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Lessons Learned in the Company of Great Women

Allison O'Kelly | Posted 04.22.2013 | Business
Allison O'Kelly

There is much value in opening our minds and learning from others, and then sharing the wealth and wisdom.

A Trend That Could Change Everything, Collaborations Across Generations -- And What It Means for Causes, Nonprofits and Social Enterprises

Jeffrey Walker | Posted 06.19.2013 | Impact
Jeffrey Walker

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.

The Day Women Took Over Harvard Business School

Grown And Flown | Posted 06.09.2013 | Women
Grown And Flown

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.

Connecting the Worlds of For-Profit and Nonprofit for the Greater Good

Rachael Chong | Posted 06.02.2013 | Impact
Rachael Chong

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...

Ready to Reinvent Yourself?

Kare Anderson | Posted 05.15.2013 | Business
Kare Anderson

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.

Luring More MBAs to the Social Sector

Laura Moon and Margot Dushin | Posted 05.14.2013 | Business
Laura Moon and Margot Dushin

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.

Save the World With Collaborative Leadership

Jeffrey Walker | Posted 05.11.2013 | Impact
Jeffrey Walker

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.

My Loss: Whose Gain? A Case of Disappearing Stock

J. L. Morin | Posted 01.03.2013 | Business
J. L. Morin

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.

LOOK: The Best Business Schools

Posted 11.20.2012 | College

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is solidly the best business school in the country, according to Bloomberg Businessweek's biennial ...

Extreme Productivity Is Extremely Useful: Book Review of author Robert Pozen

James Grundvig | Posted 01.19.2013 | Books
James Grundvig

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.

Are Business Schools Clueless Or Evil?

blogs.hbr.org | Posted 11.15.2012 | College

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...

Censored: Top 10 Pics Too Hot for Campus

Greg Lukianoff | Posted 01.12.2013 | College
Greg Lukianoff

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...

Most Working Women Are Put in a Bind, Not a Binder

Beverly Wettenstein | Posted 01.05.2013 | Women
Beverly Wettenstein

Women deserve pay parity, not parody in comic binders. Study the candidates' voting records on issues important to working women and our families.

Students At Romney's Alma Mater Prefer Barack Obama

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 11.01.2012 | Small Business

Mitt Romney's alma mater apparently would rather see President Barack Obama get reelected. Roughly two-thirds of Harvard Business School's students...

Talk, Talk, Talking...

Juliet Asante | Posted 12.29.2012 | Politics
Juliet Asante

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...

Who's in Charge of Your Strategy?

Cynthia Montgomery | Posted 12.17.2012 | Business
Cynthia Montgomery

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.

WATCH: 'Businesses Are Tired Of Being Seen As The Problem': Harvard Prof

Posted 09.18.2012 | Impact

Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter believes that America is failing to compete. The prolific author and leader of Harvard's Institute...

Did Tyra Really Graduate From Harvard?

The Huffington Post | Meredith Bennett-Smith | Posted 10.27.2012 | Style

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...

Semantics, Or Deception: Tyra Banks And The Story Behind Her Alleged 'Harvard Degree'

The Huffington Post | Meredith Bennett-Smith | Posted 08.28.2012 | College

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...

Before You Sign Up for that Extra Week of Camp…

Karen Dillon | Posted 08.12.2012 | Parents
Karen Dillon

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 and How Will You Measure Your Life?

Robert Teitelman | Posted 07.22.2012 | Business
Robert Teitelman

Clayton Christensen may be inspiring, but teaching folks how to value and measure their lives is a stretch.

Entrepreneurship Program Offers Financial Aid To Female, Minority Startups

Posted 05.16.2012 | Black Voices

Despite their $1.1 trillion worth of buying power, African Americans are still largely underrepresented in the business sector when it comes to owners...

Jonathan Schlefer's The Assumptions Economists Make

Robert Teitelman | Posted 07.10.2012 | Business
Robert Teitelman

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.

Space Means Business? Space: The Business Frontier at Harvard Business School

Zoe P. Strassfield | Posted 07.08.2012 | College
Zoe P. Strassfield

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?

Is Harvard Business School Sexist?

Poets and Quants | Posted 07.01.2012 | College

The student newspaper at Harvard Business School reported today (April 30) that an off campus sexual assault on an unidentified MBA student is prompti...