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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

where everyone can thrive Communicate powerfully as a leader Go fast by empowering your team Can Consumers, Big Tech, and Retailers Fix Health Care? Professor Robert Huckman (PHDBE 2001) No additional materials available + More Info –... View Details

02 Dec 2010
News

Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs

skill in assembling stakeholders who can survive the loss of the assets they contribute if the worst happens. 7. Learning to lead requires a lifelong effort. Most entrepreneurs aspire to grow their small start-ups into large ventures, but different View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

Charles D. Tandy

Though Tandy Corporation was a successful leather goods company, Charles Tandy’s biggest accomplishment was his revitalization of Radio Shack. Acquiring the company with $4.5 million in debt and almost $1 million in largely uncollectible receivables, Tandy assembled a... View Details

Keywords: Retail

25 Sep 2015
Blog Post

4 Challenges All Early-Stage Startups Face

diversity of skill-sets on the team. Through the process, we tackled four challenges that every early stage startup will face. Here's how we approached each of them. 1. Choosing a team Choosing a team can... View Details

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Early-Stage Feedback | New Venture Competition

document or powerpoint format: (Recommended: 3–6 written pages) What will your venture do or make? What pain points will your venture address? What is your value proposition? Describe your target segment and the size of your addressable... View Details

01 Sep 2013
News

The First Scrum

Edited by Linda Kush Fifty years ago, two Scotsmen started an HBS rugby team to help relieve the stress of studies. A look back at one of the School's most storied traditions. Photo courtesy of Mike Rush (MBA 1972) When the game of rugby... View Details

Keywords: rugby; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

16 Jun 2015
Blog Post

HBS in San Francisco: West Coast Recruiting Recap

meet unique needs of San Francisco based organizations. 3) Meet in person with recruiters who want to hire members of the HBS community. Our team split up and covered lots of ground. Some staff met with area organizations and led... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

15 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

The Right Connections

that whom you know can be just as important as what you know when trying to offset the uncertainty inherent in backing a high-risk startup in an initial public offering (IPO). "Our work suggests that the functional backgrounds or experience levels of the top... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

20 Dec 2011
First Look

First Look: December 20

Morris, and Leonard Lee Publication:Journal of Organizational Behavior (forthcoming) Abstract This research investigates a new type of team that is becoming prevalent in global work settings, namely, self-managing multicultural teams. We... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

27 Apr 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Leadership Lessons From Outer Space

F-16 HARM targeting system; chief of the Astronaut Office Robotics Branch; and, currently, the commander of the International Space Station (ISS), where he has lived since November 23, 2014. “If you have a team like this, you let them... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Aerospace

Portrait Project

Chris Chang

make, but the number of my children's sporting teams I coach. Success will not be the size of my network, but the liveliness of food, wine and laughter shared with loved ones. Success will not be judged by... View Details

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Judging | New Venture Competition

you seek to have. The team has a clear understanding of the issue it seeks to address, why the issue is important, the recipients of the product or service, economic and social drivers of the model, and feasibility of the concept.... View Details

01 Apr 1996
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"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs

- virtually an HBS case study itself in logistics management. According to one planner, Foundations core design team member Stever Robbins (MBA '91), coordinating 253 individual schedules and the needs of six sets of faculty members while... View Details

13 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future

researchers were able to find similar private firms for a good number of public firms. The team then studied the investment patterns of public and private companies within the match sample. "In particular, we looked at the level of... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

Profile

Inessa Lurye

of consumer shopping experience; the course has given me a framework that I personally find useful and insightful." Then there are the fundamental people skills. "In the last six months, we've doubled in size from 70 to 130... View Details

01 Oct 1997
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Class of 1997 Graduates with Distinction

Class of '99 Profile Number of applicants 7,467 Total size of class 880 September cohort 560 January cohort 320 Median age 26 Women 30% Minorities 17% International 26% Married 20% Have children 4% Undergraduate Majors Engineering and... View Details

07 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President

California, Berkeley. “Any prediction that says there’s going to be a long-term advantage to one party is inevitably going to be wrong.” Pons and Calvo teamed with Jesse Shapiro, the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

27 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 27, 2009

Rotemberg Abstract A model is considered where firms internalize the regret costs that consumers experience when they see an unexpected price change. Regret costs are assumed to be increasing in the size of price changes and this can... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 27

T. Pittinsky. Harvard Business School Press, 2009 Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints and Firm Entry Size Authors: William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda Publication: Journal of the European Economic Association (forthcoming) Abstract... View Details