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- 21 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good
that such shifts will be drastic. On the other hand, “mobile apps don’t require much fixed costs, so you can change the business objective more easily.” (The way Airbnb did from focusing on air mattresses in someone’s living room to... View Details
- 04 Oct 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Make Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations?
proposition included Fernando De LaTorre, who commented, “I found (it) hard to work for trust as a goal. I think you work and live your values, and trust will stay in the culture.” Alan Arnett said that “trust comes when you learn to make... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster
they need is probably not a panel discussion. Rather they need someone with a high degree of expertise and lived experience in the field to brainstorm individually around their challenge. These resources sit on top of the foundational... View Details
- 26 Sep 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Lady Gaga
A&M Vice Chairman Steve Berman, Live Nation's global touring CEO Arthur Fogel, William Morris Endeavor agent Marc Geiger, and producer Vincent Herbert. Go Big or Go Home? In the autumn of 2009, Lady Gaga was set to go on the road with... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
to name the building Madikizela, in honor of the late South African political activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, a symbol of Black female resilience.) The upper floors will contain well-appointed rentals, whose target market includes... View Details
- 14 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
LOVE At HBS
supposed to be a 6-week project. I ended up staying for almost 10 months. I decided to lose those months in Toronto, my home city at that time, without thinking twice about it. After a year together, Andrés decided to move from Bogotá to Boston, so we could finally... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- Book
Creating the Experimentation Organization
serve as a role model, showing employees they live by the same rules and allow themselves to be governed by results as much as anyone else. 5 steps for scaling While developing that culture may seem daunting for companies that aren’t the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Mar 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business
This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details
- 03 Jul 2013
- What Do You Think?
What Are the Limits of Transparency?
information is delivered." One possible line would include information about a company's strategy. Brad Keller commented that "It takes more than just sharing financials or performance review data It is really a matter of being... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
languages. To many writers, critics, and fans, “JDM” lives on as an underappreciated master, a born storyteller who served up riveting, best-selling adventure tales that feature penetrating social commentary and sharp insights into human... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
study was so strong that Ferguson broke the group into a morning and an evening session. “I had to take my work hat all the way off,” he says. “The study involves taking a spiritual inventory — figuring out how different events in our View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Graduate's Gift Honors HBS Friend
friends and family members of both men attended a gathering at the School last May. De Rothschild and Anderson offered remarks, as did one of their former professors, George A. von Peterffy, and Dean Kim B. Clark. "Today we're celebrating two people whose View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 08 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Recalling My First Cold Call: A Conversation with Second-Year Students
co-president of the Africa Business Club. She is also a part of the Women’s Student Association, African American Student Union, the Black Investment Club, the MoMBA Club, and the Wine & Cuisine Club. After graduation she plans to... View Details
- 07 Oct 2021
- News
Planning Ahead
established a fellowship fund that supports MBA students. “If someone deserves to come to HBS but cannot afford it, it is incredibly meaningful to me to help close the financial gap for them,” he says. Ketchum recalls when he was admitted to HBS back in 1988. He was... View Details
- 03 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Recent Grad Reflections: From Being Cold Called to Becoming a Case Protagonist
industry, comprised of a Black male, a White female, and an Asian female.” HBS has reported previously that only 12 percent of check-writing decision-makers at the largest VC firms in the United States are women. And just 1 percent of... View Details
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
The White House released a memo with guidance surrounding Justice40 in which they define communities as “either a group of individuals living in geographic proximity to one another, or a geographically dispersed set of individuals (such... View Details
- 22 Sep 2022
- News
The Beauty Guide
six-year-old twins, she doesn’t hide the fact that some mornings are simply tough. “It’s important to be a great role model to employees,” says Freyre, “but I also try not to show up as the perfect working mom who has it all together, because I am not perfect, and I... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 25 Jan 2017
- HBS Case
How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?
Chaturvedi of the School’s India Research Center. “These products have really grown in the last 15 to 20 years, and I was interested in looking at how they have been marketed,” says Deshpandé, who says the case generated a lively debate... View Details
- 25 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse
challenge is going to be and I can't get motivated about it." Q: Are there particular experiences that lead to an impasse? A: No. Our lives are unique. We all experience impasse, and we will experience impasse many times in our... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
Part 2: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - The Path to Your Goals
veterans, and facilitate externally-funded fellowships like the Black Family Fellowship, Timothy Day Fellowship, and others. Individual financial circumstances dictate much of the extent of this tradeoff, but you should also consider the... View Details