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Entrepreneurial Sales 102: Building, Managing, and Scaling the First Sales Team as a Founder, Investor, or Advisor - Course Catalog
manager, product manager, salesperson, or sales manager. The course is geared toward entrepreneurial settings, specifically execution required by the founder, investor, or advisor. However, the best practices are applicable to larger... View Details
- 13 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
Following My Dream: Launching a Venture
solving last mile delivery to cryptocurrencies, but finally decided to make employees happier and healthier by creating the first fully-automated, free-standing smoothie machine for offices. It combines my passion with my skillset. Recruiting a team and putting the... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 01 Jul 2013
- News
The Nature of Business
learned at Harvard and at Goldman Sachs," he recalled. "Viewing nature through the lens of basic business principles—maximize returns, invest in your assets, manage your risks, diversify, and promote innovation—can open the door for View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence
there’s so much talk around automation, but I would encourage people to pause and reconsider that. It’s actually much more about growing the business. I think of AI as, first and foremost, increasing productivity and driving revenue. For... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
a firm practicing by-product synergy is that quantities of the primary product and by-product are linked, with production of the primary product defining the upper bound of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Rock 100: The Summit - Entrepreneurship
Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers , Geoffrey A. Moore Eager Sellers and Stony Buyers: Understanding the Psychology of New-Product Adoption , John T. Gourville The Innovator’s DNA , Dyer et. Al Organization... View Details
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Books - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
activity-based costing (TDABC), an easier and more powerful way to implement ABC — revealing inefficient processes, unprofitable products and customers, and excess capacity. The authors also show how to use TDABC to link strategic... View Details
- Web
Public Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
partners take on riskier projects? And how do we navigate obstacles to that? We consider whether lean startup techniques can be applied to these efforts. Opportunity. How can businesses bring new products... View Details
- 29 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Leni Peterson R. (MS/MBA 2023): Solving Big Problems Through Entrepreneurship
Who are you & what are you building? I am Leni Peterson R. (MS/MBA 2023), CEO and cofounder of Celeste. My background is in Mechanical Engineering and Human Centered Design, product leadership, and innovation consulting. I am originally from Mexico City, the... View Details
- 11 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 11
shadow banking system-are outweighed by the risks inherent in this new approach to credit delivery. 2006 Harvard Business Review In Search of a Second Act: Riding the Popularity of a Great First Product Is Easy; Finding the Next One Is... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
Tough Tech Ventures - Course Catalog
strategies and tactics for managing risk vs. reward. Historically, most entrepreneurship courses (at HBS, and elsewhere) disproportionately focus on consumer- and /or software-centric business model and product experimentation tools... View Details
- Profile
Nelson Yuan
Symantec in the Bay Area, where he will help manage a new enterprise product focused on storage software. “In the future,” he says, “I’m leaning more toward established companies right after graduation,... View Details
- 02 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories 2007
shows how one of the forces that threatens established companies can also be a source of salvation: disruptive change. Plus: Innovation worksheets. Bringing 'Lean' Principles to Service Industries Toyota and other top manufacturing companies have embraced, improved,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation
party offering starkly differing prescriptions for growth, it’s more important than ever to understand how political leanings shape the business, the workplace, and beyond. “Political homogeneity of executive teams in the US has become... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 03 Apr 2013
- What Do You Think?
Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?
them, Sheryl Sandberg (COO) has written a book, Lean In, about which everyone seems to have an opinion. It coincides with the actions of Marissa Mayer to discourage telecommuting at Yahoo!, where she recently became CEO. The intent here... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos
lean advertising. (Other lean advertising techniques include do-it-yourself content, crowd-sourced talent, and do-it-yourself distribution—also known as inbound marketing.) "It turns out that while getting... View Details
- 11 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
a medical device engineer working on products for Operating Rooms and Intensive Care Units. I came to school passionate about access and equity in health care, and curious about systemic barriers to resources that allow communities to... View Details
- 15 Mar 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: What's the Next 'Big Thing' in Finance?
strongly lean toward those. Question: How important is advertising for big companies? Cohen: Advertising is a lifeblood for corporations, even though how they’re doing it changes over time. They used to use billboards and newspapers; now,... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Class Day & Commencement
prevailing conditions. “In good times and bad,” he counseled, “it's wise to remember to lean against the wind.” Whitehead concluded by noting the trend among companies toward greater social involvement and responsibility. “I believe your... View Details
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Anthony Martore
In my Technology and Operations Management (TOM) course during the first semester, we stepped outside of the classroom and completed a two-day live simulation resembling a factory assembly line. We organized production groups of eight... View Details