Learning From Failure - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Dec 2023

Entrepreneurial Insights: 20 Minutes with an HBS Founder

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

22 Jun 2022
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Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path

Reinvent Your Career How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family How Women Can Learn from Even Biased Feedback Related reading from the Working Knowledge Archives Four... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

09 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place

is whether the business can afford to spend the required resources—especially when it means siphoning time and attention away from an existing successful business. "When you open a new operation, it requires not only money but also... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management - Recruiting

US and unique collaborations with impact investing peers and graduate schools, their mission remains central to their work. Over the past three years, three interns from HBS have joined teams within Bridges Fund Management, working in new... View Details

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Economic Development in Inner Cities - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

national economy. Trying to cure the inner city’s problems solely by increasing social investment has rarely been successful. But when we approach revitalization from a competitiveness perspective, we begin to see the existing and... View Details

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Community | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

and develop the project scope, develop key deliverables, conduct necessary analysis, and ultimately prepare recommendations for review. Projects run from October through April. Education Club The club aims to provide students with a... View Details

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Women’s Leadership Summit - Alumni

start-up investments through the Angels network. HBS Clubs & SIGs Access Tailored Support for Your Success Leverage a range of HBS resources designed to support your ongoing success. From career development to View Details

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Interviewing - Alumni

Careers Interviewing Careers Interviewing Preparation is key to a successful interview. The tips and questions below are designed to let you know what to expect from the process and to help you plan your approach. Remember, the path of... View Details

10 Jun 2021
Blog Post

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

together. Building on the friendship they formed at HBS, their MBAs, and learnings from their careers to date, Schoonbeek and van Poecke founded Key ESG, a software solution that helps businesses measure,... View Details

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Marketing Wine to the World

differentiation, which reduces buyer power. Structural differences suggest that firms need to compete differently as they enter markets around the world. We can perform similar comparisons along other dimensions of industry structure. In each case, the New World looks... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage

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Events - Business & Environment

roundtrip transportation via a chartered bus from campus to New York City. Learn more and register here! Download to Calendar Keywords: MBA Program; Feb 12 Climate and Energy VC Professional Panel... View Details

14 Jul 2015
First Look

First Look: July 14, 2015

on a profitable and scalable basis. With Pearson's overall strategy shifting from the developed to the developing world and from a supplier of books to a host of other learning... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Mar 2021
Blog Post

2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Smitha Das (MBA 2018)

sector organizations and provides ongoing support and programming to Fellows. At Social Finance, I’ve been able to translate key learnings from the classroom to practice and importantly, leverage the... View Details

March 2014
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Why China Can't Innovate

By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby and F. Warren McFarlan

A look at how innovation is happening in China—from the top down, from the bottom up, through acquisition, and through education. Sheds light on the complexities of the issue, highlighting the promise and the problems China faces in its quest to become the world's... View Details

Keywords: Failure; Innovation and Invention; China

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Brice Fodouop

can help me in the food and beverage industry. They’ve helped me understand what it takes to set up a manufacturing plant. Career & Professional Development has introduced me to alumni in Africa, allowing me to talk to people who’ve already run businesses on the... View Details

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Jack Perkowski

Against the advice of many, Jack Perkowski (MBA 1973) ditched his high-flying investment career and relocated to China in 1992 to build his own company. Through trial and error, Perkowski learned that the key to its success was in hiring... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Manufacturing

30 May 2024
Research & Ideas

Racial Bias Might Be Infecting Patient Portals. Can AI Help?

to an inquiry? Researchers analyzed more than 57,000 message threads between patients and physician teams at Boston Medical Center and found that white patients were more likely to receive answers from their attending physicians, while... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Health

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Events - Health Care

Events Events Apr 15 15 Apr 2025 Harvard Medical School Open to the Harvard community Life Science Investment Strategy, Approach, and Lessons Learned Cannon Room, Building C, 240 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115 Join us for our... View Details

05 Jul 2012
What Do You Think?

Why Is Trust So Hard to Achieve in Management?

Summing Up Do Managers Take Trust for Granted? Trust is a big issue these days judging from the volume of responses to this month's column. Its importance in management is agreed on. There is a long list of behaviors that can damage it.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Strategy Curriculum - Faculty & Research

competitive position. Students learn to: Develop a mastery of a body of analytical tools and the ability to take an integrative point of view. Use these tools to perform in-depth analyses of industries and competitors, predict competitive... View Details

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