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- 02 Dec 2010
- News
Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs
start by choosing the product they want to make or the service they want to provide and then try to convince the market to buy it. It makes more sense to start a business the other way around: Identify what the market needs first, and then develop a solution. 3. Focus... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
lifetime and benefits from steady attention. This committee is focusing on the services and programs that alumni require as they shape their career strategies while leveraging the alumni network. At our recent meeting, the Board heard... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Field Course Helps Nascent Entrepreneurs Connect with Customers
Entrepreneurial Sales and Marketing (ESM), a field course that debuted in spring 2016. “To a greater degree than in established firms, marketing and selling in entrepreneurial ventures are linked to product development and strategy... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- News
Tapping into Opportunity
governments are spending money to improve their conservation efforts. But technological innovation requires funding and that is currently coming mostly from the private sector. "Most businesses don't yet understand about water and its... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Timothy G. Brier: The Price is Right
As a young man, Tim Brier was so smitten with flying that he used to take dates to watch planes land and take off when he was growing up in Staten Island, New York. It's not surprising, therefore, that he would later embark on a career in the airline industry. But even... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dare to be Different
MOON: “Differentiation is not a formula. Rather, it’s a way of thinking.” Professor Youngme Moon, who teaches one of HBS’s most popular electives (Consumer Marketing), has recently published her first book. In Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd (Crown Business),... View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
was terrible.” But he did seem to have something to say. During his summer breaks, Singer interned at Nickelodeon, working in the strategy and legal groups and later following up that experience with a stint at the Disney Channel. “The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Faculty Books
role, businesses should take the lead. They explain how business must serve as both innovator and activist, developing corporate strategies that effect change at the community, national, and international... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty
1999), who also joins the Accounting & Management unit, came to HBS after 37 years at Bankinter, one of Spain’s most successful banks and noted for its innovations in technology and online banking. Arena, who holds a Ph.D. in engineering,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Back to School
Campaign for Human Capital at the School District of Philadelphia” examines one district’s innovative approach to recruiting and retaining qualified teachers; “Reinventing Human Resources at the School District of Philadelphia” continues... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
Harvard’s initiatives in stem cells, bio-inspired engineering, systems biology, chemical biology, and innovative computing. The colloquium featured a number of case studies about academic labs as well as private-sector firms that are... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
(DBA 1972) (MIT Press) China is moving from a strategy of imitation to one of innovation, and western businesses need to prepare for a tidal wave of innovation from China The authors explain this... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ears to the Ground
Working with Clark on the ShotSpotter partnership with GE: Jaime Irick (MBA 2003), chief commercial officer of Current, GE’s lighting and energy division. Working with Clark on the ShotSpotter partnership with GE: Jaime Irick (MBA 2003), chief commercial officer of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
crafting innovative ways to make that happen in the Bay Area, where median home prices sail north of $1 million. In Oakland, for example, the nonprofit used a little-known tool called the Chapter 8 Tax Sale to acquire 24 blighted,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
key to economic progress lies in unleashing women’s potential. For example, China has prospered because it emancipated women and brought them into the formal economy. Unleashing that process globally is the the best strategy for fighting... View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
company. But they should also be remembered as the pioneer of artistic black glass (1915); "carnival glass," iridized pressed glass, (1907); and "cased lustre ware," opaque and translucent glass spray-coated onto glass blanks (1910). While Westmoreland was credited for... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
company's long-term viability. The strategy paid off, with sales jumping well over 50 percent in the first year alone. Under intense scrutiny, Gerstner then reversed a plan to split IBM into independently operated "Baby Blues," choosing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
firms in the US, why have only 140 companies been able to exceed the $100 million mark? What do these firms do differently from the rest? Do they have a better strategy or talent? Are they simply beneficiaries of good fortune? While each... View Details
- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
Basketball Association was a recently launched, little-known organization, and Gelman had accepted a promising post-college job as a strategy consultant with the Mitchell Madison Group in New York. But her decision to defer the consulting... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg