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- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
look to for support, and you need that support team around you. But, I've found, Brian, that almost every great leader goes through these crucible moments, like Nelson Mandela did, even Jim Burke and Tylenol, the View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Innovation Imperative
what we must do to assure a second great century for Harvard Business School.” With this issue, we are introducing a new feature, Investing in HBS, that highlights news and information about alumni gift... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Faculty Books
this second book from the HBS Leadership Initiative’s Great American Business Leaders project, Professor Nohria and his coauthors, with a combination of statistical analysis of their large leadership... View Details
- 03 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?
fashion, CxOs and team leaders in the corporate world should be viewed as a source of competitive advantage for firms. Attracting, developing, motivating, and retaining great managers and leaders can also result in improved performance.... View Details
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
case-method teaching, but that focus was actually the second of what he called "the two great adventures" of his career. Born in 1919 in Tyler, Minnesota, Christensen grew up in Iowa City, where... View Details
- 05 Feb 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?
MBA education that has socialization as a pedagogical function." His view is seconded by a respondent who currently is in the last semester of an online graduate program and says that "virtual education is one more way to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
economic miracle (1920s); cars in the second (post-World War II) Convenience Store Retailing in Two Countries: Southland and Seven-Eleven Japan How Japanese managers learned from their American counterparts, then taught the teachers The... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Profile
Kathleen Hebert
Driving ahead In her second year at HBS, Kathleen would like to "work independently with a professor to think through my family's business model. Can we effectively roll out a nationwide network of luxury car dealerships? What... View Details
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Alumni Startup Enters the Shark Tank
This Friday night, Remento enters the Shark Tank. The startup, cofounded by CEO Charlie Greene (MBA 2021) in 2021, will be featured on this week’s episode of the long-running business show, pitching its “no-write life story book” vision to Sharks at 8/7c on ABC. We... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Clubs Offer Popular Management Programs
HBS management training without a trip to Boston to get it. The Charlotte club is the second to offer a management course. The HBS Club of Buffalo pioneered the idea in 1951 when it developed a case-based management course for local... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
improved governance by engaging both local people and national governments is a fundamental issue. The second challenge is the impact of globalization. Whether you’re trying to save rain forests in Borneo or the Amazon, or save the... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
produces great results in some cases is that when there’s a winner-take-all or a winner-take-most market, the first company to achieve critical scale becomes the enduring market leader. It ends up becoming what we call a Glengarry Glen... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 19 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Marc Duranteau (MBA 2019)
not hesitate one second and applied immediately. I felt that it would be much tougher to find time and availability to apply during my professional years. How long was your deferral (2, 3, or 4 years)? I deferred 2 years. It was the best... View Details
- 02 Jul 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?
Summing Up Is There Really a Formula for Great Leadership? The overall sense of responses to our question for the month is that the leadership stars of today—Jobs, Bezos, Gates, etc.,—should not cause us to change our time-honored ideas... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
Following My Dream: Launching a Venture
smoodi during my second year at HBS. During fall, our goal will be to raise funds and build a first machine prototype allowing for further testing. Several companies have already signed up for our beta-test. Having the best learning... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Easy Rider
empowering—has the ability to unlock a higher level of performance in a climate where employees are used to being in a very rigid, top-down structure.” His bike: The H-D Street Glide Special. “It’s a great bike for touring long distances,... View Details
- 25 Feb 2017
- Blog Post
3 Reasons I Chose to Attend HBS
my second semester at HBS, I vividly recall the application process. For prospective students, I have a few words of advice. Before you even start to think about why your dream school is such a great fit,... View Details
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
story of creative destruction, the most pronounced impact was a massive increase in churning among new entrants. We argue that creative destruction requires many business failures along with the few great successes. The successes are very... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Energy & Environment Club’s Icelandic Adventure!
landmarks, like the Hallgrímskirkja Church, and found great food in the Icelandic capital city, Reykjavik. Tyler & Sydney in front of Hallgrímskirkja Church Our first scheduled stop was an overview with our group’s host, Jesper Jolma,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
A Force for Good
customer service and administration. “We connect them to great candidates they might otherwise overlook,” he says. Skillist’s job application platform omits a candidate’s name and other identifying information, adding instead more robust... View Details