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Career Coach

Jill Huggett

Jill Huggett (Carroll '00), Principal, Bridgepath Career Advisors, is a certified professional career coach and certified professional resume writer. Jill combines professional coaching theory with her previous experience as a financial services management executive... View Details

15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

same entrepreneurial energy that it had when she joined. She and her colleagues reflect on how Google has been able to maintain its culture as the company keeps doubling in size. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2010
News

Sole Mates

There are few cultural attractions; Monrovia has only one movie theater, and it’s overrun by cats. But the beach is very nice. Anyway, I’m always working. I don’t have much time for diversion. COMTE: Close to Miami, a piece of France in... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government

27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

Publication:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We argue that social capital as proxied by trust increases aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the decentralization of investment, hiring,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

21 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

weigh how far they can go in emerging markets and, in the case of emerging giants, how ambitious they can be in their globalization. As the example of TCL shows, audacious moves into new market contexts and attempts to integrate widely different View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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The Spiritual Lives of Leaders - Course Catalog

partners in other cultures by understanding their spiritual practices and commitments?” When Faith and Work Collide “How can I hold strong to my personal faith while leading in a secular organization?” “When is it appropriate for me to... View Details

01 Sep 2012
News

On a Sound Track

mechanical, electrical, and acoustics engineers, including one known simply as “The Golden Ear.” Their no-holds-barred creativity is supported by a corporate culture steeped in youth and rebellion, as... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; audio accessories; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016

also show how these same principles and tactics can be applied in everyday life, whether you are making corporate deals, negotiating job offers, resolving business disputes, tackling obstacles in personal relationships, or even... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010

destabilize Kenya, while others claimed it was an important step towards lasting peace. The Kenya scenario presents many aspects for consideration, including the wisdom of the ICC's involvement (given the complex historical, economic, and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Nov 2020
News

The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises

industries and roles completely from what I'd been doing before school, and the financial crisis was really hard for me. It took about a year to find a job, and I took the first reasonable offer I got. The first job was a bad fit. It didn't play to my strengths, the... View Details

01 Jun 2009
News

Dispatches from the Global Classroom

for our ten-day Immersion Experience Program (IXP) to Mexico, Santa Ana del Valle, located in one of Mexico’s poorest states, is the unassuming launchpad for a trip that will end with tours of several multibillion-dollar corporations and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

21 Dec 2022
News

HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion

us closer to freedom,’” Poznansky writes. APRIL 12 Corporate Responses to the War in Ukraine Tuesday April 19, 2022, 5:30pm, Virtual program How are businesses and business leaders reacting to the war in Ukraine? Senior leaders from three... View Details

21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21

team and the ways in which firms shift their identities, build innovative cultures and processes, and begin to change the world around them. Business leaders will find the book a source of both powerful examples and immediately actionable... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

June 2024
Case

Building Innovation at VINCI

By: Dennis Campbell, Aluna Wang and Carlota Moniz

This case study explores how the VINCI Group, a French multinational operating in concessions, energy, and construction, bolstered awareness and adoption rates of new technologies within the organization. Through its separate innovation hub, Leonard, VINCI aimed to... View Details

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Educators

May 2017
Case

Vicki Fuller: Chief Investment Officer of New York State's $150+ Billion Employee Pension Fund

By: Steven Rogers and Valerie Mosley

Vicki Fuller traveled from a four-room tenement bordering Chicago’s infamous Cabrini-Green housing projects to speaking at conferences around the world and typically holding court wherever she went. As a teenager, she helped raise her siblings. As a Wall Street... View Details

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Educators

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30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

shareholders. These results suggest that the domestic operations of U.S. multinationals were not financially constrained and that these firms were reasonably well-governed. The results have important implications for understanding the impact of U.S. View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Dec 2021
News

What's the Word?

percent. When surviving “examination hell” and college itself doesn’t offer any guarantees—why bother at all? So, is lying flat here to stay? Or is it just fun to say? The overriding culture of hard work in China will continue, Kirby... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Martha Rich; Manufacturing; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Dec 1999
News

Covering the Issues

unheard of to a time when women shape decision-making at the highest corporate levels. With the arrival of women students in the 1950s, when the School partnered with the Radcliffe Management Training Program, Associate Professor... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young, Deborah Blagg, and Garry Emmons

09 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 9, 2015

employees. Yet with several important R&D projects still under development, and capacity needed in factories for many more months, Nokia's board and leaders wanted to avoid the mistakes the company had made in a plant shutdown in Bochum, Germany, in 2008. EVP of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Mind, Culture and Brain in the Department of Psychology. In 2014, she was the recipient of the distinguished Columbia University Lenfest Award for excellent in teaching and mentoring. Dr. Purdie-Vaughns' research focuses on the psychology... View Details

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Jill Huggett

First Look: October 15, 2008

Sole Mates

First Look: March 27

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

The Spiritual Lives of Leaders - Course Catalog

On a Sound Track

February 9, 2016

First Look: November 16, 2010

The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises

Dispatches from the Global Classroom

HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion

First Look: October 21

Building Innovation at VINCI

Vicki Fuller: Chief Investment Officer of New York State's $150+ Billion Employee Pension Fund

First Look: June 30

What's the Word?

Covering the Issues

First Look: June 9, 2015

2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity