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Deborah M. Winshel
Deborah Winshel is a member of the Faculty of the Harvard Business School where she teaches Leadership and Corporate Accountability to first year MBAs and executives.Most recently, Deborah was a Managing Director and Global Head of Social Impact at BlackRock. She worked with the CEO and senior leadership to direct BlackRock’s own capital to create and fund multiple initiatives and partnerships...
- 06 Sep 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom
His second-year elective, Commercializing Science and High Technology, is designed to attract business, science, engineering, law, and medical students from across the University. Deborah Blagg: What is it like to teach a course where the... View Details
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to be Extremely Productive
project flopped, don't attack the person"). Deborah Blagg: Classic productivity books often focus on time management, but Extreme Productivity takes a much broader look. It reads more like a businessperson's handbook. Did you intend... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 30 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers
In 2012, legendary investor Warren Buffett made a bid to buy a troubled Southeastern US newspaper business just three years after declaring that his influential holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, would no longer invest in newspapers "at any price."... View Details
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
computer problems on a website, companies that design those interactions purely to cut costs don't succeed. But when they actively partner with their customers to deliver a better service experience," she relates, "that's the path to all-around... View Details
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
Care, Christensen and his coauthors, the late Jerome Grossman and Jason Hwang (MBA '06), focus not on how the United States will pay for health care in the coming decades, but rather on targeting innovations that will make health care both more affordable and more... View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
A group of Chinese tourists visiting the promenade in front of Pudong's skyline. Source: Richmatts When F. Warren McFarlan and a small group of HBS colleagues arrived in Beijing in July 1979, they stepped off the plane into a country struggling for a toehold in the... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
In the opening minutes of the only classroom video ever made of the man widely recognized as the world's leading authority on case-method teaching, Professor C. Roland ("Chris") Christensen carefully arranges desks in an empty seminar room. In a voice-over,... View Details
- 02 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
What Makes a Good Leader?
When discussing business leadership, a distinction is often made between good management and good leadership. Managers are thought to be the budgeters, the organizers, the controllers — the ants, as one observer puts it — while leaders are the charismatic, big-picture... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg & Susan Young
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
New Paths to Success in Asia
Businesses in the Asia-Pacific region today are caught up in a dizzying swirl of economic, cultural, political, technological, and social change. Enormous opportunities await managers who can harness these power currents to drive their businesses forward, but their... View Details
Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg