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  • 14 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

March–April 2017 Harvard Business Review Hiring an Entrepreneurial Leader: What to Look For By: Butler, Timothy Abstract—Aspiring to be innovative and agile, companies of all shapes View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online

Overview Syllabus Enrollment Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Speak the language of alternative investments so that you can better communicate and collaborate with your colleagues View Details
  • 08 May 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Cost of Cutting in Line

show, for example, that companies must not try to buy local approval if they plan to open a new facility that the local community does not welcome. If Wal-Mart plans to open a new store and the town does not... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Mar 2024
  • Blog Post

A Day in the Life: Ben Hsieh

active debate on whether companies have primary responsibility to their shareholders (as in the U.S.) or a multi-faceted responsibility to employees, customers, the broader community (as written into the law to varying degrees in the UK... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner

demands. "What we’re beginning to understand is that life at the top isn’t that easy." The historical study by Harvard Business School Professor Tom Nicholas, who tracked the status and mortality rates of... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 1

  PublicationsThe New M&A Playbook Authors:Clayton M. Christensen, Richard Alton, Curtis Rising, and Andrew Waldeck Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 3 (March 2011) Abstract Companies spend... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures

pivot into venture capital and impact investing to ensure that communities like mine – Black, queer, and disabled – have access to capital to build products View Details
  • Web

HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

Programs & Events HBS Entrepreneurship Summit NOV 4-5 4-5 NOVEMBER 2022 HBS ENTREPRENEURSHIP SUMMIT: LEADING HIGH-GROWTH VENTURES IN AN UNPREDICTABLE WORLD Brought to you by the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and Alumni View Details
  • 25 May 2016
  • News

Backing Harvard’s Work for Children

impressed me about the Center on the Developing Child is its emphasis on rapid testing of possible interventions and strategies, not unlike how a business approaches R&D,” Tichio explains. “Jack Shonkoff,... View Details
  • 06 Jul 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work

identified four different approaches people used to perform necessary evils effectively, so that the task got done and the victims were treated with decency and respect.” Margolis, an associate professor of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jul 2015
  • Blog Post

Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?

Professor Jeffrey Bussgang has played a critical role in expanding Harvard Business School’s entrepreneurial offerings over the last few years. A Senior Lecturer at HBS and a General Partner at Flybridge... View Details
  • November 2010
  • Article

Stress-Test Your Strategy: The 7 Questions to Ask

By: Robert Simons
An economic downturn can quickly expose the shortcomings of your business strategy. But can you identify its weak points in good times as well? And can you focus on those weak points that really matter? I identify seven questions all executives should ask in order to... View Details
Keywords: Business Strategy; Creativity; Success; Customers; Employees; Business and Shareholder Relations; Performance; Risk and Uncertainty; Decision Choices and Conditions
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Era Jain

no time or pursuing them was too risky for me, professionally. Being part of the HBS community is like Being surrounded by highly accomplished people with diverse experiences, filled with humility and... View Details
  • 11 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 11, 2006

(foreign and domestic), its government, and private Argentine companies that had to do business in the post-renegotiation environment. The case also discusses the larger issue... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Office of Strategy Management

"Why is there such a persistent gap between ambition and performance?" ask Robert Kaplan and David P. Norton in "The Office of Strategy Management" in the October 2005 Harvard View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • Web

Finding Talent Opportunities

graduated MBAs How to onboard recently graduated MBAs 28 Apr 2025 Student & Alumni Stories Meet the Tech Club Shira Amat 05 MAY 2025 Learn how the HBS Tech Club connects students with top tech companies, industry leaders, and a View Details
  • 26 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Market Research in a Recession

product categories, or stores. Some are even changing long-held attitudes toward consumption. To many folks, filling the home with more stuff or keeping up with the Joneses is no longer appealing. As a result, the degree of uncertainty in View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 24 Nov 2015
  • Blog Post

What is an HBS MyTake?

of seeing the world, and people they otherwise never would have had the opportunity to meet. Understanding that community is formed when we become aware of each other’s stories, the Joint Committee on... View Details
  • 04 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

Many business leaders are mystified about how to reach potential customers on social networks such as Facebook. HBS professor Mikolaj Jan Piskorski provides a fresh look into the interpersonal dynamics of these sites View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 11 Jun 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Why South Korea's Samsung Built the Only Outdoor Skating Rink in Texas

Kikovic Each year, the small northeast Texas town of Marshall pulls out all of the stops for its annual Wonderland of Lights festival. And for years, South Korean electronics company Samsung also worked hard to make it special. The... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Legal Services