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  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Leadership Transition for External Relations

goal. In the years since, her work with the ER team to strengthen our fundraising enterprise and grow annual giving through the HBS Fund has built a strong foundation to support the School’s core activities... View Details
  • 10 Jan 2023
  • Op-Ed

Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage

recognize how the sum is greater than its parts. While each team member played a role in your efforts, it is almost always how the team worked together that led to where you... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • Web

Business History - Faculty & Research

production technology who used attorneys in connection with his patenting work at a time when Japan was still in the process of formally institutionalizing its patent attorney system. In accordance with Lamoreaux and Sokoloff's... View Details
  • Web

My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back - MBA

I will be working with various groups including clients, peers, and other stakeholders, and I plan to lead with vulnerability and authenticity in a way that helps me build trust with people early on. I will also continue to build a... View Details
  • 27 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Horrible Boss Workarounds

On film, few characters are more obviously villainous than the extremely bad boss. There's Star Wars' Darth Vader (who manages a disrespectful underling by strangling him with his mind), Katharine Parker in Working Girl (who shamelessly... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Oct 2022
  • Op-Ed

Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

around certain issues than the average partnership. I have worked with incredibly endearing and high performing cofounding teams made up of siblings, married couples, and BFFs, but I have also seen these... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • Web

Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

subsequent chapters describe how leaders at firms such as Du Pont, IBM, and Cemex have transformed their organizations, exploring issues such as the role of the senior team and the ways in which firms shift their identities, build... View Details
  • March 2024
  • Case

Nomad: A License to Bank

By: Paul A. Gompers and Pedro Levindo
In late 2023, Lucas Vargas, CEO and co-founder of Nomad, a fintech that offered financial services in the United States for Brazilian residents, had to decide what to do to ensure the company’s continued expansion. Nomad launched its first product, a U.S. digital bank... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Startups; Customer Satisfaction; Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Banks and Banking; Initial Public Offering; Global Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Organizational Culture; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Innovation and Invention; Strategic Planning; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Vertical Integration; Leadership; Law; Banking Industry; Technology Industry; Service Industry; Brazil; United States; North America; Latin America
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  • March 24, 2014
  • Article

Like a Boss: How Corporate Negotiators Would Handle Nuclear Talks With Iran

By: James K. Sebenius
While the Obama team deserves high marks for launching the interim talks, its approach doesn't sell the upside of a comprehensive deal persuasively enough to transform more Iranian skeptics into active supporters—a necessary condition for success if there is an... View Details
Keywords: Negotiations; Nuclear; Conflict Resolution; Winning Coalition; Blocking Coalition; Strategy; France; Germany; Iran; China; Great Britain; United States; Russia; Negotiation; International Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Public Administration Industry; France; Germany; Iran; China; Great Britain; United States; Russia
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  • 17 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 17, 2015

right strategy to grow the club. He wondered if the “moneyball” approach—when a smaller team competed with wealthier teams by using statistical analysis to buy undervalued assets and sell overvalued... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Aug 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

introduces new role models and mentors from the outside for those who are growing. More than 30 employees. As managers start working for you, you need to trust them as leaders of their own teams and, similar... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • November 1998 (Revised July 2012)
  • Case

Explo Leisure Products

By: Richard G. Hamermesh
Tim Trowac and Dave Rahall, two former investment bankers, skillfully execute the leveraged buyout of a golf ball recycling company after working intensely on their due diligence, writing a business and financial plan, and developing the investment memorandum. Six... View Details
Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Leveraged Buyouts; Business Plan; Performance; Management Teams; Business Strategy; Financial Strategy; Business and Shareholder Relations; Green Technology Industry; Sports Industry
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  • 05 Dec 2022
  • Research & Ideas

5 Companies Where Employees Move Up the Ladder Fast

Competitive Advantage Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: iStockphoto/FangXiaNuo View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 21 Oct 2022
  • Research & Ideas

People Trust Business, But Expect CEOs to Drive Social Change

Public trust in business remains relatively unshaken amid economic turbulence and a lingering pandemic, even as faith in the media and government falters, but leaders could do more to address social issues, a new global opinion survey shows. However, not everyone... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
  • 16 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

Insights and Inspiration: A Look Back at the Summer Venture in Management Program

experience, expand my knowledge of business and leadership education, and enhance my tangible skills that could be applied to my future work experiences. What surprised you the most about SVMP? I was most surprised by the authenticity of... View Details
  • 11 Aug 2015
  • Blog Post

From Britain to Boston: Two Years at HBS

originally from the seaside town of Torquay in England – is heading to Houston this fall to work at McKinsey. Here’s what she had to say about her time at HBS. Why did you decide to come to HBS? When I visited the campus to interview I... View Details
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Online Leadership and Management Courses | HBS Online

Certificate Courses (8) Leadership Principles Professors Joshua Margolis & Anthony Mayo Learn to bring out the best in others by applying and adapting your leadership style and managing the conditions that drive team performance. 6 weeks,... View Details
  • Blog

What Can You Do to Foster Gender Equity?

usual—after all, assessing your own biases and shifting the way you think and act at work can be hard. By doing your part to close the gender gap, however, you can help your organization hold onto talented women and ensure that each View Details
  • 05 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: January 5

  Working PapersThe Global Networks of Multinational Firms Authors:Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen Abstract In this paper we characterize the topology of global multinational networks and examine the macro and micro patterns of multinational... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Jul 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?

Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade.... View Details
Keywords: by Alvin Powell, Harvard Gazette; Energy; Industrial Products; Auto; Green Technology