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Curt Willener
to acquire knowledge With a couple years of hands-on experience under his belt, Curt felt ready for an MBA. "I felt it was the right thing for my long-term goals in general management," he says. Choosing HBS was easy for him:... View Details
- 13 Jul 2022
- Book
Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?
What if the way we work could be a catalyst for solving huge problems like inequality and climate change? In the new book Democratize Work: The Case for Reorganizing the Economy, Harvard Business School Professor Julie Battilana and a dozen other social scientists... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
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Entrepreneurial Management, Technology & Operations Management Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 ^ back to top Copyright © 2025 President & Fellows of Harvard College. All Rights Reserved View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
they do. Turf battles often result when each division is more concerned with protecting its own territory than with maximizing the value of the whole. A perverse hierarchy, one that rejects ideas from below, often evolves. And when a tight circle at the View Details
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Events - Advancing Racial Equity
in our places of work." This conversation between Hobson and Senior Lecturer Hubert Joly addresses the role of race in business and society. A Conversation about John Lewis and the Civil Rights Movement By: Nancy Koehn 16 FEB 2021... View Details
- 05 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities
annual Cyberposium conference held at Harvard Business School on November 19. As an industry, he suggested, venture capital has little to recommend it. "In the future, I see a median rate of return of zero or less," stated Sahlman, observing that the View Details
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
the company's two-decade transformations. 3 In many ways, however, Welch is an exception: Very few top executives have been able to transform themselves from being analytically driven strategy directors to people-oriented strategy... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
which of those get funded, the consequences of that activity is what adds up to the strategy of the company, not words on paper. And once you see that, you begin to ask questions such as: What determines which ideas get sponsored and funded? If I'm the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Dec 2014
- Blog Post
A New Way to Recruit
We set out to democratize career-related knowledge, so that anyone could understand whether a given career path was right for them, how to successfully pursue that path, and how those efforts could affect one’s long-term career... View Details
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Prita Kumar
operations. “The more I saw people transform businesses, the more I wanted to do that, rather than do analyses.” The right fit for entrepreneurship Prita came to HBS with a business idea she wanted to develop: Booya Fitness, “a Hulu for... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Field Course Helps Nascent Entrepreneurs Connect with Customers
Cespedes says the students in the course learn to deal with the reality that “selling is always more about the buyer than it is about the seller.” Recalling his own experience as a young entrepreneur, Roberge elaborates: “Like a lot of MBAs 15 years ago, I had the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
“Culture Is Everything”
transforming IBM, talked about the key strategic decisions he made when he took the helm of the struggling company in 1993. Initially reluctant to take the top post, Gerstner, an outsider, determined that it was important to keep the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Swimming with the Stream
shifting in the streaming era. The Remix Before release Old Model: Find the right label New model: Find the right platform If you’re an independent artist, music distribution platforms like TuneCore and CD... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
— a common experience that might bind the entrepreneurs I wrote about and give the reader some focus. Serendipitously, I came across an article from Fortune, written in 1999 at the height of the Internet bubble. “For new MBAs at Harvard Business School,” the article... View Details
- 12 May 2016
- Blog Post
Reflecting on the JD/MBA Experience
through commercial litigation or transactional M&A work. Harvard was my first choice because I had an outstanding undergraduate experience there and because Harvard's JD/MBA program combines both Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School -- two institutions... View Details
- 01 May 2017
- Blog Post
Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone at HBS
or CMO). The MBA is, essentially, a leadership degree—and HBS trains the top leaders in the world. While I was intimidated by the prestige of HBS, I knew it was a place that would give me the tools to be a more strategic and thoughtful... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty: The New Rules for Getting the Right Things Done in Difficult Times by Ram Charan (MBA ’65, DBA ’67) (McGraw-Hill) Economic turbulence has arrived with a vengeance, and only companies that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Alumni Books
times give solid companies and strong managers the chance to seize market share. Fox explains how the savvy few who rise to the top stay focused and alert, get new market share, hire good and recently fired talent, increase investments in... View Details
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
leadership roles. The top executives agreed that it was important to put the right people in leadership positions, particularly those who support the mission and spread the word. Performance evaluations can... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
into Japan's most famous, prestigious, and powerful collection of companies (or keiretsu), offering a wide array of products and services, but in the early nineties, Mitsubishi Corporation, the general trading company within that group, reached the View Details