Learning From Failure - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Sep 2023

Entrepreneurial Insights: 20 Minutes with an HBS Founder

Wondering how an MBA can help with your professional growth? Learn from HBS alumna, Lizzie Matusov (MS/MBA 2022), how HBS helps prepare you for a career in entrepreneurship. View Details

21 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

How to Sink a Startup

should prepare as we do in the classroom, learning about the fateful decisions ahead and where each choice is likely to take them. Q: What do you hope readers will take away from the book? A: Awareness of... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

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Achieving Personal and Professional Growth

Listen as Lindsey Vonn, PK Subban, and other participants from The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports program describe their experience with the case method, and learning View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

flubs of all stripes. She illustrates how we and our organizations can embrace our human fallibility, learn exactly when failure is our friend, and prevent most of it when it is not. This is the key to... View Details

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Partners - Case Method Project

CA 21 of 65 Daniel García Chula Vista Learning Community Charter High School San Diego, CA Subjects: Civics CA 22 of 65 Jennifer Golub-Marcus Harvard-Westlake School Studio City, CA CA 23 of 65 David Gracia Esparto High School Esparto, CA... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Action Plan: In Context

“It’s a way to promote genuine and healthy individual growth.” Ho’s own introduction to etiquette came from her mother, a consummate hostess who often entertained at the family’s home in Hong Kong, before gaining a more formal education... View Details

Keywords: April White; communication; manners; business; entrepreneurship; China; human behavior

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

these solutions confront a number of challenges that are distinct from those faced by more mainstream startups. This course has been built from the ground up to dig deeply into these challenges and to... View Details

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A Campus Built on Philanthropy | About

A Campus Built on Philanthropy Philanthropy has played a significant role in the development of the HBS campus, beginning with an extraordinary gift from financier George F. Baker. Established in 1908 with an entering class of 80... View Details

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Klarman Hall | About

Klarman Hall Klarman Hall was made possible through a generous gift from Seth and Beth Klarman. Located next to the Spangler Center, Klarman Hall was designed by William Rawn Associates and built by Walsh Brothers Construction. The... View Details

2022
Book

L'entreprise, une affaire de cœur

By: Hubert Joly and Caroline Lambert

A remarkable turnaround by a leader with a remarkable philosophy: Find your noble purpose. Put people at the center. Unleash human magic.
"It was fall in Minnesota. It was getting cold and we were supposed to die." This is how Hubert Joly describes the early,... View Details

Keywords: Capitalism; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Leading Change

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22 Feb 2017
HBS Seminar

Juliet Schor, Boston College

15 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point

It's been easy to dismiss the Occupy Wall Street-and-beyond protesters. To many, they seem disorganized, lack a clear agenda, and advance simple solutions to complex problems. But in reality their concerns are not very different from the... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard & Lynn S. Paine

01 Jan 2007
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Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987

Chairman & CEO, Ayala Corporation Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Harvard College, 1981 A.B., Economics LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "The ability to find solutions to challenges increases exponentially when... View Details

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Reset: How the Shift to Skills-Based Hiring Holds the Keys to Growing the U.S. Workforce at a Time of Talent Shortage , Report, The Burning Glass Institute, 2022. With Christina Langer, Julia Nitschke, Layla O’Kane, Matthew Sigelman, and Bledi Taska. Building View Details

24 Apr 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Courage: The Defining Characteristic of Great Leaders

enormous value for all its stakeholders. Bill George is Senior Fellow at Harvard Business School, former Chair & CEO of Medtronic, and author of Discover Your True North. Related Reading: A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World Excellence Comes View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Auto; Food & Beverage

02 Jan 2018
Op-Ed

'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year

had died while she was interned. And as it happens I can see the masts of Hanslope Park from where I sit here in calm rural Buckinghamshire on our election day. It's great that Ms. Elkins is teaching at HBS, to be reminded that the School... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

29 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 29, 2008

to the idea that Sales and Marketing should each play a role in each phase of the process from e-mail marketing solutions right through to the close. That is, they argue that the two functions are best integrated by encouraging them to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

2022
Book

O Coração do Negócio Os princípios de liderança e a chave para o sucesso