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18 Dec 2019
Book

6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation

As a boy, Soichiro Honda, the eventual founder of Honda Motor Co., was infatuated with airplanes. At age 10 he biked 20 kilometers to see American pilots performing aerobatics near his home in Japan, climbing a tree to watch the show. It... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Melcolm Ruffin

Growing up on the west side of Chicago, Melcolm Ruffin was immersed in three things: "a loving family that nurtured me," an emphasis on education, and a passion for basketball. "I loved sports and was a big basketball junkie," Melcolm says. "I... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment/Media

18 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask

serving as vice chairman before leaving the firm in 2005. "I went from being a junior person to running a large business in what seemed like a nanosecond," he says. "And suddenly more people were watching what I did, and I... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

recommended to access the rich media in the program. The course platform allows you to engage with the content and watch the course videos with bandwidth of at least 750 Kbps download speed. At this speed, you may experience video... View Details

22 Feb 2021
Book

Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

better by watching how the best of their peers perform key tasks. They pick up important lessons about how to pitch, how to answer objections, how to deal with competitive comparisons, and other aspects of selling that product at that... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

11 Apr 2023
Blog Post

BTG Bioliquids: Creating Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil from Biomass Residue Streams

essays posted on the HBS Business and Environment Initiative’s Blog that highlights their reflections. Learn more about this IFC course on Decarbonization and Sustainable Production by watching this five minute video summary. As part of... View Details

04 Aug 2011
What Do You Think?

How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?

conditions don't prevail, watch out. At risk of oversimplification, that sums up the responses to this month's column, in which most readers accepted to some degree author Duncan Watts' description of how common sense fails us. First... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2022
News

Full Court Press

they see a ball, to be to bounce it rather than kick it.” “We want the first instinct of African kids, when they see a ball, to be to bounce it rather than kick it.” Tatum attended all three legs of the 2022 BAL season, watching as... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

16 Sep 2020
Blog Post

Turning a Moment into a Movement: Interview with Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders Kenneth and Kevin Chenault

In the spring of 2020, brothers Kenneth Chenault (MBA 2019) and Kevin Chenault (MBA 2021) witnessed a series of heartbreaking events. They watched alongside the rest of the world as Ahmaud Arbery, Christian Cooper, George Floyd, Breonna... View Details

01 Jun 2004
News

Working the Street

Victoria, and the driver yells out something. In a flash, Timken draws his Heckler-Koch .45 and aims it, out of sight below his window, at the other car. The motorist only wants directions. Timken obliges, then watches him pull away,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; tattoo; removal; program; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

04 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Is Web Surfing Distracting Your Workers?

passed a ball back and forth in a video. Between tasks, however, half of the subjects were allowed to watch a video of the British comedy TV show Mr. Bean. The other half were confronted with a flashing red button at the bottom of their... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association

SERVICE FROM: Bristol, England REASON FOR SERVING: I got interested in joining the military for ideological reasons. As a teenager I watched the early Sierra Leone crisis unfold and was appalled at what humans could do to each other. I... View Details

30 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

address. Employees watched closely the numbers of users who might elect the “DeleteMyAccount” button on Facebook. What would you do? Mark Zuckerberg has come to you today to help formulate a plan of action for the company and for his... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology

20 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?

part of, like owning an iPhone or watching a World Cup final? “In some ways, that's the really interesting thing” about where human commercial space flights lead us, says Matthew Weinzierl, the Joseph and Jacqueline Elbling Professor of... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Wallask; Aerospace; Tourism; Transportation

04 May 2021
Blog Post

Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS

Michi Ferreol – Class of 2021 I grew up in the Philippines, around other kids who looked like me and talked like me. So while I watched a lot of Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen shows back then, I never really understood that I was different.... View Details

04 Feb 2010
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?

for failure in similarly uncontrollable circumstances. We hire "stars," only to watch them burn out in a new and different managerial environment. We look for "best practice" (à la Jim Collins in Good to Great and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Jul 2007
What Do You Think?

How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?

"So is leadership about control, delegation, or theatre? It could be all three, or none of them. The answer lies in the projections of the potential followers." Ken Hedberg said, "You can tell who the leaders are by View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

pretty regular basis. To have him there as the mother lode of business history, if you will, and to watch his work evolve and to see how he involved others in the creation of this work was both fascinating and inspiring, particularly for... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Blog

Inside the Learning: Program Formats Unpacked

Thanks to a wall of life-size screens, strategically placed cameras, and a studio crew, the experience is more immersive than what is provided by a virtual meeting technology such as Zoom. Watch our Live Online Classroom (LOC) video to... View Details

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

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