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01 Sep 2008
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Mara Aspinall

companies, and later served as a director at the Boston law firm of Hale and Dorr, LLP, before joining Genzyme in 1997. While at Hale and Dorr, she assumed leadership roles on the boards of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

August 2014 (Revised May 2016)
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Husk Power

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Sid Misra

In late 2013, Husk Power Systems found itself falling further and further behind plan. The founding CEO had decided to resign. His co-founder is faced with the decision of quitting his corporate job in the US to head to India and help form a new management team. Husk... View Details

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01 Jul 2013
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The Nature of Business

big culture shift in his move to TNC, he says one of his favorite parts of his job is his colleagues. "Their principal engagement is fulfillment," he said. "It certainly requires a different skill set as a leader. While it may be more... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

21 Nov 2024
Blog Post

How Alumni Can Recruit When They Aren’t Recruiters

company’s open role and job description. The Resume Databases lets you browse student resumes, filter by industry, interests, and keywords , and it allows you to send personalized messages. Include as much information as possible in your job description: details on... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

05 Jun 2015
Blog Post

The HBS Investment

also costly. From a time perspective, it is two years of learning and leadership transformation that will ultimately balance out along your entire career. However, for an experienced candidate such as myself, having worked for over a... View Details

18 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

product and the activities associated with making and selling it. Selling becomes a function of individual "heroic" efforts, not a scalable platform for profitable growth. Equally important, this inhibits adaptive learning—a crucial requirement for a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 May 2009
What Do You Think?

Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?

Eckel pointed out that "Business schools teach 'mature' organization skills, primarily because entrepreneurial and creative organizational skills are not teachable." Do you agree? If that's true, we may have to look elsewhere... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

28 Sep 2021
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Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students

secured an internship in banking and equity research, and in his junior year, he did a banking internship, both times at Credit Suisse. After graduation, Westphal spent two years working at JPMorgan, where he honed his business skills and... View Details

Keywords: Becca Carnahan

14 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital

portfolio management which created a great preamble before Harlem Capital.” While working at ICV, Tingle and Pierre-Jacques were also part of the Management Leadership for Tomorrow career program, an organization founded by John Rice (MBA... View Details

15 Nov 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives

are, what they know, how you hire, and how you develop their skills and attitudes over time. Performance management practices, including compensation, incentives, values, control systems, and performance reviews (probably the most... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

04 May 2017
News

Going the Distance

as the professors and courses. “What they were doing in the world was amazing, and I realized I had been given a tremendous opportunity. I gained leadership skills and strategic vision that has enabled me to... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Jun 2009
News

Dispatches from the Global Classroom

into the classroom,” he observes. “Developing leadership skills often requires a different sort of situation. Being an old MBA myself Chu graduated in 1976, I know that half of the experience comes from the... 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

01 Apr 2021
Blog Post

An Aerospace Engineer Provides a Lift for Underrepresented Innovators and Entrepreneurs

for ways to make an impact on problems she was passionate about. As the daughter of immigrants (her father emigrated from Nigeria and her mother emigrated from Ghana) she wanted to use her skills to make an impact in the developing world.... View Details

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Harvard Business School and Polaroid - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details

01 Apr 2002
News

Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City

leadership coalitions (BLCs) in Cleveland, New York, Atlanta, Minnesota, Detroit, Boston, and Pittsburgh. "A small number of key business leaders can make a big difference by leveraging their leadership," observes Austin. He points to... View Details

Keywords: Paul Grogan; Peter Tufano; David Crockett; Diana Barrett; Real Estate

25 Jun 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

years, MacCormack has led FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development), a hands-on experiential learning program that has arguably revolutionized education at HBS more than any development since the introduction of the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

10 Apr 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

for managerial skills continues to grow, executive education worldwide has entered a period of disruption caused by the digitalization of content, connectivity, and communication. The current offerings of many executive education program... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 17

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/410065-PDF-ENG Advanced Leadership Note: An Institutional Perspective and Framework for Managing and Leading Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Rakesh KhuranaHarvard Business School Note 410-076 Large-scale... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

leadership among the business community by founding the Ebola Private Sector Mobilization Group (EPSMG). Our project evaluated the role that AM and EPSMG played during the Ebola crisis in Liberia. Measuring the "Impact" in Impact... View Details

25 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help

operate with a very light touch. Theoretically, voters are supposed to be the ultimate check: If the public doesn’t like what’s going on, the party or elected officials get voted out. Yet even with some leadership churn, candidates from... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

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