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- August 2016
- Case
Collective Academy
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Christopher Payton
This case is about making the decision to become an entrepreneur and early challenges in setting up a business model and team. In 2015, Pato Bichara co-founded Collective Academy to create an affordable, three-year undergraduate experience to infuse innovation into...
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Early Stage;
Team Building;
Business Startup;
Trade-offs;
Risk;
Founders' Agreements;
Education;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Model;
Business Startups;
Decision Making;
Technology Industry;
Mexico;
Latin America;
United States
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Christopher Payton. "Collective Academy." Harvard Business School Case 817-026, August 2016.
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Career Networking - Alumni
your first post-graduate role, switching careers, or returning to the workforce after a period of absence, your job search begins by making a case for yourself. Learn how to market yourself to potential employers. Search the Alumni...
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- 30 May 2024
- News
How to Have Effective Conversations
ultimately a class about communication. And it was really made clear that the job of a CEO is mostly to communicate. The CEO can't make all the decisions themselves; they can't do all the work themselves, but what they can do is they can...
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- 05 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures
what mistakes they made along the way—that will help me avoid those same mistakes.” The humble job applicant This strategy works for job-seekers, too. If you’re asked to describe your greatest weakness in an interview, don’t use the...
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by Dina Gerdeman
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Data - Advancing Racial Equity
Did not report 0 0% 0 0% *HBS collects faculty race/ethnicity data for U.S. citizens/permanent residents and non-U.S. citizens/non-permanent residents as an aggregate. Administrative roles earning 1.0 ATA or greater are included. Both faculty are counted for View Details
- 26 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener
For a better shot at landing the top job at today’s companies, aspiring CEOs should set aside their slide presentations and work on their listening skills instead, new research suggests. Companies are increasingly seeking socially adept...
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by Jay Fitzgerald
- 22 Nov 2023
- News
So You Want to Join a Startup
Startup Lottery: Your Guide to Navigating Risk and Reward. It's a guidebook for people considering a career in the world of startups—or in the midst of navigating its complexities. And in this conversation, Bessalel tells us why job...
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- June 2004 (Revised July 2005)
- Case
Procter & Gamble: Global Business Services
By: Thomas J. DeLong, Warren Brackin, Alex Cabanas, Phil Shellhammer and David L. Ager
Dave Walker, vice-president of business service opportunities and chairman of the governance team at Procter & Gamble, must decide what to do with P&G's 5,700 employee Global Business Services (GBS) group. GBS brought together internal services such as finance,...
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Business Units;
Change Management;
Decision Making;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Organizational Design
DeLong, Thomas J., Warren Brackin, Alex Cabanas, Phil Shellhammer, and David L. Ager. "Procter & Gamble: Global Business Services." Harvard Business School Case 404-124, June 2004. (Revised July 2005.)
- Profile
Jean Luo
After two years with Goldman Sachs, Jean Luo landed the kind of job millions dream of: developing games as a product manager at Zynga. “I really enjoyed being a PM; it's like being a mini-general manager with your own P&L. I loved the...
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- 07 Jul 2021
- Book
Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust
"What we want from a company today is not the same as 10 years ago. But the principles are the same." Companies need to do a better job of earning trust, the authors say. The Edelman Trust Barometer, an annual survey of 34,000 people in...
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by Lane Lambert
- Research Summary
Using IT to Leverage Human Resources in Services
Discussion of the Internet and IT to date concentrates on how they will replace, rather than support, human service providers. While this approach is appropriate for a few firms, it is inadequate for many. The Internet and other information technology... View Details
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Resources for New Alumni - Alumni
Careers Resources for New Alumni Careers Resources for New Alumni Career & Professional Development (CPD) continues to offer a breadth of support for your career development as an HBS alumnus, whether you are seeking coaching, career management resources, or conducting...
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- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
forthcoming NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2015 Networks and the Macroeconomy: An Empirical Exploration By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, and Kerr, William R. Abstract—The propagation of macroeconomic shocks through input-output and geographic networks can be a powerful...
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Sean Silverthorne
- October 2020
- Article
The Supply Chain Economy: A New Industry Categorization for Understanding Innovation in Services
By: Mercedes Delgado and Karen G. Mills
An active debate has centered on the importance of manufacturing for driving innovation in the U.S. economy. This paper offers an alternative framework that focuses on the role of suppliers of goods and services (the “supply chain economy”) in national performance. We...
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Supply Chain Industries;
Business-to-consumer Industries;
Services;
Innovation;
Economy;
Framework;
Supply Chain;
Service Operations;
Innovation and Invention;
Economic Growth;
United States
Delgado, Mercedes, and Karen G. Mills. "The Supply Chain Economy: A New Industry Categorization for Understanding Innovation in Services." Research Policy 49, no. 8 (October 2020).
- December 2018 (Revised June 2021)
- Case
Bulb 2015: Foundation
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In late August 2015, Amit Gudka and Hayden Wood, co-founders of Bulb, Ltd (Bulb), were ready to offer affordable renewable energy to the United Kingdom’s 27 million households. They hoped to capitalize on the hundreds of thousands of customers switching their energy...
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Green Energy;
Start-up;
Launch;
Customer Acquisition;
Customer Churn;
Customer Engagement;
Electricity;
Resources;
Growth Strategy;
B-Corp;
Entrepreneurial Journey;
Entrepreneurial Management;
Start-ups;
Renewable Energy;
Business Startups;
Business Plan;
Business Model;
Working Capital;
Customers;
Growth and Development Strategy;
United Kingdom
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "Bulb 2015: Foundation." Harvard Business School Case 719-440, December 2018. (Revised June 2021.)
- 01 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Five Lessons From My First Year at HBS
how I should spend my time as an MBA student. A recurring piece of advice was “get to know your classmates beyond the classroom.” HBS does a great job at encouraging deep conversations among students – including through MyTakes, Evolve...
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Christina Byrd
female in the workplace – there were women at every level of the organization.” In her subsequent work at Uber, Christina shifted from executive to broad-based compensation. “Given the press backlash at the time and large cultural shifts, my View Details
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Alumni Engagement | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Education Where Does Higher Education Go From Here? In a recent virtual program from the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative, HBS Professor Emeritus William A. Sahlman explores the future of education with three guests: Michael Collins, vice president of View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
J. Hughes Norton III
visit to HBS a few months later, Norton asked about a job and McCormack later signed him on. With no inkling of the sports revolution ahead, the rookie was off and running. Twenty-five years later, thanks largely to television, the...
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Garry Emmons