There is much value in opening our minds and learning from others, and then sharing the wealth and wisdom.
Today's B-school students and recent graduates are eager to connect with experienced business people and work collaboratively on the big social issues of the day, from poverty and health care to education and the environment. These collaborations can be extraordinarily powerful.
Spending two days with younger alumna has shown me how far women have come in business education. Going back to see the progress the school has made, has led me to believe that I am welcome at the table that you began setting for me and all the women of HBS half a century ago.
Robert Kaplan has spent his career bridging the gap between the two worlds, and showing that both kinds of companies can learn from each other to maxi...
How does a behind-the-scenes news reporter morph into a public speaker? By stumbling around several times, in my case. That's because Dorie Clark had not yet written Reinventing You. She could have saved me some time.
The barriers that prevent students from making social impact career choices are real: positions that do not effectively leverage the MBA skill set, careers that lack investment in professional development and growth potential, and pathways that require vows of poverty.
We still have a lot to learn about how to create long-lasting, cross-cutting, highly effective collaborations. New models are being devised and tested every day. But there's no doubt that collaboration will be key to the future survival and success of humankind.
Since when is stock something that you have to check on every year? Stocks are touted as instruments that you put away and forget about while they grow. Not so, the representative said. If the bank cannot verify your whereabouts, it turns the stock over to the government.
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is solidly the best business school in the country, according to Bloomberg Businessweek's biennial ...
What is a professional who gets phished, wastes time, and loses his edge on being efficient supposed to do? Read business productivity expert Robert Pozen's book Extreme Productivity.
The last decade has been a one of soul-searching for business schools worldwide. Since the collapse of Enron, through the financial crisis, to the ins...
In my new book, Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate, I wanted to include a section with all of the pictures that have...
Women deserve pay parity, not parody in comic binders. Study the candidates' voting records on issues important to working women and our families.
Mitt Romney's alma mater apparently would rather see President Barack Obama get reelected. Roughly two-thirds of Harvard Business School's students...
Generally I'm very interested in the political process. I remember being invited to sit in on the "Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer at CNN's New York...
Only you can be the steward of your business's future. No one else can shoulder the overarching responsibility of setting its course and seeing the journey through.
Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter believes that America is failing to compete. The prolific author and leader of Harvard's Institute...
Tyra Banks is many things. The international super model, media mogul and Forbes Magazine's highest-paid woman in primetime in 2009 is pretty busi...
Tyra Banks is many things. The international super model, media mogul and Forbes Magazine's highest-paid woman in primetime in 2009 is pretty busi...
With the best of intentions, we hand our children off to a myriad of coaches and tutors because we think they will best prepare our kids for the future. But this can come at a high cost.
Clayton Christensen may be inspiring, but teaching folks how to value and measure their lives is a stretch.
Despite their $1.1 trillion worth of buying power, African Americans are still largely underrepresented in the business sector when it comes to owners...
This isn't heading to the bestseller lists -- but so what? Schlefer is waving a flashlight beam in a musty attic. As Alan Greenspan's public persona suggests, economics takes a perverse pride in obscurity and opacity.
I'd never heard of a space conference for business majors before. How exactly would students in BU's School of Management or the equivalent elsewhere explore space?
The student newspaper at Harvard Business School reported today (April 30) that an off campus sexual assault on an unidentified MBA student is prompti...
