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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger
Smiles all around: Guatemalan schoolchildren enjoy the fruits of their labor. photo courtesy John Batcha Batcha in his Charlotte, North Carolina, garden with his grandchildren, Nicole and David Spencer. photo by Roger Ball When he retired as View Details
- 31 Oct 2018
- News
Pitching In for Female Leaders
Ebru Koksal (AMP 192, 2017) is a senior advisor with J. Stern & Co. in Istanbul, Turkey. She was the CEO of Galatasaray SK, the leading football club in Turkey for 15 years, and is the only woman to be elected to the executive board of... View Details
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
buyout transactions. Co-investments underperform the corresponding funds with which they co-invest, due to an apparent adverse selection of transactions available to these investors, while solo transactions outperform fund benchmarks. Investors' View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Inspiration Is Not Enough
start, says Harris in his new book, Transformative Entrepreneurs (Palgrave Macmillan). But so is something much less exotic: a passion for execution. Harris focuses on stories of business geniuses who had that most rare ability to deliver... View Details
- 27 Jan 2023
- News
Turning Up the Volume
When the executive director of Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA) stepped down in June 2020, Ilana Goldman (MBA/MPA 2002) stepped up. As chair of the board and a political and nonprofit consultant, she saw it as her duty... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
2017 Boston: Harvard Business Review Press Entering StartUpLand: An Essential Guide to Finding the Right Job By: Bussgang, Jeffrey J. Abstract—Many professionals aspire to work for startups. Executives from large companies view them as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Balanced Scorecard in Action
adds a metric that summarizes customer profitability. The ability to measure profitability at the individual customer level allows companies to consider new customer profitability metrics such as "percentage of unprofitable customers."... View Details
- 13 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Is HBS Cutthroat or Collaborative?
When asked whether HBS is a cutthroat place my mind immediately travels back to January 2015. We are jittery with excitement as we stand at the head of the seemingly infinite table in the executive conference room of Smart Axiata,... View Details
- Profile
Raymond Hwang
significant spine-related symptoms at some point. The ability to improve the quality of many lives makes spine surgery relevant. Contemporary spine surgery is also heavily technology dependent, which makes for interesting operations from... View Details
- Web
Entrepreneurial Sales 101: Founder Selling - Course Catalog
consultant, general manager, product manager, salesperson, or sales manager. The course is geared toward entrepreneurial settings, specifically execution required by the founder. However, the best practices are applicable to larger... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Righting the Ship
around 60 percent, where they remained. The inability to execute the work came from a host of problems, including the ability of contractors to perform or finish projects in any given fiscal year. The result... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- Profile
Michael Son
responding to the right challenges; that maybe selling petroleum was not the right way to change things." Inspired by his father, who completed an HBS Executive Education program in 1981, and enthusiastic about a general management... View Details
- 22 May 2017
- Blog Post
Changing How You Think at HBS
job pre-HBS was as an executive director, directly reporting to the CEO of a $13bn business. After arriving at HBS, the curriculum revealed to me how little I knew and how much I had to learn. It has taught me to listen, to be really... View Details
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
understand customers and their needs deeply. Develop the ability to respond to this understanding with better-tailored assortments, replenishment of the hits, and timely markdowns on what is left over. View Details
- Blog
How the Pandemic Changed Case Development in Latin America
Fernanda Miguel, Christopher P. Torto Executive Director of LARC, who discussed how the pandemic has changed their case development practices. Shifting Gears to Keep Cases Moving Before the pandemic, a large part of case research took... View Details
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
low return. He also offered strategic pointers for companies immersed in the field. Suddenly, with the ability to monetize IP, there was a new freedom.— Gary P. Pisano At moments during Pisano's talk, titled "The Biomedical... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
goals we are chasing are the correct ones.” In I Moved Your Cheese, a few maze-busting mice teach us that many of the presumed constraints (mazes) we face are self-imposed and that we underestimate our ability to alter our circumstances,... View Details
- Web
Value Line | Baker Library
Value Line Comprehensive stock reports and covers most actively traded U.S. exchange-listed stocks, small and mid-cap stocks, mutual funds, options and convertibles. Read More Also provides the ability to screen for lists of stocks and... View Details
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off
their ability to reach if not surpass the goals, start banking on the extra money. In practice, however, the process of connecting pay to performance may be far trickier that it at first appears, according to HBS professor Michael Beer.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
framework—that lets executives map the institutional contexts of any country. Economics 101 tells us that companies buy inputs in the product, labor, and capital markets and sell their outputs in the products (raw materials and finished... View Details