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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
encounters; (2) focus on the few things that produce results and experiences for the right customers; (3) foster “both/and” thinking in designing winning operating strategies; (4) hire for attitude and train for skills; (5) ensure that... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
to clarify the characteristics of successful investment and financing decisions," says Sahlman, who has taught the course for the past eleven years. "The goal in the course," he adds, "is to provide students with an accelerated dose of View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
the book with an anecdote about Bob, this well-liked employee of yours who produced subpar work. Can you recount that story and talk about how that experience was instructive for you? Kim Scott: This View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
promotions to local holidays and customs, incorporating idiomatic language and local tastes so that each country's customers will relate to their site in an emotional way." The Uruguay-born Juan Peirano of Velox Group has firsthand View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
eventful. The lessons of their experience speak volumes for all of American industry, as firms large and small grapple with a host of new challenges that those beginning their careers in 1971 never anticipated. Another MBA '71 graduate,... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
WeMaintain, an elevator maintenance services platform that pairs elevator mechanics with property managers and parts suppliers, “revolutionizing customer experience and empowering mechanics.” “The HBS Club... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
the foundation of HBS’s entrepreneurial management program. Since then, students interested in developing their own for-profit or nonprofit startups have come to the School to gain the skills, insight, and practical experience necessary... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
society that should offer a safety net, but also companies, where they recognize that employees are, first and foremost, people who must manage through the volatility we all experience over the course of our lives. Employees are there... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
things,” Benihana ads promised). Illustration by PJ Loughran After reading in a trade publication about Benihana’s innovative and efficient use of labor and layout to lower costs and facilitate customer turnaround times, Professor Earl... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
a few male workers protested: Women worked in packaging, men in production. But why? Viana asked. That is how it had always been. “Maybe because I don’t have experience in the food industry, I’m thinking differently,” Viana says. When... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Clarity and Concision By Soo Ping Lim (AMP 160, 2001) Write Editions Highly readable and succinct, Clearly Write provides direct, definitive and practical guidance on how to write with clarity and concision. The book is distilled from four decades of View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
together before the season," O'Reilly says. Guided by its extensive customer research, fan polling, and tracking of fan-engagement data across all its platforms, the NFL "gets smarter every day in terms of what our different fan segments... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian in 2005, Reddit had seen its share of CEO turnover as it grappled with questions about how to moderate content and build a sustainable advertising model without crushing the site’s notoriously independent spirit. Luckily, Wong had View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
founding CEO. When the duo partnered again at Handspring, they launched another foundational tech revolution with the smartphone. But long before she redefined consumer technology, Dubinsky customized bowling shirts. When overcrowding at... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
guests a unique experience and relaxing respite from the fast-forward pace of modern life. Turtle Island: A Personalized Paradise Have you had it with impossible deadlines, frustrating flights, and late-night staff meetings? Then picture... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2023
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Clearing the Air
atoms. But what we can do is simple experiments and simulations to predict important properties of molecules, like how much it might cost to synthesize. The other part is using machine learning to connect the dots between what you’ve... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
several rare genetic diseases. Early efforts were not wholly successful, but mRNA experiments had one consistent result: They triggered an immune response. Bancel, who joined the firm in 2011, and his partners saw opportunity in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
several decades before an effective system of rules will govern China"), the burden of bloated state firms, and lack of experience with a market economy. Yet the mainland giant is likely to "continue to grow rapidly for the next two to... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
surprising to Gordon. For the past year, she’s been helping build out this Havana-based travel and consulting business with her husband and brother-in-law and is reliant on a rising network of Cuban entrepreneurs to deliver deep, curated travel View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
idea was to take the best thinking of the for-profit sector and customize it in ways that would actually make it useful for nonprofits,” recalls Bradach. “We really were in uncharted territory and learning as much as we were teaching,”... View Details