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- 24 Oct 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?
bad) looks like at scale and possibly a nice brand for your resume. Startups can offer a chance to do all the things that can be either a blessing or a curse depending on your interests. You may miss out on having peers to collaborate with, be forced to look...
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by Julia B. Austin
- 06 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Leaders Lose Their Way
forced to resign for trading in Lubrizol stock prior to recommending that Berkshire Hathaway purchase the company. Examples abound of other recent failures: Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd resigned for submitting false expense reports...
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by Bill George
- 12 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities
but at this stage, if you don’t have the confidence and the right people to do things without you, it will be a rough ride. In fact, when founding CEOs don’t learn to step up into their roles and empower their leaders, investors and board...
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by Julia Austin
- Web
Becoming a Board Member - Alumni
your value statement to align with the board's focus and organization's needs. +–Highlight Relevant Expertise Board experience - for-profit or non-profit Fundraising experience Industry knowledge and contacts M&A experience IPO experience Experience running a company...
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HBR Classics - Alumni
Managing Multicultural Teams, Jeanne Brett, Kristin Behfar, and Mary C. Kern The Art of Truly Developing Global Leaders, Beth Brooke Mentoring and Coaching Coaching the Alpha Male, Kate Ludeman, Eddie Erlandson Why View Details
- 09 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
The No. 1 Character Trait You Will Need to Succeed in Business
in a thriving business when a job offer comes from a company you’ve always admired that’s on the brink of bankruptcy. The risks are tremendous but so are the potential rewards – to you and society. This situation brings to mind the experience of James Mwangi, View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In
In a career spent investing in innovative startups at Intel, leading National Grid’s innovation and investment operations, and founding a nonpro t dedicated to advancing women and minorities to positions of top corporate leadership, Lisa Lambert (MBA 1997) always has...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Bridging the ESG Data Gap
Megan Murday The idea for a digital platform to help venture capitalists calculate, benchmark, and improve portfolio ESG performance crystallized while Megan Murday (MBA 2021) was studying at HBS. Now the CEO of the software startup Metric, she says that “investors...
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Deborah Blagg
- 10 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage
started this journey? Do you feel differently about things (family, relationships, career) or have changed your reaction to certain situations (more/less triggered, sensitive, focused, caring)? The future What new tools do you wish to ADD to your toolbox? For example,...
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by Julia Austin
- Web
HBS - The year in Review
Curriculum Meg Rithmire, Elective Curriculum Charlotte Robertson, Required Curriculum MBA Teaching Award Press Release Wyss Awards For Excellence in Mentoring Professor Michael Norton and Associate Professor Alison Wood Brooks received...
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- 20 Feb 2020
- Op-Ed
Love in the Office Is Wonderful. Except for CEOs.
relationship with a woman employee, decades his junior, whom he met as a mentor to undergraduate students. She became a strategic planner at one of the organization’s branches , and eventually its chief of staff. Both jobs disappeared...
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by Regina Herzlinger
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
and the efficacy of various education to employment programs. He co-hosts the popular Managing the Future of Work podcast, which has been downloaded almost two million times. Prior to joining the Harvard Business School faculty, Joe was a co-founder and long-time View Details
- 11 Jul 2016
- HBS Case
Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities
when the CEO sends out a companywide email, are you supposed to reply? That’s where the soft skills training comes in. After landing a job, Autism at Work participants are given mentors and team...
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- 25 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles
mentoring children. “I volunteered with children in dream deserts whose idea of fun was throwing rocks at cars,” Kam says. “I wanted to broaden their horizons beyond their neighborhoods.” HOME REGION Fort Worth, TX UNDERGRAD EDUCATION...
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- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
flexible arrangements. 4. Recruit and promote from diverse pools of candidates. 5. Provide leadership education. 6. Sponsor employee resource groups and mentoring programs. 7. Offer quality role models. 8. Make the chief diversity officer...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Faculty & Advisors - MBA
imperative to scale beyond a single instance, and to reach more people and urban places. Tom Clay MBA ’97, Harvard University; BA, Mathematics, Princeton University. Tom Clay has 20 years of experience successfully commercializing new technology from research labs,...
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- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Does Spirituality Drive Success?
successful entrepreneurs discussed the role beliefs and values play in keeping grounded among the turbulence and long hours that surround new ventures. Jim Sharpe (HBS MBA '76) , CEO of Extrusion Technologies, said he lives his values,...
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Harvard Business School Announces Its 2023-2024 Blavatnik Fellows - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 08 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated
necessities of social distancing attenuate or alter the traditional organizational levers. Several CEOs observed: “Keeping spirits high in a sales environment. At the moment our sales force has to work twice as hard for a quarter of the...
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 26 May 2016
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes, MBA 1993
equally at home running morning markets meetings with thousands of people—which she does every week—as she is mentoring staff one-on-one. “If I could be a mentor to all 22,000 employees, I would,” she says....
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