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- 23 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'
12-hour shifts as maître d’ at the Beverly Hills Hotel’s Polo Lounge, felt obligated to work just as hard and to be pragmatic in his goals. (“How are you View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
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How HBS Financial Aid Can Help You Meet the Cost of Your MBA | MBA
How HBS Financial Aid Can Help You Meet the Cost of Your MBA By Katie Kelsall on January 21, 2022 Share via Facebook Share via LinkedIn Print Share via email As a first-generation college student, I... View Details
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Why You Might Want to Say Goodbye to the Annual Performance Review | Working Knowledge
together. “It’s really about thinking about creating value for the future—saying to employees, how can we have you do your best work in a way that’s going to be valuable for both of us?” Coffman says. “You... View Details
- 03 Nov 2016
- News
Here's How Big Government Could Help Small Businesses
- 23 Dec 2019
- Blog Post
Taking the Risk to Start a Company at Business School
you have to go ahead and take the risk. “If you don’t ever try, you won’t know. Don’t ever wait. If there is a market opportunity, run the tests... View Details
- 06 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
My HBS Financial Aid Story: Why I Chose to Invest in My Future
My first thought after getting accepted to HBS was, “I can’t believe I got in! I need to call my mom!” The second was, “How am I going to pay for this?” I grew up thinking debt was unequivocally bad. Many... View Details
- 03 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why a Failed Startup Might Be Good for Your Career After All
failed early in their careers often accepted jobs at a lower salary than their previous roles. “That literature portrays failure as a stigma,” says Gompers. “It might make you think that if View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2015
- Blog Post
3 Ways to Fund Your HBS MBA
Trying to figure out how you’re going to afford your Harvard MBA can feel very scary – I definitely remember the sticker shock I felt when I read the expected student budget for the first time. Luckily, there are a lot of ways for View Details
- 15 Jan 2015
- News
The insurance predicament
- March 2021 (Revised March 2024)
- Case
M-KOPA: Empowering Lives
By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Wale Lawal and Pippa Tubman Armerding
The Pay As You Go solar power company in East Africa had sales of $71 million in 2019. It wished to grow to $300 million by 2025. M-KOPA, founded by three entrepreneurs in 2011, had grown nicely in Kenya and Uganda to reach nearly 750,000 households with an innovative... View Details
Keywords: Mobile Payment; Go-to-market Strategy; Business At The Base Of The Pyramid; Business Growth; Social Entrepreneurship; Renewable Energy; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Expansion; Marketing Strategy; Developing Countries and Economies; Kenya; Uganda; Nigeria
Rangan, V. Kasturi, Wale Lawal, and Pippa Tubman Armerding. "M-KOPA: Empowering Lives." Harvard Business School Case 521-085, March 2021. (Revised March 2024.)
- 31 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher
also for those who already are in business and looking for ways to keep their heads above water and preparing for the turnaround. "During periods of randomization, make it so that you do something different View Details
- 15 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Don't Bring Me Down: Probing Why People Tune Out Bad News
avoiding information as an “excuse” that helps them to feel better about selfish decisions, Exley says. "Subtle changes to how you make information available can have a substantial impact." In Exley and... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 27 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
From SNL to Showtime: Pursuing a Career in Entertainment
Since graduating in 2014, Claire Friedman has written for SNL and The New Yorker. We caught up with Claire to learn about what life has been like since leaving the HBS campus and what she misses most. Why did you decide to View Details
- 29 Jun 2021
- News
What the “Beer Game” Can Teach about Supply Chain Challenges
- 29 Jan 2019
- News
Space Tourism
- May–June 2021
- Article
Eliminate Strategic Overload
As companies respond to intensifying competitive pressures and challenges, they ask more and more of their employees. But organizations often have very little to show for the efforts of their talented and engaged workers. By selecting fewer initiatives with greater... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Initiatives; Value-based Strategy; Organizational Effectiveness; Strategy; Value Creation
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix. "Eliminate Strategic Overload." Harvard Business Review 99, no. 3 (May–June 2021): 88–97.
- 2023
- Book
Move Fast and Fix Things: The Trusted Leader's Guide to Solving Hard Problems
By: Frances X. Frei and Anne Morriss
Speed has gotten a bad name in business, much of it deserved. When Facebook made "Move fast and break things" an informal company motto, it fueled a widely held belief that we can either make progress or take care of people, one or the other. That a certain amount of... View Details
Keywords: Leading Change; Performance Improvement; Problems and Challenges; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture
Frei, Frances X., and Anne Morriss. Move Fast and Fix Things: The Trusted Leader's Guide to Solving Hard Problems. Harvard Business Review Press, 2023.
- 07 Oct 2012
- News
They Work Long Hours, but What About Results?
- 08 Sep 2014
- News