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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Whale Wars
fleet quit midway through the season, catching only 170 whales versus its much larger target catch of around 1,035. Through it all, Antarctica was breathtakingly beautiful, with icebergs framed in turquoise and air so clean your lungs...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Turning Point: One Step at a Time
Carol Dweck has framed it. So I decided to figure out how to be athletic. My first visit to Shad involved a miserable 13-minute mile around the track while getting lapped by a former Olympian. On my second visit, a classmate, alarmed by...
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Christina Wallace (MBA 2010)
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Courting the Poor
consumers at the bottom of the pyramid. “We used to think we could figure things out in the developed world and dumb it down for emerging markets,” she says. “In fact, it needs to happen the other way around — the bottom of the pyramid insists upon it. If we View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
full-time employees, the new factory will add another 50 people per shift, doing everything from laser-cutting steel frames to inspection, painting, general assembly, and quality testing. The company worked with contract assembly to build...
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Amy Yee
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
HBS Introduces Global Networking through Technology
is a real-estate developer in Singapore. What's the quickest way to get in touch with her? By late spring, your friend the real-estate mogul may be only a few computer keystrokes away. That's the time frame for the introduction of the new...
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- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Ink
Reading “For those who love history and like thinking about why our American system (with all of its flaws) kind of works, these two books help to frame how lucky we are and why the way we do things in the United States does not work so...
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- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
by Cook’s business philosophy, and still others simply received the question. WHEN CEO ACTIVISM INFLUENCES POLICY POSITIONS Overall, respondents’ support for the Religious Freedom Restoration Act was significantly lower when the question was View Details
- 09 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Career Advancement Without Experience
stretches a worker in a new direction. Framing and bluffing. "This is one of the most creative attributes for obtaining stretchwork," O'Mahony notes. "People who are good at presenting their prior experience in a way that...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
tools, expediting the time frame and accuracy of results. Using genomics and machine learning, Day Zero Diagnostics (DZD) and Aikili Biosystems aim to save lives. “A common reaction to our venture is that it is ‘ambitious.’ Clearly our...
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Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Admit It: You’re in Denial
The question did not make either man suddenly smarter. Denial is not as much about IQ as it is about point of view. What Grove’s question did was to strip away his and Moore’s self-impos-ed blinders. They could look at the issue with a new View Details
- 22 Mar 2017
- Blog Post
3 Lessons I Learned as a Social Enterprise Summer Fellow
career path, a few lessons stand out. 1. Fall in love with a problem Largely due to HBS’ social impact efforts, I’ve shifted the way I frame my career thinking. Rather than solely defining my career search by function or company, I think...
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- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
on mainframes. DEC moved up-market with a much lower cost structure and eventually attacked IBM. In the newspaper industry, we saw that firms can overcome this resource commitment problem by recognizing the challenge and framing the...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Ink: Comfort in Discomfort
The Excerpt The past or the future. Personal gain or the greater good. Consistency or change. In their new book, Both/And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems, co-authors Wendy Smith (PhDOB 2006) and Marianne Lewis point out that...
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- 22 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Leading in Tough Times: HBS Faculty member Amy C. Edmondson on Psychological Safety
not be afraid of sharing their opinion, insights, and concerns. A leader can start to shift the way employees think by framing the work ahead as a learning problem and making it clear that the group needs everyone's brains and voices in...
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- 31 Jan 2018
- Blog Post
Tiffany Nida’s Amazon Journey: “I Continue to Grow Because They Keep Giving Me Responsibility.”
practical advice. “Articulate what you want to accomplish and what you need from your company to make it happen. Framing your requests is the hard part: you want to make your needs actionable by the people you’re talking to.” For...
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Harvard Business School
but have managed to think and plan wisely and astutely just ahead of our times."36 067, 117, 149 As a result of her business education, "I started framing myself as a business woman," remarked A. Sims Cooledge (HRPBA 1957). "I also...
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Scaling Technology Ventures - Course Catalog
founder and CEO, a functional leader, or an investor, cases in the course frame many of the critical opportunities and challenges associated with activating exponential growth and managing through the extrapolation phase as a venture...
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- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria
Nohria: The key moment really came when we clearly framed the question, "What basic mental drives do all humans have as members of the same species?" Once the question was sharply posed and carefully considered, drawing on our...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
My Summer as a Venture Capitalist
felt my job was to support entrepreneurs. Even for entrepreneurs with whom we wouldn’t make an investment, I found myself giving a lot of advice and feedback. “While this isn’t the right fit for us because of x, I want to be helpful. When you talk about y, you may want...
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Venture Capital / Private Equity
- 21 Jan 2016
- Blog Post
HBS and the Arts
would delve into. Art became my portal to everything: history, philosophy, science, far away cultures, and those closer to home. Through the works we studied, framed by our collective perspectives, I was able to explore all facets of the...
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