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- 14 Apr 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)
new product, or refining an existing process. HBS taught me that creating something new was a possibility and the linear and sometimes obvious path isn’t necessarily the best choice. This lesson not only helps me day-to-day with PowerUP,...
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- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
actually being used in practice and how it can be further refined and improved. That kind of creativity can help companies stay away from the scrutiny of regulators and avoid negative headlines. “Ultimately, the goal should not simply be...
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by Michael Blanding
- 11 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
focused on reducing churn, but we contend the goal should be maximizing profits, rather than only reducing churn. People have been trying to refine and improve the method for the last 10 to 15 years, but many are missing the bigger...
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- 02 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Leading Professional Service Firms
delivering professional services would find this course interesting and useful. EE: Leading Professional Service Firms is fast-paced and intensive. How is the one-week course structured to maximize learning opportunities? Lorsch: We've been View Details
- 04 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
don’t regret chasing joy. I got to refine my business skills while putting them towards a goal that I cared deeply about. I learned that I thrive in settings that surround me with mission-driven people, and I cannot wait to see how that...
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- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
the country, which would exchange students every few months, broadening the opportunities for hands-on, community-based learning. O'Neill and others at the school are at work refining its business and educational model to accommodate this...
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Deborah Blagg
- 04 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS
introduction?” The “spider-web” approach to networking allowed Mbanusi and Sheil to learn, refine their pitches, and build relationships in the investing sector. Ultimately, their persistence and skills landed them internships and...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
of HBS scholars have identified new perspectives for evaluating complex problems, launching new fields like strategy and new concepts like the balanced scorecard in the process. Research infuses our curriculum, where ideas are tested and View Details
- 12 Sep 2007
- Op-Ed
Building Sandcastles: The Subprime Adventure
exacerbated the crisis, by making it hard for the homeowner with a toxic subprime mortgage to refinance to a fixed-rate product or to sell his home. As for bailing out the hedge funds, whose executives earned million-dollar bonuses in the...
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- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
select set of the "top people." Planning for One Strategy is iterative and collaborative, defining a framework for executing on the strategic priorities, while refining the strategy and aligning the organization around its...
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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
basic system of HBS instruction. Doriot based the class on lectures (students were asked to listen and take notes, but not ask questions) and fieldwork. Teaching this single class for nearly 30 thirty years, Doriot continually reflected upon and View Details
- 14 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Global Business Code
The team then refined the survey and since 2006 has administered it in 11 cohorts of AMP participants to nearly 900 executives from more than 600 companies. (The results of the AMP surveys have not yet been published since this phase of...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
indirect. While end-users don't know which browser other users are using, the developers of the content that make the browser so useful do care that everyone is using a similar browser. Q: So Firefox and other new browsers, no matter that they have new features and...
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- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
endogenous two-way feedback between credit market sentiment and credit market outcomes. This feedback arises because investors’ beliefs depend on past defaults, but beliefs also drive future defaults through investors’ willingness to View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
exercise that helps them refine their elevator pitches and better understand several key marketing principles. Leads to an engaging and thought-provoking discussion. Purchase this case:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
focused on helping nonprofits operate more effectively by adapting private- sector management practices. SPNM was developed both to share that information with nonprofits, which could test and refine these methods, and to provide faculty...
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- 04 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought
along the edge of the screen, scanning for a byline. He quickly spotted one: Veronica Perez. "Ms. Perez," said Barton to himself, "Who are you?" Swirling and tapping thumb and forefinger across the tablet's display, he generated a list, View Details
- 05 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Changing Face of American Innovation
U.S. inventors can be refined down to the 1992 Chinese share of IBM's inventors in Silicon Valley working in semiconductors. This exceptional detail, especially within individual firms and schools, allows us to answer many more questions...
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- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Let Customers Call the Shots
continuously advertise them. There is really no room for consumer empowerment when consumers make themselves too predictable. —Luc Wathieu In a time of recession, the waste of marketing dollars will become an issue again. We can expect marketers to be increasingly...
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by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?
U.S.-Canada relations. "Every Republican and most Democrats in the Midwest want to approve Keystone," Vietor said. "It will create 7,000 temporary jobs, 400 permanent jobs, and 2,000 related jobs as well as provide a million barrels of oil every day to...
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