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06 Feb 2013
What Do You Think?

Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?

stock went up 10 percent in the first hour after the market closed and the earnings were announced." This is a product of a philosophy that employees are critical, because they basically run the business. Working in teams in the company's... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jan 2013
News

André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973

wanted to go back to Brazil because at that time the country was really booming," he says. He was soon put in charge of developing the bank's leasing company. During his 10-year career at Unibanco, he quickly rose through the company, View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

04 Feb 2021
News

Andy Jassy Named Amazon’s New CEO

Amazon announced this week that Andy Jassy (MBA 1997) will take over the role of CEO from founder Jeff Bezos later this year. Jassy has been with Amazon since 1997 and currently runs Amazon Web Services, which the Wall Street Journal... View Details

02 Jun 2016
Blog Post

Applying to the JD/MBA Program

pursue an MBA to gain both (1) substantive perspective on how to run companies and (2) qualitative perspective on how to lead. In the long term, the types of organizations I hope to help lead are those focused on impact, so I also decided... View Details

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Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online

for my team and how we communicate with our customers has begun to shift. Paige Peterson Sales Manager, Western US at Coravin, Inc. As a consultant running a boutique management and technology consulting practice, I have already started... View Details

18 Jul 2019
News

Lessons from the Rise and Fall of VisiCalc

launching VisiCalc, the world’s first independent software company and the first spreadsheet program for personal computers. The program came with a $100 price tag, but people were so eager for it that they also bought an Apple II, to the tune of $2,000, in order to... View Details

05 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software

Linux without contributing. Learning by contributing When a programmer or engineer runs into a problem or an opportunity to improve the Linux Kernel code, they generally suggest a change to a Linux “maintainer”–an experienced user who... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Computer

Research Summary

Management Control Systems in Multiunit Companies

By: Tatiana Sandino

Professor Sandino conducts research on early-stage multiunit companies that introduce management control systems to help maintain operations, as well as company culture, as they grow, but also to enable adaptation to the different markets that they serve. Building... View Details

06 Sep 2022
Blog Post

To Go-Go: A Foodtech Startup Serves Up Scale in Latin America

operations, analyzing what is already available for delivery in target markets and mining its own data to see what works and what doesn’t. “We run A/B testing around price, around pictures, around menu descriptions,” says Izquierdo. “We... View Details

18 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask

serving as vice chairman before leaving the firm in 2005. "I went from being a junior person to running a large business in what seemed like a nanosecond," he says. "And suddenly more people were watching what I did, and I... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

03 Nov 2023
News

Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum

range of global statistics and to drive home the dire climate situation. “One thing we can’t buy is time,” he said. “We believe we can solve this, but we are running out of time.” Stockholm Climate Leadership Forum HBS Professor and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jan 2011
News

Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977

ran a textile business before taking over Chicago-based Tootsie Roll Industries, which he continues to run jointly with her mother, Ellen Gordon. After graduating from Harvard with a degree in economics, business school was the natural... View Details

03 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First

Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

27 Mar 2024
Blog Post

Video: Inspirational Women in Business

And humility, sharing credit where credit is due, and taking more than your share of the blame. Aastha Bhardwaj: The former CEO of PepsiCo, Indra Nooyi— Veronica Chua: The first woman of color and immigrant to run a Fortune 50 company.... View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

Courses on our course platform are designed to work on an internet-connected desktop or notebook computer running either the Chrome or Firefox browser. Tablet computers and smartphones are not supported for programs on the course platform... View Details

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

but not nearly as dramatic as a computer produced in 2000, which runs 10 million times faster than a 1960s' computer. Carr's graph on information technology stands as a subject lesson for Darrell Huff's well-known book How to Lie with... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

14 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World

presaged a world that is “volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous” —VUCA, for short. VUCA describes perfectly what is happening in the global business world today. Business is not running as usual. Leaders must deal with growing... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

01 Dec 2022
News

My First Job

Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Ross MacDonald Here’s the humbling truth: no matter how high your career soars, how many awards you win or companies you sell or differences you make in this world, everyone has to start somewhere. And in those first... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

31 Jan 2014
News

Body, Heal Thyself

BANCEL Throughout 2009 and 2010, Stéphane Bancel (MBA 2000) had received upward of 20 calls from biotech companies asking him to come aboard and lead the company. It made sense. He was a highly recruited CEO successfully running... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon; biotech; Health, Social Assistance; Scientific Research and Development Services

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Which HBS Executive Education Program is Right For Me?

understand which programs will run during a certain time. Our Program Schedule is a useful way to see the full portfolio of programs in a specific subject area and provides an overview of our full year of programming. As a team, we're... View Details

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