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- 26 Oct 2020
- News
A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions
questions in the Zoom chat box).” The chats for both events were active throughout the 75-minute conversations with alumni using the topic to network over their interest in climate change and social impact work. The Show Must Go On: How an Orchestra View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Profile
Josh Solera
industry. “The airlines play a pivotal role in our economy, yet the current business model is badly fractured. I want to be one of the people leading change.” After completing his degree, Josh intends to return to consulting with a focus... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Robots to the Rescue
the concept requires investment in a specialized infrastructure, a pivotal moment came in 2004, when Mountz convinced Staples to run a paid pilot in a small zone of one of its warehouses. “We had a prototype by that point,” he recalls,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Mark Mason (MBA 1995)
physician’s assistant major. But somewhere in my first semester at Howard my roommate’s father came to visit. He was an entrepreneur. He started talking about finance and accounting and how it all worked. That was a pivotal moment for me.... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability
meet great people, and practically apply the knowledge I’d gained in the HBS classroom. Making an Industry Pivot Post-Internship The startup experience put me at a career crossroads by August 2021. Going in, I had convinced myself that... View Details
Keywords: Energy / Cleantech
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path
that businesses are much more flexible than any of us thought. Early in the crisis, I interviewed a number of executives in HBS’s Owner/President Management program, who run small and medium-sized businesses around the globe, and listened to their stories of how they... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
What is Field Foundations?
teaching group contributes to the course through their personal research and experience. They all help drive the pedagogy to create compelling teaching plans. Many of the conversations in FIELD Foundations are more personal than the typical case-based class. The FIELD... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
patience. Or, in a world where consumer expectations are so much higher, pushing your team to step up just a bit more versus taking your foot off the gas to allow for rest and recovery. Or doubling down on an idea you’re committed to seeing through versus View Details
- Web
Rock 100: The Summit - Entrepreneurship
Tom Eisenmann Scaling a Startup: People and Organizational Issues , Tom Eisenmann The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers , Ben Horowitz Pivot Perils Compilation of posts on lean... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Righting the Ship
any card, to save his men. Right now, we don’t see anything like that kind of imagination and thoughtful improvisation, rapid-fire experimentation, and pivoting from many of our national and state leaders. This is a huge failure because... View Details
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Julio Cedeno
method forced them to speak up and get out of their comfort zones, something I thought I could really benefit from as well." Finally, Julio realized that while suspending his career for two years "had a lot of costs, I saw that the full-time experience would... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- 24 Jan 2025
- News
The Network Effect
facilitate a $131.8 non-equity funding deal between the two companies. In March 2021, Model was a part of the Agios team that finalized the sale of the biotech’s oncology portfolio. For Agios, the sale was part of a pivot from cancer... View Details
- 14 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Our Top 5 Blog Posts of 2020
our Top 5 Blog Posts from 2020: 1. Best Practices for Creating a Successful, Virtual Internship In the wake of COVID-19, companies around the world quickly changed how they get work done, including planning to manage summer internships. View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 27 Sep 2021
- News
Sewn with Love
began raising funds to support small businesses within the fashion and garment industries that pivoted their manufacturing to create personal protective equipment and partnered with The RealReal, an e-commerce site for pre-owned luxury... View Details
- 20 Aug 2016
- News
The Business of Improving Health Care Delivery
pivotal concepts I learned at HBS was how so many other industries deeply think about the customer’s needs, and how they can achieve those needs in the fewest and most-simple, well-designed steps. I’m thinking if I could harness the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Latin Flair
Kushner (MBA ’11), the company’s 25-year-old chief strategy officer told the FT. “So we pivoted to gaming.” That decision changed everything. Now, Vostu is the largest social game developer in the Brazilian market, with games like Mini... View Details
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Anddria Clack
backgrounds and industries, given my last five years spent in the throes of the US financial services industry. I knew that I would be making a significant pivot in my career after business school, and I wanted to develop the personal... View Details
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Strategy for Entrepreneurs - Course Catalog
create. The benefits of learning are twofold. First, you generate signals about your idea’s potential that can convince others—from investors to employees—to join you. Second, if you learn your idea stinks, you can iterate and pivot to a... View Details
- 20 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability
the firms during the recruiting process. This decision was a challenging pivot because full-time consulting recruiting begins in September and ends in October of EC year. My classmates (in particular, members of the Consulting Club) and... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
George C. Lodge
America, Lodge realized that ideology could be used as a multidisciplinary analytical tool for comparing countries and understanding change within a particular nation. The concept was pivotal in his award-winning 1975 book, The New... View Details