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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online

conditions 6-7 hrs Module 5 Ecosystem and Ethics Understand the unconscious and systemic biases in the startup ecosystem and assess a business model’s impact on society . Highlights Bailey Richardson, former Instagram Community Team... View Details

13 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas

R&D also come with more investment risk. While science-based patents are more likely to have higher values, they are also more likely to be total flops. In efforts to commercialize novel science, R&D teams often fail to replicate... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

25 Aug 2014
News

Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983

says, noting that “long-range plans don’t usually work out,” and observing that in his career he has focused on building things in a different way. “I have spent 30 years working with some of the most talented people in industry—our CEOs and their View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

01 Jan 2002
News

Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)

us to hire consultants who have little interest in self-aggrandizement," he wrote last year in the Harvard Business Review. "We must hire people who are team players, who get more pleasure from the group's success than their own... View Details

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Online Business Courses for Organizations | HBS Online

Social Join a global community of business professionals. Ask questions, collaborate, and share experiences and expertise across industries. Find the Right Program for Your Organization Corporate Solutions Invest in your team with... View Details

June 2014 (Revised February 2017)
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Kathy Giusti and the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Joshua D. Margolis and Matthew G. Preble

What do you do when your rising professional career is cut short by an unexpected cancer diagnosis? Kathy Giusti shifted careers, built a new organization that transformed how cancer research is done, and now faces the challenge of sustaining the organization and its... View Details

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23 Mar 2012
HBS Seminar

Dan Kahan, Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology at Yale Law School

24 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software

communicate with each other on the large-scale—particularly, the global scale—necessary to share such information.” Security of individual accounts. Of the 10 most-used software packages in the analysis, the CII team found that seven were... View Details

Keywords: by Frank Nagle and Jenny Hoffman; Computer

20 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting the Marketing Mix Right

individual-level choice behavior to be recovered from the data," according to the researchers. The team tested the new model by looking at the marketing of prescription drugs, namely, statins, used to lower cholesterol levels in... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

10 Jul 2007
What Do You Think?

How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?

excites, and pushes the team or, you could say, choreographs an output that (moves) the company towards the vision." The mix of control, delegation, and theater employed by successful leaders depends on the timing and circumstances... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

13 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

responsibility for the problems, often as a result of the direct or indirect pressures they put on their people. Authentic leaders find ways to resolve this struggle. Expressing humility is a great skill because it not only brings leaders closer to their management... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Oct 2001
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Guy de Chazal: Changing Focus

"but it needs the support of a solid management team at a fairly early stage in the company's evolution." Having reached the top echelon of a profession that has been both financially and personally rewarding, de Chazal is at a point in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

18 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education

innovation, which is our field of specialty, proved a great way to help us do just that." Christensen, Horn, and Johnson recently teamed up via e-mail to answer a few questions from HBS Working Knowledge on the best paths to better... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

19 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Company Loyalty

skills such as creating television ads and public-service announcements by joining teams formed to serve new accounts. 3. Focus on relationships. For many employees, loyalty is born or cemented through relationships with supervisors and... View Details

Keywords: by Lauren Keller Johnson

08 Mar 2021
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International Women's Day Featured Stories

and work with my team to help where we can. I have tried to stay motivated and to be thankful, even when things did not look so bright. I must confess that last year I felt all sort of emotions: I was scared, nervous, worried and even... View Details

04 Nov 2015
What Do You Think?

Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?

(Danielle); “Winning in this age requires more cross-disciplinary thinking... Women, in my experience, are better thought integrators.” (Allison S. A. Graves); “Many studies suggest that women tend to score higher on tests of social sensitivity than men do ... great... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers

this business issue, members of Fuller’s team surveyed two groups. They asked 301 human resource leaders and business owners in the United States how they approach caregiving benefits. And they asked 1,500 employees who provide or... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

09 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government

organization was not eligible to receive nonprofit status—which meant donations would not have been tax-deductible and likely caused many potential donors to not contribute. "The One Fund team made it known we would proceed without... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

06 Nov 2018
Research & Ideas

8 Ways to Make Olympic Stadiums Useful After the Games End

Stadium (with 85,600 seats) was reconfigured into Turner Field, capacity 50,000, over a period of seven months and a cost of $200 million. The retrofit worked well for 20 years, when the site served as home to the Atlanta Braves baseball team. However, it failed to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Sports

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