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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
skills to attract funders for his ships, lifeboats, supplies, and food. He also recognized the importance of assembling a team that could work together and embrace high levels of risk and uncertainty—qualities that proved particularly... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
impacted the most vulnerable, especially children, and how to deliver the most effective aid. The event will feature firsthand accounts from HBS and Harvard community, with a focus on emergency survival, safety, health/medicine, shelter,... View Details
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
Schumpeter strays in Business Cycles onto whatever tangents interest him. Today, research efforts comparable to what Schumpeter was trying to do often employ teams of half a dozen statisticians, economists, and other social scientists.... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
grow their business. Stewart, an award-winning CFO and veteran entrepreneur, shares his expertise and insights to help entrepreneurs more fully understand how a bank thinks about them and their business as a credit risk and a loan customer. Ashley's War: The Untold... View Details
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
the first couple of years out of HBS were hard. If someone had said to me in 2009 what I'm about to say now, I would have punched them in the face. Because I'm about to be cheesy. I met my husband through a friend at that first terrible job that I took out of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
“aims to give students a competitive advantage.” How can understanding happiness, both that of our colleagues and our own, make one a more effective leader? One of the big problems that we have is that when people don’t understand... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
decisions? Pick great people. Who among your potential co-venturers is skilled, flexible, and honorable? How can they help when smart VCs pay more attention to the team than to the initial value proposition. Build the View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 17 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos
that they will share it. "People watch a lot of things online that they would never share with anyone," Teixeira notes. To figure out what prompts viewers to share ads, Teixeira's team conducted an additional experiment where participants... View Details
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
innovation outcomes as well as the ongoing performance of existing products. We find that ambidextrous organization designs are relatively more effective in executing innovation streams than functional, cross-functional, and spinout... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
effected a dramatic shift in the norms of acceptable behavior in the workplace. Easterbrook was just one of a number of CEOs to get caught in the reversal and be shown the door over harassment or relationship issues. Boards and business... View Details
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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
times. She has leaned on the insights she has gained from her research and teaching to advise organizational leaders, board directors, investors, and business school faculty on effective strategies for cultivating DEI in organizations.... View Details
- Web
HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
as the team heading the DTx initiative leans into its mission to position HBS as the lifelong learning partner for future generations of business leaders. The DTx team expects to build its organizational... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
was more physical. A former triathlete, he was invited by his investment firm’s partners to a hot yoga class. “I could not believe how I felt afterward,” he recalls. “That halo effect after a good sweat—it opened up my chest, and I got... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
businesses. In reorganizing to capitalize on its technology, Xerox created a new entity in 1989, headed by Robert Adams, that effectively established a third phase for managing spin-offs. Adams had created a new business for Xerox out of... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
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Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021
Their Careers During the pandemic and the disruption in business worldwide, HBS’s Career & Professional Development team made an appeal to alumni and recruiting partners that resulted in nearly 1,000 new full-time and internship... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
Costa Rican whose recent research has focused on Brazil and the possible side effects of competition for foreign direct investment. She notes that "people tend to think of Latin America as a single bloc, but each country is quite... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
for users who previously had experienced government to be moderately effective in responding to their service requests. Taken together, our results suggest that revealing the submerged state through operational transparency can shape both... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
impact in business and society. This effort is amplified by HBS’s Racial Equity Plan, which calls for the School to attract additional Black talent to all parts of the community and that has, in turn, inspired new efforts by the MBA Admissions and Financial Aid View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
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Courses by Title - Course Catalog
Lou Shipley Spring 2025 Q3 1.5 Entrepreneurial Sales 102: Building, Managing, and Scaling the First Sales Team as a Founder, Investor, or Advisor Entrepreneurial Management Lou Shipley Spring 2025 Q4 1.5 Entrepreneurship Outside the... View Details
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
any more effective motivator than the Absolute Best? The Best Is Not Necessarily the Highest Score For many people trying to piece together the best parts of the best performances they see out there, success has mutated into a series of... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson