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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
acknowledged place in the business world. Yet any entrepreneur can attest to the creative power required to build an organization where none existed before. “Look, I made a hat /Where there never was a hat,” sings Georges Seurat in the... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: About a decade ago, Neil Pasricha (MBA 2007) was in a pretty dark place. His marriage was falling apart, he just lost his best friend to suicide. So he started a blog as a way to document... View Details
- 16 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #9: Shelly Xu (MBA 2021) Reducing Waste Through Beautiful Design
eliminate wasted fabrics. “I want to eliminate waste from the past and waste from the future by creating new clothing designs from leftover bolts of fabric that would otherwise be thrown away.” – Shelly Xu (MBA 2021) Shelly Xu is a 31-year old whirlwind. While studying... View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?
objectives on which these kinds of actions should be based? Can organized labor form the necessary kinds of alliances with business and government that might be necessary to, in Pinel's words, "address the contemporary issues of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
advantage and market outcomes hence could be more efficient with stronger indirect network effects. We empirically examine the competition between the Xbox and PlayStation 2 consoles. We find that Xbox has a small quality advantage over... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
Starting a successful business is often considered the hardest thing entrepreneurs do—but growing an existing venture may be even more difficult. Many companies get stuck on a plateau that inhibits their ability to grow: a scale stopper.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
Dishonest Self-Reports Authors:Lisa L. Shu, Nina Mazar, Francesca Gino, Dan Ariely, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract Many business and governmental interactions are based upon trust with the assumption that all actors generally comply with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
that process, and uneconomic decisions are made, often involving subsidies to make up for manmade market imperfections. What’s to be done to encourage investment in low-wage workers, the question of the month? SayHowItReallyIs made several suggestions: (1) “Fund... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Feb 2016
- Op-Ed
The Real Jobs Tragedy in the US: We've Lost the Skills
With a final deal reached on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), prepare for another cacophony of protest in Congress that America is signing away jobs to other parts of the world. The naysayers will be overlooking one small fact. Even... View Details
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Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog
the alignment of tactics required to drive performance across a range of business activities. Case Students will develop implementation approaches for existing business problems in each module. The course... View Details
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Commencement 2017 Address | About
Commencement 2017 Address Play As prepared by Dean Nitin Nohria, 25 May 2017 Class of 2017, friends and family, and members of the Harvard Business School community: Good afternoon and welcome. The Class of 2017 has witnessed, during its... View Details
- Profile
Brian T. Bedol
For Brian Bedol, the founder and CEO of Bedrocket Media Ventures, entrepreneurship was deeply engrained from his childhood in Cleveland. Bedol’s father founded a successful small housewares manufacturing and metal stamping View Details
- 23 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
variety of choices, so they can pick the activities that appeal to them, she says. And if a business is going to spend money on a wellness strategy, the company should test it out with a small group of... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Tyler Teykl (MBA 2017)
community. We had a mission – love on the people of the small community and serve them by drilling a freshwater well to provide sustainable, safe water. After a long week and two unsuccessful dry holes, we secured a clean water source. As... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Missing the Wave in Ship Transport
Like investing in a mansion when the real-estate market is at its peak, buying a dry bulk ship in a boom time is a terrible long-term investment, according to new research that predicts cycles in the shipping industry. The contrarian research results out of Harvard... View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet
process that comprises many small projects, that evolves to meet the emerging demands of the ever-changing marketplace, that allows for frequent experimentation, and that delivers value on an ongoing basis. "Several decades ago, we... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
Former Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer, Hazleton Laboratories Corporation Former President, Seattle School Board Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION University of Washington, 1960 B.A., Business... View Details
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
long-term study of successful CEOs, some of them outlined in the August 2008 Harvard Business Review article, "The Uncompromising Leader," cowritten with Russell A. Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, Tobias Fredberg, and Flemming... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
With cross-sector collaborations on the rise, a new book exploring partnerships between business and social organizations in the Americas comes at just the right time. Social Partnering in Latin America: Lessons Drawn from Collaborations... View Details
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Commencement 2019 Address | About
Commencement 2019 Address Play As prepared by Dean Nitin Nohria, May 30, 2019 Graduates of the Class of 2019, friends and family, and members of the Harvard Business School community: Good afternoon and welcome. Commencement is perhaps... View Details