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- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
the past fifteen years of the contest, it's extraordinary." The Art Of The Pivot A few common experiences filter to the surface in conversations with past contest participants, whether their venture sells crème brûlée or online video... View Details
- 21 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
How I Used the HBS Community to Hone My Professional Goals
straightforward as I thought it would be. Of course, everything looks perfectly planned and linear in retrospect, but in reality, it definitely was not for me and I pivoted a couple of times. I started my first (RC) year at HBS focused on... View Details
- Student-Profile
Talia Gillis
can improve people’s daily lives, is pivotal in helping me shape my own research agenda. Being a student both in the Economics Department and at HBS means you have multiple intellectual identities and academic audiences. These often... View Details
- 15 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
What is Field Foundations?
teaching group contributes to the course through their personal research and experience. They all help drive the pedagogy to create compelling teaching plans. Many of the conversations in FIELD Foundations are more personal than the typical case-based class. The FIELD... View Details
- 19 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating Black History: Elevating the Voices of Our Student and Alumni Communities
This session was an opportunity to elevate and acknowledge the weight and the pride that many Black students experience as the first in their families and communities to pursue an MBA at Harvard Business School. This action alone, for many will be a View Details
- 29 Feb 2016
- HBS Case
Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can
advertising. “Government is a giant customer. They buy a lot of stuff” Harvard Business School professor Mitchell Weiss explores this strategy pivot in a new case on Bigbelly, co-written with case researcher Christine Snively, that looks... View Details
- 15 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem
Many distinctive aspects of the textile and apparel industries present challenges to implementing electronic commerce. First, and perhaps most important, is the difficulty of accurately characterizing the product online. Many of the characteristics of a garment that... View Details
- Web
Africa - Global Activities 2021
Africa from falling deeper into poverty when disease outbreaks and other macro shocks occurred.” A Pathway to Economic Development The crisis prompted Raji to pivot from her position as a risk advisory consultant at Deloitte & Touche,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Maintaining a Resilient Democracy
moment in time.” He sees strengthening our “culture of democracy” as the pivotal issue in US governance today. Moss points to the results of a survey, cited in a 2017 Journal of Democracy article, which asked respondents around the world... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 22 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Summit Explores Leadership for a Sustainable Future
intelligence to help or hinder human progress; University of Montreal Daniel Jutras who elaborated on the implications of these new stakes on younger generations; and Ilham Kadri, CEO of Solvay, who described the concrete steps required to View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
patience. Or, in a world where consumer expectations are so much higher, pushing your team to step up just a bit more versus taking your foot off the gas to allow for rest and recovery. Or doubling down on an idea you’re committed to seeing through versus View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
Tools “The good news is that small businesses are resilient. Many of them are already using apps driven by AI and algorithms to pivot their business models,” Mills adds. In her book, she coined the term “small business utopia” to describe... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- Profile
Anddria Clack
backgrounds and industries, given my last five years spent in the throes of the US financial services industry. I knew that I would be making a significant pivot in my career after business school, and I wanted to develop the personal... View Details
- 11 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups
when researchers excluded applicants from California and Massachusetts, two geographic areas with a higher concentration of tech and health tech startups than the rest of the nation. In fact, more experienced job seekers pivoted their job... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 27 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
There Are No HBS People, Just People Who Happen to Go to HBS
business. This really helped me determine what type of role within the beauty industry I would like most and I had 2+ years to figure it out by being a 2+2 admitted student. I chose HBS for many reasons: my Peek experience, the case method, the vast network in case you... View Details
- 21 Nov 2024
- News
Mother Nurture
startup, Seven Starling has evolved. Its initial platform focused on providing mothers with a community of support through online peer groups. But in following the patient journey, the cofounders quickly discovered women needed more services and View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 03 Jan 2018
- News
Finding Faith in an NFL Locker Room
them from the field to the sanctity of that moment, the sacredness of that moment, is generally just a quick prayer and an acknowledgment that we're blessed to be in these roles, and to have these opportunities. But then, we also pivot... View Details
- Web
Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020 - Recruiting
project was the capstone project, and I worked with Birchbox (an HBS founded company!) on analyzing their customer churn. Jay Kim (MBA 2020) : I was paired with a beverage start-up based in Miami and helped the company make the pivot from... View Details
- 27 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Summer Fellows Respond to COVID-19
which has pivoted to deliver PPEs globally to places that need the most. Prerna Arya (MBA 2021), Swasth: Swasth is a nonprofit initiative that aims to democratize access to quality, affordable, primary care for any citizen in India,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
How Scott Linzmeyer Crafted a Business He Loves at Reveler Beverage
about the opportunity to pivot from a large corporation to a small business and build the general management skills he would need to eventually start his own company. Arriving at HBS, Linzmeyer hit the ground running and used every... View Details