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- 20 Apr 2021
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A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success
New Video: Books@Baker Interview with Felix Oberholzer-Gee Click to watch. Some companies gain advantage by commanding premium prices. Others lean on their world-class talent. But, a small slice of companies manages to do both—and dramatically outperform peers. What...
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by Danielle Kost
- 14 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures
distress prevalent among Chinese women. MOONWISE intends to produce bite-sized courses for teenage girls and provide training for teachers and parents. Clockwise from top left: Rea Savla, Sophy Wang, Benjamin Schedl, Teresa Danso-Danquah...
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- 01 Jan 2004
- News
D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954
Ron Daniel told graduating students how to tell if they were in the right job. "You have to want to run to work at least four days out of five," he advised. As a consultant at McKinsey for almost fifty years, twelve of them as managing...
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- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win
each individual. It is uneven and unstable; it's never frozen at a moment in time. It is both rational and emotional. In the interviews they have conducted so far with successful people—those deemed by their peers to be in the top of...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when...
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- 28 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
Empowering Future Leaders: Meet the HBS Women’s Student Association
finance, and many more. Our second Female Founders Pitch Competition awarded $15K to the top three winners, amongst five final teams who pitched to 3 female VC judges. NEW WSA Fall Retreat This year, we brought back a dearly missed...
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- 02 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters
vertically integrated GM, he was creating an industry.) The problem here is that attempts to gain strategic leverage by assembling disparate companies are idiosyncratic. Despite the players' sizes, this is entrepreneurial activity in progress, and success View Details
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by Joseph L. Bower
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
enthusiasm for the course may have been motivated in part by current events: The first year there were 30 students; a year later, after receiving a top student rating, Moss faced significant overenrollment. But Moss’s enthusiasm was for...
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April White
- 11 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why South Korea's Samsung Built the Only Outdoor Skating Rink in Texas
featuring music by the local symphony as 250,000 Christmas lights lit up the county courthouse. Then revelers could head to the Samsung Ice Skating Rink, the only outdoor venue of its kind in all of Texas—which also happened to be located View Details
- 28 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration
interested in improving their conversation styles to create higher quality collaboration. Francesca Gino, the Tandon Family Professor at Harvard Business School and author of Rebel Talent, began researching the conversation styles of effective leaders after hearing...
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by Kristen Senz
- 06 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge
barriers tend to get in the way: lower-performing employees are too reticent to ask for help, or higher-performing employees are reluctant to give it. “This suggests that performance is more malleable and can be changed if you give people the View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- Profile
Brandon Tieu
revamp others. Your days consist of learning from top CEOs, a vibrant community of 900+ classmates, and renowned professors. What is your most memorable classroom moment? One of my most memorable classroom moments came early in the year...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Guy de Chazal: Changing Focus
accent and direct, engaging manner, he comes across immediately as the kind of person who is accustomed both to doing things right and to doing the right thing. Over a late afternoon cup of tea in a...
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Deborah Blagg
- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
modern-day sales management. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity: Kristen Senz: What shifts in sales should managers and executives be aware of right now? Frank Cespedes: Prospects are now online and offline throughout...
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by Kristen Senz
- 13 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?
behavior bubbles below the radar An employee may not come forward right away to expose wrongdoing at a corporation for many reasons. In the absence of directly observing egregious behavior by a particular individual, an employee may not...
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- 18 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?
are still out there swinging are getting a lot done and creating a lot of value." Crypto can have that same dynamic. On top of that, it’s more uncertain which technologies are going to be long-run successful. And then, on View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Home Base
can do some really focused thinking.” What she’s reading: Everything. “My bedside table is an overgrown heap of books, because I’ll get several chapters into one and then go into another, because I’m so excited about it.” At the top of...
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April White
- 10 May 2019
- Blog Post
Advice for Mothers Pursuing an MBA
the foundation on top of which we built our extraordinary experience. If you have a partner, working together will be essential. Logistics for the kids is the immediate second layer: figure it out as soon as you can and connect with...
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Sergio Velasquez-Terjesen
Australia, but he seized an opportunity to change the culture of ConocoPhillips itself, becoming the co-founder of the company's first LGBT employee group. Over the course of four years, Sergio and his colleagues moved ConocoPhillips' Human View Details
- 27 Oct 2015
- News
Sweet Success
agriculture, and Lydia had a background in the food industry. “It seemed a good match,” he says. “And if you do it right, harvesting maple sap is a totally sustainable agricultural practice.” Good Timing and Good Chemistry Doing it right...
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Deborah Blagg