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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
product/market fit (PMF). On that note, my recommendation would be to continue to test and learn in search of PMF, starting with your sales approach. One way to do this would be to meet with dozens of florists and caterers to see if you... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
always positioned itself as a fun toy that helps children develop, and it enjoys a healthy relationship with schools and educators throughout the world. About 90 percent of U.S. preschools and kindergartens use LEGO products. Its Learning... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
Pouskouri-Reiche (AMP 160, 2001) Diversity and inclusion are critical for HBS. We know the ways diversity is essential in our classrooms; the case method relies on students' ability to learn from each other and their faculty members by... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
they use their greatest strengths and they learn to play together as a team because they're "Aligned" around common purpose and a set of values. But this is not soft. All great coaches are very challenging.... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
characters that sort of embodies one of those themes, Buddy Bolden. [MUSIC] Tell us a bit about who Buddy Bolden was and what entrepreneurs can learn from his story. Eric: So Buddy Bolden is born in New Orleans in 1877. That's an... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
from your struggles, it can still be hard to share those publicly. Nevertheless, we set up on Spangler lawn at Spring Reunions and asked a few brave souls to recount some of their greatest challenges and tell us what they learned from... View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
SFP raises funds from individuals, foundations, and endowments to achieve its goals. The huge demand for organic goods such as corn, oats, and alfalfa, and the higher prices they command than traditionally grown crops, creates a dramatic increase in financial returns.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
quite centrally and rapidly: The number of early-stage ventures that people were backing had exploded. Young, inexperienced teams were getting a chance to try their ideas in a way that hadn’t happened as much in the past. Why? Reading the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
the Haitian Ministry of Commerce and Trade. “We’ve given a team of 30 farmers a crash course in strategy based on the HBS case method, and we’ve accompanied them on trips to meet potential customers—from coffee dealers in Seattle to mango... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
After ten years of working at McKinsey & Co., where she had become the first female African-American partner, Pamela Thomas-Graham (MBA '88/JD '89) was ready for a change. "Consulting is an excellent way to learn management and strategy... View Details
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
Photographed by Susan Young and Alice Carfrae Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2022 recipients, listen to podcasts detailing their impact, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
program at HBS. To prepare for that, I teamed up with Howell Jackson at Harvard Law School, who is an expert in financial institutions. We launched the CFS program two years ago, and it gave Howell and me the confidence that we could pull... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
starting to learn to talk, walk, read. Then you're going to high school. And you're probably starting college, and then, you're starting to work. So the starting quarter. And that's somewhere I would say if you want to use age ranges... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
top of the curve, the learnings are humility and a sense of proportion. Because the thing you know is you’re coming down. At the bottom of the curve, what you know is it will turn again.” Long-Term Investment “If you can get people to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
returning to the familiar. Rejected by every Formula One team he pursued, Varma chose the “familiar” option after HBS and initially returned to work in London with Ziff Brothers Investments before joining one of Europe’s leading hedge... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
while the second offered the opportunity to learn more about careers in entertainment and media, high tech, marketing, and nonprofits. Judy Lewent, SVP and CFO of Merck & Co., another of Fortune's top fifty, delivered the second keynote... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
difference — places like the Amazon, the Congo, and the coral reefs of Indonesia. And we created integrated teams for each place both to work locally and to deliver global results with related industries and policies. The effect has been... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
project is chaired by Professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin, who are joined by a team of HBS faculty together with thought leaders from other institutions. It aims to inspire alumni, other business leaders, and policymakers to take... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
but also be really effective. I learned so much at Google about this. I want to tell you the story about getting criticism from my boss because I learned a lot from this moment. It was shortly after I joined... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
managing some of the most dangerous mercenaries in Africa, battling rebels with a crew of anti-Castro Cuban exiles, and learning what the rest of the intelligence world was dying to know: the location of Che Guevara. He describes how he... View Details