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- 05 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
4 Things You Should Know about Entrepreneurship at HBS
brought on Srikant Datar as my faculty supervisor. Srikant was amazing. He met with me frequently, made connections on my behalf, encouraged me, and gave difficult feedback where necessary. Since graduation, we’ve kept in touch and plan to bring a ZipBooks-related... View Details
- 19 May 2023
- Blog Post
Choosing To Be Optimistic about Climate Change
raised from private sources of equity and debt financing. According to Mark Carney, United Nations Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance, the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero has resources to support more than $100 trillion worth of View Details
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Scrapbooks & Collectibles- The Art of American Advertising
histcollref@hbs.edu Map/Directions Related Links Alumni Doctoral Executive Education Faculty & Research Initiatives & Projects MBA Resources Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Harvard Business Review Harvard Business Review (LEFA login for... View Details
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Lessons from History - Creating Emerging Markets
Conferences Lessons from History Lessons from History Video Clips & Discussion Questions Resources on Indian Business History The Harvard Business School Creating Emerging Markets project (CEM), in collaboration with the HBS India... View Details
- 24 Jul 2020
- News
Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
spent nearly a decade with the Chicago Public Schools system, building strategy and leadership projects for schools and their principals, and began to wonder what she might be able to accomplish if she branched out of the traditional... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
behind Wildly Successful Initiatives by Jane C. Linder (MBA ’76, DBA ’89) (AMACOM Books) Based on a study of more than forty highly successful projects, Linder identifies five characteristics of such initiatives that fly in the face of conventional practice: make space... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability
offsets such as investing in reforestation projects to counteract the carbon that’s released from the energy that heats, cools, and electrifies their buildings. But what everyone needs to remember is that’s hardly sufficient. And I worry... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
that requires sizable investments in projects that take several years to pay off, I believe the ideal is some combination of both. We could cut back on investment in future products or international joint ventures, but those efforts are... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
continuing education. Clubs Committee Membership in HBS clubs remains static at 25 percent. The committee recognizes that given the demands on people's time, clubs will have to work especially hard to both retain current members and entice new ones to join. The group... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
- 22 Jul 2015
- News
Supporting a Return to Work for Women Execs
we’re getting a significant amount of interest.” Recently, Women Returners placed seven women, each of whom had taken an extended career break, with an organization conducting a major engineering and construction project in London. “It’s... View Details
- 02 Mar 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?
willingness to project vulnerability—requiring a high level of humility—as a means of establishing a basis for trust among organization members. For example, HBS Professor Amy Edmondson, in her discussion of ways of building... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
providers to improve services to Americans. Source: gpointstudio In 2015, there was an average of 6.9 plans to choose from in each state. This fell to 6.5 in 2016, and even before Aetna's decision, the Kaiser Family Foundation projected... View Details
- 09 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade
simulations, but Strategic Brew stands alone in scope. All 940 first-year students play the game simultaneously as part of the required Strategy course. Roughly 40 faculty and project members manage and supervise the events. “It’s a... View Details
- 11 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
companies. "All we did was use the same incentive you would otherwise use," Gupta says. "There was no change in anything except who you target, so there was no additional cost." Gupta and Lemmens also used projections to show that Verizon... View Details
- 06 Mar 2013
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Manage Our Work Time?
of the digital gadgets, Etienne Douaza commented that "there is a constant temptation (on our part) to overreach to download another report we won't have the time to read to add a new project to the 15 we already try to get moving... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs
sample of fellowship applications between 2006 and 2011, yielding some 3,500 profiles of social entrepreneurs in their nascence. They coded the profiles with several criteria, including the aims of the projects and their beneficiaries,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 May 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Denial Endemic to Management?
include a "powerful board" (Ravi Mistry), careful listening on the part of leadership (Dayvon McCarrell, C. J. Cullinane), transparency (Joanna), measurement of project failure rates (Steve Romero), surrounding oneself with... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Aug 2008
- What Do You Think?
Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?
mistakes") while attempting to achieve the goals. Joe Violette advised that, in his experience, stretch goals "have only succeeded (when) they are developed by the project team" (vs. management). The downside of stretch as... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma
continued. "The entrepreneurs were so convinced that there was a market for this, however, that they sharpened their pencils and came up with new projections. The new projections were to generate $100 million in the first year, $200... View Details
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside
fit, in terms of the risk compensation profiles, the expected or demanded precision in projections going forward, and the level of uncertainty. "You ask a big company to be almost schizophrenic with regard to risk profile. That's... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss