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Scaling Technology Ventures - Course Catalog
Students will learn how leadership teams address the challenges and opportunities ventures face after achieving product-market fit – and how to activate and manage exponential growth. The course reflects the recent shift in market... View Details
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Field Course: Field Y: Projects in Business Management - Course Catalog
to serve a small need as well as teams with enormous ambition. Cross Registration Cross-registrants are welcome to take the course. Copyright © 2023 President & Fellows of Harvard College. All Rights... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship in General Management
the marketer is the general manager and is supported by a team of functional specialists, such as advertising, consumer research, R&D, finance, operations. I was surprised how much of my job involved... View Details
- 25 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
The Internship Search: “Is this just a personal interest, or is there a real professional opportunity here?”
effectiveness – I will essentially be a general athlete supporting the management team and a number of other functional areas.” Aaron’s internship began on June 11 in Los Angeles. He’s confident it will be a... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 03 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising
control," Deighton says. "In the 1950s, Dove's advertising approach was similar to a World War II military campaign with a heavy bombardment of 30- and 60-second messages with very strong, functional content. It was all delivered with... View Details
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
division, for example, everyone knew about the tensions between the regional entities and the functional departments. Everyone was aware that the senior team wasn't managing effectively, and many managers... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
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Rock 100: The Summit - Entrepreneurship
recommended reading lists Hand-picked resources for the questions and concerns raised by the Rock 100 founders at the Summit can be found at the links below: B2B Marketing Aligning Strategy and Sales: The Choices, Systems, and Behaviors that Drive Effective Selling ,... View Details
Shirish Nimgaonkar
new business development. Shirish has advised multiple startups in areas such as SaaS, AI and B2B software across functions such as solution / product development, sales, marketing, team building, capital... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
a common language? Top management needs to place a higher value on legal literacy. Training and incentives are important. Potential problem areas can vary depending on industry and functional role, but they are easily recognizable if... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 22 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Balancing the Ideal with the Real: Conveying Corporate Culture to Candidates
to pull their weight.” Although the idea of a culture may be easily expressed, its representation can cross challenging realties. Given an environment in which many corporations express the same values, it can be difficult to stand out... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 02 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Uncovering the Virtual Advantage at Humana
employees across a variety of functions worked remotely and in January 2020, Humana was ranked 15th most flexible workplace in the U.S. by FlexJobs. Humana has earned this reputation by offering remote work arrangements, using a variety... View Details
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
itself, requires continual experimentation and adaptation. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49244 Working Papers Accounting Data, Market Values, and the Cross Section of Expected Returns Worldwide By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Global Business Code
insight into perceptions of the company's conduct among a large cross section of employees around the world, and to benchmark themselves against other leading companies. When the global financial crisis hit, the project View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
incentives, team building, and principal-agent tradeoffs. It represents an important starting-point for exploring the origins of American entrepreneurship and venture financing. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/813086-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How New BofA Executives Learn its ’Deep Smarts’
unwritten rules and possible challenges to expect in the new role. For example, one unwritten norm critical for a successful entry into the organization is the need to build strong lateral relationships that cross several boundaries, such... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
that mixing one full serving of vegetables with chocolate milk could disguise the vegetable taste, creating a creamy chocolate milk shake that could offer parents a sneaky way to deliver vegetable nutrition to their kids. Sneakz Organic was born. The Sneakz View Details
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
how individuals think about speaking up at work, we first undertook in-depth exploratory research in a knowledge-intensive multinational corporation in which employee input was considered crucial. Qualitative data collected in 190 interviews with employees from all... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning
in Rwanda’s most impoverished villages. To help improve the function of the Rwanda Development Board, another team examined the cost to business of governmental bureaucracy. “I believe that people learn the... View Details
- 26 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Syngenta Tomato Vision
an opportunity to visit Syngenta Tomato Vision, a 150,000 square foot greenhouse and demonstration center located in Maasland, the Netherlands. This facility opened in May 2020 and focuses on testing thousands of tomato varietal crossings... View Details
- 22 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
The National Park Services: A Mini-Business with a Twist
Visitor and Resource Protection (i.e. Law Enforcement), Interpretation (i.e. Visitor Services) and Administration. The inter-working of these divisions is not distinct from how business functions might interface within a corporation. For... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government