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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
technologies seldom make sense to managers, given their corporate perspective. There are two reasons for this. First, customers exert tremendous influence over managers' decisions and the directions they pursue. Since customers cannot use these products when they first...
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- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
exit, output, and R&D. Taxing the continued operation of incumbents can lead to sizable gains (of the order of 1.4% improvement in welfare) by encouraging exit of less productive firms and freeing up skilled labor to be used for...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
the co-founders and co-CEOs of salaUno, Javier Okhuysen and Carlos Orellana, were encouraged by the results of their fledgling start-up. salaUno was founded as a for-profit enterprise in order to have the capital needed for rapid growth...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
"black box", knowing that the outcome will ultimately be evaluated but with little ongoing feedback to know how it's coming along. Team-level process change isn't just a leadership challenge. It is the responsibility of all members to View Details
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a...
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Commencement 2012 Address | About
ensure, though, that the memory of this week will encourage us to more consistently ask: What is the measure of our lives? As much as my colleagues and I are rooting for you to succeed in your careers, we also want you to achieve...
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Kaki Ettinger
continuing work on in Burbank this summer. HBS offers a unique learning environment that is closing the gap between "school" and "real world" - not only honing skills, but teaching students how to apply them. Above all, the past two years have View Details
- 22 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Balancing the Ideal with the Real: Conveying Corporate Culture to Candidates
drawing upon authentic communicators. “We encourage our interns to rate us on Glassdoor, good or bad,” says Hung. When the company conducts presentations for potential interns, “we always invite second year students to talk about their...
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Consumer Products / Retail
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Laura Arjona
impact of my contribution." Encouraged by friends working in the financial sector, Laura obtained a position at UBS Investment Banking after graduation, staying for two years in the energy group. "When I started, news was just...
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Benjamin Wells
professional. "The first thing that jumps out at me," he says, "is how difficult it is for professors to do. They're masters at soliciting opinions, then circling back forty-five minutes later to ask for elaborations. I'm amazed at their ability to...
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- 13 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Is HBS Cutthroat or Collaborative?
maximizing the quality of our output. While in Cambodia we created a culture that enforced high standards, encouraged questioning and iteration, and supported creative thinking. The result? A happy client, a new group of friends, a...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: On the Fly
industry. Would the industry be best served by a model in which these three entities operate under one umbrella? —Marguerite Soeteman-Reijnen (AMP 190, 2016) CARTY: The growth and development of the airline industry over the last 30 years has been based on deregulating...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Taylor R. M. Keen
environmental improvement efforts. Encouraged by Mankiller, he applied to Harvard as a joint degree candidate at both HBS and the Kennedy School of Government, but deferred admission for a year to help the Omahas reinvest profits from the...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
on preventing them. She outlines five tactics that research has shown to be effective: encourage reciprocity. You can build trust and prompt other parties to disclose strategic information by sharing information yourself. Ask the right...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
making business decisions," observes Lecturer Thomas J. Kosnik, who teaches Entrepreneurial Marketing. "Entrepreneurial Marketing encourages students to embrace analysis and logic while remaining open to the experience of creativity,...
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- 06 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela
because of extraordinary circumstances, he exemplified the characteristics of leadership we value most highly: integrity, morality, compassion, and humility. A truly remarkable voice of our time—one who encouraged us all to be our better...
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- 03 Dec 2019
- News
Two Tales of Connection: Over Meals and Mentoring
To help keep the dinners interesting and encourage alumni of differing backgrounds and experiences to connect, Gupta says each dinner is open to guests according to age groups, with one seat per age group. Building Bridges dinner, HBS...
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Margie Kelley
- 21 Mar 2014
- Blog Post
East Asia MBA Market Update
showing commitment to the region and local knowledge. Malaysia Malaysia aims to become a developed economy by 2020 and as a result it has been undergone major reforms to be more business friendly and encourage increased foreign direct...
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- 20 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Taking Care to Prepare Leaders: Lessons in Leadership Development from DaVita Kidney Care
practice, how should one be designed? Fitzpatrick encourages flexibility. “No one size fits all,” she says. She identifies four common models: 1. Informal Leadership Track: The least formal approach in which, Fitzpatrick says, “There’s no...
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Health Care
- 06 Apr 2017
- Blog Post
3 Lessons I Learned as a Social Enterprise Summer Fellow
HBS experience that encouraged the consideration of social impact while making this career decision. This post was originally published on the HBS MBA Voices blog.
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Nonprofit / Government