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- 27 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Hard Work Isn't Enough: How to Find Your Edge
restrooms. Today Buc-ee’s is a road trip destination, with more than 30 sprawling stores offering Texas-themed gifts, Buc-ee’s brand beef jerky, plenty of gas (as many as 120 pumps at one store), mountains... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 4/5
back of a pickup truck by the ankles and dragged on a country dirt road in Jasper, TX for over three miles. The impact of being dragged severed James’ arm, shoulder, neck, and head from the rest of his body,... View Details
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
Once the hub of American manufacturing, Detroit is in a long state of economic decline. The rubber finally hit the road last week, when the city filed for bankruptcy protection. The challenges ahead for those that call the Motor City home... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987
back roads of destinations such as Tasmania, Baja Mexico, or South Africa on adventure motorcycles. "The novelist Milan Kundera said that when you're riding a motorcycle, there's no past or future, there's... View Details
- 27 Jul 2020
- Book
Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity
one manager said. “I hate the feeling of not doing anything that I don’t think is productive.” And some resisted reflecting, saying it was easier to focus on the here-and-now, rather than look down the View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Making a Broader Impact with Multiple Disciplines
strategic industry and academic partnerships Road map and value life science and technology opportunities for fundraising and investing Students in the MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program are equipped with the skills to steward... View Details
- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
analysis," he continues, "reveals that Firestone failed not despite, but because of its historical success." In this excerpt Sull shows how, from the start, Firestone's reliance on managers' existing strategic frames and... View Details
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Activity-Based Costing
from making unnecessary new investments in capacity. For example, the vice president of operations at Lewis-Goetz, a hose and belt fabricator based in Pittsburgh, saw from his time-driven ABC model that one... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
- Career Coach
Annette Rodriguez-Ferrer
I Corp (NASDAQ: SDAC). Notable board roles during her tenure at Warburg Pincus include Gabe’s, TriMark, Outset Medical (NASDAQ: OM), Silk Road Medical (NASDAQ: SILK), Glansaol and Wencor Group. She was also actively engaged in portfolio... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products; Entrepreneurship; Impact Investing; Financial Services (All); Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Health Care; Retail; Startup - Founder; Entrepreneurship; Startup - Joiner; Entrepreneurship
- 13 Oct 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Building a Business in the Context of a Life
practitioners who are midway through their careers can benefit from developing a road map for the rest of their lives. Kraus is working with a team of professors, led by faculty chair John A. Davis, on... View Details
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
junctures along the three-year road to completing this case." Students Intrigued by First-Draft Case After two years of steady work, Koehn and Helms had enough material to complete a draft case based on... View Details
- 19 Oct 2022
- Op-Ed
Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup
engage in experiences that allow them to see more dimensions of their personalities. For example, go on a road trip or partake in an activity that neither of you have done before. See how each of you make... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
strategy for how you actually get to those results. For example, the MCC made a $550 million grant to the government of Ghana that was focused on infrastructure such as irrigation and roads that could get... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- Web
Your Alumni Community - Alumni
fastest-growing, tech-powered grocery companies. I’ll be showing you around my life today. Fun fact: Picnic joined forces with PostNL and sponsored a Tour de France team, so now we deliver both groceries AND stage wins. Check out the team View Details
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
Too often corporations decide to locate facilities based solely on cost savings. And that's shortsighted, argues Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter. Instead, business leaders should look for locations that gather... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Moving to the Lower 48 from Alaska for my MS/MBA
a small town in Alaska - where wilderness survival and fishing were necessary parts of her childhood education. I grew up in Alaska, where we spent much of my childhood outdoors. Our house was on a dirt View Details
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
occurs—the status quo overpowers new ideas and turns them into variations on the same old themes. That is why every innovation from quality circles to reengineering to customer relationships turns out to be another View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
It Takes a Village: Global Field Courses at Harvard Business School
skills into practice. The highly popular courses are driven by faculty research and industry connections, with locations around the world. Classes meet several times on campus throughout the fall and culminate in a six- to 14-day... View Details
- 26 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises
On March 11, 2011, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake triggered a powerful tsunami, generating waves higher than 125 feet that ravaged the coast of Japan, particularly the Tohoku region of Honshu, the largest and most populous island in the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
KFC’s Explosive Growth in China
Homogenization has made it easy for fast-food joints to circle the globe, spitting out carbon copies of themselves, their burgers, and their fries along the way. But in the most populous country in the world, a fast-food giant stepped off the conveyor View Details