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18 Jan 2011
News

Why Blame Makes for Bad Business: Lessons from Arizona

03 Jul 2013
News

Lincoln, Mandela and Obama: Lessons for Leaders Over Three Centuries

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Managing Family Strife: Market Baskets Lessons about Buyouts

You'd have to have been sleeping under a rock to miss the family war and media frenzy over Market Basket, the Boston-based, family-owned supermarket chain. The confrontation between two cousins (both named Arthur Demoulas) over control of the company was finally... View Details

19 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Seven Lessons from the Section Experience

other every day for a year! You’ll give comments for professors from the same seats! You’ll be part of section for life!” For all of us in the Class of 2024 Section G, it was truly a transformative experience both as individuals and as a section. HBS MBA Class of 2024... View Details

20 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability

Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability I began my HBS admissions application essay with the following sentence: “I aspire to help build organizations that are advancing sustainability and addressing the... View Details

16 May 2024
News

On the Job

of the world. Desiree Rogers: I feel that it’s so important to have multiple voices across races, socioeconomic, and also age at the table. Gerald Schwartz: Don’t do anything in your life that you don’t like doing or be with people you don’t want to associate with. It... View Details

Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade

20 Jun 2023
Cold Call Podcast

Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover: Lessons in Strategic Change

Keywords: Re: Andy Wu; Technology

30 Sep 2014
News

Life Lessons on the Open Seas

different worlds. I run a nonprofit, but I apply all for-profit principles to it. Consequently, we achieve great outcomes with very low cost, per participant, for our unique niche—using sailing to overcome any adversity in life,” he says. Callahan’s education at HBS... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

18 Dec 2013
HBS Case

Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal

to facilitate it," says Professor of Management Practice Clayton S. Rose, who sees in Armstrong's story an ideal vessel for teaching lessons about business ethics and leadership. Along with research associate Noah Fisher, Rose wrote... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute

To discuss the case's lessons for managers, Abdelal and Alfaro joined forces on an e-mail interview with HBS Working Knowledge's Cynthia D. Churchwell. Cynthia D. Churchwell: What are the key issues that managers should know about the... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

07 Apr 2021
News

How Teams Work: Lessons from the Pandemic

10 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy

It's common wisdom: When it comes to starting a new business, it matters who you know and how much money you have. But research into the inspiration and success of entrepreneurs has not delved very deeply into why this is so. Does it matter whether who you know are... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

2020
Guest Column

Learning from Lehman: Lessons for Today

By: Laura Comstock, Michael Holland and Peter Tufano

Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Financial Crisis; Financial Markets; Financial Instruments

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March 27, 2020
Other Article

Lessons from Italy's Response to Coronavirus

By: Gary P. Pisano, Raffaella Sadun and Michele Zanini

Policymakers in many parts of Europe and the United States are struggling to bring the rapidly spreading Covid-19 pandemic under control. In doing so, they are repeating many of the mistakes made in Italy, where the pandemic turned into a disaster. A major contributing... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; Health Pandemics; Crisis Management; Government and Politics; Decision Making; Italy

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