Exercise - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2012
News

Taking Time to Make Time

not productive to sit in a room and try to figure out where you want to be in 10 or 20 years. Instead, think about what you can do in the next year or two to broaden your learning, experiences, and choices. Career planning should be an View Details

Keywords: Time management

01 Sep 2009
News

Alumni Books

anyone in business and sales. The book ends with a series of analytical exercises to illuminate basic principles on which readers can base business plans. The Power Curve: Smart Investing Using Dividends, Options, and the Magic of... View Details

01 Aug 2002
News

For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts

exploring the unexpected challenges faced by M. Douglas Ivester in exercising effective leadership during his two-year tenure as chairman and CEO of the Coca-Cola Company. Professor Richard Tedlow then dealt with leadership issues from a... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton

22 Feb 2022
News

Ink: Bringing Purpose to Life

stakeholders may or may not find ‘good enough’ in the short term but that pay off for everyone eventually. Decision-making at deep-purpose companies becomes an exercise in ‘practical idealism,’ a discipline of honest and often messy... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

07 Sep 2021
News

Embracing Activism for Social Change

learning firsthand about their daily challenges. “Imagine listening to callers in crisis over a 16-hour shift. It’s an emotionally taxing job. We created crisis intervention training for the 90 call takers, establishing new protocols and role-playing View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

20 Jul 2022
News

Wired to be Inspired

Kathleen Hogan, the CHRO, said to me, she says, “We encourage our employees to really think hard about their own purpose.” They have a whole purpose activation exercise they make them go through. And her take was, you don't really work... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Feb 2000
News

Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care

that there are currently 111,000 pages of Medicare regulations on the books. A cardiologist at the session described, with frustration, his ongoing multiyear crusade to convince Medicare officials to fund preventive measures against heart disease - such as View Details

12 Jun 2014
News

The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)

challenging? "By far the most enjoyable and rewarding part is building the BollyX community. I love working in the fitness industry—people in this industry are so positive, outgoing, and inspiring (it must be the exercising and... View Details

Keywords: fitness; Arts, Entertainment

01 Dec 1998
News

Novartis AG Establishes Global Research Fund

generated from the company's experiences, have proved valuable across the School. The Novartis Indonesia case anchored a daylong MBA exercise devoted to furthering students' understanding of the Asian financial crisis. Novartis cases have... View Details

Keywords: Anne Kavanagh

01 Dec 2017
News

Enhancing Students’ Cultural Intelligence

from throughout their first year to on-site, customer-related projects with companies around the world. Before their trip, Franklin’s six-person team tested their research methodology in interviews with Boston-area teens and parents. Carrying out the same View Details

15 Nov 2016
News

Classroom Lessons Put Into Practice Abroad

McGee (MBA 1979) supervised the 12 teams deployed in the city, one of which worked with the local 13-store bakery chain, Benjamin. In the fall, the members of this team—Adam Demuyakor, Adam Gunter, Felix Jiang, Sasha Niemeyer, Sinem Ormeci, and Megan Wu, all Class of... View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

01 Sep 2013
News

Authentic Leadership

semester, students read chapters and complete exercises from True North, consider cases illustrating the core values of a particular businessperson's life, discuss the importance of real and consistent leadership that empowers others, and... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

02 Nov 2010
News

Commanding Officers

Jefferson’s résumé confirms that if he’d opted to remain in the private sector, he would be making some serious money based on his leadership skills alone. Case in point: A West Point graduate and Green Beret, Jefferson was on a classified Special Forces training View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Jun 2010
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The MBA at a Crossroads

innovative thinking skills; working on global experiential projects; and engaging in reflective exercises that underpin effective leadership. They also identified eight “unmet needs,” ranging from gaining a global perspective to... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 1996
News

1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

interactive analytical module that allows students to simulate factory scheduling and operations. Upton then demonstrated the School's revolutionary Web-based video system that provides full-motion digital video on demand with random access to a desktop or a classroom.... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

14 Jun 2024
News

Highlights from the Spring 2024 Alumni Board Meeting

regarding her group’s new mandate and its new vision of an arc and engagement journey—from pre-admit through student to alumni; Professor Mitch Weiss reprised his highly successful session at the recent HBS AI conference, leading an interactive View Details

01 Apr 1996
News

Technology for Learning's Sake

telecommunications." McFarlan, in fact, was involved in overseeing one of the earliest regular uses of computers in the MBA Program when the "Business Game" became an annual exercise for generations of MBAs beginning in the mid-1960s.... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig

01 Oct 2000
News

Willoughby G. Walling II: A Learning Experience

business. His job titles have included urban youth worker, teacher, White House policy advisor, and fundraiser. He remembers an exercise in John Kotter's class at HBS that required each student to come up with a career plan. "I listed... View Details