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25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Studying Japan from the Inside

Harvard Business School started its Japan Research Office in December 2001—smack in the middle of an incredibly turbulent time for the country's economy. The boom years of the 1970s and 1980s—when Japanese management practices and innovativeness View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

06 Jul 2015
News

Lights! Camera... Market!

LaJoie family farm in Van Buren, Maine, where the film takes place. It was sheer coincidence that Simon had also attended HBS. “When they called me and told me about that class, I said, ‘I know that class!’ I hadn’t taken it myself, but I knew of it,” says Simon. “That... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

01 Jun 2001
News

Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century

their market? Did they miss important, competitive developments? “There’s all too often an assumption with technological products that people like you should sit back and let the technical folks do it,” says MacCormack, pointing out an attitude that View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

20 Feb 2014
News

Managing the World’s Trouble Spots

MacHour, who brought together the original group around the idea of EWB. Goodwin led the effort to turn their concept into reality and the group asked him to take the reins as CEO in 2008. Classmates Subra Iyer and James “Jimmy” Park... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Sep 2006
News

Redefining Health Care

grow, and the inefficient or poor-quality players fix their problems or go out of business. So finally, we understood that the right question was: Why is competition failing? And that question led us to the distinction between zero-sum... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2013
News

Leveraging Female Talent

Chasing Stars: The Myth of Talent and the Portability of Performance, Groysberg's current focus is on women: both how they succeed as individuals and how organizations can best leverage female talent. His work has led to a new MBA... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

09 Dec 2020
Blog Post

How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace

and inclusion so that they can be addressed. HOW TO CREATE A PSYCHOLOGICALLY SAFE ORGANIZATION Professor Edmondson’s research led her to develop a Leadership Toolkit to help organizations achieve psychological safety. The three critical... View Details

06 Jun 2024
Blog Post

Revolutionizing Wellness: Kate Twist (MBA 2008) Shapes the Future of Consumer Health Brands

After Clinique, Twist brought her skills and experience to a group of iconic American brands and led all marketing, e-commerce, business intelligence, and creative for Isaac Mizrahi, Halston, Judith Ripka, and C. Wonder as Chief Marketing... View Details

10 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Cofounders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke

that perspective to the next level,” she shared. Schoonbeek was also eager to gain more experience as an operator at a startup company to supplement her experience as a consultant working with large businesses. Specifically, she was drawn to healthcare which View Details

11 Oct 2016
First Look

October 11, 2016

service requests to their city government. Users who viewed photos of city workers responding to their service requests were more likely to continue using the app over the ensuing 13 months, demonstrating that operational transparency led... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Aug 2018
News

The Value of Valleys

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Hi. This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. There's this Teddy Roosevelt quote about struggle that I came across recently that I really like. Roosevelt said, "There's never yet been a man in our history... View Details

01 Dec 2011
News

Making the Case for Leadership

deliver, they go. I think that is pretty clear to everybody,” says Natarajan. Natarajan led the company’s turnaround by instituting an annual Vision Community exercise, which invites selected employees at all levels to join in... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

SchleferHarvard Business School Case 711-016 Since emerging from decades of conflict in 2002, Angola has been growing at a scorching double-digit rate, led by its oil industry. But the nation remains beset with seemingly intractable... View Details

03 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

risky collateral led to a dramatic expansion in the issuance of structured securities, most of which were viewed by investors to be virtually risk-free and certified as such by the rating agencies. At the core of the recent financial... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Web

One-Year Action Plan Update - Advancing Racial Equity

to a question I want to dive into a little bit later about sustaining momentum because we know there was a great deal of passion and energy around this last year that led to the development of the plan. It seems to have really held over... View Details

Portrait Project

Meredith Cantrell

Sometimes I forget to breathe. My parents used to laugh when, as a defiant youngster, my crying fits often led me to near hyperventilation. "Keep breathing, honey..." they'd remind me. But the first time I heard Mahler's 5th, it... View Details

07 Jan 2020
News

Models of Success

education and support they needed to use sports as a lever to change their lives,” Feickert says. That revelation led her to cofound Trey Athletes, a social enterprise that creates cohorts of high-potential high school athletes and... View Details

Career Coach

Kristin Brennan

Leadership program; and led strategy and human capital work for a number of leading educational and social impact organizations. Work Experience: Bowdoin College (Executive Director, Career Exploration and Development); Harvard Graduate... View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise

24 Apr 2014
News

Finding a cure for cancer became a personal mission

Thai Lee (MBA 1985), president and CEO of SHI International, talks about how a family crisis led her to funding cancer research. (Published April 2014) View Details

06 Apr 2022

2+2 Deferred Admissions Process: Application Q&A

Working on your 2+2 application and have questions? Join this Q&A led by Admissions representatives to get any last minute questions answered about the 2+2 deferred admissions application process. View Details

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