Social Skills - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Apr 2022
News

Leading on Climate Change

discussed the climate change agenda as an opportunity for economic growth, which attracts new skills and new jobs,” says club Saleh Abdullah Lootah (GMP 10). Almheiri emphasized that leaders in the UAE are accessible and caring, and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

08 Dec 2017
News

Harvard Business Grads Are Putting Politics Above Profits

After a tumultuous year in US politics, more than a dozen recent alumni have thrown their hats into the ring to launch careers in public service. “More and more people are feeling they need to step up and that they can, because they have the right View Details

Keywords: politics

15 Sep 2016
News

The Burning Man Project

collective that is devoted to teaching skills of fire arts, and welding, and building, and leadership, in particular for women, but for anyone who wants to join in. So what they built was a 60-foot long flame-throwing dragon who was... View Details

21 Feb 2024
Blog Post

Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management

development, operations, and project management. Conor Sullivan, Investment Director for the Social Outcomes Fund, and Claudia Cheung, Program Director for the Bridges Outcomes Partnerships, shared their experience as HBS recruiting... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

15 May 2020
Blog Post

Words from an HBS Partner: Reflections on the Partner Experience

incredible team, and have a lasting impact on the HBS community. HBS is your community if you are willing to make a space for yourself. Within the section - shout-out to section H! - partners are embraced and fully integrated into the section experience. I was able... View Details

16 Jul 2014
HBS Case

Marketing Obamacare

and people don't like buying or paying for it. Therefore it takes skillful marketing to attract the attention of people and motivate the desired purchase behavior you are looking for." Amidst the generally dismal track record of the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

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Bibliography - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

Institute], 1975. Full text available. Alumnae of the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration constituted a pool of 1,200 subjects which Radcliffe Institute researchers drew from in their studies of women interested in developing careers and marketable... View Details

04 Aug 2023
Blog Post

Four Remarkable Stories of HBS MBA Students Tackling Climate Change

Angela Noori Son. (01:24) There is an urgent demand for skilled workers trained in blue-collar jobs like electricians and HVAC technicians. These jobs are essential for the functioning of society and attracting talent to these roles can... View Details

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What We Do | Research Associates

in specific skills involving research methodologies, library resources, data analysis, case writing, and software. The experiences and skills our research associates develop lead to some exciting... View Details

01 Mar 2003
News

A Casual Approach to Success

down-to-earth mentality is also apparent in Hellman’s athletic endeavors. He grew up riding horses and later played varsity water polo at the University of California, Berkeley. Often attributing his athletic achievements to an ability to endure pain rather than to... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online

innovation Create a social movement to combat organizational inertia Develop a solution to your performance or opportunity gap and identify actions to address the inertia you’ll encounter 4-5 hrs Module 5 Structural Ambidexterity... View Details

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Harvard Business School and Polaroid - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business Research... View Details

20 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Taking Your Shot in the Sports Industry with Adam Laitsas (MBA 2016), SVP, Head of Marketing for Madison Square Garden Sports Corp.

was gearing his career towards general management and loved the game of basketball. Overseeing P&L, strategy, finance, merchandising, marketing, and social purpose further developed Laitsas’ general manager View Details

14 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

individual. Of course it does. But it also depends on creative thinking as a skill that involves qualities such as the propensity to take risks and to turn a problem on its head to get a new perspective. That can be learned." “Our... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation

04 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS

Recruiters reviewing hundreds of resumes for highly coveted roles in private equity and venture capital will often see candidates with backgrounds in banking and investing. This training and experience provides candidates with excellent View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Venture Capital

14 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: February 14

Publication:Psychological Science (forthcoming) Abstract Five studies investigate whether the practice of "regifting"-a social taboo-is as offensive to givers as regifters assume. Participants who imagined regifting thought that... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

March 2022
Supplement

Winning Business at Russell Reynolds (B)

By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco

In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting–and... View Details

Citation

Purchase

04 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 4

knowing "who we are" might depend in part on repeatedly remembering to forget "who we were not." The Enabling Role of Social Position in Diverging from the Institutional Status Quo: Evidence from the U.K. National... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 1998 (Revised April 2001)
Case

Sealed Air Taiwan (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Robert J. Crawford

The general manager for U.S.-based Sealed Air Corp.'s Taiwan subsidiary must decide whether he's hired the right person to bridge the gap between Sealed Air's corporate culture and Taiwan's business culture. This case details Bob Kayser's experiences in trying to... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Relationships; Service Operations; Motivation and Incentives; Management Skills; Compensation and Benefits; Taiwan; United States