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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
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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
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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
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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, Managing, and Scaling the First Sales Team as a Founder, Investor, or Advisor - Course Catalog
exercise in frustration and futility. The purpose of 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... View Details
- 31 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Scholarly Crowd Explores Crowdsourcing
initial research on various crowdsourcing problems: Can crowdsourced resources be biased? This is an important question for anyone turning to open innovation for problem solving. To help begin to answer the question, Shane Greenstein (of the Kellogg School of View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 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
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 01 Jun 2012
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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
- 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
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Apr 2017
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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
- 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
- 28 May 2019
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Cure All
success in either strategy or implementation requires making trade-offs. In the absence of those trade-offs, you have a lot of mediocrity. RS: I would also tell the CEO that he or she needs to take a hard and deep look at what’s happening in terms of View Details
- 22 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Career risks and professional growth: Finding a fulfilling career with Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991)
conversation helped me realize it was time to chart a new course. At HBS, I leaned into marketing, taking courses and building a resume that showcased my strengths. A summer internship in marketing at Procter & Gamble confirmed I was... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 May 2014
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The Sky's the Limit
did. While in college, Eaton studied electrical engineering, and a tuition reimbursement program from United Technologies Corporation enabled her to get dual master's degrees in operations management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute... View Details
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Mike Monagle
business and then moved into a strategic role managing company interests in Asia. As it became clearer that Mike wanted to build a business of his own, he recognized a need to expand his skills and “reflect on my future,” he says. “In the... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
You Won't Make It If You Fake It
ship” career ladder Holmes pursued, Sandberg’s career path took on the shape of a “jungle gym” that she described in Lean In. “I could never have connected the dots from where I started to where I am today,” she wrote. After graduating... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 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
Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun
- 01 Jun 2013
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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