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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Toward a Life Well Lived
years after graduation,” explains Perlow. The following year, she led 17 students in an independent study project that asked hundreds of alumni to consider what they wished they’d known while at HBS and what they’ve learned since then. These efforts culminated in the... View Details
- 07 Feb 2019
- Book
How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption
the fall of such companies as DEC, Kodak, Nokia, Wang, and more recently Sears. "People often forget that when Apple launched the iPhone it was already a $24 billion corporation. " I am a huge fan of Schumpeter and I’ve been... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thai Lee, MBA 1985
in the corporate world in her 20s; to launch her own company by 30; and to have a child by 40. Lee met—and exceeded—each of these goals. After cutting her teeth at Procter & Gamble and American Express, she took over a failing business... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad
Setting up a home-base-augmenting site—one designed to gather new knowledge for a company—involves certain skills. And launching a home-base-exploiting site—one established to help a company efficiently commercialize its R&D in... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 12 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team
people have been working from home for a few weeks, leaders need to hold a “working from home” relaunch to help their teams learn to reorient based on the new realities. While team launches set the course of a group at the moment it comes... View Details
Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley
- 14 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades
their research within the first four years of its launch than those in the bottom 25 percent. What’s more, the papers they produced were also higher quality—3.8 times more likely to appear in the top 10 percent of papers cited by their... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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ICHOM - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network ICHOM International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Come Sail Away
requisite startup hiccups. “We had no experience in the clothing industry, which is probably what gave us the hubris to try it at all,” says Sard. Their first run of size-small shirts fit like a large. When shirts didn’t arrive in time for Tombolo’s soft View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
servicing old versions of products. Companies tend to announce that they are "focusing on the core" or "seeking higher margin opportunities" when flight is in progress. Sometimes companies will launch diversification... View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
- News
Lessons from the Rise and Fall of VisiCalc
launching VisiCalc, the world’s first independent software company and the first spreadsheet program for personal computers. The program came with a $100 price tag, but people were so eager for it that they also bought an Apple II, to the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
structure in place so these ventures can be financed,” he explains. Sean John Clothing has quickly grown to sales of $200 million and one hundred employees since it was launched five years ago. “It’s our most profitable area,” says... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
The collaborative, big-picture approach behind Lotus also comes through in Enan’s investment style. “Amal doesn’t look at an opportunity as just 1 + 1 = 2,” says Ahmad Hammouda, cofounder and CEO of Thndr, a Y Combinator–backed investment platform View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
What is the HBS FIELD Program?
a personal and professional setting as you look to work on new projects with peers or enter career recruiting. Through various other team simulations, I learned the importance of setting team norms and establishing a game plan during a Team View Details
- 02 Mar 2021
- HBS Case
The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?
that this multimedia case becomes the way the Tulsa Massacre is taught everywhere in the world,” says Desai, “and it becomes a launching pad for people to begin having conversations around race and reparations that can only be had when we... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 27 Oct 2015
- News
Sweet Success
couple soon acquired an additional 400 acres of nearby hardwood forest to protect it from development—and thus began a journey that led to the launch of Crown Maple, now a leading US maple syrup producer with a following that spans the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 26 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast
The HBS Business and Environment Initiative launched the Climate Rising podcast in 2019 to elicit insights from leaders working at the intersection of business and climate change. The podcast is particularly valuable for those seeking to... View Details
- 07 Oct 2021
- News
Planning Ahead
helped him eventually launch his own endeavor, Sound Point Capital, in 2008. Today his firm, which specializes in credit strategies, manages over $28 billion in assets. “I wanted to support the people and the institutions that had made a... View Details
- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
they're doing and emulate or respond. When Coca-Cola launches a new product or reduces prices, it's easy for Pepsi to identify that. It's easy to go to the board or to your boss and say, “Our competitor is doing this. We should respond.”... View Details
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Scaling Work - Research Computing Services
Monte-Carlo method. This example also illustrates the use of parfor (parallel for ) loops. In this scheme, suitable for loops could be simply replaced by parallel parfor loops without other changes to the code: hLog = fopen( [mfilename, '.log'] , 'w' ); % Create log... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Marquis Jet Takes Off
with the persistent group, Santulli finally said yes. Allard and his partners launched Marquis Jet in January 2002, selling 245 jet cards for an average of $150,000 each during that first year and 1,000 in 2003. As hoped, the company... View Details