Strategic Vision - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 2

creation of a vision for the future that represents a significant departure from the past, one that requires breakthroughs for its realization; 2) the creation of a system that facilitates enrollment into and elicits voluntary commitment... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2019
News

Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment

first-year MBA students encounter nearly a dozen cases that address environmental concerns. “My vision would be that all students graduate with a clear understanding of the predicted ramifications of climate change on society and on... View Details

Keywords: April White

20 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment

Associate at Shell. Ignacio Fernandez Herzog (MBA 2022, Section C), Summer Internship: Business Strategy MBA Intern at Solugen Solugen wants to build a sustainable future with synthetic biology. Its vision is to decarbonize the products... View Details

02 May 2016
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: Samsung Global Strategy Group

semiconductors and container ships. Samsung has set a vision 2020 goal of reaching $400B in revenues by exploring new territories such as biotechnology, virtual reality, and applications of 5G wireless technology, among others. In this... View Details

Keywords: Technology

29 Sep 2015
First Look

September 29, 2015

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/315098-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 916-402 KidZania: Shaping a Strategic Service Vision for the Future Late in 2013, KidZania’s management team is meeting at... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 6

Publications Managed Globalization: Doctrine, Practice, and Promise Authors: Rawi Abdelal and Sophie Meunier Publication: Journal of European Public Policy 17, no. 3 (April 2010): 349-366 Abstract Two alternate visions for shaping and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Profile

Larry Braithwaite

the leadership of a trained, second-year student, a group of four to six first-years participate in a weekend workshop "that helps you develop a career vision based on what truly drives you; helps you determine what professional... View Details

01 Oct 1996
News

New Releases

an eight-step process to help firms achieve the lasting organizational transformations essential for success in the coming decades. The Balanced Scorecard by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton (Harvard Business School Press) After years of cost-cutting and... View Details

Career Coach

Lauren Murphy

Lauren is the Founder and Principal Coach of Pivotal Executive Coaching, partnering with senior business leaders to accomplish their professional and organization goals. She works with executives in technology, healthcare, real estate, consumer products, and financial... View Details

01 Aug 2008
What Do You Think?

Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?

Summing Up Stretch—its meaning, uses, and pitfalls—could fill a book, judging from responses to this month's column. First, there appears to be limited agreement about what stretch is and how it works. Some saw it as a variation on long-range planning. Others saw it as... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Mar 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015

healthcare is rationed, the retirement age is 75, and exit permits are required to leave the country. Univer-Cities: Strategic View of the Future from Berkeley and Cambridge to Singapore and Rising Asia. Vol. II. edited by Tony Teo (MBA... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

Career Coach

Martha Tassinari

Martha (HBS '94) has been an executive coach and career counselor at HBS since 2007. She has helped thousands of MBA students, Alumni and Executive Education participants (GMP, PLD, OPM, New Path) identify and reach their career and professional development goals.... View Details

Keywords: Education; Entertainment / Media; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Hospitality; Manufacturing; Publishing / Communications / Advertising; Retail; Clean Technology; Energy; Telecommunications; Technology

13 Jun 2018
News

The First Five Years: Momchil Filev and Ben Faw (both MBA 2014)

consumers make better purchasing decisions in home durable goods. The long-term vision is to be the go-to destination for any purchasing decision.” What have you enjoyed most about founding and running the company? What have you found... View Details

26 Jul 2018
News

Running the Numbers

people to buy into a new vision or better way of doing things is my favorite kind of challenge.” Today, as CEO of the Kraft Analytics Group (KAGR), a Massachusetts-based tech-intensive company focused on data management, View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Mar 2013
News

Alumni News | Bookshelf

black box that transforms ideas into actual products and services. "Little bets labs," for example, allow companies large and small to rapidly build and test prototypes in the market using inexpensive web resources. "Find someone with a good eye for design on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

Career Coach

Fran Davis

Fran has a Ph.D. in Psychology and has worked at Harvard for over 25 years. Over these three decades she has provided career coaching for MBA students, HBS Alumni, and in Executive Education programs and has taught psychology courses (including Positive Psychology aka... View Details

Profile

Matt Thurmond

Warren Buffett himself. Creating a decision-making habit After college, Matt accrued equity research, analysis, and consulting responsibilities along a path that began as an investment analyst at Zacks and concluded with "hands-on" View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

Rebooting Europe

targeted effort to improve Ebola treatments resulted in development of an antiviral drug with potential to treat the early stages of the disease. Better research, Moedas says, also requires better support for researchers. At a gathering of university leaders in early... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; European Union; Government; Health, Social Assistance

Career Coach

Kristin Brennan

Kristin (Duke ’03) applies her background as a management consultant, nonprofit Chief Talent Officer and negotiation strategist to her work helping students and alumni chart a course for their career and take the practical steps to achieve it. She looks forward to... View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise

12 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

Strategic Value Advisors—predict environmental performance. We find that firms that have more KLD Environmental Concerns have slightly, but statistically significantly, more pollution and regulatory violations in later years than firms... View Details