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cpd@hbs.edu Phone 1.617.495.6232 Hours of Operation Mon - Fri, 8:30am - 5:00pm Follow Us On LinkedIn Insights & Advice Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017) Becca Carnahan 04 JUN 2024...
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- 06 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness
When American companies move pieces of their operations overseas—often because manufacturing and labor costs are much cheaper—they run the risk of moving the expertise, innovation, and new growth opportunities just out of their reach as...
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- 17 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve
the role that your product might fill in the future. If you were coming up with a new restaurant reservation system, this may involve a phone conversation with the party needing a reservation and having you do the actual booking for them,...
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by Julia Austin
- 16 May 2023
- HBS Case
How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’
and antipathy, having bounced from one private equity owner to another four times, ran deep. The strategy demanded that Stavros deeply engage with the operations to discover pain points, like inefficient delivery routes and wasted scrap...
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by Avery Forman
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
whether improvements to firm operational efficiency aggravate or alleviate the impact of disruptions. Improved operational efficiency may leave firms more exposed when a disruption occurs, or it may improve...
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Carmen Nobel
- 07 Jul 2022
- HBS Case
How a Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Startup Melted Down (and Bounced Back)
people who were not well-matched to their roles. “Particularly after they raised their second round of funding, they really struggled to find the right financial folks to come in, the right operational folks, and even at the level of the...
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by Pamela Reynolds
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/118090-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 718-486 AT&T: Managing Technological Change and the Future of Telephone Operators in the 20th Century By the 1930s, AT&T dominated the American...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
In Full Flower
At Bloom & Wild, delivering a joyful experience that fits through a letter-box door slot (Courtesy of Bloom & Wild Group) When Aron Gelbard (MBA 2009) cofounded London-based Bloom & Wild in 2013, he did so with a specific goal: to make sending (and receiving) flowers...
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Japan - Global
had recovered from a major scandal and reinvented Olympus’s purpose, governance, portfolio, organization structure and operating model. When asked if he could have done any better, he laughed with a humble smile. "There's no 'perfect' in...
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Summer Fellowships | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
in Dar Es Salaam that operates a chain of day care centers for low-income families. I worked on a number of projects over the summer including building out KPI reporting dashboards and creating business processes around inventory, fee...
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- 22 Nov 2023
- News
So You Want to Join a Startup
pretty regularly from folks saying, you know, I'm thinking about taking a job at a startup and, or I'm leaving my company. And do you think I should exercise these options? I Literally would spend an hour and a half on the phone with...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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Game On
It’s raining in Sarasota. And not a light sprinkle but a proper, Florida drenching, so the outdoor courts at the Pickleball Club’s Lakewood Ranch location are deserted. Inside is a different story. Most of the 12 courts are in play. With four people to a court, all...
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- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets
console platforms are vertically integrated into hardware, whereas most operating system vendors for PCs (Microsoft), PDAs (Palm), and mobile phones (Symbian) have preferred to rely on third-party competing...
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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
For 17 years, Andre Kearns (MBA 1999) has been tracing his family tree. One by one, he has added branches, grounding himself in a long and sometimes complicated lineage. Through family stories, forgotten heirlooms, and vital records, Kearns has traveled back through...
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- 01 Oct 1997
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J. Hughes Norton III
Norton is seated in Congressional's main dining room, his cell phone close at hand. As senior vice president in charge of golf operations at Cleveland-based International Management Group (IMG), the world's...
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Garry Emmons
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Winners & Success Stories - New Venture Competition
wine, and spirits). The business also includes a retail store featuring take-out desserts and signature ingredients. Finale operates four units in and around Boston. Global Citizen Year Abigail Falik, MBA ’08 Global Citizen Year is...
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- 27 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
My Week at Harvard Business School's Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP)
directors stressed that we must manage our time well in order to finish reading the 2-3 cases assigned each night to prepare for each day of class (14 cases total!). The case method approach to learning proved to be incredibly enriching and engaging. During class time,...
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Health Care - Faculty & Research
during inclement weather. Oppenheimer opened his phone and sent an urgent meeting request to OCTF to see what further adjustments could be made to alleviate this problem. Keywords: Health Care; Operations...
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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
Jessica Tisch (JD/MBA 2008) has a problem. And she couldn’t be happier about it. It’s a chilly February morning in Lower Manhattan, and Tisch, who was appointed commissioner of the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) last April, has only hours to pivot the world’s largest...
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