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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
right. After HBS and a year at Burlington Industries, I bought Bishop Manufacturing Company, a medium-sized, high-volume, custom-window manufacturer. I was 20-something and had no money, but armed with my HBS pedigree, a presentation, and a good View Details
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
academic economics department. Amazon is far from alone in this trend. Some 50 tech companies “have been snapping up economists at a remarkable scale,” says Michael Luca, the Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business... View Details
- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
Enter the concept of the "channel steward." The Real Wal-Mart Effect Critics are lining up to take shots at Wal-Mart's treatment of workers and a host of other alleged knocks against society. But the critics miss one View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Blog
HBS Online and Executive Education Leadership: Q+A with Patrick Mullane and Luis Viceira
to, in some cases anyway, components of integrated blended offerings. It made sense to think of it all as a unified whole rather than two separate lines of business. Luis Viceira (LV) (Senior Associate Dean, HBS online and Executive... View Details
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
1999 by chairman and CEO Michael Bronner, had all the scale anyone could ask for: to create a national customer-loyalty program (like airlines' frequent-traveler mileage points) which would pay consumers rebates on their shopping—not in free flights View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
microscope by thousands of HBS students, tell it like it was and relate what they’ve learned and what they believe about being a leader. Toby Johnson Putting Her People First Whether leading in military or civilian life (bottom, at... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
paradise enjoyed by Turtle Island Resort's fourteen guest couples. Fourteen couples, fourteen private beaches, each with its own cottage, or bure, designed and constructed according to the standards of traditional Fijian craftsmanship... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 09 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Manager in Red Sneakers
than those who dress conventionally. “You're saying, 'I'm so autonomous and successful that I can afford to dress in a nonconforming way'” Think Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in his hoodie, or the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs in black... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
kid-pleasing category of electronic toy. The LeapPad took the dusty, flash-card connotations out of the term “educational toy” and launched a new, highly successful product line of “smart toys.” LeapFrog did what no other new player in... View Details
- 19 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
Energy "Every sector needs leaders aware of the causes of climate change and focused on mitigating its effects. Whether reducing greenhouse gas emissions, protecting natural resources, or supporting other causes, a multidisciplinary... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
"Every sector needs leaders aware of the causes of climate change and focused on mitigating its effects. Whether reducing greenhouse gas emissions, protecting natural resources, or supporting other causes, a multidisciplinary movement of... View Details
- 17 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
Partners and Families Are an Integral Part of the MBA Experience
big factor for us when socializing.” Even without the new complications Covid-19 has inflicted, creating a meaningful HBS social life while managing family time requires students to be a little creative. Kuni Kambe (MBA ’21, Old Section... View Details
- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
members of the collective, Hill rejects the idea that they should be chosen in order to conform to a freeform type of corporate structure, a "one big happy family" mentality. People in organizations of collective genius, she insists, need... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
chapters in seminars. That so enormous an achievement was the product of lonely research tells what a great scholar Schumpeter was."4 The design of Business Cycles—a three-country study of the United States, Britain, and Germany, covering the whole capitalist... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 13 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Blending my Tech and Managerial Mindsets
you arrived at HBS? My goal in life has always been to walk the fine line between technology and management. Throughout my career I've been in roles that embodied both mindsets – some purely technological (as an engineer) and some purely... View Details
- 30 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism
growth in the future? What aspects of the system at the level of firms, industries, nations, or multilateral institutions might cause serious difficulties?" The principal response is summed in the book: "Market capitalism has proven to be... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
there's a big difference between being nice and being kind. Ruinous empathy might be nice, but in the long run it's profoundly unkind. That radical candor is the kinder way to be. Skydeck is produced by the External Relations department... View Details
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
one line and say, some onions, some beef, some this and that, and cook for 10 minutes or whatever. It's very simple, and I couldn't really follow it. So I said, look, I'm going to go home and actually study... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
and in some strange way I felt like I even let God down. Like I thought he must have wanted me to keep the company in line with the founder or at least in terms of how you treat people, integrity and all.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Well Matched
or job descriptions. Every day, new opportunities are coming up at Serena Ventures; we’re thinking of multiple timelines and different lines of business. I might get a text from Serena about a deal we... View Details