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- 23 Oct 2019
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Future Tech Leaders Dive into New Program
product manager and mechanical engineer, thought that the MS/MBA program would suit her wide-ranging interests. “I didn’t want to abandon the technical rigor and science that I love, but I wanted the... View Details
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Introduction - The Request - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
The Message The Product The Production The Worker The Audience Bibliography The Request: Genesis of the Collection The guiding purpose . . . of the collection of industrial photographs is the foundation for... View Details
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Andres Sarmiento
perform as a product manager in a top organization. While at HBS I met peers that had worked in Venture Capital who cleared my understanding of those career paths. I also participated in technology industry... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
at Harvard Business School. MBA in hand, he arrived at P&G at the age of 30 as an assistant brand manager for Joy dishwashing detergent. A variety of other assignments followed, such as helping turn around P&G's beauty View Details
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Sustainability in Manufacturing Industry
This is a part of Baker Library's Sustainability Research Guide. Background Readings The Next Economic Growth Engine Scaling Fourth Industrial Revolution Technologies in Production This paper summarizes new findings and... View Details
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Yaping Wang
"I wanted a job in an industry instead of a PhD." For more than eight years, Yaping worked for Mars in Beijing, conducting research for product innovation. "I probed for consumer insights, then helped translate those... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Clay Christensen on Competing Against Luck
outlines—the “theory of jobs to be done”—and how that concept might play out in the auto industry. —Dan Morrell Your theory essentially reframes how managers think about their products or services—as a sort... View Details
- 08 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
where his passion for entrepreneurship was reignited and he founded a software company, Certant, in 1999 after graduation. Shortly thereafter, the dotcom bubble burst and Certant ran out of funding. However, the co-founders and team View Details
- 22 Jan 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Why You Are Unhappy at Work
Blues A shockingly low 25 percent of employees feel connection to their company's mission. Bill George discusses fixes to rebuild purpose in their work. How Small Wins Unleash Creativity The most powerful tool managers have to motivate... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
1st-Year MBAs Learn from Global Partners
months of classroom preparation, teams of MBAs arrived January 8 in 12 cities in 10 developing countries, where they worked to complete new product or service projects for 140 partner organizations. (A small number of students who could... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
The art of business today seems to be the ability to influence resources your company doesn't own—resources such as the production scheduling of manufacturing partners, the packaging requirements of distribution partners, and the... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 29 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Finding Professional Purpose: Building an Impactful Career that Reflects your Values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993)
undergraduate background with limited exposure to business, I began my career as an Associate Consultant at one of the Big Four accounting firms (PwC), focusing on strategic planning in financial services, business services, telecommunications, and consumer products.... View Details
Will K. Kellogg
Kellogg invented corn flakes and created a breakfast cereal empire. Practicing pioneering advertising techniques, he managed to change the American breakfast style. Today, the Kellogg Company carries on the tradition of innovative... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
employ to successfully return to the Red Planet. The case, "Mission to Mars," looks at changes the space agency has made not only recently but also over several decades as it followed a faster, simpler approach to program design. MacCormack's findings may... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
explicitly a function of current product offerings. The setting illustrates firms' dual incentives at work: A firm better differentiates products under a looser standard but may want to induce a tighter... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Staff | Information Technology
learn, and work more effectively every day. To get help, email us at ithelp@hbs.edu . Getting Started Information for community members who are setting up new accounts at HBS. Onboarding Resources Policies and Guidelines Setting Up HarvardKey Setting Up MessageMe... View Details
- 13 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
"I Wanted to Move from Analyzing Results to Creating Them": Cynthia Samanian, MBA 2012
Cynthia says, "I wanted to pursue a career that would be personally fulfilling. As exciting as product management was, it didn't mesh with my desire to work in the food space." When Path was... View Details
- 25 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Alliances
States, and Georgia-Pacific, one of the world's biggest forest products companies. Encountering mounting difficulties for their respective agendas, the two longtime foes decided to join forces in 1994 to create a landmark agreement... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 09 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: JSW Steel
to be so close to the steel production process, and it provided valuable insight about what makes the process so challenging and yet high priority to decarbonize. Perhaps most interesting was the role that policy played in the outlook of... View Details
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
promising technology—and its first designs didn't work. She and her management colleagues were unknowns, and the product failures subtracted from their slight credibility. And at the time, she said,... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg