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- 01 Jun 2004
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Teaching and Learning Center Established, Honors Christensen’s Legacy
improve teaching across the faculty. The center is named after C. Roland (“Chris”) Christensen (MBA 3/’43, DCS ’53), a much-loved HBS faculty member who had a powerful impact on HBS students and faculty as well as educators around the world during his years at the...
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Tessa Vacher-Desvernais
focus on lean operations.” Her long-term ambitions remain a work in progress. “I’m interested in investing in B2C, maybe a growth fund View Details
- 01 Jul 2013
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The Nature of Business
afraid of the private sector, we're non-partisan, and we like very much to get things done on the ground and in the water. Those are the qualities that have allowed us to grow." Tercek (MBA 1984) shares his successes—such as spending half...
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- 04 May 2017
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How Sheryl Sandberg’s Sharing Manifesto Drives Facebook
she would publish it, but when she woke up, she changed her mind and put it on Facebook. In Lean In, Sandberg had admitted to crying at work (another confession the media jumped on), but this was the first...
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Entrepreneurial Sales 101: Founder Selling - Course Catalog
in frustration and futility. The purpose of this course is to demystify sales and help you understand how to sell products and services within entrepreneurial settings. The course material is applicable whether you become an entrepreneur,...
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Tiera Brown
continue to stay in touch." About HBS, Tiera says that, "I've never been in a place where you could select someone at random and get an amazing story. And the faculty are top-class. They're not...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence
early-stage venture capital firm Glasswing Ventures, Seseri is more focused on today’s “narrow” artificial intelligence: technology capable of mimicking human thought processes and learning when applied to a specific task. “If you go department by department View Details
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April White
- 01 Dec 2013
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Faculty Books
a start-up, discuss lean prototyping techniques for hardware, identify costly outsourcing mistakes, provide practical tips on user acquisition, offer branding guidelines, and explain how a choir of angel investors often will sing...
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- 01 Sep 2024
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Turning Point: Make Your Life Count
Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) We were refugees. Mom scraped together all we had (three suitcases and $3,000) and bundled my three siblings and me onto a plane bound for Idaho. My father...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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Duncan M. ("Greg") Murray (MBA 1964)
two-year-old Hereford heifers to populate the farm my father had purchased just after World War II. We drove; the “girls” took the train. Dad had built a western-style, open-front pole barn in anticipation, and our somewhat skeptical...
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Entrepreneurial Sales 102: Building, Managing, and Scaling the First Sales Team as a Founder, Investor, or Advisor - Course Catalog
presentation by the professor to emphasize the key leanings from the case. More than one unexcused absence will affect your final grade. Entrepreneurial Sales 101 is required as a pre-requisite for this course, as 102 builds on many of...
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- 19 May 2023
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Choosing To Be Optimistic about Climate Change
world is in “a terrible fix.” Yet I came away feeling more determined to lean in to fix it—and optimistic that collectively we would succeed. Jennifer Nash was previously the...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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Case Study: Bionic Banking
result in higher consumer costs and less agility. Alpha Architect’s focus on staying lean and minimizing distribution allows it to serve an account at almost any level, no longer needing to manage $1 million...
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- 17 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos
It probably won't shock you that the most popular YouTube video in the past month was "Gentleman," the latest hit from South Korean rapper PSY, whose "Gangnam Style" is the most-watched video of all time. More surprising: among the other...
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Systems Change Forum | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
their goals. Alternatively, some might lean into their comparative advantage in area, and let go of the other. Three notable tensions 1. How, as an organizational leader, does one navigate resource...
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Contemporary Black Artists at Harvard Business School | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
their own, everything that is prestigious and beautiful. I cannot but repeat that beauty is our business.” In this photograph, a boy named Francis pretends to lean against a painted image of a wooden...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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Turning Point: Ready or Not
was so lost in the black hole of Zoom meetings and other pandemic-related frustrations that it was easy to forget the necessity of showing unqualified love, concern, and attention—the sort of care I remember receiving from my grandmother....
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Brittani Rettig
blogging has led to other opportunities to share my healthy tips and inspirational stories on major media outlets like Good Morning Texas, Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In online community, and on Greatist.com....
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- 11 Jun 2014
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The First Five Years: Brittani Rettig (MBA 2010)
share my healthy tips and inspirational stories on major media outlets like Good Morning Texas, Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In online community, and on Greatist.com. In addition to...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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Case Study: On the Table
—Christian C. Johnson (MBA 1993) Got a case? To take part in a future “Case Study,” send an outline of your company’s challenge to bulletin@hbs.edu From Baker Library: Rethinking the direction of your firm? Discover research by HBS...
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