business School Case 899-070, October 1998.