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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
Illustration by Martin Leon Barreto In a lot of ways, it didn’t seem like a very good experiment to run. A young HBS professor—a rising star in the Finance area, an economist by training, by then already looking down the road at an all-important tenure decision—had an... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
and changing market dynamics, all while still launching new products and services to remain competitive. Robinhood has adapted to many changes and, if anything, has proven to be a disruptor in how it has taken the concept of investing and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
of Total Motivation by Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor (MBA 2013) (HarperBusiness) The authors show how to use cutting-edge psychology to unlock people’s innate desire to innovate, experiment, and adapt so as to produce higher sales, more... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
focused on helping nonprofits operate more effectively by adapting private- sector management practices. SPNM was developed both to share that information with nonprofits, which could test and refine these methods, and to provide faculty... View Details
- 15 May 2020
- News
New Menu
find and support the entrepreneurs positioned to mitigate the effects of climate change and help the world adapt to the realities of a warming planet. The firm's first fund is the New Protein Fund, dedicated to growing companies producing... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Research Brief: Field Research
percent of them get any agricultural advice from outside their neighbors or peers,” he says. Regional agricultural extension programs lack the necessary support, so one agent might represent an area with 10,000 farmers. Now, with ready access to data, farmers are View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Right Connections
that it has a good product and that it can bring favorable returns to investors," she says. "But that's just part of the package. It must also assemble a management team that brings a combination of influential and complementary affiliations to the table." Social... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Apr 2005
- News
Seven Transformations of Personal Leadership
Keywords: David Rooke, William R. Torbet
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
firms find it so difficult to adapt in the face of change—to innovate? In the past 10 years, the importance of this question has increased as more industries and firms confront disruptive change. The pandemic has accelerated this crisis,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
within this virtual format. April: I imagine that like most of us, you have been on a lot of video calls since the beginning of this crisis. What are some of the smart and useful ways you've seen people adapt to this new work environment?... View Details
Keywords: Zoom
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
International. Saturday's discussion panels examined four main themes: restructuring and economic reforms, humancapital development, industry adaptation in Asia, and multinational corporations and entrepreneurship. A plenary panel on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
frameworks, business and organizational contexts, and the decision-maker’s point of view. At the same time, you also need to think about ways of adapting the case method to make it more skill-based and reflective.” (see sidebar, page 40)... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Shop Talk, Different Avenues
You launched in 2007, and 2008 was one of the worst years ever for retail, so you had a good deal of unsold inventory to offer customers. How did you adapt as the business environment became healthier and you saw a decrease in what was... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19
startup, which is led by Sophia Richter, Tina Beilinson, and Julia Cole (all MBA 2020), quickly adapted its affordable online offerings to include classes geared to birth and postpartum challenges associated with the coronavirus. Hikma... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
A CEO Goes Undercover
about John Briggs as he adapted to his new, unfamiliar job. In fact, I was eager for the undercover experience because I’d never worked the frontline jobs in the theme-park industry and didn’t want any CEO-type special treatment. Plus, I... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
instructor." Skills related to reading, writing, listening, and speaking at HBS are just as important as becoming proficient in English, says Light. She also believes that issues of adaptation involve the whole person. "It's too easy to... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability
Image by John Ritter Is there a business case to be made for companies to act in environmentally friendly ways? Rebecca Henderson: If one can imagine that all business in the entire world was run by one person, it’d be pretty straightforward to make a business case for... View Details
- 21 Jan 2021
- News
New Menu
In 2018, Andrew D. Ive (MBA 1997) launched Big Ideas Ventures to find and support the entrepreneurs positioned to mitigate the effects of climate change and help the world adapt to the realities of a warming planet. The firm’s first fund... View Details