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- April 1996
- Case
The Road Well Traveled: A Note on the Journeys of HBS Entrepreneurs
Based on a 1992 mail survey of Harvard MBAs who started their own businesses. Questions focused on 4 areas: 1) development of the business concept, 2) sales and marketing, 3) finance, and 4) building a staff. The entrepreneurs surveyed include 24 in consulting, 17 in... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
Harvard Business School Case on Wikipedia: Wikipedia (A)
On August 24, 2006, the "Enterprise 2.0" entry in the Web-based encyclopedia... View Details
- Teaching Interest
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Effective Strategic Philanthropy
Non-profit organizations and social enterprises play an important role in every country in the world: as laboratories for social innovation, as the delivery system for critical goods and services at scale, as the stewards of our cultural heritage, and as advocates for... View Details
- 16 Oct 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Government Debt Management at the Zero Lower Bound
- 24 Oct 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?
have more role models to learn from and stronger teams to collaborate with, a clear direction, and a mature board. The role you consider may have a narrow scope, but could offer deeper learning View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
- June 2008 (Revised July 2008)
- Case
Kit Hinrichs at Pentagram (A)
By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Stecker
This case focuses on Kit Hinrichs, a 65-year-old partner at Pentagram, a privately owned multidisciplinary design firm. One of the world's most prestigious design firms, Pentagram was founded by five designers from different disciplines in London in the 1970s. By 2008,... View Details
- 2016
- Working Paper
The Microstructure of Work: How Unexpected Breaks Let You Rest, but Not Lose Focus
By: Pradeep Pendem, Paul Green, Bradley R. Staats and Francesca Gino
How best to structure the work day is an important operational question for organizations. A key structural consideration is the effective use of breaks from work. Breaks serve the critical purpose of allowing employees to recharge, but in the short term, translate to... View Details
- 04 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating
sometimes want you just to tell them the answer—like 'just give me the answer to leadership!'" says Bernstein, who co-teaches the required Leadership and Organizational Behavior course to first-year MBA... View Details
- Web
Faculty & Research - Entrepreneurship
Faculty & Research February 2025 Teaching Material Influencer-led brand building: Hairitage and the McKnights By: William R. Kerr and James Palano Mindy McKnight started in 2009 as an early influencer on... View Details
- 16 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Smitha Das (MBA 2018)
course at HBS in college, I was drawn to the case study method and opportunity to further develop my network and leadership skills to achieve this integration View Details
- Web
For MBA Students - Entrepreneurship
For MBA Students Courses Our courses provide the foundation for understanding the processes, finances and context of entrepreneurship. They bridge the gap from the theoretical... View Details
- 22 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
It’s Time to Build: Why the MS/MBA Is Right for You!
curriculum, and all. The smaller program means you get more resources from the school, including direct access to top founders and investors in the industry. And the View Details
- Web
Europe - Global
Netherlands. Led by HBS Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel as part of the Decarbonization & Sustainable Production Immersive Field Course (IFC), students visited innovative greenhouses, including Syngenta... View Details
- Web
The General Shoe Company, 1921 | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
orders. The one-page case served as a prompt, encouraging students to analyze and discuss the situation with the information available to them, determine what questions still needed asking, and decide on a... View Details
“Managing for Organizational Integrity”: My Take After Three Decades
This chapter revisits core ideas from my 1994 article “Managing for Organizational Integrity” and explores a critical issue not discussed in the article: the role of corporate boards. In the chapter, I first re-examine the article’s ideas about the origins of... View Details
- Article
Everybody Else Is Doing It: Exploring Social Transmission of Lying Behavior
By: Heather E. Mann, Ximena Garcia-Rada, Daniel Houser and Dan Ariely
Lying is a common occurrence in social interactions, but what predicts whether an individual will tell a lie? While previous studies have focused on personality factors, here we asked whether lying tendencies might be transmitted through social networks. Using an... View Details
- Web
Academics | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Courses The first year Required Curriculum (RC) incorporates social enterprise cases and topics in several courses ranging from finance to... View Details
- 2012
- Other Book
Redefining German Health Care: Moving to a Value-Based System
By: Michael E. Porter and Clemens Guth
The German health care system is on a collision course with budget realities. Costs are high and rising, and quality problems are becoming ever more apparent. Decades of reforms have produced little change to these troubling trends. Why has Germany failed to solve... View Details
Keywords: Health
- Web
C. Roland Christensen - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
development of the case method, to research and teaching, to the charting of the wise course of the Harvard Business School and the University at large were immense.” Biography... View Details
- 26 Apr 2022
- Book
What Does Your Business Stand For? Why Building Trust Starts with Purpose
Parker is carbon neutral and advocates publicly on behalf of social issues, including immigrants’ rights, LGBTQ+ protection, and net neutrality. Like Mahindra, Warby Parker addressed the Too Many Bosses prob... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati