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Vi Mai

In high school, a classmate said that I should not give a speech at graduation because my English was not good enough. That remark left me feeling small and insignificant. Unfortunately, I believed it. On... View Details

November 2006 (Revised February 2007)
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Microsoft Xbox: Changing the Game?

By: Andrei Hagiu

In September 1999, the Microsoft Xbox team was wondering which strategic choices would give it the best chance against the upcoming Sony PlayStation 2. Initially called "Project Midway" within Microsoft, the console project was intended to counter the perceived threat... View Details

Keywords: Customers; Recruitment; Leadership; Management Teams; Multi-Sided Platforms; Two-Sided Platforms; Production; Strategy; Competition; Expansion; Video Game Industry; Texas

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About - Global

Administration. Turkish teachers receive HBS training and 12 HBS faculty spend time in Turkey to assist teaching there. 1951 HBS helps to found American Universities Field Staff (AUFS), a nonprofit that sends correspondents around the... View Details

09 Dec 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Does Management Matter in Schools?

Keywords: by Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun & John Van Reenen; Education

July 2024
Case

Roja Garimella: Developing a Founder's Judgment

By: Reza Satchu and Patrick Sanguineti

Roja Garimella’s path to becoming a founder was anything but straight. Setting her sights on a career in medicine since childhood, she committed to medical school with her acceptance to college. And yet, throughout her studies, she continually explored alternative... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Entrepreneurial Finance; Business Startups; Judgments; Financial Services Industry; Health Industry

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20 Dec 2022
Op-Ed

Employee Feedback: The Key to Retention During the Great Resignation

Can there be corporate democracy if employees can’t vote on the actions its companies take? Yes, and it’s needed now more than ever. The pandemic has brought much employee discontent and activism. Last... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer

09 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

aligned with IBM's needs and capabilities. But think about IBM's value proposition to this woman. She types 80 words a minute and almost never makes a mistake. IBM was telling her, "Why don't you change... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor & Scott D. Anthony

22 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries

but it could also lead to more radical, innovative change (the sacking of Troy). "One of the main ideas behind lean is to take parts of a task that don't require human intervention and give them to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer

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Accelerating Solutions - Business & Environment

comprehensive coverage from the conference. HBS Climate Conference Gives Businesses a Roadmap to Address Climate Change Dean Srikant Datar on Business and Climate Change Dean Srikant Datar on Business View Details

September 2014 (Revised February 2017)
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Belk: Towards Exceptional Scheduling

By: Ethan Bernstein, Saravanan Kesavan, Bradley Staats and Luke Hassall

With 24,000 staff and over 300 stores, Belk Inc. sought to replace its entirely manual labor scheduling system with an automated software solution from Reflexis. Belk hoped the upgrade would simplify scheduling, reduce time employees spent in non-customer-facing roles,... View Details

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14 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

Quantifying performance and measuring results are no longer the sole domain of for-profit enterprises. Today, many nonprofit organizations also find themselves on the hot seat—not with stockholders but with donors who expect similar... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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Summer Fellowships | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Enabling students to develop skills and knowledge while having significant responsibility and high impact. Students either founding or working for social enterprises (nonprofit, public sector, or for-profit... View Details

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Tools & Training - Alumni

you for case interviews in consulting, product management, and product marketing. It deconstructs interviews into clearly defined skills and gives you the tools to help you... View Details

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Cold Calling - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

company’s aggressive growth strategy Action: As [the protagonist], what is your action plan for dealing with the current impasse? Evaluation: What grade would you give to the CEO and why? Diagnosis: What... View Details

24 Feb 2016
HBS Seminar

David Brumley of Carnegie Mellon University

09 Jul 2010
Working Paper Summaries

The Limits of Nonprofit Impact: A Contingency Framework for Measuring Social Performance

Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim & V. Kasturi Rangan

2023
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PRIMO: Private Regression in Multiple Outcomes

By: Seth Neel

We introduce a new differentially private regression setting we call Private Regression in Multiple Outcomes (PRIMO), inspired the common situation where a data analyst wants to perform a set of l regressions while preserving privacy, where the covariates... View Details

Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Mathematical Methods

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