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22 Feb 2022
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An Rx for Small Business Recovery

efforts. Beyond the $800 billion Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), these included 90 percent guarantees on SBA-backed loans, a tactic first deployed by Mills during the Great Recession. “Early-stage cash infusions have been critical,” she notes, “but navigating the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jan 2007
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Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965

environment being among them. The Wyss Foundation, for example, focuses on preserving extraordinary landscapes in the intermountain west and the Colorado Plateau, where Wyss first hiked and climbed as a 23-year-old exchange student.... View Details

08 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

Here is an excerpt from the chapter, "The Dangers of Going for the Max." One of the most ironic aspects of the fiftieth anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary's scaling of Mt. Everest was how ephemeral the standards of climbing... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson

21 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect

example, often mask narrow but important pain points—areas of major dissatisfaction—such as unhappiness with poor customer service or long wait times. They can also mask backsliding against competitors; while gently climbing satisfaction... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online

Impact, and Management in Business (CLIMB) CLIMB enables new and experienced leaders to ignite their careers with a combination of vital and forward-looking business skills, self-reflection, and an immersive cohort-based learning... View Details

04 Sep 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019

injuries, novice mistakes, and the heartbreaking loss of a best friend. When breast cancer threatens her own life, she seeks solace and recovery in the wild. Her quest takes 10 years. Regardless of the need since childhood to feel successful and in control, View Details

21 May 2018
HBS Case

How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?

watchmakers to put the most pristine parts, screws, and oil in the perfect locations. “When you think about capturing value from innovations, pricing is quite possibly the most important decision that you’ll ever make” Prices for A. Lange & Söhne products start... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Fashion

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Online Personal Branding Course | HBS Online

their careers and influence others to be authentic leaders. Related Program 7 Courses Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business (CLIMB) CLIMB enables new and experienced leaders to ignite their careers with a... View Details

01 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients

skilled nursing facilities for their recovery, where they could learn how to walk, climb stairs, and get into a car with their new knee or hip. In other hospitals, however, those skills were discussed in a 30- to 60-minute conversation in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

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Work & Life - Race, Gender & Equity

director for public companies. The only thing that prevents me from doing that is feeling that I would be judged for not continuing to climb the corporate ladder and achieve even more than I have.” Woman, 53 The highest-earning alumni are... View Details

01 Dec 2004
News

Retirement's Changing Face

myself. “I always assumed that my time off would be a brief interlude and that I would be ready to climb a new, yet-to-be-defined mountain,” observes Terrana. “I still haven’t purchased my climbing... View Details

Keywords: Personal Services

01 Sep 2004
News

One-on-One with Robert McNamara

kid” at Ford Motor Company, McNamara climbed the corporate ladder and, after fourteen years, was named president (the first from outside the Ford family) in November 1960. Bucking sacrosanct industry notions, he promoted vehicle safety... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

06 Feb 2025
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How to Judge Your Next Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details

04 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable

is a perfect example of "how a British prime minister reaches the top of the greasy pole" by climbing the political system and serving as postmaster general, minister for health, and chancellor for the exchequer before becoming PM. He was... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

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Commencement 2018 Address | About

dressed in a three-piece suit, would climb onto the dunk tank. Any student had three throws to drop him into the water. I was standing watching this spectacle with some students I had just taught. I’m not sure quite how it happened, but... View Details

22 May 2020
Blog Post

Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles

stow the fire gear, climb back into bed and get ready to do it all again tomorrow. Submarines are more than a myriad of systems and people underwater, they are an environment isolated and alone where you only sleep soundly knowing that... View Details

30 May 2019
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Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?

says, ‘I left my heart in San Francisco,’ but it wasn’t the ‘little cable cars climbing half-way to the stars’—it was the willingness to follow a long path of discovery and try and fail repeatedly until one succeeded. And the best... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

11 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time

balancing act is perhaps too eloquent; it was more like juggling a few bowling balls while climbing up 10 flights of stairs. I would focus 100% on my internship with an LA-based fintech startup during the day, and then 100% on FinGig in... View Details

16 Nov 2017
News

The Business of Social Justice

have the greatest impact. She may be a COO, but Heidi Brooks is much more than a number-cruncher sitting at a desk all day. A woman of action, occasionally she trades in her pantsuit and briefcase for a cargo vest and backpack. In 2012, she View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

19 Jan 2017
News

Finding Purpose in Profit

trail running, hiking, surfing, skiing, or mountaineering,” she says. “My husband and I have climbed many of the world’s most beautiful mountains together, including the highest mountain or molehill in each of the 50 states and four of... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; B corporations

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