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- 05 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity
mental models of what an industry is or should be, and so you're likely to see much more creativity in their definition, if you will, of a new market. It's extremely difficult to have enough self-awareness as a company to understand how...
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- 08 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know
caught up in bits and bytes and microprocessor architectures is to embrace the concept of abstraction. Abstraction means substituting a simplified model for the full and technically complex reality. It acts as a filter, enabling “MBAs...
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- 30 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Driving Social Impact Through Consumer Behavior: Nonprofit to Finance to Retail with Nicole Krantz (MBA 2022)
immersive experiences, and technology into the in-store shopping experience, Krantz had an excellent model for her proposal while also incorporating deep research into the golf sector specifically to create something tailored and...
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Retail
- 20 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)
concrete business model from scratch, skills that can be applied to any sector. Further, the HBS case method helped build my confidence and communications skills beyond the classroom, especially how to listen and act on varied, sometimes...
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- 01 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
An Aerospace Engineer Provides a Lift for Underrepresented Innovators and Entrepreneurs
and was accepted into the program, which would be a transformative experience that set her on a trajectory to the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences program at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Harvard Business School. At Goddard, the...
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- 04 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Energy and Cleantech: Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office
motivators, and preferences for the type of skills you want to build, problems you want to solve, business models you want to understand, and environment you want to work in. What you come up with can be thought of as your ‘career...
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Harvard Business School and Polaroid - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
91 Ron Fierstein notes in A Triumph of Genius: Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War that "the formula for accomplishment [Land] practiced throughout his life—creative wonderment and intellectual curiosity followed by inexhaustible effort—remains a View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
strength and performance, with the goal of preserving and extending patients’ independence and functionality. Blum, who has served Cytokinetics in various roles since its launch in 1998, is quick to point out that the company’s business View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
the board model in a very fundamental way, I believe we’re kidding ourselves. Is it likely that somebody who isn’t a financial expert can show up six times a year and really understand Citigroup? In an attempt to head off the next...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
be invited to more parties or other cool events. What got you interested in this research? I've always been fascinated by the entertainment industry. I was trained as an empirical modeler—I develop econometric models to analyze data....
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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Leading the Way
offering users the opportunity to more easily find and connect with other alumni. The new website will also highlight stories of alumni—as well as faculty and students—and showcase the difference they are making in the world. The Importance of Innovation NN: The...
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- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
value proposition to maximize value creation for both consumers and the luxury brands that supported the business model. The jury was still out on whether a rental model could attract higher income women who could afford to buy luxury...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
the last decade is the dramatic increase in the number of companies concerned with corporate social responsibility, and the resultant rise in the range and variety that such efforts have taken. From "old" models in which companies either...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
believes that all of St. HOPE's other activities—economic development, civic leadership development, and the arts—are interdependent with transforming urban education. Raises questions of growth, including the challenges of replicating a View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
focused on IT businesses and involved male protagonists. Mends thought it would be exciting to explore a wider range of model companies and leaders, and Koehn, whose work has often focused on entrepreneurs in unconventional settings,...
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- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
ordinary decent people who got lucky. However you might admire his achievements, would you really want to be the total celebrity CEO or just the parts about wealth and winning? Is there a single model out there that can make these...
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by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
forming a new national stock exchange, leading early IPOs of Indian companies like Wipro and Infosys, and overseeing early diversity and inclusion initiatives in her role as head of HSBC India. After retiring in 2015, Kidwai co-founded the India Sanitation Coalition,...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
the industry. Because, Williams's thinking went, the next step for DART was to implement a whole new model for drug development—one where a biotech company is funded by investors but driven by the very people benefiting from the outcomes:...
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- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
recognized the urgency for a change in its business model from the traditional “Windows first” strategy, with its reliance mainly on the sales of on-premises licensed software. Thus, the company began to shift its strategy to an “AI/cloud...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
Individuals' voting preferences are modeled using a random-coefficient aggregate discrete-choice model, in which we incorporate both observed and unobserved individual heterogeneity. We find that different campaign activities have...
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Sean Silverthorne