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- 19 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
From Retail to HBS: How I’m Building a Career Path at the Intersection of Arts, Culture, and Business
the HBS classroom, debating with and in front of 90+ incredibly smart peers in my section. How did your retail background contribute to your experience at HBS? So many ways! It could be both a blessing and a curse in the classroom.... View Details
- 07 Feb 2019
- Book
How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption
provide many examples of companies who have had really smart strategic responses to big shifts in their industry. For example, when carbon fiber came along it endangered Pinarello, a high-end manufacturer of steel bike frames. Pinarello... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup
there and tell them that we were taking the company to higher ground. We were going to get the workplace and the marketplace right. I think every CEO needs to do that in a smart way." See related story on Higher-Ambition CEO... View Details
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
with Finance is a 6-week, 40-hour online certificate program from Harvard Business School. Leading with Finance helps students understand key financial levers that drive financial performance, examine how the capital markets work, develop a toolkit for making View Details
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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Technical University of Munich in 2009. 2008 Lauren H. Cohen : Named a 2008 Cutting Edge Academic, Smart Money, Pensions & Investments, 2008. Lauren H. Cohen : Won the 2008 Smith Breeden Prize for a distinguished paper in the Journal of... View Details
- 16 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM
foundational concepts in finance and spent a lot of time with tutors and professors getting up to speed. I learned a lot from some really smart folks in my section which helped me build out my skills in Finance. How have you been able to... View Details
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Fool vs. Jerk: Whom Would You Hire?
fool, who doesn't know much but is a delight to have around; the lovable star, who's both smart and likable; and the incompetent jerk, who well, that's self-explanatory. These archetypes are caricatures, of course: Organizations... View Details
Keywords: by Tiziana Casciaro & Miguel Sousa Lobo
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
generally. There are potentially even greater savings to be realized in improving building efficiency, he notes, through energy audits, retrofits, and smart building software (the DOE estimates energy waste in the average US commercial... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Demola Gbadegesin - In the Right Direction
institutions the technology to identify customers using fingerprints and smart cards. “In much of the developing world, there is no system of identification,” he explains, “and that makes it virtually impossible to grant credit to... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987
recent totaling $36 million. "We identify people who are smart and passionate. We invest in them and provide strategic and tactical support to ensure their success." Helping others do their best work, in fact, is what drives Joanna... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer
problems are Embraer's partnerships trying to overcome?" As a company, conference participants said, Embraer had made a number of smart moves. Its human resources strategy was rejuvenated for flexibility, so people were motivated to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
smart guys, whose opinions on the state of the world are noteworthy — but mainly because I am hoping to get each of them, and all those in front of us in Aldrich 112, to give me $28,500 for the Democratic National Committee, by whom I... View Details
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker
destroying or even harming the competitor. The focus must be on your own success. Smart competitors don't try to beat their adversaries; they avoid direct competitors and instead maximize profits. The astute manager wants to establish a... View Details
Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro
- 04 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms
Gompers recommends first and foremost being aware of one’s own biases that can influence them to hire homogenously. “Most people aren’t bad people, but we have these internal biases to think that people who look like us are smart and... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
philanthropically supported newsrooms to really get an understanding of their audience, to really hone their product, to find the product-market fit. Philanthropy doesn’t necessarily know how to drive for those outcomes, either. If you have a View Details
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
will be smart to unbundle the services and come out with a pricing table.” As Munyaradzi Mushato put it, “implement an authentic platform strategy where users pay, advertisers pay, and developers pay for the value they get.” Clearly,... View Details
- 12 Mar 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Firing the CEO
CEO. I once advised the chairman of a third-generation family business who was having difficulty with his son, whom he had recently named CEO. The new CEO was a decisive leader, smart and capable, with an MBA and a strong academic record.... View Details
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
smart or educated they are, but also on the firms they work for. "My research found that star achievers who switch employers show an immediate decline in performance, which persists for at least five years," states Groysberg. "We tend to... View Details
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
by these smart devices. There was another theme around women's empowerment, right? I think the women's empowerment theme will quite possibly resonate into the next Super Bowl. Kenny: We have time for one more question, folks. Speaker 4:... View Details