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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New Releases
edition of Managing Across Borders: The Transnational Solution. This highly acclaimed, landmark work introduced a framework that would help companies achieve global-scale efficiency, respond flexibly to national market differences, and cultivate worldwide learning... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 07 Oct 2009
- Research Event
HBS Past and Present
ever to the way the School thinks and operates. Key concepts include: Harvard Business School was founded on the idea of helping people make a decent profit, decently. Eight common themes, rooted in HBS's history, characterize the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Classic Lines
company features a number of Antiques Roadshow's authorities as online hosts, and the show's creator and former executive producer has also signed on to develop Internet concepts and broadcast programming. Other members of Davidson's... View Details
- 26 Mar 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!
hardships? Professor Nancy F. Koehn discusses lessons for leaders. Key concepts include: As the ship froze into place, Shackleton quickly overcame his own ego to reset the enterprise to focus on survival. Shackleton played to his strong... View Details
- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
Enterprise, and Student Business tracks — took the stage at Shad Hall to describe their business concepts in just 90 seconds. The Alumni winner, DynamiCare Health (New England region), rose to the top of a field of 164 original teams from... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Reflecting on the Value of an MBA
subject grows on you. At first you’re afraid of it. Then you’re taken in by the professor’s obvious enthusiasm for their work. Finally, like learning a language, you’re using the concepts yourself, seeing them applied across other areas... View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- News
Smarter Farming
of a company that's making a difference to a small nation. PAMU means to farm in Te Reo, which is the indigenous language of New Zealand, of the Maori people. One of the key concepts that Maori have regarding what they own and what they... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ready, Set, Launch
critical feedback about the features they do want—and reduces the possibility that the startup will waste time developing features no one wants. Based on this feedback, a startup can then decide to adjust or abandon a concept or, if it’s... View Details
- 25 Feb 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Starting a Business
Professor Noam Wasserman discusses his research into the motivations of entrepreneurs and the people who invest in them. Key concepts include: Entrepreneurs are often motivated by the potential of money and control, but very few ever... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Local Customs
ROGERS WITH CONCEPT CAR: “Technology has changed over the past 100 years. We no longer need to build cars the way Henry Ford once did.” Matthew West/Boston Herald Jay Rogers (MBA ’07), whose grandfather once owned the legendary Indian... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Unlocking mobile money in emerging markets
buyers and sellers are currently excluded from global commerce. These individuals, because of their collective size, will likely redefine the concept of banking and financial access in the future.” Working in developing countries is both... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
How to Start a Tech Company Without Tech Experience
people willing to take on the challenge: Make sure your concept works offline first. Outsource coding in the beginning—but not for too long. Don’t box yourself in with technology that won’t evolve. READ MORE View Details
- 9 AM – 9 AM EDT, 05 Sep 2018
- HBS Online
HBX CORe
Gain business skills and confidence in this three-course program on business fundamentals covering Business Analytics, Economics, and Financial Accounting. Program Dates: September 5, 2018 - November 29, 2018 View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
New Releases
in the financial management field. Over the last fifteen years, they have developed and described key concepts, such as activity-based costing (ABC), activity-based management, operational systems for learning and improvement, and target costing. Their new book... View Details
- 30 Apr 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Brand Management
disagrees. Key concepts include: Most B2B marketers cannot economically address thousands of small businesses using the traditional direct sales force. If left unattended, individual managers will each do their own ad hoc marketing. B2B... View Details
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
Thanks to the Internet, customer management software, and the success of Dell, the concept of order management and customer focus has proven profitable for those companies that have embraced it. They understand and can anticipate their... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 06 May 2019
- News
Are You Ready for Veggie Fast-Casual?
The founder and former CEO of Panera Bread has a new lease on life. Life Alive, that is. And it’s not a lease—he’s the owner. Ron Shaich (MBA 1978), has tapped his $300 million fund, Act III Holdings, to buy and reimagine a mini-chain of Boston-area casual vegetarian... View Details
- 22 Oct 2014
- News
Closing the opportunity divide for low-income young adults
Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992) founded Year Up to offer technical and professional skills training to arm economically disadvantaged young people with the professional skills they need to contribute to society. In this video he describes the original View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Training great principals to lead great schools
impact on more than 300,000 students in schools nationwide. The idea for New Leaders was developed by Fenton and a group of other Harvard students in 2000 as an approach to an impending shortage of school principals. Their concept was a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Faculty Research Online
been adopted by thousands of private, public, and nonprofit enterprises around the world. Professor Robert S. Kaplan, who created the concept and tool with David Norton (DBA ’73), explains the roots and motivation for their original... View Details