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  • 17 May 2010
  • News

Eight HBS Students Honored for Service to the School and Society

  • 02 Mar 2020
  • Blog Post

Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Energy

The “Know Your Audience” series on the HBS Recruiting Blog highlights trends in recruiting for various industries. Learn more about student interest, effective recruiting strategies, and best practices from HBS staff dedicated to your industry. Meet the Team Phillip... View Details
Keywords: Energy / Cleantech
  • 30 Nov 2016
  • What Do You Think?

How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?

designing a “similar survey to be administered to every group of stakeholder outside of the company organization, to get the feedback on ‘how it feels’ doing business with the company.” Lavinia Rasca said “the answer was given by View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett

    Celia Stafford

    Celia Stafford is a doctoral student in Health Policy (Management). She received a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics from Emory University in 2017 and an MPH focused in Biostatistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2020. She is also... View Details

    • 2011
    • Book

    Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader

    By: Linda A. Hill and Kent Lineback
    You never dreamed being the boss would be so hard. You're caught in a web of conflicting expectations from subordinates, your supervisor, peers, and customers. You're constantly fighting fires. You're mired in office politics. You end each day exhausted and... View Details
    Keywords: Management; Leadership; Management Skills; Employee Relationship Management; Personal Development and Career; Groups and Teams; Social and Collaborative Networks
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    • July 2024
    • Supplement

    Pacific Lake Partners (A)

    By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
    Pre-Abstract: Instructors should consider the timing of making videos available to students, as they may reveal key case details.

    Abstract: In 2009, Coley Andrews and Jim Southern endeavored to raise a private equity fund for investment solely in search... View Details
    Keywords: Search Fund; Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition; Entrepreneurship; Private Equity; Investment; North America
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    • 08 Mar 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens

    negotiating too narrowly with those who have formal power and authority. Negotiation experts have a patriarchal name for a version of this classic—and avoidable—mistake: Decide-Announce-Defend or DAD. Along with gaining the full-throated support of New York Mayor Bill... View Details
    Keywords: by James K. Sebenius; Real Estate; Construction
    • July 2024
    • Supplement

    Pacific Lake Partners (B)

    By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
    Pre-Abstract: Instructors should consider the timing of making videos available to students, as they may reveal key case details.

    Abstract: In 2009, Coley Andrews and Jim Southern endeavored to raise a private equity fund for investment solely in search... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition; Search Fund; Entrepreneurship; Private Equity; Investment Funds; Organizational Structure; United States
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    • 14 Nov 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: November 14, 2006

    source software ("OSS"). What drives companies with large, proprietary software portfolios to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in OSS? We approach this question by grouping a sample of OSS projects into clusters and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 20 May 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness

    Competitiveness: Paths Forward," an HBS initiative, was an appearance by Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, who was brought in by wheelchair but rose to his feet to speak about how the city could be a model... View Details
    Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette
    • 23 May 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'

    said. Graffiti was also a form of escape. In the 1980s and ’90s, gang violence and drugs were rampant in Los Angeles. For young people seeking a different path, graffiti crews offered an identity that was of the streets but not confined View Details
    Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
    • 11 Jun 2019
    • Book

    These Aren't Beach Books, but Managers Should Read Them Anyway

    Discover what type of rebel you really are. Food CitizenshipThe public is losing trust in many institutions involved in putting food on our table, says Ray A. Goldberg. Being the Boss: The Three Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader Linda View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 05 Oct 2016
    • What Do You Think?

    Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?

    graduates and former students who are exploring innovations such as battery technology, superconductivity, magnetism, and superintelligent computers. My feelings are buoyed when I read about a “second machine age” fueled by digital... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 29 May 2020
    • Op-Ed

    How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

    COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details
    Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness
    • 05 Aug 2015
    • What Do You Think?

    What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?

    capitalization), one that defied the old rules for productivity, income increases, and economic growth. We are told by widely-quoted scholars such as Erik Brynholfsson and Andrew McAfee that innovation and... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology
    • 12 Jul 2020
    • Book

    The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

    What They Are Reading Jeff Bussgang Two of my books during the “summer of COVID” have been a deep case study into perhaps history’s greatest leader in crisis, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • 19 Jan 2010
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    Sharpening Your Skills: Managing the Economic Crisis

    Joshua D. Margolis of Harvard Business School and Andrew L. Molinsky of Brandeis University International Business School. Their research sheds light on best practices—typically overlooked—for the well-being of those who carry out these... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • 02 Jan 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Most Popular Articles of 2011

    The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader, Harvard Business School professor Linda A. Hill and former executive Kent Lineback discuss the steps to take and the roadblocks to avoid in order to meet that challenge. Is Groupon Good for... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • 08 Jun 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    The Return of the Salesman

    business and society. In its Winter 2008 issue, Business History Review included five articles on salesmanship: "Selling the American Way: The Singer Sales System in Japan, 1900-1938" (by Andrew Gordon) "Inventing the U.S. Stove Industry,... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
    • 02 Feb 2002
    • What Do You Think?

    Will the Societal Effects of Enron Exceed Those of September 11?

    Queda" (Mike Donahue). Among the many commenting on the Enron case, nearly all felt that change was warranted, but few believed that significant change would come from it. The general sense of these comments was that investors, by... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett