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- 07 Jan 2009
- What Do You Think?
Is the World Really Flat?
Arnott put it, "Entrepreneurship is the motor that gets technology to market." According to Kamal Gupta, "Scientific research and technological innovations create new products, but the top line and bottom line come from... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 08 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs
one-standard-deviation increase in store labor brought about a 10 percent increase in profit margin. These findings ran contrary to the thinking of store managers that Ton interviewed. They consistently identified service quality as a top... View Details
- 30 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Latina Women in Leadership: Jacqueline Burgos (MBA 2014)
influence them. The Harvard MBA felt right – I was going to spend two years debating cross-functional business ideas in a classroom with 90 other talented peers. How did your MBA prepare you for your first job after graduating? I worked... View Details
- 07 Oct 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Companies Can Make Up with (Very) Unhappy Customers
JetBlue today is considered one of the top airlines in the world, and its customer ratings are as high as its airplanes. But not that long ago JetBlue was a prime business school example of a nightmare scenario displacing 130,000... View Details
- Profile
PJ Meyer
"You always have a dream, a hope for something great. I aimed for the top – HBS. The more I looked at it, the more I realized it was a great fit." "Subversive" learning Without a lot of business experience behind him,... View Details
- 23 Jun 2020
- Book
Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System
which the top five candidates qualify for the general election. Part two is ranked-choice voting (RCV) in the general election, where voters rank the candidates in order of preference. If no candidate wins a majority of first-place votes,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities
They focused on utility patents, or new or improved useful products that grant the inventor exclusive commercial rights for up to 20 years. To qualify, patents needed to list at least one US inventor. What they found was a huge spike in... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 24 Jul 2020
- News
Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
the students at the top are still being challenged and those who aren’t yet at grade level are getting the support that they need,” says Zaikos. “We put the right data in front of the View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Jill Applebaum (MBA 2015)
fun. “We have a lot of challenges, but inventory management is one of our biggest. Even though our wipes are simple and small, there are still several materials that need to be sourced to put it all together—and all of these add variability to our lead times. On View Details
- 09 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
Big Hits: The Best of the 2018 Super Bowl Ads
experts to weigh in on 2018’s top spots. Jill Avery Senior Lecturer of Business Administration 2017 was a somber and contentious year for the United States. So it came as no surprise on Super Bowl Sunday to see marketers compile a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
No Small Beer
often it is ruined by improper storage, handling, or service," says Daniels, who started the program in 2008. "We teach and test the right way to do things—and also cover beer history, culture, and a solid understanding of flavor." So... View Details
- 30 May 2013
- Blog Post
Launching into “career discovery” mode
Instead, we were encouraged to acclimate first to our courses, and to the social/extra-curricular life here. I think that’s the right approach; once the CPD events did finally begin last week, I felt very much prepared and far more... View Details
- Profile
Orkun Kilic
for me to lead, but for him to lead. Sometimes choosing not to lead is the right leadership choice." Orkun's team reached the top five percent of its class. Future in emerging markets "The first... View Details
- Profile
Anthony Tan
he has persevered and by December, 2014 Grab Taxi had reached an impressive $340 million in funding. A whopping $250 million investment by Japanese telecom firm Softbank Corp. in December was a huge stamp of approval and made Softbank the View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Ruling from the Bench
that was hastily withdrawn once her gender became apparent. “I’m sorry, we don’t hire women,” the interviewing partner politely told her. After graduating at the top of her class in 1966, she received offers from firms in New York and... View Details
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Digital Transformation - HBS Online
your course. Ask questions, collaborate, give feedback, and share experiences and expertise across industries to grow or transition your career. You’ll build lasting connections that support you wherever life takes you next. Learn More about the HBS Online Learning... View Details
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
develop a methodology to collect and analyze data on CEOs' time use. The idea—sketched out in a simple theoretical set-up—is that CEO time is a scarce resource and its allocation can help us identify the firm's priorities as well as the presence of governance issues.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Van den Ende Rozen: Greenhouse Rose Production
Decarbonization and Sustainable Production, our group visited Van den Ende Rozen, a family business located in Monster, near The Hague and Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The company leverages greenhouse technology and digitalization to optimize and scale the business,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
teaches the popular MBA elective Founders’ Dilemmas. In 2011, the course was named one of the top entrepreneurship courses in the United States by Inc. magazine. What’s a common instance of ill-advised behavior by entrepreneurs? Splitting... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership
Graham retraced the unusual path that brought her to the top position at the Washington Post in 1963. It is a story that she chronicled in Personal History, her best-selling memoir that, one week after her HBS visit, was awarded the... View Details