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- 18 Nov 2016
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Making a Fast Start on a New Job
Manager (Like Bill Belichick)? Few of us want to take less money to move to another organization, but research shows hooking up with the right manager—whether in sports or business—can quickly increase your... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Online Personal Branding Course | HBS Online
the sources, benefits, and components of a successful personal brand Define your purpose and values and communicate their distinction to others Turn common personal branding pitfalls into opportunities... View Details
- Web
Strategy for Entrepreneurs - Course Catalog
and predictions about how a firm can make money by solving a problem that the market has yet to solve. As with any new idea, knowing with certainty if your startup idea will work is impossible. Worse yet, a startup idea is a bet with an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
aspirations, serve as stewards who know the organization in all its dimensions, and make decisions that create value for all stakeholders—owners, employees, customers, and society. The goal is not just achieving short-term success but... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
value in the nonprofit, private, and public sectors. Over the years, interest among faculty and students has steadily grown, says Childress, who served as SEI’s executive director for four years before joining the faculty. Since the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
and suddenly, there's no doubt it's the 1990s: "Mr. Davis, how much money do you make? What kind of car do you drive? How many houses do you own?" It's a fact of life these... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Cathy A. Nichols
keeping an eye on capital costs are among the major challenges ahead. Of her goals, Nichols observes, "My desire is to build something I'm proud of - an excellent management team, a great product, and a... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 12 Apr 2011
- News
Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS
is an exclusively Canadian service that helps savvy consumers save money on gift cards and provides a secure environment to exchange unwanted gift cards into cash. Superdome offers the first Building Integrated Photovoltaics worldwide to... View Details
Keywords: Multiple alumni
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
This year’s recipients of the School’s highest honor have made remarkable contributions to their companies and communities while upholding the highest standards and values in everything they do. “These five... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 11 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?
understanding others' needs and creatively forging compromises. In Schwartz terminology, they tend to be "satisficers" who are generally content with the outcome of a negotiation that meets basic criteria, even if it leaves View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 02 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
Built to Last or Bought to Sell?
stimulated by advocates of agency theory over the past two decades. And it brings to mind the old Milton Friedman axiom that the business of business is to make money... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
2008, Macridis wondered if it wasn’t a sign of things to come and decided to borrow money that he didn’t need. Later, when sales dropped 40 percent and capital controls gridlocked the banks, the company was... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 08 Sep 2016
- Blog Post
4 Unexpected Things I Learned at HBS
and Operations Management (TOM). Many perceive the necessity to ask for help as a sign of weakness in today’s society. I find this not to be true. Asking for help signals you trust someone else’s capacity on a View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- News
Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
says Felipe Ortiz-Monasterio (MBA 1977), who was among the founders of the nongovernmental organization and is currently chair of its finance committee. With that straightforward pitch, the upstart Fundación... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
for the number and cost of the services they provide rather than by the value of those services in helping patients. In short, medical professionals make View Details
- 11 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
often fail to take into account the complete value of the customers they are trying to retain. "What's missing from traditional methods is that they focus only on a customer's likelihood to churn, but not on... View Details
- 16 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part
help communities of color.” One of the issues ARF plans to help tackle is recruiting, hiring, and supporting diverse workforces. Kevin noted, “It’s not just giving money or... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
University, withdrawal rates dropped by 56 percent, pass rates rose 11 percent, and 45 percent of the class finished four weeks early. RANGE: Virtually any subject (e.g., Biology, Chemistry, Economics,... View Details
- 07 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips
loved her job and did not want to make the sacrifices a promotion would entail, she was overcome by a sense of contentment. Balancing inside and outside pressures when choosing a career is a monumental task, but the first step is... View Details
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
economic and social value. The goal of the corporation is to add value to employees, customers, suppliers and other partners, and community/society. These CEOs and the companies they lead make decisions with... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace