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Patrick Chun

series that require serious tradeoffs between budgets, audiences, and mindshare. For me, it's led to interesting questions about how to think about who you are serving, and how to take feedback, namely when to give in and when to hold a... View Details

27 Jun 2017
Blog Post

Why I Would Have Applied to the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

defining and validating the products I was trying to create for users. That led to more frustration than was probably necessary on my part, and it took longer than necessary to meet customers' needs. The curriculum across the MBA is the... View Details

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Crossing the Bridge from Program Learning to Practical Application

two meaningful promotions. That would not have been possible without the insights and frameworks I acquired in the program." Beyond specific program learning, Barnes also says the program has helped her develop relationships with risk peers around the world—one of... View Details

05 Sep 2024
Blog Post

District Heating in Denmark: How Fjernvarme Fyn fuels an integrated and sustainable future

In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of their Immersive Field Course... View Details

27 Apr 2023
News

Life Preserver

led to the creation of the Organ Preservation Alliance, a nonprofit established to advocate for additional funding for research into cryopreservation and connect scientists in the field. Giwa served as founding CEO of what he calls a... View Details

Keywords: April White

10 Nov 2020
News

Learning to Fight

to run a different kind of foundation, one that focused on people first and the disease second. Those priorities led Sontag to spin off a new nonprofit, the Brain Tumor Network, a free nationwide resource that provides the information and... View Details

Keywords: April White

05 Aug 2015
News

Mobilizing the Public to Fight Bribery

government operates. These insights led Motte-Munoz and his co-founder, Happy Feraren, to focus initially on the little, routine corruption that comes along with accessing basic government services, since that has the most direct impact... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Sep 2014
News

Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes

need to align their in-the-moment thinkers with the big picture and their strategists with practical day-to-day sales operations. But you don’t have to take Cespedes’s word for it—though he does head HBS’s executive program on this very topic and has View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon; faculty research; faculty books

26 Feb 2014
News

The First Five Years: Morgan Hermand-Waiche (MBA 2010)

entrepreneur Fabrice Grinda and worked with him on various ventures. We found that there was a big opportunity in the intimates industry, which is what eventually led to the launch of Adore Me." How did you come up with the idea? "My... View Details

Keywords: online shopping; fashion; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Jan 2013
News

Thomas A. James, MBA 1966

music gigs to support local artists. That interest has grown over the years as James sponsored art shows—initially in the parking lot at RJF—and continued amassing a remarkable personal collection that is displayed at RJF headquarters. As board chair of the Dalí... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Aug 2002
News

For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts

case on the biotechnology firm Biogen, where a seemingly innocuous decision to license databases of new proteins discovered through genomic research wound up completely transforming the company's product-development process. As Vietor led... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton

01 Dec 2010
News

Chaotic Funding Derails Research

time to consider the devastating implications of this chaotic funding environment. And to do that, one needs to understand how a modern research lab operates. A typical lab has twenty to forty people, led by a senior researcher (the... View Details

Keywords: William Sahlman; Science funding; stem cell research; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

28 Apr 2020
Blog Post

The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership

intersection of the private and public sectors,” Pasricha says. “I’m excited by the way technology will change our urban lives." For the first half of her tenure, Pasricha led the City’s digital inclusion initiative. Recognizing that... View Details

21 Nov 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

forthcoming Journal of Political Economy Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis By: Alfaro, Laura, Pol Antràs, Davin Chor, and Paola Conconi Abstract—In recent decades, advances in information and communication technology and falling trade barriers... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 11, 2008

implementation of an innovative, but ultimately unsuccessful strategy. Quarterly strategic reviews, based in part on the firm's balanced scorecard, led executives at Store24 to identify problems with, and eventually abandon, this strategy... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society

American ideology that had emerged. Once again, Holt traces this brandtopia from beginning to end and finds that it too melts down, this time in the early '90s as widescale economic restructuring led to new ideals of success broadcast... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Harvard Business School

pleased that AASU "has been effective and that the School recognizes and appreciates the hard work that we've put into making the organization what it is today. At the time I was doing it, I had absolutely no idea it would have that impact." 12 An author and public... View Details

01 Sep 2018
News

After the Fall

informed decisions using data and make the system more resilient, limiting the consequences of bad decisions.” One such effort is the Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability Project, an interdisciplinary research initiative across Harvard and View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

21 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 21

the board of directors at Tyco International a little more than a year when the company's CEO, Dennis Kozlowski, and other top executives were accused of fraud, which ultimately led to resignations, imprisonments, lawsuits, and SEC... View Details