Will Dean (MBA 2009) - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Mar 2018
Blog Post

Applying to HBS in Round 3?

decide last minute to give the business school application a try. For the most part, the schools will never know the reason you are applying in round 3. They will only know who you are based on what you... View Details

8 AM – 5 PM EST, 02 Mar 2016

Career Reboot Camp in Chicago

Career Reboot Camp is coming to Chicago! Led by Professor Tim Butler and facilitated by HBS career coaches, participants will work through exercises to reflect on their key career interests, what's important to them in work and life, and create a plan to move forward... View Details

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM EDT, 16 Mar 2015

Career Reboot Camp in San Francisco

Career Reboot Camp is coming to San Francisco! Led by Professor Tim Butler and facilitated by HBS career coaches, participants will work through exercises to reflect on their key career interests, what's important to them in work and life, and create a plan to move... View Details

18 Mar 2022
Blog Post

The Health Care Conference and the Convening Power of HBS

Kimi Goldstein (MBA 2022) grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota and received her B.S. in biomedical engineering from Yale University. Prior to attending HBS, she held roles at Oliver Wyman and Bright Health. Between her first and second year at HBS, she interned for Oak... View Details

15 Feb 2016
Blog Post

Coming to HBS with a Non-Finance Background

Charlotte Steel, a former political science major at Brown, was inspired to become a teacher after taking a “Politics of Education” class at her alma mater. When applying to business school, Charlotte had concerns about whether she had the appropriate background to... View Details

19 Jun 2022
Blog Post

Celebrating our Student Fathers

Today and every day, we celebrate our student parents who balance academic requirements, career pursuits, and family life while at HBS. Our campus is a community, and we strive to create a welcome and inspiring environment not just for our View Details

08 Mar 2019
Blog Post

“There’s no quick shortcut to success:” Zorpads takes off

It all started with a smell. Taylor Wiegele and Sierra Smith (both MBA 2017) met with a group of classmates for their FIELD III course, trying to come up with a problem to fix. The course, now an elective, tasks first-year students with... View Details

27 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 27, 2007

participated in several major research initiatives during the 1980s and early 1990s, before becoming Dean of the School in 1995. And even as Dean, he continued to pursue research until 2005, when he left Harvard to become President of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Mar 2019
Blog Post

There's No Quick Shortcut to Success: Zorpads Takes Off

It all started with a smell. Taylor Wiegele and Sierra Smith (both MBA 2017) met with a group of classmates for their FIELD III course, trying to come up with a problem to fix. The course, now an elective, tasks first-year students with... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products / Retail

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Organizational Behavior - Doctoral

the influence of individuals on organizational change, or the relationship between social missions and financial objectives. Your core disciplinary training will take place in either the psychology or sociology departments, depending on... View Details

27 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Building Businesses in Turbulent Times

can think strategically about where the business will be and how they might build for the future. A great example is Lou Gerstner (HBS MBA '65). When he took the helm at IBM, he had to take $7 billion out of... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

20 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak

worse than the financial crisis,” says Mills, who led the United States Small Business Administration from 2009 to 2013. “Many small businesses will not survive more than a month.” Small businesses have been... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Service; Food & Beverage

21 May 2018
Blog Post

Harnessing The Power of Collaboration to Create Opportunity in Chicago

Before and after attending HBS, I helped grow Working Assets (now Credo, founded by Laura Scher, MBA 1985) into a successful social enterprise that has generated more than $80 million for nonprofits. Whereas Working Assets is a for-profit... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

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Business Economics - Doctoral

will take courses alongside your peers in the Department of Economics, studying microeconomic theory, macroeconomic theory, probability and statistics, econometrics, and other specialized topics. In addition, your doctoral coursework and... View Details

08 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care

Care, Christensen and his coauthors, the late Jerome Grossman and Jason Hwang (MBA '06), focus not on how the United States will pay for health care in the coming decades, but rather on targeting innovations that View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Health

02 Mar 2012
HBS Seminar

Joe Lassiter/Gordon Jones, Harvard Business School/Harvard University

8 AM – 5 PM CET, 23 Mar 2017
Career Events

HBS Career Reboot Camp in Paris

Career Reboot Camp is coming to Paris! Led by Professor Tim Butler and facilitated by HBS career coaches, participants will work through exercises to reflect on their key career interests, what's important to them in work and life, and create a plan to move forward... View Details

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The “Hawthorne Effect” – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Electric), Donald W. Thomas (Western Electric), Fritz J. Roethlisberger, William J. Dickson (Western Electric), and Harvard Business School Dean George P. Baker at the completion of Counseling in an Organization , December 6, 1966 HBS... View Details

11 Dec 2018
Blog Post

Recap of the 4th Annual Women in Investing Summit

having the opportunity to invest in people and ideas. From developing investment themes, underwriting deals, and partnering with management, no two days are ever the same. What led you to HBS? Earning an MBA appealed to me as an... View Details

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Business & Environment

America lists on the NYSE. Yet initiative overload strains the organization, raising the question: is Cobuz’s stretch agenda visionary or too much, too fast? Supporting a Community of Learners MBA Experience As an View Details

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