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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
That’s my philosophy. I think about all the angst around deciding about the first job to take, post-HBS. It’s nothing compared to the decision of who to marry! You can do many... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
chairman of both the MBA and doctoral programs. Much of Christenson's research has focused on organizations as learning systems, examining the processes by which they adapt to their environments. He has also... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 20 Dec 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
How to Design a Better Customer Experience
executives to think of a great customer experience they’ve had, as well as a terrible one. What’s particularly novel about Thomke’s approach is that students learn through a methodology called LEGO Serious... View Details
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
When he turned 50, David Offensend (MBA 1977) decided to make a change. He’d had a successful career in finance, but ever since his undergraduate days of studying public and international affairs at Princeton, Offensend planned that, one... View Details
- 12 Feb 2024
- News
Dale LeFebvre to Receive Horatio Alger Award
individuals who have succeeded despite facing adversities, and who have remained committed to higher education and charitable efforts in their communities. “Raised in Beaumont, Texas, Mr. LeFebvre learned... View Details
- Blog
What Can You Do to Foster Gender Equity?
usual—after all, assessing your own biases and shifting the way you think and act at work can be hard. By doing your part to close the gender gap, however, you can help your organization hold onto talented women and ensure that each team... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
or competitive strategic analysis could measure. I learned that, as with so many things in Africa, the context was everything. It is hard to put a number on the “value” of reconciliation, but it is here... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Turning Point: Listen to the Music
Marnie Tattersall: (MBA 1972) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Marnie Tattersall: (MBA 1972) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and came to the United States in 1958 with my parents and my brother because my parents thought it was... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer for the HBS Alumni Bulletin, and in July I flew from Boston to Omaha to spend a day with Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997), a professor of entrepreneurship at... View Details
- 26 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness
to bring my vision to fruition I needed to evolve as a person, both personally and professionally. I also wanted to be in an environment that... View Details
Entering StartUpLand: An Essential Guide to Finding the Right Job
Many professionals aspire to work for a start-up. Executives from large companies view them as models to help them adapt to today’s dynamic innovation economy. Yes, start-ups look magical, but they can also be chaotic and inaccessible. Many books are written for... View Details
- 21 May 2015
- Blog Post
3 Ways to Fund Your HBS MBA
at HBS. Many students, myself included, aren’t able to pay for business school out of their savings and instead utilize a combination of financial aid, scholarships, and loans to get themselves through the... View Details
- 24 Jun 2014
- Blog Post
Journey to my Summer Internship
and interviews later, it was clear that I needed to narrow down my focus. In a conversation with my HBS career coach, she asked me “what would be your ideal internship?” “Well”, I said “perhaps something that allowed me View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 17 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve
outreach should be done on multiple platforms and carefully crafted to answer only one or two hypotheses. These hypotheses are commonly, “Is this where we can reach this audience if we want to market View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- Article
Teaching History Courses to Harvard MBA Students: Building Enrollment from 21 to 1300
McCraw, T. K. "Teaching History Courses to Harvard MBA Students: Building Enrollment from 21 to 1300." Business and Economic History 28, no. 2 (Winter 1999): 153–162.
- Spring 2021
- Article
Corporate Resilience and Response During COVID-19
By: Alex Cheema-Fox, Bridget LaPerla, George Serafeim and Hui (Stacie) Wang
The coronavirus pandemic caused a sharp market decline while raising heterogeneous responses across companies related to their employees, supply chain, and repurposing of operations to provide needed products and services. We study whether during the 2020 COVID-19... View Details
Keywords: ESG; COVID-19; Coronavirus; Crisis Response Plans; Crisis; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Ratings; Leadership & Corporate Accountability; Big Data; Machine Learning; Investor Behavior; Institutional Investors; Corporate Performance; Health Pandemics; Crisis Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Human Capital; Supply Chain; Operations; Leadership; Corporate Accountability; Institutional Investing; Performance
Cheema-Fox, Alex, Bridget LaPerla, George Serafeim, and Hui (Stacie) Wang. "Corporate Resilience and Response During COVID-19." Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 33, no. 2 (Spring 2021): 24–40.
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
contributions that Howard's great friend and colleague Pat Liles made to entrepreneurial teaching at HBS before his untimely death in the spring of 1984. He and Howard made a great team, and we're very fortunate View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Committed To HBS’s Success
from Len Blavatnik, who directed his support to programs aimed at fostering an entrepreneurial culture in the life sciences across Harvard University. The impact of these two record-setting performances will be felt for some time, raising... View Details
- 11 Dec 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Three Perspectives on Team Learning: Outcome Improvement, Task Mastery, and Group Process
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
to learn in the March issue about the extensive response by the HBS faculty to the global financial crisis, with emphasis on diagnosis of its causes and analysis of solutions.... View Details