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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
What HBS Learned from West Point
how-to skills and the self-knowledge needed to be an effective leader. In short, business schools have excelled at teaching about leadership from a fundamentally analytical perspective. But there are things that every leader should be... View Details
- 28 Feb 2022
- News
Equal Partner
Aditya was acutely aware of the inequalities that plague the venture capital world, including the less than 3 percent of VC money that goes to all-women founding teams (a number that is even smaller for women of color) and the dearth of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
skills to attract funders for his ships, lifeboats, supplies, and food. He also recognized the importance of assembling a team that could work together and embrace high levels of risk and uncertainty—qualities that proved particularly... View Details
- 27 Jan 2023
- News
Turning Up the Volume
small and lacks fully dedicated resources. Goldman realized that if LEDA could not count on effective media placement, social media strategy, and student outreach, funding could dwindle (or worse), and students who might otherwise benefit... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 29 Sep 2022
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
countries closed their borders. Diagne’s first task was to work closely with the ministry’s leadership team in crafting an economic response to the pandemic. Worldwide, crisis management involved very similar challenges—layoffs and... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
grow their business. Stewart, an award-winning CFO and veteran entrepreneur, shares his expertise and insights to help entrepreneurs more fully understand how a bank thinks about them and their business as a credit risk and a loan customer. Ashley's War: The Untold... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Preparing Future Leaders for Tomorrow’s Challenges
puts students in the shoes of case protagonists, helping them develop the skills and judgment required to be an effective general manager. While case discussions remain core to the School’s learning model, HBS is continually exploring... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Loews Corp., Michigan State University, Cornell University’s Hotel School, Bank of Hawaii, HR Spinner, the NCAA, and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles illustrate how effective teams drive progress in business,... View Details
- 21 Nov 2024
- News
Mother Nurture
Julia Cole, Tina Keshani, and Sophia Richter (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Tina Keshani (MBA 2020), Julia Cole (MBA 2020), and Sophia Richter (MBA 2020) met at Startup Boot Camp in their first year at HBS, they quickly discovered they shared a vision to create a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Global Perspectives
data storage components. They also examined the gemstone and jewelry trade in Thailand, which produces 80 percent of the world’s jewelry, from high-end to mass-market, and met with villagers in Sumatra to discuss efforts to effect change... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
“aims to give students a competitive advantage.” How can understanding happiness, both that of our colleagues and our own, make one a more effective leader? One of the big problems that we have is that when people don’t understand... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
challenges as opportunities and we really meet the occasion with our effectiveness and with a greater ease. And then there's leader B mode, when we are less effective, when we're resisting the moment and we're just a little more stressed... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
Costa Rican whose recent research has focused on Brazil and the possible side effects of competition for foreign direct investment. She notes that "people tend to think of Latin America as a single bloc, but each country is quite... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
business students to turn the tide on a deadly disease. “[Avi’s] ultimate dream was to become a CEO of a company that was doing something meaningful,” says Prize4Life cofounder Nate Boaz (MBA 2006). “The fact that he’s living out his dream has had a profound View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
grow? How are teams most effectively created and then nurtured in this context? What is a leader's role in this culture? Edmondson, the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management, describes five... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lack of Energy: The Problem of Human Inertia
can be an effective tactic: “People are more likely to support energy policies that have initial costs and long-term benefits when the policies will be implemented in the future — even in the near future — rather than today.” Related... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
At HBS Workshop, New CEOs Tune Up for the Top
last November. The goal of the intensive three-day program is to bring together, by invitation, about a dozen leaders from major American, Canadian, and British companies and team them with experienced CEOs and senior HBS faculty to... View Details
Keywords: Jon Prestage
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
exciting. There probably are only five or ten universities in the world where you could teach a course like this. We draw on science from labs across Harvard, and our student teams are tasked with determining if there is a market for the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
collaborating with local preservation groups. “I loved going to different parts of the country and learning how important a sense of local place and culture is to people,” Cohen says. Cohen had served on the finance team for former... View Details
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
Front Row: NYU Prof. and CNN Presidential Scholar Tim Naftali, Business Executive Katherine Gehl, Harvard Prof. Michael Porter, Pulitizer Prize Winner HBS Alumna Sheryl WuDunn (Panel Moderator) Back Row: HBS Club NY President Andy Cheskis, REN Core View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley