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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
HBS Alums Help Jailhouse Entrepreneurs Go Straight
endeavors often borrows on traits that are valuable in legitimate commerce: a cool head, decisive decision-making, and the ability to read people. Texas-based PEP helps prepare prison inmates, upon their release, to join the regular... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
It is a classic leadership challenge of the early twenty-first century: How do you steer your business and motivate your people to pursue breakthrough growth while giving proper attention to executing the here and now with the utmost care... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 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
- 09 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Navigating Grey in the Ever-Evolving Tech Community
was directing and executive producing that year’s HBS Show; my IP evolved into a reflection of the intersection of business and art, as well as my experience navigating both creative and business leadership. I learned a lot about myself,... View Details
- 11 May 2020
- Op-Ed
Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness
It is no secret that immigration has reshaped American innovation. Immigrants are the backbone of America’s most innovative industries, provide a quarter of our patent applications, and are numerous among our science and engineering superstars. Taken from World... View Details
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
will focus on creating infrastructure that will increase the bank's ability to communicate effectively in an environment of macroeconomic uncertainty. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
be what it is today without Anne,” Michel said. “She was the execution powerhouse.... Remember five other people had the same friggin’ idea. And competitor ArmyTimes was definitely better positioned than anyone. So I think it’s all about... 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
- 29 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
First Year at HBS: A Foundation for Business
or execute business strategy. No matter your intended industry or function, these 12 courses prepare future graduates to quickly analyze a situation, formulate a reasoned analysis, and create an action plan. A general manager needs to... View Details
- 27 Mar 2023
- News
A Sporting Chance
hospital, his doctors told him there would be no trip to Massachusetts, only long months of rehab and preparing for a life without the use of his legs. Yet it was also the beginning of a successful dual career as an executive and a... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Raymond Hwang (MBA 2010)
people will experience 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... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
Rewarding the Top Dog The media, institutional investors, and even government officials all seem to have an opinion about CEO compensation, often criticizing how and how much top executives are paid. But do CEOs really dictate their own... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
work with each other. Andy Wu: Broadly, we’ve seen a lot of transformation in how we think about the workplace over the last few years, but there continues to be a wasted opportunity to think about workplace design more strategically. I see View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bringing the Environment Down to Earth
considerations of social responsibility are important, executives who frame environmental problems solely in those terms may overlook the business opportunities and risks that come with such problems. Treating environmental issues like... View Details
Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt
- 08 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?
in 13 consecutive seasons, and is the second, after Chuck Noll, to win four Super Bowls. He has coached the Patriots to 13 division titles in 16 years. Arguably, Belichick and the Patriots have dominated the NFL longer than any other team since the NFC-AFC merger in... View Details
- 27 Oct 2020
- News
HBS Votes
finance, media, and other executives are calling on Americans to stay cool during a heated election season.” March to the Polls “2020 is not canceled. It’s the year we woke up,” according to the March to the Polls (M2P), a grassroots... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Making Progress on Strategic Priorities
Fund for Leadership and Innovation has an immediate impact on the School’s ability to pursue new initiatives, and is the cornerstone of HBS’s economic model. Field-Based Learning FIELD 2 global immersions offer first-year MBA students a... View Details
- 24 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Dance to the Music: How Noa Torok Found Her Dream Job at SoundCloud
sponsors of the music app she used every day. Subsequent research in the HBS alumni database gave her two possible contacts, the CEO and Lisa Elis, a graduate of the HBS Executive Education program. Via LinkedIn, Noa wrote Elis a “long... View Details