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Boris Vallee Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Reimagining Capitalism: Business and Big Problems General Management, Strategy, Accounting & Management Ethan Rouen Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Reweaving Ourselves and the World: New Perspectives on Climate Change... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
search consultants engaged in CEO selection. He found what he argues is a “market” in name only, operating more on social than economic principles. For example, when a company is perceived to be underperforming and its corporate... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to rock the workplace with no end in sight, leaving business leaders to struggle with a wide variety of challenges, including keeping staff members happily engaged—and employed. To make sense of the pandemic’s impact View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
Culture carries its guidance to the farthest corners of the organization to places you may never go and people you may never meet. There’s a story about the salvation of FedEx that Michael Basch, one of the company’s founding officers,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
approach to the “pitch or spec” dilemma by constructing a model that links this choice to writers’ past experience and their confidence level about this particular idea. The model also predicts the average quality of ideas offered for sale at different stages. Luo... View Details
- 18 May 2021
- Book
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
you craft good questions and demonstrate your competence. Ng says it’s an unspoken rule: When you are asked, “Do you have any questions?” you should always say “yes” and come prepared with a smart inquiry. A good question is View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
have founded schools, and have gotten their companies involved in tutoring and other in-school activities in their local communities. Scores of alumni serve on their local school boards or work with education-related organizations and... View Details
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
scheduling systems, ways of responding to the customer—were totally absent. And on the other hand, the science and the doctors were so awesome. I went to MIT—I'm not a great scientist, but I know it when I see it. You knew that they were... View Details
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
exit the game. Once you've placed the bet, though, you always have to choose one of three broad options, which we'll call Option A, Option B, and Option C. Option A is to stay in the game as an active player... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
New Year's Eve 1999 gave revelers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for celebration - the exhilarating thrill of ringing in a year that's always had an aura of science fiction mystery. When the champagne corks popped at midnight, however,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
factor on a flight. If it is too high, they can always give you a different flight. The behavior you do end up affecting is that of your worst customers. In fact, if you are looking at the profitability of... View Details
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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
who went on to make significant contributions in venture capital firms, successful startups, and the country's top corporations. "[Doriot] motivated and heightened in me the drive always to be the best in... View Details
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
those one-out-of-ten firms grow into successful, sustained enterprises? Assistant professor Mukti Khaire believes that small companies can grow by developing intangible social resources such as legitimacy, status, and reputation. In an interesting twist, her research... View Details
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
a book about immigrant entrepreneurs from the 1790s to the present day, and planned to begin with Alexander Hamilton. It turns out that he was more of a policymaker than an entrepreneur, but if I had to single out one person as the most... View Details
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?
Mention the words religion and business in one breath, and chances are good that someone will take offense. It's a common conviction within most Western societies that the two do not and should not be mixed—ever. Yet when Laura Nash and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
After the Storm
98 percent of them are from communities of color. Can you talk about the challenges you saw as the only woman, as the only person of color in that environment? And what does it mean for your students to have you there in the room? Jones: View Details
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
As we work on challenging public problems, embracing the entrepreneurial spirit can help in developing solutions, says Harvard Business School Professor Mitchell Weiss in a new book, We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
How did we get into this mess, and how do we fix it? Those were the key questions that three separate expert panels — two convened by HBS and one by Harvard University — addressed for standing-room-only audiences in late September as the... View Details
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Today’s story is a break from our typical in-depth interview format. Today, we’re going to tell a story. It’s a story that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
content, any time, on any screen is more or less established at this point,” he says. “The most important thing to remember about consumers is that they’re always reaching for the best available screen,”... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment