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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup
image by Edmon de Haro So you have an idea for a new business, product, or service. What are you going to call it? As any cash-strapped entrepreneur, product manager, or “creative” will tell you, that decision can be critical when it... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Facing Ambiguity
video interviews and audio reenactments of meetings that take them from the shuttle’s launch to Day 8. On that day, a critical Mission Management Team (MMT) meeting determined that foam strikes that had occurred during the shuttle’s... View Details
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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
e-business to significantly strengthen the critical relationship between the business and its customers. @hoc’s Persistent Communications technology creates a continuous Channel of communication between a company and its customers.... View Details
- 11 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
powerful, fundamental leadership strategy is being largely overlooked. It is, in fact, the most innately human one: Be kind. According to a recent Gallup survey, less than half of employees (45 percent) feel strongly that their employer View Details
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around the world in every industry including for profit and not for profit. Culture Our Executive Education staff are very dedicated and care deeply about the quality and success of our programs. They have a great sense of pride in the... View Details
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
including commercial banks, investment banks, hedge funds, and private equity funds. Representing one of the largest DIP loans in history, this financing was considered critical to the company's survival. One unique and controversial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
him. They still run the company, and they also manage a household that includes their three children. Execution Is Critical Entrepreneurship is difficult even when the idea is great, the teams are complementary, and conditions seem ideal.... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
Leading People debuted in July 2020, and Leading Learning will launch in July 2021. The program was inspired by findings from an HBS alumni survey indicating that alumni care deeply about public education. The survey inspired HBS senior... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
goals for Arctic research is to put in place an environmental observing system that helps us understand changes in the Arctic, a critical component of the global system. We can’t get a fix on climate change just by focusing on what comes... View Details
- 28 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews
Some reviewers are always critical and leave worse reviews on average; others might always be positive, fawning over every restaurant's spaghetti or tuna sub. Still others are erratic, showing little predictability in how they review.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
In Brief
Q&A with Daniel Vasella. Initially regarded by critics as too inexperienced to lead a major pharmaceutical company, Daniel Vasella (PMD 57, 1989) has set a new standard for innovation as CEO of Novartis. The Winning Season. Last year, St.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Developing Insight that Has Power in Practice
senior associate dean for research. “That’s the promise of HBS. The world’s problems are becoming increasingly complex and don’t lend themselves to one type of research. Our faculty employ constantly evolving methodologies to address topics of View Details
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
and emotion is, thus, critical to designing organizations, control systems, and governance structures that promote desired behaviors. Teaching Purpose: Some model of human nature, implicitly if not explicitly, guides any manager's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Happy Monday
Illustration by Fabio Consoli Illustration by Fabio Consoli The co-CEOs noticed it right away: Early in the pandemic, staffers at the online children’s clothing company Primary.com were struggling when they logged back into Zoom on Mondays. People were not recharging... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity
internships that, as with previous internships, proved pivotal to her career. As a 2016 HBS Summer Fellow, for instance, Kyarisiima received the critical financial support she needed to focus on a fledging business venture that she had... View Details
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
abstract available. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/213051-PDF-ENG Kirkpatrick Corporation Hawkins, David F. Harvard Business School Case 113-070 No abstract available. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/113070-PDF-ENG Social Media in Health View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
supplies, food, and other essential commodities. They’re doing everything from providing critical funding to donating space for medical services, as the ICCP Group did when it offered its property, the World Trade Center Manila, and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
along that road: Aim High, Team Up, Fail Well, Learn Fast, and Repeat. This path is not smooth. To illustrate each critical step, we look at real-life scenarios that show how teaming to innovate provides the spark that can fertilize... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise
creating social value. As long as an organization creates significant social value, we don't care how it sustains itself—with internally generated surplus or with donor funds. Americans give roughly $300 billion a year to nonprofits, yet... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
defining societal issue of the 21st century. The debate over “who gets what’ underlies policy debates ranging from taxation to health care to wages and permeates society at all levels, attracting increasing interest from policymakers,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne