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- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
due in part to an overall lack of liquidity. On average, survey respondents with less than $10,000 in monthly bills had only enough cash on hand to cover one month of expenses. “Firms today are very lean and cash-strapped,” says... View Details
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Michael Farias
site," Michael says, "really opened my eyes to issues I had only known as statistics." It also opened a need for a business education. "I realized that if I had a better understanding of the business of health care, I could assume a View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Case Study: Bionic Banking
result in higher consumer costs and less agility. Alpha Architect’s focus on staying lean and minimizing distribution allows it to serve an account at almost any level, no longer needing to manage $1 million... View Details
- 28 Apr 2020
- News
Lessons from a COVID Survivor
Radha Ruparell (MBA 2008) Radha Ruparell (MBA 2008) When Radha Ruparell (MBA 2008) fell ill with COVID-19, she wasn’t prepared for the physical and emotional rollercoaster that the ensuing weeks would bring. On day 16 of her illness, which she View Details
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Public Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Public Entrepreneurship Course Number 1623 Professor of Management Practice Mitchell Weiss Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Exam For an audio description of this course, click here . Career Focus This course is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
a way to prosper in lean economic times, Scharfman says that “being a manufacturer in the United States means you’re constantly swinging back and forth between optimism and wanting to throw yourself off a cliff. It’s not for the faint of... View Details
- 17 Nov 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design
Questions To Be Answered: What are the best techniques for fostering innovation in multicultural teams? I want my functional experts to influence high-level strategy. How can managers get the best thinking out of support staff? What role... View Details
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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
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Books - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
mergers and acquisitions, and to support continuous improvement activities such as lean management and benchmarking. Kaplan and Anderson illustrate the TDABC approach with a wealth of case studies, in... View Details
- 11 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 11
in 2007. A sizeable portion of the growth can be explained by rising asset management fees, which in turn were driven by increases in the valuation of tradable assets, particularly equity. Another important factor was growth in fees... 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
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Entrepreneurial Sales 102: Building the First Sales Team - Course Catalog
this course is to demystify sales and help you understand how to manage go-to-market functions within entrepreneurial settings. The course material is applicable whether you become an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, View Details
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Entrepreneurial Sales 101: Founder Selling - Course Catalog
entire model is an exercise in frustration and futility. The purpose of this course is to demystify sales and help you understand how to sell products and services within entrepreneurial settings. The course material is applicable whether you become an entrepreneur,... View Details
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Tessa Vacher-Desvernais
high-performance organizations,” she says. An MBA from HBS would give her the opportunity to establish enduring general management skills. “I seek exposure to people from many different industries to inspire me with different perspectives... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
empty. For now. “We think the trends are absolutely right,” Whitman says. “But, listen, we won’t know until we know.” “She’s quintessential right brain. I’m quintessential left brain. That’s not to say she’s not creative or that I’m disorganized, but I’m always View Details
- 17 Jun 2025
- Blog Post
Balancing Career Stability with Creative Pursuits with Jeff Roslund (MBA 2013)
critically, while courses in marketing, finance, and strategy opened entirely new perspectives. I had never received formal training in those areas—everything was new. Learning those frameworks was a huge leap forward, and I still use them every day. I also View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- News
Jeff Immelt Wants a Radical Transformation of GE
transformation that is as radical as it is methodical, as essential to the company’s survival as Steve Jobs’s iPhone was to Apple’s.” In overseeing the company’s transition to a lean operation more akin to a tech innovator, Immelt has... View Details
- 02 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories 2007
psychologically painful as it is, is the first step to awareness of new opportunities in career and in life, says Harvard Business School's Timothy Butler. In this Q&A and excerpt from his new book, Getting Unstuck, he explains six steps for getting from here to... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Notes from W50
Fortune 500 companies." —Dean Nitin Nohria "Eighty-two percent of women believe that prioritizing family over work is a barrier to success. Let's not let our humanity be a barrier." —Professor Robin Ely "Do women need to do more leaning... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Exploring Global Business Practices
a lean but deeply networked international presence, the centers enable the faculty to produce research that informs management practice around the world and have become a locus for HBS activities in their... View Details