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- 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
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
2018. Two years earlier, Sussman was behind Nike’s push to acquire Virgin Mega, a startup comprising Faris and his small team, which has since morphed into a studio that plays a pivotal role in Nike’s digital strategy. With the studio’s... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change
inactions, in our fight against climate change. The Inflation Reduction Act is likely to be one of the pivotal battles, not the only one, but perhaps the game-changing one. As a veteran, it’s not lost on me that climate change is not only... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
versions were attempted in 19th-century Europe) has enjoyed truly phenomenal growth. Almost from the outset, HBS has played a pivotal role in the success of this thriving industry. Says Jay Light, who holds the Dwight P. Robinson, Jr.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 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
- 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
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
company has decided to pivot from operating biomass gasification plants towards developing solar microgrids in India and East Africa. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/Husk-Power/an/815023-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
at the last minute kind of playing with details. Maybe you tend to say “yes” a little bit too easily and you need to make “no” more of your default. And as you come to those insights, I want you now to pivot to your next week’s calendar... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
along the way, it was a pivot in my relationship with John McArthur, a finance professor at the time, that caused me to feel—to this day—very positive about my entire HBS experience. As one example, Professor McArthur assumed a possibly... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- Web
Commencement 2011 Address | About
our only alum to play a pivotal role in the crisis; Jamie Dimon, who ’ s here today as well for his daughter Julia ’ s graduation, played an equally instrumental role at JP Morgan Chase. But back to Rob. On this particular day, Rob wasn ’... View Details
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
have the resources, ideas, and ability to quickly pivot the deployment our sales strategy in a new format? How are we going to differentiate when our new mode of communication is the same as everyone else?” Skills needed now: Making... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
better health when we are over the crisis? Not just in terms of social justice, but economic prosperity as well? As the most trusted player, shouldn’t civil society have a pivotal role when we get back to reimagining capitalism, when the... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
to buy back the pivotal stake? Sell the family stake altogether? But to whom, and at what price? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208096 Terumo (A) Harvard Business School Case 508-068... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
168-184 Abstract Customer metrics are pivotal to assessing and monitoring how firms perform with customers and other publics. The authors contend that customer metrics used by firms today are predominantly rear-view mirrors reporting the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
John Jong-Hyun Kim (MBA 1993) saw the School pivot its entire MBA and doctoral curriculum to an online model in just ten days—a move informed by years of experience developing HBS Online, the Harvard Business Analytics Program, and other... View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
such as financing, understanding the founders’ definition of success/failure, defining and pivoting a business model, and determining the organizational impact of a pivot as well as the role of VCs and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
were unveiled: the smaller “junior,” the regular size, and the larger “grand.” “There was an insight that a lot of the social media chatter around the junior Big Mac was actually being driven by women. So we pivoted and developed some of... View Details
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Entrepreneurship Outside the Valley - Course Catalog
business talent to develop and grow their companies. The third module deals with sources of financing for entrepreneurial ventures across different ecosystems. Access to financing remains a pivotal challenge for entrepreneurs in emerging... View Details