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20 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle

3.8 to 2.83. That measure of scarcity, says Keinan, may hold the key to why busyness is perceived the new luxury. “When we talk about traditional conspicuous consumption, it’s about consuming scarce and expensive View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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CEO Leadership - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Business Review Seven Surprises for New CEOs by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch, & Nitin Nohria As a newly minted CEO, you may think you finally have the power to set strategy, the authority to make things happen, and full access to the... View Details

01 Dec 1997
News

Multimedia Martha: Sharon Patrick Cooks Up A Winner

She's teaching domestic arts — skills that have gotten lost over the last few decades. She's extremely good at simplifying the steps required so that people can do these things despite the pressures of... View Details

13 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

their products, most demand the same from themselves. In so doing, they are at risk of letting their egos take over and letting their protective shells harden. When things go wrong—which they inevitably... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

2000), Blitzscaling Network Effects & the Next Big Thing James Currier (MBA 1999), NFX Fundraising in a Post-Bubble Era Jeffrey J. Bussgang (MBA 1995), Hack Diversity; Flybridge Capital Partners; and Senior Lecturer View Details

31 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

It’s Not All About Pay: College Grads Want Jobs That ‘Change the World’

rising inequality over the past 40 years. So, in that sense, there's a little bit of good news in our paper from an inequality perspective,” says Wilmers, who focuses on wage and earnings inequality. “It's not that this is a conscious... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

04 Nov 2015
What Do You Think?

Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?

some members of each of the samples that have been studied. But these studies raise as many questions as they answer. Is there, for example, a tendency for some women leaders to excel in such View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future

on,” says McDonald, the Thai-Hi T. Lee Associate Professor. “They’re thinking ‘I would rather have money than not have money,’ right? Or ‘We'd rather have a high-status venture capitalist that everybody has heard of versus not.’ But... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

15 Feb 2024
News

Startup Shepherds

By their count, Catalina Daniels and Jim Sherman (both MBA 1991) listened to approximately 300 startup pitches in 2016, the first year the HBS classmates worked side by side as angel investors in New York. “You meet a lot of very smart people, with what sound like good... View Details

Keywords: April White

05 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

The Accidental Innovator

Retention." That is, we need two processes, one to generate things we can't think of in advance, and another to figure out which of the View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

01 Dec 2018
News

In My Humble Opinion: Growth Investor

battling the same thing is important. Also, your seeming disadvantages can be the source of strength.” La famiglia: “My favorite place to vacation is Portofino. At 11 o’clock at night there’ll be three... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

16 May 2024
News

On the Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. We all have early memories of on-the-job learnings—those moments that had a lasting impact on how we see the world of work and our place in it. This... View Details

Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade

23 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap

of good things going on in terms of sponsorship. Now we just need to understand better what does work and why.” “So, while you might be hoping sponsorship might close the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

24 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class

different angles, and felt a deep sense of responsibility. Everyone has gone on to do amazing things and many of us continue to help each other a decade after graduation.”... View Details

August 2015
Case

Building an e-Commerce Brand at Wayfair

By: Thales Teixeira and Elizabeth Anne Watkins

Wayfair, Inc. comprised five home goods, furniture, and décor e-commerce brands. Wayfair.com, the main brand, which was responsible for the majority of sales, targeted the mass-middle home-goods market. AllModern, DwellStudio, Joss & Main, and Birch Lane were niche... View Details

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23 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

the instinct. There are things that they do and ways that they think that are intuitive. The rest of us could learn what these innovators do if somebody would just crawl inside their brains and codify what... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

21 Nov 2015
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Stella McCartney Combines High Fashion with Environmental Values

of her and her brand, but did not realize the extent to which this company is making an impact and doing so much to protect the environment. And actually, many people don’t even know that Stella McCartney does not use fur and leather in... View Details

Keywords: by Brian Kenny; Fashion

01 Mar 2004
News

Derek Ferguson

Derek T. Ferguson (MBA 1990) could be mistaken for a minister by fellow commuters on the train from Connecticut to Manhattan. Yet his calling is not to the pulpit, but to the midtown headquarters of Bad Boy Worldwide Entertainment Group,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

Blog

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023

finding more precious time; there's this exercise where you make a list of 10 things to say "no" to in order to say "yes" to the truly meaningful stuff. Talk about empowering choices! I'm also currently... View Details

15 Aug 2016
Blog Post

Writing a Case as a Student at HBS

writing, one thing is guaranteed: you will get to know interesting people and become more knowledgeable about a topic of your interest. I can’t think of a better way to have... View Details

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