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  • TeachingInterests

Program for Leadership Development

By: Michael L. Tushman
Accelerating the Careers of High-Potential Leaders

Successful businesses know that investing in the next generation of leaders is critical to sustaining competitive advantage and achieving corporate growth over the long term. The Program for Leadership... View Details
  • February 2018
  • Article

Laboratory Evidence on the Effects of Sponsorship on the Competitive Preferences of Men and Women

By: Nancy R. Baldiga and Katherine Baldiga Coffman
Sponsorship programs have been proposed as one way to promote female advancement in competitive career fields. A sponsor is someone who advocates for a protégé, and in doing so, takes a stake in her success. We use a laboratory experiment to explore two channels... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Behavior And Behavioral Decision Making; Laboratory Experiment; Competition; Organizations; Gender; Behavior
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  • 24 Oct 2018
  • Blog Post

The Energy & Environment Club

featuring five second-year Elective Curriculum students (ECs) who completed summer internships across the energy industry. This year, students’ experiences ranged from startups like Advanced Microgrid Solutions to larger players like... View Details
  • February 2009
  • Article

Getting Known by the Company You Keep: Publicizing the Qualifications and Former Associations of Skilled Employees

By: Peter Roberts and Mukti Khaire
When product quality cannot be ascertained in advance of purchase, producers must convince relevant audiences that they are worthy of consideration as quality players. We propose that quality-oriented producers will selectively publicize information about their skilled... View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Employees; Product; Quality; Food and Beverage Industry; Australia
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  • 07 Feb 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

We all know the importance of mentors and other early career experiences in shaping the kind of leaders we ultimately become. But how important to that development are the particular companies we work for? For Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 17 Jan 2019
  • Blog Post

MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)

Now in its second year, Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) are no credit, no fee elective courses for MBA students. SIPs are open to first and second year MBA students. They offer a great opportunity for students to think about career... View Details
  • October 2023
  • Supplement

Making Progress at Progress Software (B)

By: Katherine Coffman, Hannah Riley Bowles and Alexis Lefort
In this case, the Human Capital team at Progress Software has identified that some employees have a hard time understanding how to advance within Progress. This realization leads the team to develop several major people-process innovations: the introduction of... View Details
Keywords: Leading Change; Negotiation; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Prejudice and Bias; Talent and Talent Management; Employees; Technology Industry; United States; Bulgaria
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  • 04 Jul 2005
  • What Do You Think?

How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?

has an advanced degree." As an alternative way of achieving this objective, Bobby Mackie suggests that faculty development "could include more two-way movement of staff, building communication links, and networking between... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Teaching Interest

Demystifying the Family Enterprise

By: Christina R. Wing

This course is primarily designed for students who are pursuing a career in family run businesses, family owned businesses, investment roles in family offices, or students that might invest in or wholly purchase a family owned business through a private equity firm,... View Details

  • February 18, 2022
  • Article

Why Really Smart Executives Do Really Stupid Things

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
CEO exits due to workplace misconduct are all too common. Over and over we hear about top officials at companies, universities or in government resigning, either because they had affairs with subordinates in their inner circles or made verbal advances to junior workers... View Details
Keywords: CEO; Misconduct; Management; Behavior
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  • 07 Mar 2019
  • HBS Seminar

Petra Moser, NYU Stern School of Business

  • 09 Aug 2021
  • Research & Ideas

OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent

Americans launch careers in the next 10 years by “cultivating a comprehensive system that focuses on skills first and enables greater opportunities for earned success.” The hope is that this approach will lift up high-potential Black... View Details
Keywords: by Rawi E. Abdelal, Katherine Connolly Baden, and Boris Groysberg
  • 28 Jan 2022
  • News

Helping Trapped Low-Wage Workers, Employers Struggling to Fill Spots

  • November 2022
  • Technical Note

Leader Action Orientations

By: Ryan Raffaelli, Akshaya Varghese and Laura Weimer
Leaders are responsible for planning and executing actions that advance organizational goals. As individuals gain career experience, they tend to develop and rely on implicit mental models that shape how they go about “getting things done.” Without knowing it, most... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Development; Prejudice and Bias; Cognition and Thinking; Decision Making; Behavior
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  • 19 Sep 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking Company Loyalty

their own professional goals and the company's goals. When people understand the larger business context in which the company is operating, they can more easily define ways to advance their own careers." Of course, frank and frequent... View Details
Keywords: by Lauren Keller Johnson

    Kristin W. Mugford

    Kristin Mugford is the Melvin Tukman Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Finance Unit at the Harvard Business School and the Senior Associate Dean for Culture and Community. She previously served as Faculty Chair for field-based learning and... View Details

    • 16 Dec 2020
    • Blog Post

    Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

    to develop a social justice course at HBS. Endline’s goals are simple: "I want to be one of the positive rioters who makes a difference in the world.” AUGUST 11 Executive Lisa Lewin (MBA 2003) spoke to the HBS alumni podcast Skydeck about how business can View Details
    • 21 Aug 2020
    • Blog Post

    Pursuing a JD/MBA Joint Degree

    Students enrolled in the HBS/HLS four-year joint degree program come from a wide variety of backgrounds. Many are interested in pursuing careers that operate at the intersection of business and law, and they seek to utilize the resources... View Details
    • 24 Oct 2024
    • Blog Post

    Trailblazing Success with Global Reach and Impact: Scott Wallinger (AMP 82, 1979)

    Learn about the career resources available to HBS alumni through HBS Career & Professional Development I didn’t have any formal business training when I came to Harvard Business School’s View Details
    • May 2009
    • Exercise

    Mapping Your Network

    By: David A. Thomas
    This exercise is designed to help students and professionals map their professional networks and identify areas of strength and weakness in their networks. "Network" refers to the set of relationships that is critical to someone's ability to learn new skills and... View Details
    Keywords: Competency and Skills; Strength and Weakness; Personal Development and Career; Groups and Teams; Social and Collaborative Networks
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