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Driving Profitable Growth - Course Catalog

examined in this course. One of the primary objectives of the course is to get you to think strategically about growth. Growth involves a series of choices about rate (e.g. how fast to grow?), direction (scale vs. scope), and method of... View Details

10 Mar 2016
News

Can Doug Lemov Save US Soccer?

Illustration by John Cuneo Illustration by John Cuneo Teaching guru Doug Lemov (MBA 2004) is taking his teaching talents to the pitch. Profiled in the March issue of The Atlantic, Lemov was contacted by US Soccer in 2010 in an effort to... View Details

24 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 24

and in contrast, such indirect costs appear relatively fixed in the face of sales declines in this industry. We discuss potential sources of these cost-structure patterns and their implications for cost management efforts as asset... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs

requiring that much software be rewritten. Over the next twenty years, Murthy spent little time at home. In 1990, he lived in France for three months, closing just one deal. His efforts paid off. Today Infosys is a serious contender in... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

01 Mar 2014
News

W50 Next Steps

A NEW CASE SERIES, "Cynthia Carroll at Anglo American," written by Assistant Professor Gautam Mukunda, was used for the first time in November in the first-year LEAD course. Part of a larger effort to focus on the experiences of female... View Details

Keywords: W50; Educational Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

25 Feb 2020
News

Research Brief: May I Ask Your Advice?

implicit effort to not seem negative, but reserving that input has performance consequences later on,” Whillans says. “A better understanding of how advice-seeking closes those gaps would be a really powerful effect of this work.” For... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Dec 2007
News

Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho

Director Jana Pompadur Kierstead. “It was exciting to welcome alumni to campus for an effort that gives students a better foundation in the various opportunities that are available.” Class of 2007 Median base salary $115,000 Median total... View Details

01 Apr 2002
News

New Director of MBA Career Services Focuses on Power of Alumni Network

their choice of industry and function. It's a tough year - you can't dress it up." Industries that have been hit hardest by the economic downturn include consulting and investment banking, two areas that traditionally hire a significant... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19

fundamental fact of life, choices necessarily have to be made about which challenges to address and the best way to tackle them. In this piece, we discuss the distinction between these distinct components of priority setting in health:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2019
News

From Das’s Desk

While the External Relations team is working to develop a lifelong learning program for alumni, efforts are under way elsewhere at the School to help prepare MBA students for their lives beyond HBS. Professor Leslie Perlow, with 17... View Details

25 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 25, 2006

Working PapersA Gentler Capitalism: Black Business Leadership in the New South Africa Authors:Linda A. Hill and Maria T. Farkas Author's Abstract Through her efforts to recruit, hire, and develop minority executives at MTN, a South... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jun 2020
Book

Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System

eliminated. Voters who backed that candidate as their top choice have their second choice picks redistributed among the remaining candidates until one receives 50 percent of the vote in the recount, and a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Sep 2016
News

US Competitiveness Report Sees ‘A Nation Divided’

fact-based, nonpartisan effort to understand what makes the US economy competitive. In 2016, with US economic performance lackluster and the public discourse in this critical presidential campaign muddled, the Project’s lead faculty... View Details

29 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?

the profit motive. However, early in my case writing, I began running into several decisions that founders were making that seemed to conflict with the profit motive. For instance, founders I was studying were facing the choice of... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services

12 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care

is no villain here. Poor public-policy choices have contributed to the problem, but so have the bad choices made by health plans, hospitals, and the employers who buy their services. Decades of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

11 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups

choices that you're making today are going to affect the choices that you're going to make tomorrow." The findings “contrast with the idea that higher quality and more experienced job candidates are better... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Dec 2017
News

Pencils Up: Taking Note of New Courses

on MBAs. Here’s a closer look at three of this year’s offerings. Investing for Impact Professor Shawn Cole, Finance, and Senior Lecturer Vikram Gandhi, General Management A rapidly growing share of asset owners and managers are making investment View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

27 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential

was roughly a 60-40 split, with 60 percent allocated in stocks and 40 percent in bonds. That’s a classic portfolio for investors of the same age, which Minor says helped confirm he was on the right track. The misconduct data took more View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008

more "collaborative." Too often, however, companies fail to distinguish among the various choices they face with respect to alternative modes of collaboration. Collaborative innovation can take a wide variety of forms, each with... View Details