Reaching Your Potential - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Nov 2008
What Do You Think?

How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?

And Gerald Nanninga posed the interesting question: "Have we limited our potential by not only mislabeling potential partners as 'customers' but in mislabeling everyone in the entire supply chain?"... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Dec 2017
News

The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job

robot, meant for simpler jobs like unpacking boxes; Sawyer is a one-armed robot designed for more precise tasks like placing memory cards into motherboards. The humanizing is intentional and essential to integrating the bots into a factory’s workflow. “It’s not the... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Dec 2022
News

Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us

If you’ve ever tried to call an airline or almost any service business of a certain size, you’re probably familiar with the problem: After navigating a seemingly endless set of options, you’re asked by an automated message to share information, but it fails to... View Details

Keywords: Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

31 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Setting Interns Up for Success at Your Startup

feel overwhelming. How will we integrate interns into the team? What project would drive the most value for our company and help the intern learn? Where do we start with this process? If these questions sound familiar to you and your... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

30 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

Recruiters: Highlight Your Company’s Diversity, Not Just Perks and Pay

Why diverse organizations are attractive The researchers sent follow-up questions to ask why applicants value diversity information. “Many indicate that such information was useful because it signals the quality of the company, highlights the job seeker’s chance of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 May 2017
Blog Post

Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone at HBS

how the school runs). Managing a large, diverse team of my peers has provided a great learning environment to practice some of the management techniques we learned in RC year. I’ve also had many students reach out to me for one on one... View Details

20 Dec 2022
Blog Post

Thinking About an MBA? Think About Your Purpose

inevitable at any startup. In my classes I show how it is entirely possible to build a business that both makes a profit and improves the lives of all its stakeholders, including society as a whole. In order to reach that point, though,... View Details

06 Dec 2010
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered: How do I identify opportunities in emerging... View Details

16 Nov 2021
Blog Post

Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)

needed to reach a milestone – a valuation of $1B. Based on this experience, Dzodan encourages other alumni and entrepreneurs to spend the time necessary to bring on interns, even when there are dozens of other tasks on View Details

13 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet

to do now, and to have any hope of doing that, we need to be integrating the specialized domain knowledge that managers possess into these tools and systems.” Marketers have long envisioned the potential for technology to bring about a... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

26 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Where will Pokémon Go with Your Personal Information?

Shih: It has a lot of potential for misuse and could cause safety problems. It’s going to mine a load of data. The question is: do people really want to share that much information? The bargain on the modern internet is: “You’ll give me... View Details

Keywords: Re: Willy C. Shih; Video Game; Entertainment & Recreation

19 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?

"I don't present these approaches as cure-alls, saying if you just run a contest or a corporate venture program everything's going to be wonderful," Lerner says. "But there's a lot of promise and potential in this tool... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

14 Jun 2021
Op-Ed

When Your Nerves Get the Best of You, Change the Narrative

phenomenon holds true outside of medicine. How I expect to do at something beforehand—whether a meeting with a potential client, a joint project with new colleagues, or teaching a class full of executives—actively influences how I... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

15 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience

that business disruptions are not just potential threats, but common occurrences that demand immediate attention from CEOs, C-suite teams, and boards. It's time for leaders to take stock of their companies’ operational resilience—their... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch

21 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Know Your Audience: Recruiting HBS Students for Consumer Products

The “Know Your Audience” series on the HBS Recruiting Blog highlights trends in recruiting for various industries. Learn more about student interest, effective recruiting strategies, and best practices from HBS staff dedicated to View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

08 Jul 2016
News

So Why Don't You Have Your Dream Job Yet?

Big Think, “it's relatively easy to maximize one point on the triangle and it's often okay to maximize the second, but usually the third point slips.” Citrin, partner at executive search firm Spencer Stuart, offers a few potential... View Details

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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

propel your venture forward. Student i-lab members get access to a range of resources, including one-on-one expert advising, interactive workshops, networking events, funding, and co-working space. Membership is available by semester in... View Details

10 Jan 2020
Blog Post

Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Retail