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- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
from them. Discourage exclusionary social activities, and make sure that teams don’t treat women as outliers or extraneous. Development. Assess how managers assign training and development opportunities, and ensure they use objective criteria. Increase women’s access... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
far. We now have four experienced faculty members teaching four sections with 240 students, yet there is still a long waiting list for the course. I'm especially enjoying mentoring the next generation of leaders and having them View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite
building a network of mentors to support and advise them. To uncover the processes that promote the development and advancement of minority executives, Thomas and Gabarro embarked on a six-year study analyzing promotion data and then... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 23 Jan 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sports: Lessons for Managers
shows that hooking up with the right mentor can quickly increase your value. On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K” Bobby Knight and Mike Krzyzewski were arguably the two most successful college basketball coaches in the country. But... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?
Blacks. My concern is Hispanics which wield significantly more economic buying power, land ownership It seems to me that everywhere I look Hispanics are being left out.”), and more systematic mentoring (Paul, a graduate of HBS,... View Details
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Take Responsibility for Rising Stars
needs, to help them cultivate new skills, and to provide them opportunities for professional development and personal growth. Managers must do this even if it means nudging their rising stars into new functional areas or business units. They must View Details
- 28 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home
search for high-potential small companies; provide training and mentoring to help those companies qualify as preferred suppliers or distributors; open access to domestic and international business opportunities; and help lower supplier... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 08 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How to Hire a Millennial
program offers newly minted MBAs the opportunity to oversee a $50 million unit as a field operations director responsible for finance, strategy, and marketing. Yet all the mentoring and flexible schedules won’t matter if a company is... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller
- 30 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are Business Schools Really Important “Crucibles of Leadership?”
made, not born. These primary qualities of leaders are formed in the "crucible of leadership" (as Bennis and Thomas define it, anything from an important mentoring relationship to a near-death or war-time experience). Leaders... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Feb 2018
- Op-Ed
How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility
enterprises that help train and mentor the long-term unemployed while generating revenue from sales, among many others, I have encountered organizations that have been able to sustainably pursue social and financial goals over time. What... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Battilana
- 04 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Female Stars Succeed in New Jobs
research department of Lehman Brothers took steps to create a comfortable environment for women, and to evaluate all their analysts fairly and mentor them intensively. This paid off: The bank developed a lot of stars and benefited from... View Details
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
prioritize family over work. It's that all these other factors are also at play for women" that lead them to cut back their hours in a way that men often don't—factors such as exclusion from informal networks in the workplace, a lack of View Details
Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
crafting their identities; and transforming obstacles into opportunities. Beyond personal strengths, the authors say, another factor was critical: nurturing relationships with mentors who recognized the women’s talent and made it their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
and the risks associated with each. Accepting involves prioritizing the job above all else and remaining available 24/7. Because accepters fail to cultivate outside interests, they’re often slow to recover from professional setbacks. And they may be too focused on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
Dansko's growth, "home schooling"—taking young energetic employees with little business experience and mentoring them—seemed ill-suited for the next phase of growth. Equally as precarious was the fact that with few exceptions,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
http://hbr.org/search/513091-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 913-420 Tim Blanchard at Jones Mendel & Co. Tim Blanchard struggles to balance all the demands facing him as a partner of a consulting firm. He must decide how to serve clients, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2016
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: New Insights into Career Development
in a single up-or-out professional service organization. Unfinished Business: The Impact of Race on Understanding Mentoring This paper by David Thomas and colleagues in 2006 discusses why race and mentoring... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why dot.coms Will Rise Again
harebrained scheme." Mentors In The Garage According to Professor Dorothy Leonard, Silicon Valley has crucial lessons to teach big corporations, and the lessons are not necessarily about which Internet business models to avoid.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking E-Leadership
conjuring up. 3. Emphasize coaching and mentoring over managing the details. Talent is the most important strategic resource for future success, suggests Hargrove. You can't win the talent wars without putting leadership development at... View Details
Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni
- 08 May 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Writing the Case for Public School Reform
and a mentoring program for new teachers. Results of the campaign were felt quickly. For example, the mentoring program resulted in an improvement of new teacher retention rates from 73 percent in 2002 to 95... View Details