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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
Alumni Board. She was previously the founding director at the Common Room. Choosing my favorite book feels a bit like choosing my favorite kid, but I’d say Simulacra and Simulation, by Jean Baudrillard. It gives an impressively... View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
older man led them to the back of one of the homes. Inside, he showed them a group of people huddled around the glow of two laptops, powered by a generator. “More than any other course, it teaches humility” "He said, 'All of my... View Details
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
the give and take between these two poles that create drama in men's lives, and that provide the motive force in how men construct their identities. The utopian goal of these everyday dramas is the man-of-action. Q: Why did you choose to... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
individual volunteers for a two- or three-year term to keep the whole community functioning smoothly. We also learn that the Zapotec sense of time comes from the sun, not a watch. It’s a difficult adjustment to make from our overscheduled lives View Details
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
of those companies. We interviewed the people in the companies twice, once in the year 2000, and then we came back approximately a year later. Then we interviewed about thirty-two informants, people who were grand old gurus in the Silicon... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
it’s like dating yourself. The energy and freshness come from being with someone different. I look for qualities in two people that will complement, not mirror, one another. When I begin with a new client, I ask him or her to connect me to six friends or family who... View Details
- 10 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal
necessarily more extreme than at many other schools. Besides, students have access to all kinds of data when they are choosing colleges, so just how much weight would college-bound kids give to a well-publicized scandal like this one?... View Details
- 06 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School
School: 1962-2012," the case delves into the experiences of alumnae and alumni over the past 50 years, both inside and outside the classroom, as Dean Nitin Nohria considers what HBS might be like 10 years from now, when his young daughters are grown. "It... View Details
- Web
Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
up a balance sheet of my personal assets and liabilities,” says Cooper. “I had been successful in two professions—nuclear submarines and investment banking—in which success required a combination of technical and interpersonal skills. I had a long-standing interest in... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
need and a pipeline that, if someone isn't working out, they're not beholden to that individual because they're a warm body. The second layer is, then, making sure they're quality. And this is where, again, it comes back to our theory of... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
In trying to secure financial backing for a new product, independent innovators generally face the question of how much to invest in development before showing it around. Should they create, say, a working prototype (and maybe even... View Details
- Profile
Sheila Lirio Marcelo
at Care.com,“ she said. Even though she did not have a beta or even a full team, the partners at Matrix were impressed with Marcelo and her new concept and provided the first A round of financing of $5 million. “They wanted to View Details
- Profile
Marcela Sapone
the magic of staying at a fancy hotel,” Sapone said. “We are giving hotel service at home for a very accessible price. It is basically Clay Christensen’s disruption theory in practice.” Alfred offers an ever-expanding... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS
recommendations? When Dean Srikant Datar asked me back in November 2020 to create a task force, I said I wanted to follow the same model we had used for the virtualization of teaching task force during the pandemic: a real faculty-staff... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
approach is that we don’t need individuals on a full-immersion basis for long periods of time. So instead of asking a company to give us a person for six months, we might ask for a half a year that can be spread out to several... View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
the design process and to approve the school's design. In the natural resources literature, commons theory predicts that, if a robust governance structure is created, this complex form of organizing gives claimants incentives to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 11 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy
that personally inspired me.” To make this career transition, Leahy made the move from New York back to her home state of Massachusetts to attend Harvard Business School. “HBS opened up my global perspective,” said Leahy. “It allowed me... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 15 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers
talented workers to a far greater extent than did other industries. So getting back to the title of the paper: Are bankers worth their pay? "The title of the paper is deliberately provocative," says Vallée. "And the findings are... View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
investment bank has a real interest in a company in some fashion; but this information tends to be buried in very small print in the back of the materials provided by investment bankers rather than up front. This is a failure of the... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills