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Driving Corporate Performance

communication, accountability, and organizational design, you will emerge fully prepared to help your organization drive short-term and long-term success. This program is eligible for the Certificate of Management Excellence. Learn More Key Benefits Through an in-depth... View Details

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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

connectivity Cloning, stem cell research DVDs Influence: Medium 1900 19 Progressivism The Jungle sparks food and work safety movement Influence: Low 10 1910 19 Sedition Act Prohibition begins Red Scare Race riots Influence: Medium-High 20... View Details

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Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

unique value and drive continuous improvement in any organization. Creating a successful strategy Strategy and Smart, Connected Products Three waves of IT-driven competition have radically reshaped... View Details

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Hire Talent

the business school environment. WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in Silicon Valley Michelle Cao 04 Mar 2025 Exploring value-based care: My summer internship with Main Street Health Sarah Guezmir 26 Feb 2025 Meet the HBS African American Student Union... View Details

2011
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Detour: My Unexpected, Amazing, Life Changing Journey With OnStar

By: Chet Huber

Detour is the story behind the launch of OnStar’s now well known blue button, as told through the eyes of its founder and CEO of over fourteen years, Chet Huber. It’s a personal narrative that describes the events that led up to General Motors’ unexpected choice... View Details

Keywords: General Motors; OnStar; Technological Innovation; Business Startups; Transportation; Safety; Personal Development and Career; Creativity; Success; Business History; Auto Industry

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Finding Job Opportunities - Alumni

our 12twenty (our recruiting platform) to post opportunities for experienced talent. Want to get notified about newly posted opportunities? Create search agents to alert you when new jobs that meet your custom criteria are posted in the... View Details

09 May 2024
Research & Ideas

Called Back to the Office? How You Benefit from Ideas You Didn't Know You Were Missing

far-flung connections offsite workers might not even know they’re missing. When a person’s sphere shrinks As a highly interdisciplinary researcher, Duede says he almost immediately felt his sphere of intellectual interactions narrow amid... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

17 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

Arctic survival—invariably emphasizes strict daily routine and self-discipline. However, such advice can backfire if it creates a black-and-white mentality in which one lapse invalidates the whole (the “I’ve eaten one cookie so I may as... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

04 Aug 2010
Working Paper Summaries

The Effect of Market Leadership in Business Process Innovation: The Case(s) of E-Business Adoption

Keywords: by Kristina McElheran; Technology

13 Jul 2016
HBS Case

How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers

New businesses often struggle finding their first customers. The challenge is even more difficult with startups in the sharing economy that launch as platforms connecting independent service providers with consumers. Take Uber. Its... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service; Transportation

26 Apr 2024
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Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory

more Southern cuisine to the dining hall menu. Sanders’ staff also worked with apartment facilities and external vendors to expand affordable housing options in Colorado for athletes attending on scholarships. The ability to connect... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports

20 Oct 2021
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Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)

The HBS Summer Fellows Program enables students to apply their classroom training as they explore career opportunities in roles or regions where compensation is generally lower than the traditional MBA level. We are connecting with some... View Details

10 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 10, 2008

"Moonshine Shop," a group of plant-savvy creative generalists, is helping a great industrial company become more innovative. Chronicles the history of the Moonshine Shop, its successes and failures, and describes innovations they've helped put in place. The... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Help - Alumni

by using any of your preferred email clients: Android , Apple Mail , or Outlook . It will ask for your HBS email address and password to connect your account to the app. I had Office 365 as an MBA student or Executive Education... View Details

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How Relationships are Building Biotech

relationships. Connection in meaningful relationships is essential to professional learning and development, she believes. Most scholars have tended to focus on careers as they affect individuals. These researchers, for instance, look at... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark

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Program Details - Doctoral

handbook , creating a robust and exciting living, learning, and social community of undergraduate researchers; Summer Project Work. Fellows are assigned 1:1 to an HBS faculty mentor to work on 1 summer project; Write a Project Abstract.... View Details

15 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 15, 2006

institutions that accompany it (e.g., financial disclosure rules, investor protections, etc.) allows corporations to rely less on connections to banks. There are two specific hypotheses tested in this work. First, given the development of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 PM – 1:30 PM EDT, 28 Apr 2020
Career Events

New Paths Forward & How to Get There

Is there anything holding you back from taking that next step? Are you at an impasse? This session is designed to help to you honestly assess where you are now in your life. From there, we will craft potential new paths and create action plans to guide your immediate... View Details

14 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 14

Location Strategies to Strengthen Competitive Advantage No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715418-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 715-416 Why Do Firms Go Abroad? Strategies to Create... View Details