Reaching Your Potential - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Jul 2021
News

The First Five Years: Nicolas Manes (MBA 2020)

single day where I spent more than fifteen minutes alone.” What was your favorite spot on campus? “Definitely the iLab! There I met my cofounders and some great mentors, like Professor Javier Segovia.” Can you finish this statement?... View Details

10 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table

cognizant of the potential benefits and costs of setting up a secret channel. They understand that details as small as the timing of a meeting or the size and shape of the negotiating table can make a difference. Above all, they are... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Professors Introduce Valuation Software

In an age when mergers, acquisitions, and spin-offs are increasingly common in business, you need a new skill in your kit bag: the ability to analyze and value potential partners, deals, investments—even... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 Aug 2014
News

Gerald Chertavian, MBA 1992

potential and his prospects, Chertavian was determined to help expand options for Heredia and kids like him. “I saw that David had enormous talent and drive, but he needed help to reach his full potential,”... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

23 May 2000
Research & Ideas

The Emerging Art of Negotiation

It's easy to come up with a recipe for disaster when the subject is negotiation. As in chess, once you sit down at the table every move counts. So many factors compete to undermine an optimal settlement: the emotions of both participants; the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Profile

Thomas Grenier

press forward to reach the 8,035-meter summit. "We turned back," says Thomas, "to climb another day." Gasherbrum II was one in a series of challenges Thomas undertook with just one partner and no guides. After... View Details

01 Sep 2006
News

Faculty Books

effective management of information services activities and highlights the areas of greatest potential application of the technology. Global Marketing Management by John A. Quelch and Christopher A. Bartlett (South-Western Publishing... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 1

business unit managers' attention toward longer-term activities. Non-financial measures similarly direct managerial attention toward longer-term activities, although not to the same degree as accounting return measures. We conclude that accounting return measures can... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Aug 2023
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?

likely to leave?” Yet, at the same time, Polzer notes that people analytics could also be used in more worrisome ways, raising concerns about employers that monitor every keystroke in an attempt to control and micromanage employee behavior. “This has the View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

25 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

It’s All in a Name: Reputable Investors Help Startups Shine

company off the ground,” says Bernstein, the Marvin Bower Associate Professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at HBS. “At the earliest stages, you have no reputation, no brand name, and you're facing significant uncertainty and risk with respect to View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

27 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism

Q: How did you come to see charismatic leadership as a potential double-edged sword? What observations led to your decision to investigate this topic in depth? A: As we conducted our interviews with... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

30 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Candidates Seeking Opportunities After Graduation: Lessons Learned

working – for. As is the right candidate. Whether your organization is able to recruit students months in advance, or you are more focused on just-in-time hiring, there are HBS students who can meet you where you are in View Details

Keywords: All Industries

06 May 2022
Blog Post

Career Advice: Starting a Sustainable Startup

experience developing a startup while at HBS. Can you tell us a bit about your start up? What resources were most helpful as an entrepreneur working in climate? I had tried starting a company a few years earlier with a small group of... View Details

30 Sep 2022
Blog Post

Latina Women in Leadership: Jacqueline Burgos (MBA 2014)

works at Google in their Go-to-Market organization supporting the largest media advertising agencies in the world. Tell us about your life before HBS. Before HBS, I worked at HBO as a New Media Analyst in their Financial Planning and... View Details

30 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: October 30, 2007

pre-specified limit. Mr. Sattaiah, managing director of the BASIX's bank, considers a revised insurance policy for the coming season, weighing the costs and potential risks of expanding the product against the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Jun 2024
Blog Post

Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)

some of the most prominent law firms. Through Boston Lawyers Group, she identified potential firms and legal internships to get exposure to the sector and pressure test her interests. Yet, as she explored undergraduate courses and majors,... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Dec 2012
News

Alumni Book Briefs

Defending Your Brand: How Smart Companies Use Defensive Strategy to Deal with Competitive Attacks by Tim Calkins (MBA 1991) (Palgrave Macmillan) Calkins, a professor at the Kellogg School of Management, shows business leaders how to... View Details

Keywords: Broadcasting (except Internet); Information

Web

Reweaving Ourselves and the World: New Perspectives on Climate Change - Course Catalog

collective transformation. Together we will open up space for imagining “what might go right” – unpacking how social movements are built, whether radical political change is necessary (or possible), what it might mean to rewrite the dominant narrative of our... View Details

02 Dec 2019
What Do You Think?

How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?

billion for SpaceX) from NASA. One can only imagine the pressure under which developers were working at Boeing. The result? A failure to reach its destination, the International Space Station. While the cause is under investigation, early... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Air Transportation

12 PM – 1 PM EST, 16 Nov 2017
Webinars: Career

How to Be Happy at Work

Are you truly happy at work? Or, like most people, do you have some good days but most of the time work is stressful, all-consuming, and not as fulfilling as you'd like? Annie McKee will share that outdated myths and mindsets are a big part of the reason so many of us... View Details

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