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23 Dec 2019
Blog Post

Taking the Risk to Start a Company at Business School

“For me, attending HBS was about choosing a time to take a risk on myself. It sets you up to take a chance and start a company,” says Julie Johnson, Co-Founder and CEO Armored Things, HBS 2017. When Julie Johnson applied to Harvard Business School (HBS), she was far... View Details

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Middle East & North Africa - Global

position of the Associate Director for the Dubai office. She joined MENARC in 2016. Before working at MENARC, Alpana spent eight years in various marketing roles at renowned multinational companies such as Reckitt Benckiser and Johnson &... View Details

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Europe - Global

are too focused on security and digitization, missing out on exciting opportunities in emerging fields like genomics, space science, and advanced materials. They make a compelling case for creating board-level technology committees to help companies like AES, View Details

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Founders & Investors - Entrepreneurship

1961 Jennifer Hyman Rent the Runway MBA 2009 Richard H. Jenrette Donaldson, Lufkin, Jenrette MBA 1957 Thomas Jessiman Hashoff MBA 1991 Franklin P. "Pitch" Johnson, Jr. Asset Management Company MBA 1952 Daven Johnson Ntensify MBA 2011... View Details

1987
Book

Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting

By: Robert S. Kaplan and H. Thomas Johnson

Keywords: Accounting; Management

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04 Sep 2013
What Do You Think?

How Relevant is Long-Range Strategic Planning?

said, ''by strategy task forces that 'hack' rather than as part of a long annual strategic planning process." Gary Johnson put it this way: "Competitive advantage and a business without strategy-one that is in constant... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Doctoral Students - Faculty & Research

Johnson Akshita Joshi Caleb Kealoha Lev Klarnet Kai Krautter Alex Magnuson Justine Murray Mandi Nerenberg Lauren Rice Maya Roy Leo Saenger Samantha Smith Wilbur Townsend Aurora Turek Katherine Wang Jeffrey Yang Jennifer Zou View Details

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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Golden Age of Black Business

Johnson and Monroe Davis Dowling were deeply felt in both the private and public sectors. From 1915 to the founding of the African-American Student Union in 1968, however, fewer than 50 African American students had attended HBS. Norris... View Details

29 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Why Do Outlet Stores Exist?

pricing actually communicates information about the quality of the item, causing customers to be much more likely to buy a $300 shirt sold for $200 than a shirt listed regularly for $200. (It's what former JC Penney CEO Ron Johnson found... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Retail

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Community | Predoctoral Researchers

methodologies in multiple subject areas. Shira Aronson James Blume Kristian Blais Francis Dillon Bo Feng Samay Gupta Omar Abdel Haq Eleanor Jenke Chris Johnson Anoushka Kiyawat Chris Liao Aaron Leung Ling Lin Kris Peng ZhiZhong "ZZ' Pu... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

A founding father of Silicon Valley venture capital guides entrepreneurs

Throughout his long career as a venture capitalist, Franklin “Pitch” Johnson (MBA 1952) has worked primarily in the biotech industry, earning a reputation as a thoughtful investor, trusted adviser, and generous philanthropist. In 1962,... View Details

27 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Cost of a Product Recall

manufacturing processes and stem reputational damage. In one of the costliest recalls in history, Johnson & Johnson spent more than $100 million in 1982 (more than $260 million in today’s dollars) to... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Auto; Medical Devices & Supplies

01 Dec 2011
News

Uncle Sam’s Business Man

Barry Johnson (MBA ’89) has over 20 years of business experience as an entrepreneur and corporate executive with media giants such as the Walt Disney Company, Bertelsmann, and Sony Music Corporation. With expertise in public-private... View Details

26 Oct 2015
News

Ron Johnson’s Post-Penney’s Rebirth

The November issue of Fast Company has a profile of Ron Johnson (MBA 1984)—former Apple retail guru and JC Penney CEO. Johnson’s now at the helm of a consumer electronics startup, Enjoy, that focuses on personal service interactions with... View Details

Keywords: Electronics and Appliance Stores; Retail Trade

01 Mar 2023
What Do You Think?

How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?

Practitioners like former Johnson & Johnson CEO James Burke endorsed it, academics like Edgar Schein of MIT gave it a more definitive definition, and several of us put a value on it. Since then, the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

The Right Way to Cry in Front of Your Boss

Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University. Reframing to signal competence For the study, the researchers set up five experiments to tease out how reframing emotion as passion affected both perceptions of competence and... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

08 Nov 2013
HBS Seminar

Laura Diaz Anadon, Harvard Kennedy School

05 May 2022
HBS Case

College Degrees: The Job Requirement Companies Seek, but Don't Really Need

corporate participants, including Merck, AT&T, Bank of America, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Verizon, and Walmart. Harvard Business School partnered with the group to help with research and data collection for additional study. A... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

12 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

out as being more legally astute than others. These include Johnson & Johnson, Intel, PepsiCo, and eBay. When Johnson & Johnson was faced with the cyanide-tainted... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services

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Reconceiving Products & Markets - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

more companies are pursuing market strategies that fit the shared-value model—and reaping the rewards of innovation and growth. General Electric, Google, IBM, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, Unilever, and Wal-Mart are examples of... View Details

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