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- 13 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?
them beyond what’s done by traditional academic papers. This article originally appeared in the HBS Alumni Bulletin. You Might Also Like: How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact 9 Tips from an Expert Fundraiser: Help... View Details
- 21 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Common Strategy Mistakes
profit. I believe that many companies undermine their own strategies. Nobody does it to them. They do it themselves. Their strategies fail from within. Then there is the host of strategy killers in the external environment. These range from so-called industry View Details
Keywords: by Joan Magretta
- 01 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making
Everest, several climbers, including two of the world's most experienced professionals, died in part because junior team members didn't speak up when their expert leaders ignored their own core operating principles surrounding safety. In... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 16 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advice on Advice
are often most guilty of doing this, in some cases because they actually feel competitive when receiving advice from experts—which may lead them to dismiss the advice those experts are giving. "Powerful people often say to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online
industry-leading experts from companies like Best Buy, Corning, DoorDash, Farfetch, GE, Harkins Theatres, JPMorgan Chase, Quest Diagnostics, Raksul, Ripple, Simon-Kucher & Partners, Tatra banka, and West Monroe Partners. Description of... View Details
- Web
Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni
with experts to gain answers to their toughest questions. Guru Guru makes it easy for quality employers and freelancers to connect, collaborate, and get work done flexibly and securely. Catalant The Catalant platform & programs enable... View Details
- 2013
- Book
What You're Really Meant To Do: A Road Map for Reaching Your Unique Potential
By: Robert Steven Kaplan
How do you create your own definition of success—and reach your unique potential? Building a fulfilling life and career can be a daunting challenge. It takes courage and hard work. Too often, we charge down a path leading to "success" as defined by those around us—and... View Details
Keywords: Career Planning; Vocational Guidance; Job Satisfaction; Satisfaction; Personal Development and Career; Customization and Personalization
Kaplan, Robert Steven. What You're Really Meant To Do: A Road Map for Reaching Your Unique Potential. Boston, MA, USA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2013.
- December 2010
- Article
The Case for Professional Boards
By: Robert C. Pozen
When the world's largest financial institutions had to be rescued from insolvency in 2008, many experts laid the blame at the feet of corporate boards. But insufficient board oversight is a problem that had supposedly been solved in 2002. As the United States... View Details
Keywords: Financial Institutions; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governing and Advisory Boards; Failure; Accounting Audits; Quality; Behavior; Legal Liability; Experience and Expertise; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Performance Effectiveness; United States
Pozen, Robert C. "The Case for Professional Boards." Harvard Business Review 88, no. 12 (December 2010).
- December 2008
- Article
Which Kind of Collaboration Is Right for You?
By: Roberto Verganti and Gary P. Pisano
Nowadays, virtually no companies innovate alone. Firms team up with a variety of partners, in a wide number of ways, to create new technologies, products, and services. But what is the best way to leverage the power of outsiders? To help executives answer that... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Framework; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Partners and Partnerships; Social and Collaborative Networks; Strategy
Verganti, Roberto, and Gary P. Pisano. "Which Kind of Collaboration Is Right for You?" Harvard Business Review 86, no. 12 (December 2008).
- November 2007
- Article
If Private Equity Sized Up Your Business
By: Robert C. Pozen
This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. As the dust settles on the recent frenzy of private equity deals (including... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Capital Structure; Private Equity; Investment Return; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Value Creation; Financial Services Industry
Pozen, Robert C. "If Private Equity Sized Up Your Business." Harvard Business Review 85, no. 11 (November 2007).
- Blog
Recent Insights from HBS Podcasts
isn’t your thing, you can still take advantage of them, as many of our podcasts provide full transcripts as well. Managing Electricity to Meet Net Zero Targets In this episode of Climate Rising, hosted by HBS professor Mike Toffel, two View Details
- 11 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive
Frances Frei, the UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management, is an expert in the intersection of leadership and inclusion. Francesca Gino, the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration, studies how people can lead more... View Details
Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Buy Big, Sell Small
kirana-store experience. “I always wondered why so many kiranas fail, and I decided to dig deeper into that,” she explains. An angel investor in her travel venture introduced Shruti to Manish Kumar, an expert in consumer-goods retailing,... View Details
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Resources for New Alumni - Alumni
HBS credentials and password. CPD on Instagram Follow CPD on social media, where we highlights student and alumni career stories as well as our programming. Programs & Webinars Listen to industry experts and distinguished alumni share... View Details
- 31 Mar 2022
- Op-Ed
Navigating the ‘Bermuda Triangle’ in Professional Services
legal services, Eden McCallum in management consulting, and Gerson Lehrman in expert services present themselves as platforms that bring together professionals and clients. As in other platform settings, scale is important because of... View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda
- 21 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Artificial Intelligence Isn't a Sure Thing to Increase Productivity
prior art existed. Half of the students were assigned randomly to use the Boolean search tool and half to use the machine learning tool. Furthermore, they gave half of each group access to expert advice to help them better craft their... View Details
- 24 Apr 2023
- HBS Case
What Does It Take to Build as Much Buzz as Booze? Inside the Epic Challenge of Cannabis-Infused Drinks
Legalization turned cannabis into a multibillion-dollar industry seemingly overnight, but this hot new market has had more—and more unusual—growing pains than most. Many experts predict significant market expansion ahead as more states... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Vital Signs
DemDx still need to know all the right medical questions to ask, as well as national guidelines and protocols, explains Gresser, who consulted with 200 medical experts in developing the product. The tool puts all of this key information... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
well as Ace Foods, which sells African spices. She is also the founder of African Food Changemakers and an expert on African agriculture and nutrition, entrepreneurship, social innovation and youth development; Runa Alam (MBA 1985), a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Our Brain Determines if the Product is Worth the Price
neuroscientist and assistant professor in the Marketing unit at Harvard Business School, who conducted the research with Baba Shiv, a marketing professor and neuroeconomics expert at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, and... View Details