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- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
have the power to bring them to the table. Which investors are most likely to be able to exert influence? Serafeim: I identify two characteristics of investors that are likely to engage with companies at the industry-level on issues of... View Details
- 10 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?
allowing me to spend time with students and coach them on their new ventures and emerging careers in "startup land." I then helped Professor Tom Eisenmann create a class for second year students who were either starting their... View Details
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Lisa Cousins
& Resorts, then accepted a full time offer with Disney Parks & Resorts, a company I'd always dreamt of working for and which certainly makes the impossible happen every day. After some View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
enterprises - "We start from scratch each time as a way of making sure it's really ours" - in industries where he believes customers are being ill-served or have few choices. Growth is financed by revenues, and View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The End of the Noncompete Clause
noncompete clauses that could limit their work options should they decide to move to a new company—or even start a company themselves. Kevin Johnson (MBA 1986), who has worked for both large tech companies... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Of Value and Values
trillion in assets in 2008. One such member of PRI is Generation Investment Management, a company founded by David Blood (MBA ’85) and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, with offices in New York, London, and Sydney. Generation considers... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999
run a variety of entrepreneurial endeavors. At age seven, when she accompanied her mother and father to the rice mill they ran, she spent her time asking the workers questions about their jobs. “I was very curious,” says Marcelo, who... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Watching the Brain Think and the Surprises of Science
unimaginable at the time they are made. Who would have predicted the changes in society that have come from classification of the elements into the periodic table, or from quantum mechanics, or the World Wide Web? Who would have guessed... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
New Releases
practical solutions some have developed in response. Bradach explains that traditional chain enterprises comprise two organizational units: company and franchise. The company-owned unit is run on a military model - the superior exercises... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Comfort Zone
industry, most recently as CEO of the Swiss/Chilean company Aport SA. Airlines have since abandoned all aspirations of luxury to focus on reducing operational expenses. It’s the reason we’re seeing a bumper crop of low-cost carriers,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
doing some selective hiring, particularly around design engineering and production control. Our hiring is up over last year; we are seeing about ten times as many applicants per job as we did in years past.” In terms of investment, over... View Details
- 22 Jul 2015
- News
Supporting a Return to Work for Women Execs
Women Returners, which helps professional women in the United Kingdom go back to work after extended career breaks. “When my mom became very seriously ill, I had to devote my time to caring for her. The thing that was easiest to drop was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
need time to compound and spread, and the greatest impact may appear only after an extended effort. —Chris Yeh (MBA 2000), is coauthor of Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
video, and it completely democratized mobile data,” Menard observes. The jury is still out on 5G. Experts agree that it will bring massive improvements: speeds 100 times faster than 4G, and latency—or time... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Kenneth A. Goldman
finance, Goldman's time has come. "I had one primary career goal: to become a CFO early on and eventually do it as well as or better than anyone else," he says, seated at company headquarters in Redwood... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
activities cancelled and some teams' facilities closed, there won't be enough time for player physicals, gathering psychological testing, getting further verified information about the players and some teams having to conduct the draft... View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
the United States as part of its own self-contained region. Regional strategies can take a long time to implement. Leading-edge companies are starting to grapple with these definitional issues. For example,... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 07 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Steve Jobs Legacy
emotions. Bruce Harreld (Entrepreneurial Management) I met Steve Jobs many times over twenty years, and one word always comes to mind—passion. Steve was always passionate about everything he did. No detail was too small to escape his... View Details
- 31 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Investment Management
relationships with interested students. In addition, Company Conversations are particularly effective for firms looking to hire one or two students as they provide a very targeted approach and ample time for... View Details
Keywords: Investment Management / Hedge Fund
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
structure up-to-date. Last year, Boise Cascade announced its most profitable year ever, with earnings of $352 million on sales of $5 billion. At about the same time that Harad's company was struggling... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry