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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Start Me Up
5 Keys to Startup Success From the Nigam playbook Selling "A crucial skill, because startup founders are always selling, to potential investors, customers, employees, you name it. Get your pitch down pat!" Execution "Lots of people have... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
If You're #1, Watch Out
firms in front of the profit curve despite a high level of integration, Christensen, Raynor, and Verlinden assert. "To the extent a company like IBM maintains the flexibility to couple and decouple operations rather than irrevocably sell them off, it has an even... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
The Long View
potentially make a transformative contribution to public debate? Once we have a question that fits the bill, we pose it to scholars in our community, which includes over 350 professors, graduate students, and professional researchers from... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
6 Lessons Learned from a Summer of Entrepreneurship
model, our hypotheses, and our assumptions. 5. Be patient really patient. One of the most difficult lessons we learned was that things take a very long time to develop and transpire. Whether it’s designing and conducting an MVP, creating a presentation for View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- Web
A Life’s Work | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Chertavian founded Year Up. With 15 U.S. cities and counting, Year Up seeks to help young urban adults reach their full potential through a one-year program that provides hands-on IT and professional skills development, college credits,... View Details
- Web
Tough Tech Ventures - Course Catalog
optimized for venture opportunities with relatively low technological and/or market uncertainty. While tough technology has the potential to transform incumbent industries and tackle our most pressing societal issues, the tough tech... View Details
- 06 Feb 2020
- News
HBS Alumni Join Forces on Virus Outbreak in China
like Dr. Wenliang, who have been significantly harmed or have died from the outbreak and whose personal stories will be a positive inspiration to a wider community of potential donors or supporters. The funds raised will be restricted to... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Bounce Back
B2B companies can take advantage of this opportunity by inserting ads that are relevant to their subscribers or potential customers. Is email better for reaching certain demographics? Our recent survey found that nearly 60 percent of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
The Western Front
potential partners. The government is used to the request for proposal (RFP) model—an agency has a need, a company proposes to fulfill it, and that’s that. But in the Valley, Hendrickson is always looking for ways to show startups that... View Details
Keywords: Jason Feifer
- Profile
Bryan Guerra
experience shaped your goals & career path? HBS has been really instrumental in giving me exposure to so many different varieties of industry, business model, job function, and potential future opportunities that I've opened my eyes... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?
Macarthur and several of us (including our first faculty, Profs. David Bell, James Cash, Marie-Therese Flaherty, John Kao, and myself) engaged in creating a Summer Venture in Management program at the School in the summer of 1983. The thesis behind the effort was that... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
This case investigates both micro and macro issues around strategic human capital development. First, it explores how Egon Zehnder, a leading global search and advisory firm, assesses talent in the firms for which it works. The case discusses the deployment of a unique... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
cases. The wide geographical coverage includes not only the United States and Europe but also less studied settings, including Chile, Costa Rica, New Zealand, and Japan. The book serves as a warning against facile beliefs in the potential... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Portrait Project
Polina Yampolska
Ten years ago, sitting in a cramped, unheated kitchen in my family's apartment on the outskirts of Kiev, I wrote the closing paragraph of my college application essay: "I like to be a small part in a huge machine that is called human civilization, a part with a... View Details
- Portrait Project
Judy D'Agostino
and red tape stifled hopes of settling. Each homecoming provokes interrogation at the border, a suspicious "what brings you here?” We all crave connection and belonging.Perpetually feeling out of place offers me a gift: it informs my commitment to be a leader that... View Details
- 07 Jun 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
As the second president of the Costa Rica–based EARTH University, Arturo Condo (DBA 2000) is following his passion for education that has a demonstrable impact on the world. “EARTH’s students have the potential to lift people out of... View Details
- 11 May 2016
- News
World Bank Vice President and Treasurer: Negative Rates Not the Answer
said in an interview in Tokyo Wednesday. “What you find where you have had the expansionary monetary policy that has been useful, what you’ve also found is that it has led to maybe potential weaknesses in banks,” according to Oteh, who... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
A Miller's Tale
Norwich, Vermont. In 1996, realizing that none of their children wanted to continue the business, the Sandses began to turn over ownership to their 150 employees. "Seeing the men and women who work here strive to reach their full View Details
Samuel Sachs
Sachs, together with his friend Philip Lehman of Lehman Brothers, was one of the first to realize the potential of issuing stock as a way for new companies to raise funds. Together the two banks underwrote securities offerings for such... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 28 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation
Doctors are afraid of getting sued. According to some accounts, 75 percent of them perform more tests and procedures than necessary to avoid potential lawsuits over medical malpractice. The phenomenon of “defensive medicine” has been... View Details