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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
20th century at best, if not the first half of the 20th century,” Eykher says. To address the issue of trust, the Open Mineral team verifies the identity of every member and only accepts companies with a good history; they require... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
sexy. He has called in plenty of favors from friends and staffed up by cobbling together a team of freelancers spread across Turkey, India, Greece, the United States, and the Philippines. But like Unger and Lin, he believes it can lay the... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard
Administration at HBS. “This program will help established leaders work more effectively with data science teams and understand how to use new data capabilities to drive strategic advantage.” Participants in HBAP take part in six new... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
business fundamentals. What’s your advice to new CEOs? First, affirm or reaffirm the mission of the company, and reaffirm its fundamental values. Commit yourself and your management team to practice those every day, no matter how much... View Details
- 29 Apr 2021
- News
Equal Partner
daughter of Indian immigrants, Aditya was acutely aware of the inequalities that plague the venture capital world, including the less than 3 percent of VC money that goes to all-women founding teams (a number that is even smaller for... View Details
- 07 May 2020
- News
Ensuring Student Equity
2008, the nonprofit has grown to a staff of 35, who work with 2,500 volunteers each year and 50 partner organizations. Before the pandemic, Grumhaus, a former investment banker at Goldman Sachs and founding team member of City Year in... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
New Releases
materials in their own training and development programs, focus on products covering key topics such as communication skills, change management, customer service, diversity, innovation, leadership, quality, sexual harassment, strategy, supervisory and management... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
December, boost the Virgin name, they also risk one of the company's chief assets, Branson himself, who nearly died at sea during a 1987 attempt. "If I go," Branson observed, "as long as our core team doesn't let the brand down, the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective
hours a day, has a development team instead of a staff, and has no checkout lines. Bricks-and-mortar firms such as Walgreens, on the other hand, must build physical stores and employ and train store staff. Customers have to show up in... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Case Study: Declawing the Competition
and try to build personal relationships with your customers that encourage loyalty. It is not the products that you sell, but the experience and relationships you create. Thus your call center and the quality of the interactions your team... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Trouble in Mouse Land
In 1984, two board members of the Walt Disney Company (WDC) — Stanley Gold and Roy Disney — mounted a targeted campaign to convince major shareholders that Michael Eisner and Frank Wells were the right team to lead the faltering... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Tracking a Turnaround
Levy, who accepted the position in January 2002. “He said, ‘We don’t care. It will be a good case study either way.’” “I wanted to get the unvarnished story as it unfolded in real time,” says Garvin, noting that he and his coauthor, Assistant Professor Michael Roberto,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Think Globally, Teach Locally
was selected as one of the first faculty team members to teach in the new International Senior Managers Program (ISMP), an eight-week Executive Education course that was offered by the School in Vevey until 1983. “It was a remarkable... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
earning Klarman entry into the Alpha magazine Hedge Fund Hall of Fame. The firm has grown from 3 to 100 employees. A consummate team player, Klarman rarely uses his private office, choosing instead to sit at the trading desk where he... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Righting the Ship
Fourth, Shackleton made his men believe that they could do it, that they could all get back to safety alive. How did he do this, create such self-belief in his team and thus make them part of the solution? Partly by his showing up every... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
impact, Huebner and friends created Minds Matter in 1991. In the first year, the friends tutored a half-dozen students and subsequently sent two to preparatory schools on fully paid scholarships. Convinced of what was possible, Huebner led a View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
from the firm’s Cranford headquarters, allowing its eight-person team to provide fast, personal service. The company also takes an “engineering approach” to services, investing in skilled technicians rather than relying on less costly... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
return. Statistically speaking, documentaries don’t make money. Learning how to lead a team of very talented and creative people has also been challenging for me, as I come from a very data-driven, structured, and analytical world.” How... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
James E. Burke, MBA 1949
within a year of the crisis, thanks to decisions by Burke and his team to recall millions of bottles and replace them in a matter of weeks with pioneering tamper-resistant packaging while keeping the media and public well informed, the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
faculty to be intellectual entrepreneurs who transform how we think about management problems and improve management practice. We also began to foster collective intellectual ambition—to rally teams of faculty to take on more significant... View Details