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- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
organization viable. As they put it, "Deep smarts are the engine of your organization. You cannot progress without them, and you will manage more effectively if you understand what they are, how they are built and cultivated, and the... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Reconsidering Retirement
friends were in the minority among their HBS classmates, many of whom aspired to join Wall Street. As it turned out, “entrepreneurial resourcefulness,” as Puritz calls it, has served them well throughout their careers and in the launch of Rebalance. In addition to... View Details
- 16 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Why Entrepreneurs Should Consider Business School
It's hard. It's uncertain. You're most likely going to fail. It's easy to think you're not smart enough or tough enough. It helps to have peers who love building companies as much as you do, ready to ride... View Details
- Profile
Damien Hooper-Campbell
business and investment banking," Damien says. "I loved being surrounded by smart people, being immersed in the details of deal-making." Damien joined Morgan Stanley after graduation and prospered there for a couple of... View Details
- Profile
Tariro Goronga
what? Do I hang in there and do something I don’t like for forty years, or do I cut my losses and start all over again?” Tariro chose the latter path, but made sure to build flexibility into his career plan. “I was looking for something... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- 24 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
and rigorous support, exceptional social entrepreneurs, tackling some of society’s most complex problems, can make the world a better place. We find, fund and support exceptional entrepreneurs and partner with them to help them reach their full potential and View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- Web
How HBS Financial Aid Can Help You Meet the Cost of Your MBA | MBA
substantial portion of the cost, no one receives a full-ride scholarship from HBS. This is a shared investment in your future and we expect each student to contribute to their education. How to do your part: Build your savings. (Need... View Details
- 28 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries
one hand, this is not rocket science, and yet you see hundreds of applications not doing well.” Lal’s research delved into five successful mobile money deployments: Telesom ZAAD in Somaliland, Dialog eZ Cash in Sri Lanka, Econet EcoCash in Zimbabwe, View Details
- 20 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
A Time For Opportunity In Food and Agriculture
is in charge of Organic & Non-GMO Product Marketing at Indigo Agriculture And Eisen has just launched Plant Snacks. Given all this change, building consumer trust is critical. As Conklin observed, “there is so much misinformation out... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
FIELD 2 in Accra
respondents said they viewed online content on multiple devices. "Research indicates that smart phones and mobiles are where it's at in emerging markets," says Leach. "But we found that many people still use computers that rely on Wi-Fi.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
traditional American strengths you talk about in the book, and you link it to “kaleidoscope thinking.” What is that? If you look back in history, we’ve never been the lowest-cost producer of goods and services, but we have been smart... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
Smart Choices Regarding your December cover story on Jeff Hicks (MBA ’97), CEO of Crispin Porter + Bogusky, I find it interesting that in the many articles written about the firm, the principals never seem to acknowledge the fact that... View Details
- Web
Once in a Lifetime Opportunities | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
effectively and efficiently measure the impact of Acumen’s portfolio companies. “We developed Lean Data as a smart way to listen to our customers and understand the impact of our products and services on their lives,” Kasia says. In the... View Details
- Profile
Luis Cervantes
students in one place, which is the right way to study business. Business is not black and white – it requires open discussions among people with multiple perspectives.” Yet for Luis, the most “fantastic thing about HBS has been the sense of community here. I... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Fulfilling Their Promise
was humbling. “Up until then, I thought I was a smart person,” says Schooner, whose lengthy career was spent primarily at Chrysler and Textron. “I was well-educated, well-traveled, made a lot of money, had a good career, and [then I had]... View Details
- 31 May 2016
- HBS Case
Who Owns Space?
substantial number of humans live. That’s big. If you have grand goals of how to change the world, there’s nothing bigger than space.” Back on earth, Weinzierl is looking forward to building up a robust treatment of a sector that hasn’t... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
will free up seconds, minutes, and hours that, over the long term, become weeks and months that you can reinvest in positive, healthy activities. Time Smart shows you how to achieve the mindset shift that will make these activities part... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
the early days in what—thanks to him and his colleagues—became Silicon Valley. As Johnson describes it, he and his friend Bill Draper (MBA 1954) formed their venture capital firm in 1962 and drove around the Santa Clara (now Silicon) Valley looking for View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
wanted to know how some companies could grow so big so fast. “The answers we got were unsatisfying,” Yeh says. People cited the Valley’s concentration of smarts or its access to venture capital—which is useful for growing companies, “but... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
African nations, as in the United States, a key role of government is the funding, construction, and maintenance of the public infrastructure that benefits everyone. This obviously is not being accomplished to an adequate degree by government alone in either place. Why... View Details