mentoring - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

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

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

01 Mar 2022
What Do You Think?

Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?

personal computing and the power of the Internet. CEO Jack Welch responded with his typical high-energy enthusiasm. After seeking out a young mentor in the organization to help him learn, he “suggested” that his senior colleagues find... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

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

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

The Knowledge Coach

when one has reached a certain age or level of expertise. Concert pianists and Wimbledon champions draw on the expertise of master teachers to guide their practice sessions. One forty-six-year-old senior vice president at Adobe Systems calls upon View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Wired and Black: Focus on Careers

a struggle, but sometimes a rewarding one. "I don’t think you have to trust just the people who look familiar to you," Wiley said. "Even if you’re the only person of color, that doesn’t mean you can’t test the trust ... or find a View Details

Keywords: by Carrie Levine

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

New Paths to Success in Asia

(Nolan will document management lessons from the recent experience of dot-com companies in a forthcoming book, dot vertigo.) An interest in the concept of mentor capitalism brought HBS Professor Dorothy A. Leonard and Professor Walter... View Details

Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg

29 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

are used to evaluate investments creates a systematic bias against successful innovation. The authors recommend alternative methods that can help managers innovate with a much more astute eye for future value. Why Mentoring Matters in a... View Details

Keywords: 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

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

IBM Finds Profit in Diversity

interviewed were struck by Gerstner's interest and active involvement in the development of high-potential minority and female senior managers and junior executives; he took a personal interest in how they were being mentored and what... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

18 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation

on local employers to provide admitted students with mentors and paid work experience starting in grade nine. Co-author of the recent book, Breaking Barriers: How P-TECH Schools Create a Pathway from High School to College to Career, with... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports

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

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Tales of the Newly-minted MBA

for several years before joining Novantas, a start-up consulting firm located in New York. The first eighteen months, she recalled, were "absolutely wonderful. I felt like my mentors at the firm were really excited about the work I... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

08 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

How to Hire a Millennial

General Electric isn’t moving to Boston’s waterfront for the views, however breathtaking they may be. In the increasingly fierce battle for millennial talent, GE’s decision to uproot its long-time headquarters from suburban Connecticut is nothing less than a... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller

04 Apr 2005
What Do You Think?

Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?

smarts through everyday observation and decision making. Such coaches are distinguished from mentors by the degree to which they structure and engage their charges in various learning experiences. Deep smarts, it is maintained, can be... View Details