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02 Nov 2023
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Seeding Startups

a mobile shopping app acquired by Motivity Labs. Now Nadkarni, who retired from entrepreneurship in 2015, is the one sharing lessons to the next generation of startup founders. “I love working with smart people. I love the idea of helping... View Details

Keywords: April White

10 May 2021
Research & Ideas

Who Has Potential? For Many White Men, It’s Often Other White Men

when they slip up? Or are they tearing people down by nit-picking over every misstep? Ely recalls one manager’s efforts to become a better supervisor to a Black female employee who was smart and hard-working, but made a lot of mistakes.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

07 Jul 2019
HBS Case

Walmart's Workforce of the Future

class,” says Kerr. “I’ll say, ‘You’re the CEO of Walmart. What would you have done differently? In 2030, what will your workforce look like? How much of your sales will be in-store, and how much online? “An early indication of the uncertainty of the future is that,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

01 Jun 2022
Blog Post

Five Lessons From My First Year at HBS

accomplished, motivated students together, it is not surprising that many suffer from imposter syndrome. What is surprising, though, is that many think that they have the REAL imposter syndrome, while everyone else’s imposter syndrome is either not justified or is not... View Details

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Leadership - Faculty & Research

a volatile environment, Masuda and Daini's hundreds of employees responded to each unexpected event in turn. Luck played a part, but so did smart leadership and sensemaking. Until the last reactor went into cold shutdown, Masuda's team... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In

service to others. In the intensely competitive world I live in now, that’s good grounding to have.” Why VC is so much fun: “The entrepreneurial energy is irresistible. Working with startups, and investing in smart people with boundless... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

09 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place

time to enter or exit that location. Reducing your costs might not provide you with a competitive advantage at all." Walmart has been a smart expander since it opened its first store in Rogers, Arkansas, in 1962. Sam Walton slowly... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

30 May 2024
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How to Have Effective Conversations

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003) is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and author of the bestselling books The Power of... View Details

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HBR Classics - Alumni

thinking and practice. As an exclusive benefit for HBS alumni, 77 of these HBR Classics are now available for free downloading. Please browse the collection below; login is required. Just click on a title to read online or download the case to your computer or View Details

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible

threats will be more credible if you have a reputation for carrying through on them. In such instances, threats can be made credible by leveraging the shadow of the future. The author might suggest that while accepting the publisher's offer might be View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

05 Jul 2006
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How Important Is “Executive Intelligence” for Leaders?

Three words that best describe effective people in any organization: smart and happy. Both the order and the conjunction are important . . . ." Harry Tucci went even further, saying: "The concept of executive intelligence is a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Jan 2018
Blog Post

How Can I Prepare to Apply for Financial Aid at HBS?

annual credit report and resolve any problems right away. It can take a long time to get erroneous information corrected so it is smart to try to take care of this as soon as you can. For international applicants, check your credit score... View Details

19 Sep 2023
Blog Post

2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

modeling financial returns of customer DERs, such as behind-the-meter batteries and smart thermostats. Dennis' role prior to HBS was a Strategy Manger, Global Operations at Google. Nabig Chaudhry (MBA 2024, Section J), Summer Internship:... View Details

28 Nov 2018
HBS Case

On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website

managers in the field make smart business decisions based on data. Those managers were encouraged to develop questions that could produce value if analysts could massage the data to provide accurate answers. For example, a manager might... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail

09 Nov 2022
In Practice

COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?

The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost

02 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities

the technologist are issues we try to avoid. Robert Simon Director, Alta Partners There are two schools of thought in evaluating new opportunities. In the first, the venture capitalist says, "I invest in people first and foremost. View Details

Keywords: by Lauren Barley

July 2019 (Revised May 2021)
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Acelerex

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

In early 2019, Randell Johnson, Founder and Chief Executive of Acelerex, was reflecting on the company’s first year of rapid growth and the challenges of scaling the business that lay ahead. Acelerex was riding the waves of change taking place in electrical power grids... View Details

Keywords: Energy; Energy Sources; Growth Management; Expansion; Global Strategy; Cash Flow; Energy Industry; Web Services Industry; Consulting Industry

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01 Sep 2023
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Case Study: The Home Team

Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate

28 Jan 2020
Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time is to be published today. Kanter is the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. In addition to her many years of teaching and research at HBS,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

only thing that this sort of learned pragmatism gives me is the opportunity to engage my colleagues who have the real power to make a difference in this country." And he said, "We'll see." So I guess he's right. We'll see. Neeley: So your son is as View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical

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