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Professor Andy Wu
An Entrepreneurial Approach to Strategy Andy Wu, the Arjun and Minoo Melwani Family Associate Professor of Business Administration, notes that through resources and mentorship, doctoral students in the Strategy program research their own, new View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Room to Write
Edited by April White; photos courtesy of the authors “A lot of my book was written on the Notes function of my phone while commuting in London. The ideas flow easily wherever I am, but I need a bit more quiet to bring it all together.”... View Details
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Rakhshan Zahid
that a lot of these businesses were started by ordinary people. The real difference between someone with an idea and someone who starts a business is just courage – taking a leap. Then you look at everything from how to get financing, how... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Yla Eason (MBA 1977)
Black dolls for girls but nothing for boys. So I created Sun-Man, a superhero who gets his strength from the sun. The idea grew from exploring the biology of melanin and its protective qualities for those with darker skin. In my... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Sahlman Heads External Relations
contributed important ideas to the study of business. But the manifestation of those ideas is in what the alumni and the people touched by our alumni end up doing with that knowledge.” Sahlman (MBA ’75), who... View Details
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Early-Stage Feedback | New Venture Competition
Early-Stage Feedback Business Track Early-Stage Feedback allows potential participants in the New Venture Competition (NVC) to receive guidance on their venture. This is a great opportunity to get feedback on your startup idea from VCs,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
chin goes back, like, ‘Really?’” — former supermodel Tyra Banks describing reaction to her enrollment in the OPM Executive Education program. (CBS Sunday Morning, March 6, 2011) “People often misunderstand ‘preparation’ to mean just knowing their own View Details
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John Oxtoby
small-business owners to Fortune 500 CEOs to make sure their ideas and voices were heard." Turning best policy ideas into reality Although John had “an amazing experience in government,” he wanted to... View Details
- 13 Jan 2023
- Blog Post
Video: Introduction to the Harvard MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences
Walsh: We try and give students an idea of the early-stage product development process. So how do they go from an idea to creating a prototype and then be able to demonstrate that in some way. They're... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Honoring HBS’s Organization Men
lecturer Robert Eccles moderated the discussion. Nohria, noting that the book turns on just a few key concepts (see sidebar), asked how some of the book’s core ideas had come about. “It’s hard to figure out where View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Have Ideas, Will Travel
research of our faculty, especially research on issues facing a particular region of the world,” said HBS professor Krishna Palepu, senior associate dean for International Development and a co-organizer of the event. “We also wanted faculty to have a chance to bounce... View Details
- 25 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups
less and less innovative." “Success is a powerful thing It tends to make companies stupid" Scott Cook, Intuit Avoiding innovation stagnation is the reason that Cook believes established companies need a lean start-up model—maybe even more than start-ups do.... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Research Brief: The Fresh Start Effect
Humans can be self-destructive. We overindulge in food and fail to make time to exercise, and we delay saving for retirement. Associate Professor John Beshears, whose research focuses on behavioral economics, has identified hope: The idea... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Wick Moorman (MBA 1989)
remember that I only got one. That’s how I ended up at HBS. I try hard to have an open-door policy and listen to everyone. I’m lucky if I have one good idea a year. I’m tapped out by May. It’s the people who are dealing with customers,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
something” Khaire: In the literature it is called a "blending strategy." The idea is there are multiple worlds in our society, and people are judged differently in each world. Take any individual and she behaves differently and... View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- News
Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab
block in Harvard's efforts to create an innovation hub in Allston that encourages our students and faculty to explore and nurture ideas that lead to new knowledge, new products, new services and perhaps even new industries,” said Harvard... View Details
- 04 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage
What's happening in another part of the world that you could adopt and adapt in your environment? These disruptive innovations are not just novel inventions. Successful innovators take ideas and turn them into opportunities by adding a... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 21 Sep 2018
- News
HBS Association of Southern California Boosts Support for Startups
with mentors and identify potential investors. The Entrepreneurial Series: Idea and Pitch workshops kicked off on September 13, with three alumni-led companies in various stages pitching before four fellow alumni mentors. The workshop was... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 14 May 2015
- Blog Post
Venture Capitalist Returns to HBS to Mentor MBA Students
entrepreneurial efforts at HBS and the university at-large. The more ideas and companies that emerge out of HBS, the more vibrant the startup economy becomes; and that means more opportunities for investors like me to fund and help grow... View Details
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
Program Aims to Develop a Generation of Global Citizens
teenager, Abby Falik (MBA 2008) tried to join the Peace Corps upon graduating from high school, only to be rejected because of her age. Some years later, that rejection spurred Falik to develop an idea that in 2008 won the Pitch for... View Details