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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
expand her worldview. HBS was the only place she applied. "I had lived in São Paulo my entire life and loved being close to my family. But I thought it was the moment to try to venture on my own into something else." Her parents, proud of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
full-time — is their own clearly articulated definition of fulfillment and success. While each emphasized that there is no single strategy for achieving balance between work, family, and spiritual/personal growth, their stories are food for View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
mission in terms of thought leadership, albeit from a different angle of the global economy.” The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, which grew out of reporting that Lemmon began between her first and second years at HBS, is the true story of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
than about places of worship (where everyone appears a saint). When our actions match our confessions, when our speeches honor God despite the permissiveness of our environment, when our thoughts glorify God despite the sight before our... View Details
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
Attributing moral agency to business enterprises may be thought to avoid this controversy given that most theories of morality recognize positive duties on the part of all moral agents to help others even if at some cost to their own... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
business model that best matches the characteristics of the innovation and the needs of the target customer group. For example, one electronics company we worked with thought it had a new-market disruptive innovation on its hands. There... View Details
- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
stations. I hope the uptime metric means that more people will give thought to the funding needed and will signal to companies that the time is now to invest in the means necessary to meet the 97% standard, if they haven’t already done... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
market” but also “irascible & quarrelsome & in this way makes enemies.” Then, “his habits have been more expensive than his circumstances were thought to justify, but he is more prudent in this respect than formerly...careful in his... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
ice-cream business, they set their sights low. “Originally, we thought maybe we could become the leading ice-cream company in the San Francisco Bay Area,” recalls Rogers. “We had no sense of geographic expansion.” The pair turned out to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
opportunity often lay in the problems that they and their peers faced in their personal lives. Take Michel, for example. A naval flight officer prior to attending HBS, Michel joined a Navy reserve unit in California after graduation. Watching his fellow reservists... View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
value-added tax. We're the only developed economy that doesn't do it. We have state and local sales taxes, but we don't have any broad-based value-added tax. I think most tax economists have long thought it's a strange arrow to have kept... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
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
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
firms. In doing so, he was anticipating what he thought would be the "elephant in the room." GovDelivery's business-to-government revenue model had been a conversation-stopper with major investors looking at Burns' company and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
CEO, rising leader of a firm in transition, and manager of massive complexity-thanks to our incredibly networked and increasingly unpredictable world of business. What if you were in his shoes? If you're a top executive today, you probably are. Harder Than I View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
corruption, which increases managerial credibility. These effects are larger for countries with stronger law enforcement and more widespread assurance of sustainability reports. We conclude with thoughts about mandatory sustainability and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
performance. This movement to focus on results instead of effort provides external pressure to address all of the managerial challenges we mentioned above. Q: What is the PELP Coherence Framework? A: In working with district leadership teams, we observed something... View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
efforts to reveal classified government documents. The film, Singer’s first to be produced, was panned by critics. “I thought my career was over,” he says. But the script of The Fifth Estate got him the job writing Spotlight, as well as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
try me.” Having written these words, Lincoln paused. He did not send the letter; instead, he stored it in his desk while he thought about what to do. Two days later, when Frederick Douglass visited Lincoln at the White House to discuss... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
that the experience has boosted their confidence. During her second year at HBS, Kristin S. Rhyne (MBA 1999) set about researching an idea she thought was a good one — putting spa services in airports. She solicited the support of... View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
the end of another chapter in the history of the fast consolidating credit card market. For Providian CEO Joseph Saunders, it was vindication of four years' hard work in turning around a company that many thought was close to bankruptcy.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace