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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
conversations in class where someone says, 'I've got something sort of like this but I approach it differently,' and those are the inspiration for new cases. Those conversations inform the way we approach the discussion and the examples... View Details
- 07 Feb 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course
thing I could do? How are we going to split up the roles? Which one of us will become the CEO? How are we going to split the equity among us? "Each fork in the road brings us to a bunch more cofounder dilemmas, and as you're going... View Details
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
new line of business. (Starbucks partners with hot-spot provider, T-Mobile and Hewlett-Packard to offer users subscription plans that average under $40 per month.) We are moving to a time when broadband will be totally ubiquitous, part of... View Details
- 07 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Pathlight: Reimagining the Developer Onboarding Experience
not the right one, you reach a fork in the road – do you keep pushing to find the right solution, or do you decide to end your startup pursuit altogether? Founders who iterate through new ideas are showing,... View Details
- 18 Mar 2020
- News
Leading Change
featuring Donald S. Beyer, U.S. Congressman from Virginia and Co-Chair of the New Democrat Coalition Climate Change Task Force; Anne Kelly, (Harvard Kennedy School, 1996) VP of Government Relations, Ceres; Elizabeth Lewis (MBA 2006),... View Details
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tips to Reinvent the Department Store
these stores are all the same. At Bloomingdale's, Chadwick said, "we have spent the last five years rebranding ourselves and separating ourselves from what we call the department store, because we thought that we were going down the View Details
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries
What's in a name? Plenty if you're a consumer marketer trying to build a brand. "They are road signs that help people find orientation in the jungle of supply", said Hans G. Gueldenberg, CEO of Nestlé Deutschland AG. According... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2025
Edited by Julia Hanna; photographs by Susan Young Award Recipients Video MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2025 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2025 recipients, and learn... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
restaurants. “There are whole startups focused on that, and it’s a very difficult problem to solve,” Sambvani says. 3. Go wider. They could expand into entirely new markets, such as financial services, travel, or health care. This... View Details
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
seven years old and did not speak a word of English. Her father, a pilot, often took the family on weekend adventures to locations that were accessible only by air, landing a single prop plane on roads while vehicle traffic waited for... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 20 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics
earning her MBA at Harvard Business School. In fact, she spent the first decade of her life living down the road from Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, yet the halls of Harvard Business School could not have been further from her sense... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
from the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, there were many heroic and extensive efforts to rebuild this iconic urban area in New York City. Political accomplishments, economic recovery, and community rehabilitation were urgent and... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics
earning her MBA at Harvard Business School. In fact, she spent the first decade of her life living down the road from Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, yet the halls of Harvard Business School could not have been further from her sense... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 13 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens
be because we mostly notice the things that government gets wrong. "You drive for miles on perfectly paved roads but are outraged when you run into one pothole," says Michael I. Norton, an associate professor in the Marketing... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 11 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)
work. Trips to tropical places are opportunities to secure new hotel customers. Summer beach time has been replaced with road trips to the Hamptons and Nantucket. I think the only safe place for a true... View Details
- 03 Jul 2024
- News
Surviving the Iditarod
Trail is really difficult to describe. Starting out, leaving from the area around Anchorage, you're just leaving the road system and you're starting to ski through a whole bunch of kennels and dog trails, and then you start getting onto... View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
and prepared to return home with a new perspective. The bonds forged during this experience remain, as the group stays in contact. Gower notes that the one-on-one coaching that he and the other participants received with an experienced... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
company," says Jose Ferreira, "was to solve the twin problems of access to education and educational achievement. Only 22 percent of the world finishes high school; that is a preventable tragedy." In 2008, Ferreira founded New York–based... View Details
- 13 May 2025
- News
If I Knew Then
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: On May 29, a fresh crop of MBAs will receive their diplomas and go off into the world to begin a new chapter in their lives. But before they walk across the stage... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
three farmers each week and log their problems in a database,” she says. So far, water, labor, and lack of consumer understanding lead the pack. A good agtech founder has three qualities, Lambert continues: “They understand the problem they’re solving. They have a... View Details