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- 20 May 2019
- Blog Post
Makeup: How Kenya Hunt Transformed Her Career Through Cosmetics
degree, Kenya dove into career research, confident that there was a cosmetics firm out there that would appreciate her ability to conduct R&D – a foot in the door that could lead to more advanced View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 30 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networks in China and America
and the United States differ is to examine how managers from these two countries trust members of their network, an endeavor that Chua has undertaken with Columbia Business School professors Michael W. Morris and Paul Ingram. "The View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
years, but there continues to be a wasted opportunity to think about workplace design more strategically. I see executives fall into two patterns: The first is the older generation of executives who are... View Details
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
did you focus on those people who carry out "necessary evils" in the workplace? Joshua Margolis and Andrew Molinsky: We became interested in necessary evils because students in our undergraduate, MBA, and executive education... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Early Impact
changing needs of the School. Three new building projects focus on Executive Education, recognizing the growing reach and impact the School is achieving through the more than 8,000 participants who come to campus each year. Tata Hall... View Details
- 05 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities
individuals in any given field," said Hirshland. His advice? Develop the ability to identify opportunities and judge character; over time, you can focus on various specialties and sub-specialties and hone your knowledge of these... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard
school year, and participants can immediately apply what they learn,” says Grassa O’Neill. “Programs such as these demonstrate Harvard’s growing ability to integrate and deliver multidisciplinary knowledge to help leaders meet their... View Details
- 20 May 2020
- Blog Post
Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12
when Surette joined TB12 he was focused on bringing in adaptable and talented business leaders who could develop a strategy for growth and execute on that strategy. Peters was a key addition to a team that started with 5 employees and has... View Details
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
of what it takes to launch the business? Do women invest less because they lack confidence in their businesses or the size of the opportunities? Do they have reservations about their ability to see the venture through hard times? Is their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
lot has changed in the automobile business since Mark Fields (MBA 1989) was a young man growing up in Paramus, tooling around in his ride (full disclosure: his mom’s 1976 Chevy Caprice) on his way to becoming a rising executive on the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
Tool Kit executive education program. Her books include The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Business Law, 2nd Edition (Thomson South-Western, 2003). What do managers need to do to become more legally astute? Legal astuteness has three components:... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
Former Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer, Hazleton Laboratories Corporation Former President, Seattle School Board Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION University of Washington, 1960 B.A., Business... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
William F. Connell (MBA '63)
expensive, and many observers were questioning the ability of this country to compete in the world economy. Convinced that the postindustrial era had arrived in America, the chairman of the Ogden Corporation, a giant New York-based... View Details
- 21 Feb 2007
- Op-Ed
What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish
poverty line. And yet, more than a trillion dollars has been spent by bilateral and multilateral organizations since World War II to try to alleviate this problem. The funds that were supposed to help improve people's lives have often been lost to governments that lack... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson
- 20 Apr 2015
- Blog Post
India Conference 2015
startup ecosystem in general in India, as one that is rapidly learning, adapting and surviving. He emphasized the need for a single-minded focus on execution and reacting deftly to succeed in such frontier and nascent businesses. Mr.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Case Study: Golden Ticket
long-term “strategy” is fun to talk about but rarely works out the way you planned it. I would focus on proving out the revenue (and profit) model and trying to get to cash flow breakeven by delighting the 200 customers. After executing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
identify the characteristics of successful enterprises and leaders in this realm. The nearly 100 academics, business practitioners, and nonprofit executives from fifteen countries who gathered for the event examined the operational and... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
had nothing to do with the trouble. Because the scandal effect is lasting, a company you left long ago could have an impact on your current and future job mobility, not to mention your compensation. Overall, executives who suffer from the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-124.pdf First-Party Content, Commitment and Coordination in Two-Sided Markets Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Daniel Spulber Abstract We study the effect of two-sided platforms' ability to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
Working PapersIf You Are So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? The Effects of Education, Financial Literacy and Cognitive Ability on Financial Market Participation Authors:Shawn A. Cole and Gauri Kartini Shastry Abstract Household financial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace