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01 Jun 2011
News

The Best-Laid Plans

210 is Jess Bloomgarden (MBA 2012), with classmates Alex Stratoudakis and Emma Taylor. In fifteen minutes they present their plan for AfterSteps, a Web-based end-of-life planning service that offers advice and secure storage for legal,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Health, Social Assistance; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

28 May 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

Signify, Symmons, and Haier and interviews with thought leaders and business executives from top companies including Amazon, ABB, Tesla, Samsung, and Google, this book provides practical advice for product-making companies as they embark... View Details

01 Dec 1996
News

Starting Up and Starting Over

successfully devote itself to providing objective advice and solutions to companies experiencing management problems. In 1933 Bower joined a small Chicago firm of "management engineers," a phrase coined by the firm's founder and namesake,... View Details

24 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

multi-brand retail format in the beauty and wellness space, and the fact that she was doing it with her daughter Adwaita (HBS MBA 2013) made it both exciting and meaningful. Still, she was the founder and with that came control over the most important decisions. While... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

28 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 28

exchange for taking on the risk of young companies in uncertain environments, venture capitalists receive board level oversight privileges, which range from approval of budgets and advice on product development to the right to replace the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26

soliciting advice from her directors while projecting confidence. While preparing for the upcoming meeting, Bettina wonders: How should she structure and lead the meeting? How might her board react to her team's updates? What difficult... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

two-person venture into a global company valued at $1 billion, Rickenbach's willingness to take calculated risks has kept it at the leading edge of the CRO sector. Now, despite slowing demand for CRO services and against the advice of... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2016
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

struggles, which cause the demise of so many family businesses? The authors describe the practices that characterize entrepreneurial individuals, families, and organizations and offer detailed advice on how to develop and implement those... View Details

02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

examples of successful and failed leaders, with stories to illustrate their experiences and the author's advice to readers who may face similar crises. Purchase this book:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Apr 2002
News

Back in Business

advice on business strategy, taxes, and other matters. As of late January, some 350 donors had participated, and some five hundred businesses had been served through ReSTART Central. Of ReSTART's two hundred volunteers, more than fifty... View Details

Keywords: 9/11; NYC; New York City; Government

06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6

improvements in outcomes such as productivity and longevity, and that good nuts-and-bolts management at individual firms shapes national performance. At 14 textile manufacturers in India, for example, an intervention-involving free, high-quality View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

poor countries need right now. Instead of more advice or another bag of rice, the poor should be given relief vouchers, says Eric Werker, assistant professor at Harvard University Business School. Purchase the article:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 May 2022
News

Leading to Salvation

bought graves and everything. So that’s the way my husband was. JH: After her husband passed away, April turned to the community for advice on how to keep it going. AE: So Bob’s wife, Sharon and I, belong to a women’s organization here in... View Details

01 Oct 1996
News

Lasting Impressions

advice to MBAs just starting their careers, their responses contained a similar advocacy for what one of them termed a "wholistic" approach to life and work, with emphasis on the "whole." "We all have to be true to ourselves in the end"... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

crowdfunding campaign that has raised £1.5 million and awarded 97 scholarships. “We are a growing network,” says Lewis. “Our eldest scholars are already out working. Doctors, lawyers, teachers, and young professors. Educating people is the most potent and productive... View Details

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from the teaching team and their peers. During the weeks when we do not meet in-person, students are expected to make tangible progress on their business plans and seek advice from course mentors. On occasion, invited guests address a... View Details

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