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- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Business Firsthand in South Korea
MBA students interview consumers in Seoul, Korea, to help inform the marketing strategies they developed for Orion Snack International. The project was the culmination of a required first-year course designed to develop students’ global... View Details
- 08 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Entrepreneurship Immersion - Four Highlights
revenue by 6x and tripled our headcount to 150 over the past two years! Prior to that, I helped Dropbox scale from a Series B startup to a post-IPO public company, going from 200 employees to 2,000 employees. I served as VP of Corporate Finance & View Details
- 04 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector
innovative, social value-creating activity that can occur within or across the nonprofit, government, or business sectors. While virtually all enterprises, commercial and social, generate social value, fundamental to this definition is... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
reviews, discusses, and expands the “core guidance” definition of strategy as “the smallest set of choices to optimally guide (or force) other choices.” It first discusses what this View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
venture capital, we've seen that there is a definite correlation between investing in more women later stage if there are more female partners involved. Flint: What about raising capital as a female-focused or diversity-focused fund: Are... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Releases
players, and the external environment. He describes how the game works and why it works the way it does. Poorvu also explains the five phases of direct investment: concept to commitment, commitment to closing, development, operations, and harvesting. He concludes by... View Details
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Online Learning Track Programs | HBS Online
Specialization in Strategy Having a deep understanding of strategy, from creation to execution, has helped me excel in my professional development. These courses have definitely been the most influential for... View Details
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
the strategy and marketing literature on the importance of creating customer value. In our everyday language, we think of a customer as someone who buys goods or services. But we have recently witnessed an explosion in the View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
former HBS professor who is now dean at the new Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy at Tokyo's Hitotsubashi University; and Sakakibara, a former Ministry of Trade and Industry (MITI) official with a doctorate from Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations
At the HBS Executive Education program Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations (BCAO), executives charged with leading and building operations and manufacturing strategies enhance their understanding of operations performance... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- Web
A Broad Spectrum of Opportunities | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
and 2008 New Orleans Service Immersions at HBS. “The community around Social Enterprise activities at HBS is a large, diverse group of faculty, staff, and students—there are definitely a lot of people here who are actively seeking ways to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Outsourcing for Radical Change
outsourcing business may be of this nature. Many examples in your book come from outside the United States. Are other nations more advanced in using outsourcing for transformation? The United Kingdom is definitely ahead in using... View Details
- 07 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 7, 2015
business model as decisions enforced by the authority of the firm; this definition enables the analysis of business models through the analysis of individual firm choices. We situate negotiation outcomes within the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
climate change policies? “My theory is that audiences are now self-selecting in what they watch, and we need a broader spectrum of stories, choice of protagonists, and distribution strategies that are purposely chosen based on their... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
about how venture capitalists fund companies, they usually do it in stages, giving a little money to start, waiting for it to percolate, and maybe doing a midcourse correction. For the public sector to do that, politicians have to accept that they may need to rethink... View Details
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
Business Around Medical Conditions The starting point for developing strategy in any field is to define the relevant business or businesses in which an organization competes. Health care delivery is no different. Health care providers do... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
enhances business performance as well. "Community involvement can contribute to the definition and development of a company's organizational culture, which is an important determinant of corporate performance," he observes. "Volunteering... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Stevenson’s Own
Issue Focus: Entrepreneurship Related Links The House that Howard Built The four key ingredients, for individuals and organizations A careful definition of available opportunities Is there a demand out there that’s not being recognized or... View Details
Keywords: Management
- Profile
Funa Maduka
"where I can drill down into strategy or general management." In the long run, "I'm definitely going into the public sector, either nonprofit or government." View Details
- 26 Oct 2011
- News
On Top, Down Under
spectrum of companies. It certainly helped widen my view of business, and it was a great learning environment. It definitely took me out of my comfort zone.” Asked to elaborate on these comments, Fookes explained, “One of the key... View Details