Pivotality - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

Purchase this case: https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/318085-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-100 Chaudhary Group: Rebuilding Nepal After the 2015 Nepal earthquake, the Chaudhary Group, a billion-dollar conglomerate in Nepal, decides to play a View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 Sep 2021
News

Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act

for a lot of us, especially Harvard graduates, work is probably all-encompassing and the prospect of stopping work and pivoting into something different is a little bit frightening. And so I think it's really important to start in your... View Details

29 Jan 2019
Blog Post

Being a Mom and a Founder at HBS

supportive of founders working on businesses while in school from providing Summer Fellowships, coaches, mentors, and advisors to offering funding through the Rock Accelerator and Rock Incubator Programs. The funding my business has received from the Rock Center has... View Details

01 Jan 2008
News

John Doerr, MBA 1976

Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Rice University, 1973 B.S., Electrical Engineering Rice University, 1974 M.S., Electrical Engineering LESSONS FROM HBS “The Human Behavior in Organizations course... View Details

30 Nov 2021
Blog Post

Searching for Professional Passion Through My VC Summer Internship

responsibility than ever before. Capitalism has played a pivotal part in creating societal problems ranging from climate change to curtailment of civil liberties. The next generation of business leaders must find ways to align the... View Details

01 Jun 2016
News

How Do I Get Your Job?

educate them about these issues. It took a real pivot for me—a real U-turn—to understand that I couldn’t shame customers into feeling bad about past decisions. I could only give them a product that made them feel really great about what... View Details

Keywords: April White

13 Dec 2018
Blog Post

"I Wanted to Move from Analyzing Results to Creating Them": Cynthia Samanian, MBA 2012

site," she says. "I found that I loved creating in-person experiences over digital content." In April 2017, Cynthia decided to pivot away from Confetti Kitchen. "I had no energy, no funds, and no focus. I was exhausted... View Details

31 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 31

case recounts Chegg's history from its origins as a distant competitor to Craigslist in college classified listings through a pivot into textbook rental followed by a period of explosive growth. Resulting challenges in scaling warehouse... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 May 2020
Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

can have the greatest impact,” executive director Andrew Kendall (HBS MBA 1988) says. In Chicago, Gardeneers, which runs a school garden program for students, is pivoting to make the best of a challenging situation. Prior to the pandemic,... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness

14 Oct 2020
News

Sewn with Love

in need. FGFH also began raising funds for the Gowns for Good Made in America initiative, which supports small businesses within the fashion and garment industries in the United States that have pivoted their manufacturing to create... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Feb 2000
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

The start of a new century is certainly a momentous time. When I think about the last century and what it has meant to HBS, I am struck by how much the School has grown in stature and scale. Our alumni play a pivotal role in reinforcing... View Details

Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)

04 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids

Us About Crisis Leadership The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion Another CEO... View Details

Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg

23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’

structure, and as frontline employees become more pivotally involved in value-creating work, lateral and bottom-up communication comes to be no less important than top-down communication. Third, there is global change. As workforces... View Details

Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg

15 Aug 2019
Blog Post

The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS

Mike Bloomberg (MBA 1966) and his team and spent two years at Bloomberg Philanthropies on the Government Innovation team, where he helped mayors and cities drive innovation. Matt returned to HBS in 2014 to take the helm of the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative. HBS can... View Details

18 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 18

decades, we find that the firm internalized the broader social discourse through iterated cycles of analysis and action, punctuated by evolving beliefs about gender and work. Outside experts and shifting social understandings played View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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HBS & the Case Method - Message From the Director | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

resource to learn about milestones in the School’s history, documenting not only pivotal moments and key decisions, but also the dialogue and debate that led to those decisions. In addition, our extensive collection of research and... View Details

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Latin America - Global Activities 2021

headed by Miguel, Margolis sought out a protagonist that was not only charged with developing employees, but was also at a pivotal moment in her own development. That’s a situation in which many PLD students find themselves. Choosing... View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

Turning Point: Tell Me More

and so on. My pivot from the business world to journalism happened in 2016, when a friend who was working for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign called. At the time, I was CEO of an education startup, but I’d spent 14 years building... View Details

Keywords: politics; communication; voting; demographics

23 May 2019
News

Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998

intended to build an e-commerce platform, but she changed course and invested in bricks and mortar when she saw a need for customer-friendly neighborhood stores. The pivot offered a personalized shopping experience that relied on a cadre... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Mar 2023
News

Action Plan: Casting Call

generation to run Tension Envelope, the company (now Tension Corporation) founded by Berkley’s grandfather in 1886. Berkley became CEO in 1962; his son Bill was the fourth generation to step into the role, in 1988, with Berkley staying on as chairman. Based in Kansas... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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