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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
accommodate mobile employees. This book arms managers with the knowledge they need to become more effective virtual leaders, giving advice on what actions to take to increase far-flung employees’ dedication and engagement, develop or... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
President, Women's World Banking Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION Stanford University, 1971 B.A., Economics LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "Power matters. Money matters. People matter. We need to mobilize power, money, and people to find... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
facts of a situation and then how to analyze and make a decision. But even more important, this process requires you to think really hard. In my career, nothing has been more important than that." ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "Integrity and... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
alumni, faculty, and environmental industry leaders. “We invited several of our alumni guests to host each event and give a short talk, to paint a picture of the future for energy, so our current students can bring those ideas back to HBS and make the best use of their... View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
LGBTSA Spotlight: Alterrell Mills
everyone is. It’s been a great shift in my own perspective to smile a bit more and wave hello. Also, we clap for everything at HBS. It’s been a bit of reprogramming – and had me smiling at strangers when in country for FIELD and this summer at my internship. What... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
What is the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program? A Q&A with Professor Tom Eisenmann
rewarding to watch their ventures come to life. For all these reasons, I'm excited about teaming up with SEAS faculty to build a joint degree program that blends engineering, design, and management and trains future leaders of technology ventures." What View Details
- Student-Profile
Sarah Wolfolds
a graduate student and so I will definitely need all the support I can get! Advice for prospective HBS doctoral students Graduate school really is more of marathon than a sprint! It is important to take time throughout the program to... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Turning Point: Tell Me More
major brands get insight and advice from consumers via the Internet. (Think: focus groups on steroids.) My friend asked whether I missed the market research field (I did), and after a long conversation, asked if I would be willing to help... View Details
- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Rena Xu (MBA 2014, MD 2014)
base. In the winter, nothing was better than curling up in front of a Spangler fireplace—the warmth, the hot chocolate, the large weird art on the walls, the comforting flow of foot traffic—it made studying almost too enjoyable.” What View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981
that a collaborative management style in the real world would be equally effective and essential.” ADVICE TO STUDENTS “There is no substitute for good, old-fashioned planning and analysis. You can’t rationalize excessive use of ‘gut feel’... View Details
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
getting a little older now, that in a study where they looked at taking antidepressants or having exercise, they found that six months later, the people who exercised had the greatest improvement in depressive symptoms. So, I'm not giving medical View Details
- 02 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?
be a good fit for the long haul. “It can be really painful to have the wrong investor,” Huang says. “Being aware of how someone invests can trickle down into how they will behave and provide advice in the future.” Related Reading: Is... View Details
- 17 Jul 2000
- What Do You Think?
Where Is the Microsoft Board?
contradict, Jack Welch." As Tom Broge put it, "If someone can figure out how to get people to listen to good advice when they don't want to hear it, now THAT would be something big." Moris Simson's thought-provoking... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
No-Nonsense Rules from the Ultimate Contrarian and Small Business Guru by George Cloutier (MBA ’69) (HarperBusiness) Having spent over thirty years guiding business owners, Cloutier, founder and CEO of American Management Services, offers such tough View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
world, the AMP program underscores the necessity of a global perspective and an understanding of different cultures and markets." ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "The free market is the best system for allocating resources, but never forget... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
answers." ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "One of the most important elements of leadership is fairness. You have to be consistent in the decisions that you make and the messages that you deliver. An organization looks to you as representative... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
of women being admitted to the School's full-time MBA Program, we invited the HBS alumni community to identify alumnae who stood out as leaders, mentors, and role models. From several hundred suggestions, we asked a cross section of women to share thoughts and View Details
- 15 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions
the editor-in-chief of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: andresr] Related Reading Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase 6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees What... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System
advice is you have to be in, but you need to do your homework first." That means making sure you have your own people on the ground in China to oversee construction and development of your supply chain. It also means picking partners... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 02 Jan 2013
- What Do You Think?
Should We Rethink the Promise of Teams?
identify and encourage introverts I wonder if Einstein's creative unconventional thinking was suppressed what the world would have lost." Most respondents offered advice for insuring the effective use of teams. Much of it concerned team... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett