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Career Coach

Anne Marie Checcone

Anne Marie (HBS '04, Johns Hopkins ‘98) advises HBS students and alumni through professional and personal transitions that impact their career trajectory. Anne Marie helps clients to clarify their professional goals, craft their job search strategy, and navigate a... View Details

Keywords: Fintech; Financial Services (All); Technology

13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth

succeed in that context. The "graduates" of this school would have finely honed operational skills in managing quality programs, process improvement teams, and cost-control efforts. Even the most senior manufacturing executives... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Raynor

01 Oct 2002
News

Books

steps of successful change previously identified in Kotter's Leading Change. (An introductory chapter offers enough background for those unfamiliar with the earlier work to appreciate the instructive and often inspiring anecdotes.) For... View Details

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Weekend Sprint: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Blog - Business & Environment

Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business & Environment... View Details

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Business Track | New Venture Competition

Business Track: Sanso Sanso is helping drug manufacturers produce life-saving biologics more efficiently, in order to deliver cheaper drugs to patients worldwide. Team: Narek Dshkhunyan, MBA 2024; Daniel Erdosy How to Register & Key Dates The key View Details

02 Aug 2004
What Do You Think?

For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?

Summing Up Responses to this month's column raise questions about whether Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, requiring that senior managers certify the integrity of the processes by which their companies' financial reports are... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Profile

Sparsh Bhargava

wastewater and emissions treatment at the silicone processing facility. "Before, they did a lot quality testing," Sparsh says. "We found that they could use a simple equation to balance inputs and outputs that would arrive... View Details

27 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Building Businesses in Turbulent Times

programs to jump-start the search for those innovative opportunities that will enable them to cut costs and restructure in a way that best positions them to lead their companies as well as their industries out of the crisis. Like IBM, they need to embark on cost... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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Field Course: Entrepreneurship through Acquisition (Application Only) - Course Catalog

Financial Management of Smaller Firms (FMSF), 1452. Enrollment by application only: Students enrolled in FMSF will learn more about the application steps from faculty in fall. This course teaches specific practical skills that are... View Details

10 Mar 2021
News

Shattering Glass

downs, all the way from first admitting eight women in 1963 to today. It’s a process for every organization—two steps forward, one step back. And when you View Details

Keywords: April White; gender equity; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

23 Oct 2024
News

Running Man

That’s fine, he reasons. “Achieving the goal is less relevant than the process of trying, because the process itself is enlightening. It’s learning about yourself, learning about what you’re capable of... View Details

Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune; photos by Alison Yin

01 Sep 2015
Blog Post

Building a Startup at HBS

next steps are to ensure we have all the necessary FDA approvals, to get more of our product units into the hands of doctors and nurses in hospitals, and to begin the sales process with the hospitals from... View Details

01 Jun 2006
News

Surviving Success

David Strohm (MBA ’80), a VC advisor on Wily’s board, requested that Cirne step down to CTO and clear the way for an executive with the expertise to lead the company in its next stage of development. After the initial shock, Cirne agreed,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Jun 2003
News

Dean Clark Addresses Journalists

meet market measures of success, he said, sound judgment and principles were suspended by individuals and governance institutions alike. In seeking solutions to these problems, Clark suggested a two-pronged approach. “The first step will... View Details

Keywords: Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

29 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Get Off the Dime!

Using real-life stories, John Kotter and Dan Cohen have identified eight steps toward making large-scale change in organizations. The first step: Create a sense of urgency among the relevant people.In successful change efforts, the first... View Details

Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen

25 Feb 2020
News

Ink: Your Best Self

and peace—came out of taking a big step back and looking at all the different leaders I’ve worked with and the common denominators in terms of successful leadership. My greatest hope with these five principles is that they address the... View Details

Keywords: April White

Portrait Project

Danna Wei

just accept what I learned as truth – it is what it is. I never questioned her process of making dumplings, because it consistently turned out the tastiest dumplings I could find. Yet years later, a simple question between my friends... View Details

16 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Driving Positive Impact on Community and Climate with Ben Schutzman (MBA 2016)

What were you doing prior to HBS? What made you decide to go to HBS? I graduated from Washington University with an undergraduate degree in civil engineering and, just before applying to HBS, I was a management consultant at Deloitte. After taking a View Details

29 Jun 2021
Blog Post

DIVERSIFYING OUR CASE PROTAGONISTS: HOW IS HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL DOING A YEAR LATER?

Knoop, executive director of the HBS Case Research and Writing Group (CRG), which explored the specific challenge of creating organizational processes and infrastructure to sustainably increase the representation of diverse protagonists,... View Details

30 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Diversifying Our Case Protagonists: How is Harvard Business School Doing a Year Later?