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Aaron Mitchell
desire, I may need to manage a P&L. HBS has prepared me to make the leap way outside of a pre-determined career path should it be necessary. I look forward to figuring this out and accumulating knowledge along the way. How has HBS prepared you for your current role... View Details
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Gary Shi
years were difficult. At P&G, he had to earn the respect of sales representatives with much more experience than he had. At PepsiCo, he instantly stepped into tough negotiations and contract terms with some of the company’s biggest... View Details
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Independent Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
presence. Recommended and designed business partnerships and product designs for a Chinese telecom company to pursue mobile banking and microfinance for rural Chinese population to access financing. Dates & Deadlines Students work on independent projects either during... View Details
- 19 Nov 2018
- News
Acts of Kindness
with 400 churches around the country, visiting them. “At the end, when my term was over, I searched around for what came next. I couldn't figure out why urban and suburban churches weren't working together. I looked at five different... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Research Brief: Profit with Purpose—and Middle Management
researchers found that companies with a strong purpose came in two main forms: those with high camaraderie among its employees, and those with high clarity from management about worker expectations and future plans. This latter group saw improved financial performance,... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 02 May 2016
- News
Can Brian Shortsleeve Fix the MBTA’s Budget Woes?
time as a field director for Mitt Romney’s 2008 Presidential campaign and later began working at General Catalyst, where he met Charlie Baker—who eventually brought Shortsleeve on to his current position. In terms of fixes, Shortsleeve... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Stocking Up Can Build Customer Value
and fewer stock-outs, regardless of item price. "Retailers are shortsighted if they stock inventory by thinking only in terms of their own economics," says Bell. His findings offer the numbers to back up an intuitive assumption: stock... View Details
- 12 Nov 2014
- Op-Ed
A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform
those government guarantees, private financial institutions, recalling the burst housing bubble, would not assume the long term risks associated with these mortgages. (If the private investors were willing to take these risks, they would... View Details
- 05 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?
Lerner Uncertainty About The Future There's no getting around it: Innovation is risky business. All entrepreneurial individuals and companies face uncertainty about the future—not only in terms of their own development possibilities, but... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?
in a negotiation for a large contract. If you get the contract, the company's going to grow quite a bit. But you've had to put a lot of resources into the construction of this deal. And it's risky, very risky. The terms of that deal begin... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
Annual Survey. We define the A&MS industry in terms of nine sectors, each of which is represented by a separate 5-digit NAICS category. In so doing, we have sought to redress some of the measurement problems surrounding estimates... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
fuel their success against the double obstacles of gender and class. In contrast, women from middle- and upper-class origins were constrained in their use of agentic narratives and were more likely to describe their success in terms of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good
for celebrity, it was an occasion for more impact. The other difference for her at that time was that she was now on a global stage. Her voice has impact outside of India. She has transcended the boundaries of her industry in terms of her... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
1933-1945; the Federal Republic (West Germany) or German Democratic Republic (East Germany) 1945-1989. In terms of political or economic history, these divisions make a lot of sense, but in terms of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’
As the pace of globalization speeded up from the 1960s, the term "multinational enterprise" (hereafter MNE) was coined, and there was an outpouring of discussion, much of it critical, about the political, social, and economic... View Details
Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bringing the Environment Down to Earth
considerations of social responsibility are important, executives who frame environmental problems solely in those terms may overlook the business opportunities and risks that come with such problems. Treating environmental issues like... View Details
Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt
- 29 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
My Concerns About Learning Accounting at HBS
was learning into context. I never felt like I was being lectured at. I could access the index on the platform on any page, at any time. This meant if I ever came across a term I didn’t recognize I could still quickly find the... View Details
- 15 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Calderón: Economic Arguments Needed to Fight Climate Change
fight against coal is the reason HBS Professor Joseph Lassiter is bullish on fracking and nuclear power.) "If we provide economic arguments, we will win this battle,'' Calderon said. "The good news is that renewables are going down in View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
An Atypical Case — Robin G. Berglund (MBA 1971)
encourage them to forget about the technical nomenclature and focus on the essence of processes and systems, using common terms and visual analogies," he says. Berglund had wanted to become a doctor since he was ten years old but deferred... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Feb 1998
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Stephen Covey's Successful Habits
including their health and relationships. It's then they often become more disposed to change. In recent years, what's been the most positive development in business? The global economy. "Excellence" in local or regional terms is usually... View Details