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- 04 Jan 2016
- News
Taking Time Out for a Challenge
After living in Sierra Leone from 2006 to 2010, where she worked as a founding board member of the Welbodi Partnership, which supports the country’s health system in delivering essential services to women and children, HBS doctoral... View Details
- Profile
Daniel Sheyner
As Daniel Sheyner (MBA 2014) tells it, most private equity firms have a very specific target in mind when recruiting: "The best athletes." The highest-ranked investment banking and consulting analysts; the elite. "Goldman Sachs, KKR, Blackstone—they want... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Admit It: You’re in Denial
potentially ruinous obstacles that managers face. From Ford to General Motors, Sears to Lehman Brothers, it has torpedoed many good businesses. Why would any sane, smart executive deny a fact of critical importance to his or her business?... View Details
- 01 Aug 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’
management of all resources that surround that particular scale of operation." Questions raised by Salli's and other of the comments include the following: Can leaders sense successfully when an entity is functioning at its proper... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Virtual Plant Tours and Beer Game Dysfunction
more willing to admit what they don’t understand when they’ve had the opportunity to explore the material interactively online. Sometimes using technology is the best way to prove a point, as the Technology and Operations Management (TOM)... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leaders must be strategists first
behavioral aspects of leading a firm—building organizations and influencing people. Montgomery wants to change that approach, teaching leaders to ask the question, What will this firm be, and why will it matter? Although a company may change what it makes, the View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
different could things be?” It’s only been thirteen years since I graduated from HBS, and we in the Class of 1988 were remarkably forward-thinking about technology. Ours was the first class to have a subject called Management Information... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Faculty Books
think about these subjects. High Commitment, High Performance: How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage by Michael Beer (Jossey-Bass) Drawing on many management studies and his work with senior managers, Professor... View Details
- July 2001 (Revised February 2002)
- Case
Enspire Learning
An MBA student founds an e-education business and must decide which customers to target and which products/services to produce. View Details
Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Internet and the Web; Service Delivery; Education; Business Startups; Planning; Web Services Industry; Web Services Industry
Hallowell, Roger H., Frank J Andrasco, Hans ten Cate, and Bjorn Billhardt. "Enspire Learning." Harvard Business School Case 802-001, July 2001. (Revised February 2002.)
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
organization.” In the MBA and Executive Education programs, Austin teaches a case he coauthored (with Larry Leibrock and Alan Murray) called “The iPremier Co.: Denial of Service Attack.” Raising the kinds of questions and dilemmas cited... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
alumni from fields such as venture capital, consulting, law, accounting, life sciences, and technology. Legal services were sponsored by Cooley, LLP. LifeQube’s mobile clinic management system, MobiQube,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
immediately for active duty. Andreichuk managed to delay his service for a year after receiving a prestigious Luce Scholars fellowship, which took him to Hong Kong where he worked with an engineering firm... View Details
- 03 Feb 2014
- News
Eyes on Medical Breakthroughs
educations together as a health care investor. As managing director of KBL Healthcare Ventures, she has invested in a number of groundbreaking companies, including Summit Technologies and the Candela Corporation, now a leading maker of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
least four consecutive years of top financial performance or have led a business or service that changed the way people live and work. Our previous book, In Their Time: The Greatest Business Leaders of the Twentieth Century, shows that... View Details
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”
talks about "open innovation" and his new book. Silverthorne: What's the one take-away you would like your business reader to walk away with from the book, Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology? Chesbrough: Innovation... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
As this existential crisis unfolded, a customer called FedEx in tears because her wedding dress hadn’t arrived yet, with less than twenty-four hours until the ceremony. A frontline service employee named Diane jumped into action, tracked... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Books
coeditor, and academic and public service experts dissect the state of consumer and mortgage credit in the United States and point the way out of the current impasse. Managing Your Boss by John J. Gabarro... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
In January 2000, Thomas J. Tierney (MBA 1980) announced that he would step aside as worldwide managing director of Bain & Company, a position he had held since 1992, and become chairman of The Bridge Group, a new Bain affiliate. Tierney's... View Details