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- 01 Dec 2015
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Leading Boston and Beyond
or public sector positions, giving those organizations the opportunity to use the managerial and analytical skills of a MBA to build capacity. Since the program’s launch in 2002, the City of Boston Mayor’s...
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- 10 Mar 2021
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
companies in South Africa and abroad, and sheds a light on the harsh realities of corporate environments. Drawing on her years of experience and research, the author argues that many young Black professionals struggle early on in their careers as they lack the...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (MBA 1978) (Harvard Business Review Press) Part of a manager’s job is making tough calls, and the hardest challenge can be resolving “gray area” problems, situations where analysis of the facts and data fails to provide a clear answer. Gray...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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Building a Better MBA
skills tied to specific disciplinary knowledge that are increasingly vacuous and superfluous.” And HBS professor Rakesh Khurana contends that many business schools have been complicit in creating recent corporate scandals by turning out...
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- 01 Dec 2012
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50 Years & Counting
Bazerman observes, there is an ethical dimension to this as well. "If managerial and executive decision-makers are acting with bias, but without their own awareness, they're engaging in unethical behaviors," he says. "I would not call...
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- 01 Jun 1997
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Ronald P. Mitchell
Ron Mitchell says his most valuable learning experience at HBS did not take place in the classroom. Rather, it emerged from his work as student government president. "That's where I learned about working with people in a political and professional environment and about...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Oct 1998
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New Releases
business? Howard Raiffa, the Frank Plumpton Ramsey Professor of Managerial Economics, Emeritus, at HBS, is a pioneer in the development of decision and negotiations analysis. In Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions,...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
Foundation in Singapore. Charleston, A Novel by Margaret Bradham Thornton (MBA 1986) (Ecco) Faculty Books Managerial Accounting: Making Decisions and Motivating Performance by Srikant M. Datar and Madhav V. Rajan (Prentice Hall) This...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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Minding The Gap
leadership and managerial skills at the district level is critical to improving public education," explains Senior Lecturer and William Henry Bloomberg Fellow John Kim, who will take over as PELP's cochair...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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Rethinking the MBA
heights? Datar: There is no question that the need for people with leadership and managerial skills is greater than ever. So on the one hand, demand is terrific. But on the other, we’re seeing all the issues...
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- 01 Oct 2000
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Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
to give our clients immediate access to cutting-edge solutions and technologies in the field. How must organizations change to remain competitive in the new economy? Organizations need to transform themselves in several ways, and they need to start with their core...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
over, certified that ethical boundaries were being respected.” Massie was learning a lot, too — not only a greater comprehension of the business process and ethos, but also the managerial skills that have...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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Marked Managers
They became skilled at watching the bottom line, managing scarce resources, and forming relationships with government and business organizations outside the company. At Abbott, young MBAs most often were placed in sales. As a result, they...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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MBAs on a Mission
shelter during his undergraduate studies had whet his appetite for volunteerism, so when his managerial background landed him “the world’s best Peace Corps assignment,” he was more than ready for the adventure. Murphy was assigned to the...
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- 28 May 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
neighbors. Bulletproof Problem Solving: The One Skill That Changes Everything by Charles Conn (MBA 1990) and Robert McLean Wiley Complex problem solving is a critical skill, and necessary to keep up with rapid change. But this kind of...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
things," says Greg Thompson (MBA 2005), CEO of the Tennessee Charter School Incubator, which provides managerial training and school launch support for charter school leaders. "Now we need systems to make sure high-quality people have the...
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- 01 Sep 2006
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Light Years Ahead
team, an experience that convinced him that he needed more management skills. By his own recollection, he was virtually “clueless” about the very special place to which he was heading. His application to the MBA Program caught the attention of View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
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Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
field is also pronounced: A recent report by Catalyst, which studies women in business, found that only 18 percent of newly minted women MBAs worldwide take managerial jobs at tech companies (including information technology among a wider...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Lords of Strategy
the best can be fairly hermaphroditic creatures, one minute exhibiting a professor’s passion for the great clarifying concept, the next displaying sales skills worthy of a street hustler. Among my contentions is that it was this very...
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- 25 Feb 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
women from diverse backgrounds united in their conviction that positive change is possible. When traditional approaches are inadequate or resisted, advanced leadership skills are essential. In this book, Kanter shows how people everywhere...
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