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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Ross MacDonald Here’s the humbling truth: no matter how high your career soars, how many awards you win or companies you sell or differences you make in this world, everyone has to start... View Details
- 13 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?
about the difference between a girl being a tomboy and a boy being a sissy—the former moniker is considered a compliment, the latter an insult. Thus, the concern about women contaminating the things of men is much bigger than that of men... View Details
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
careers at the Harvard Business School, we discovered that the turnover of CIOs ran at around 30 to 40 percent per year. As a result of our research, we described the driving cause as the rapid change of IT through the operation of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online
FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Understand the key financial levers that drive financial performance Discover how and why finance is concerned with cash flow versus profits and why that matters for your business and budget Identify ways to... View Details
- 03 Dec 2014
- What Do You Think?
Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?
This is an age-old problem that most managers handle badly. You know the story by now. It concerns high-performing employees, known by some as "stars" and by others as "destructive heroes" or "brilliant... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Jan 2016
- Blog Post
Is HBS Too Big?
concerned about feeling like a number rather than a student in the classroom. Once I got to HBS I realized that it feels big in all the right ways and small in allthe right ways. What I mean is that there are inherent benefits to being a... View Details
- 20 Apr 2021
- Book
A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success
confer. At the bottom of the value stick, employee WTS is the lowest compensation a person is willing to accept for performing a particular type of work. Pay an employee less than his WTS, and he will walk away from the job. As with WTP, many View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 02 May 2022
- What Do You Think?
Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years?
management addressed it. That need not alter the nature of the case discussion, unless one assumes that we always predict the future accurately and respond in the right manner. It helps explain why some of the most fruitful case discussions View Details
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
and from its employment of nationals at senior levels. The upshot, seen in the case of the EU, was that Unilever had a "voice" in issues that concerned it, even if it was exercised discreetly through industry and other... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
My HBS Student Loan Story: Ina Foalea (MBA 2018)
of my responsibilities. I have a support system and know that if things don’t go as expected, it’s still going to be ok. How did you approach your career search? Was it influenced by concerns about loans or... View Details
- 13 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
5 Worries I Had about Applying to HBS
struggle to make a career transition I came to HBS to explore new industries and I was concerned my experience put me in a “business analysis” box. However, HBS has a strong brand, vast alumni network, and a... View Details
- Web
Faculty - Private Capital Project
graduated from Yale College with a special divisional major that combined physics with the history of technology. He worked for several years on issues concerning technological innovation and public policy at the Brookings Institution,... View Details
- 06 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea
time they tried a big change (in their case, the "customer centric" initiative), they were unsuccessful, and some of the consequences (impossible workloads for a while, a few good people's careers derailed) were very unpleasant.... View Details
Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead
- 06 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
My HBS Student Loan Story: Gorick Ng (MBA 2018)
financially. How did you approach your career search? Was it influenced by concerns about loans or debt repayment? I asked myself, “What does success look like the day after graduation?” Inspired by my... View Details
- 20 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism
solely defined by the transactional rhythms and white-hot speed of the marketplace. (My graduating MBA students talk of this concern frequently as they discuss job choices and sketch out their own career... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy Koehn
- 10 Sep 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBAs Need More Street Smarts?
experience? If they are skills, should the curriculum be designed to foster them, perhaps through greater emphasis on courses in negotiating skills and increased field experience, among others, on the assumption that street smarts can be taught? The second question... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Dec 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Grooming Next-Generation Leaders
Finding and nurturing future leadership talent is a primary concern for most organizations. How can they identify top people, train them, and—here's the catch—retain them? And do so in the face of ever-increasing global challenges?... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Entrepreneurial Support - Business & Environment
topics. The course also tackles career questions for students who wonder how to spend time making a difference in both the private and public sectors. For the full listing, click here . iLab Training - How to Create a Climate Venture “How... View Details
- 17 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage
fill people’s intrinsic motivational needs as opposed to making it simply contractual.” In the executive education courses DeLong teaches at Harvard, he has conducted a simple exercise—asking participants to write down the initials of people in their business View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
Research - Race, Gender & Equity
who is being courted to leave a promising career in Europe to come back and join the business. The choices of role range from an... July 2024 Management Science Whether to Apply By: Katherine B. Coffman , Manuela Collis and Leena Kulkarni... View Details