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01 Jun 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016

deepest human needs. The author suggests thinking like an entrepreneur as a way to improve one’s business, life, and relationships. Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003)... View Details

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Eric Lin | MBA

successfully building products from ideas. Tech areas of interest Developing ML that empowers users who otherwise might not have the resources or knowledge to use AI. User accessibility and privacy.... View Details

09 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 9, 2008

customers in new product development) and developing a reputation for environmentally friendly behavior. What is the role of operations management in this context? Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w15023 Variation in Experience and Team Familiarity: Evidence from Indian Software Services Authors:Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats Abstract In settings ranging from product... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 1996
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management. The Development Factory by Gary P. Pisano (Harvard Business School Press) Product development has long been a source of advantage for firms. In The View Details

Portrait Project

Ade' Lawal

children to be as successful as they can be in whatever endeavor they wish to pursue, be it ballet, impressionistic painting, or national politics. Next, I want to be an entrepreneur. I have to create services, products and jobs, not just... View Details

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Pamela Harder

Pam (HBS / HKS ‘13, Stanford ‘08 Economics) has spent the last 12 years working at the nexus of business and government. Currently, she runs Virginia's state-wide economic development talent investment strategy. As a Managing Director... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Education; Emerging Markets; Government; Social Enterprise; Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Energy; Consumer Finance; Financial Services (All); Impact Investing; Financial Services (All)

01 Oct 2001
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The Play's the Thing

Baron: prize winning playwright. Visiting Mr. Green, by Jeff Baron (MBA '78), is a play about the relationship that develops between an elderly widower and the youthful executive who almost kills him while driving recklessly down a... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment

14 Dec 2022
Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Reducing Plastic Pollution on a Global Scale

economic decisions play a significant role towards enacting system-wide change. “What is happening today is really interesting: we are all worried about the plastic in the oceans. We’ve got many options –we can protest or do a number of things–, but the fascinating... View Details

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Stephanie Atiase

dreams that are the first step to actualizing goals. We then turn their stories into live theater productions where kids can see their own words on stage. It’s all about teaching kids the about the strength of words; the power of acting... View Details

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

Twenty years has provided time to judge the success or failure of Theodore Levitt's predictions of a global economy populated by standardized products and marketing approaches. For the colloquium, a number of Harvard Business School and... View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

01 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?

Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing KnowHow, for Harvard Business. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.Customers are the source of all cash flow. Organic growth depends on View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

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Yaping Wang

"I wanted a job in an industry instead of a PhD." For more than eight years, Yaping worked for Mars in Beijing, conducting research for product innovation. "I probed for consumer insights, then helped translate those... View Details

Keywords: CPG; Healthcare/Biotech; Retail/Hospitality

June 1999 (Revised October 1999)
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Eli Lilly, 1998 (B): Emerging Global Organization

By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Thomas W. Malnight

Examines major issues faced by Eli Lilly as it evaluates the appropriateness of a focused matrix organization with extensive use of cross-functional teams. View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Geography; Globalized Firms and Management; Growth and Development; Knowledge; Management Teams; Product; Organizations; Pharmaceutical Industry

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13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth

little experience competing for resources and bucking inappropriate processes within a stable, efficiency-oriented operating culture. In order to be confident that managers have developed the skills required to succeed at a new... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Raynor

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HBS Online and Executive Education Leadership: Q+A with Patrick Mullane and Luis Viceira

responsibilities as well. (LV): The two products need autonomy. ExecEd doesn't have the experience that the HBS Online team has in producing purely online asynchronous programs, and that's an expertise we need to preserve—they've View Details

13 May 2013
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Alumni: Where are they now? Featuring Fereshteh…

at HBS, I was offered an entrepreneurial position as the Client Relations & Business Analysis Manager for the Canada & Bermuda Region. In this role, I was able to learn about the retail business from a merchandising and client View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

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The Incredible Land of Ice and Fire: Exploring Iceland's Renewable Energy Model for a Changing Planet - Blog - Business & Environment

Careers Climate Rising Climate Stories Clubs Courses & Curriculum Creating Emerging Markets Entrepreneurship Event Faculty Faculty Research IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2023 IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable View Details

21 Nov 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the extent of control to exert over the different segments of their View Details