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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Cutting Edge
and bolts: exiting underperforming adjunct businesses (e.g., pickles and fresh poultry); shaking up the management team; improving the supply chain (thereby increasing plant productivity by 50 percent); and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
says Anthony Sun (MBA 1979), a managing general partner at Venrock Associates in Menlo Park. “We can’t deploy $20 billion in quality investments. And we can’t generate $20 billion in exit values, either through IPOs View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life
in your business career that you have the courage to build a bridge between knowledge and action. Tire industry executives knew at least in 1972, probably before, that they had to change their business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Faculty Books
How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations by Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind (Harvard Business Review Press) How can leaders make their big or growing companies feel small again?... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
miss the extreme lows, but I miss the adrenaline of the extreme highs. In choosing a business plan to fund, I look for a unique perspective on an enormous market opportunity. By that I mean a great team with an advantage — a unique angle,... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
strength. So those are basically one of the business level, one of the personal level. We always continue to strive. Skydeck is produced by the External Relations department at Harvard Business School and... View Details
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
2020 is this is the time to be creative. What's needed right now? There are things that are standing out that the world or that the economy needs because of this crisis. And there's opportunities to build View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
as much of a factor for smaller companies as it is for the supermajors of today's headlines. "Over the past five years many established, long-term corporations have gone out of business or merged with other... View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- News
Signal Boost
that women and children would be hurt in traffic by exiting from the left side. Lara, then a manager of product strategy for Chrysler and the mother of an infant daughter, spoke up. “First of all, we park in parking lots, not traffic.... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act
for a successful exit from the working world—and a few more like Teeling, who chafe at the very notion. And while this episode of Skydeck was notably recorded in pre-pandemic times, we think the advice offered here remains relevant. READ... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
interested in running a business -- either experienced managers or students -- will benefit from understanding these new concepts and approaches to implementing strategy." The Arc of Ambition by James Champy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
I sat and listened, knowing that this was spinning out of control. Of course they did know what the customer wanted! And we would have been the first dollars in. At that time, I’d been in the business for six View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
Running a business in today’s business landscape gets more difficult every year. Given the level of competition and market ups and downs, it seems one has to either sacrifice one’s personal life for the job... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field
it's Professor Michael E. Porter's seminal work on the competitive advantage of nations or Professor Cynthia A. Montgomery's recent book on corporate strategy, HBS C&S faculty are a leading voice in the strategic management arena. Most of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
foals are born each year,” he says. “Then about 3 percent of horses will win graded Stakes races with purses of $100,000 or more, so that’s a risky game, too. On the other end of the spectrum are those of us in the breeding View Details
- 23 Aug 2018
- News
Healthcare Alumni Keep Learning Through Virtual Programming
Clubs News Clubs News No matter where they are in the world, members of the HBS Healthcare Alumni Association (HBSHAA) can connect with each other, hear from business leaders, and catch up on industry trends without ever leaving their... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
work over time, and develop an exit strategy. - Diana Barrett Diana B. Barrett, a senior lecturer at HBS, took over Kanter's Business Leadership in the Social Sector (BLSS) seminar last year. A member of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
173, 2007) Go big or go home. Instead of competing against the “heavies” in a “land grab,” Ario should position itself as a target for acquisition or as a partner. The heavies and the IPO market value... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
Illustration by PJ Loughran Everyone talks about how quickly business changes. yet some HBS cases remain reliably relevant decades after they are written. In the pages that follow, we take a behind-the-scenes look at five cases that are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
to make “transforming commitments” — managerial actions like exiting a legacy business, publicly committing to a new goal, or firing a powerful executive who defends the status quo. Such actions break the... View Details