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- 04 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors
chance to thrive. Drawing on more than a decade of researching smashing successes and painful failures alike, Wasserman walks readers through the dilemmas that plague and challenge most new entrepreneurs, starting with pre-founding career... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
capacity, shelf life, and customer demand. Such risks aren't new. In fact, "the underpinnings of problems today started two decades ago," says Craig Holmes, director of business continuity planning... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
and prosperous than others. And the third, which arose from the second, examines how you can take competitive thinking and apply it to social problems such as the environment, inner cities, and health care. Most of my readers have tended... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
of organizational capabilities, technological innovation through R&D, problem solving, knowledge, and continuous learning—investment in human capital and technology that only firms could generate. Chandler placed the issue of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
and as the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The case highlights the challenges and opportunities she faced during each phase of her career and how she managed them. Lagarde started her career in 1981 as a lawyer at the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Profile
Kiran Gandhi
more critically about unmet needs in the music industry. For example, I loved learning about “blue ocean” strategy, the idea that you can make competition irrelevant by innovating in new market spaces that are ripe for growth. This year, I View Details
Keywords: Entertainment/Media
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
very quickly ... It's really within that first year that they start to say, ‘This doesn't feel quite right.'" “It happens very quickly,” says Groysberg, reflecting on interviews with college students and young professionals conducted for... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 20 May 2022
- Blog Post
Nucleate Eco: Connecting Aspiring MBA Entrepreneurs with Cutting Edge Climate Research
plant kingdom. What is Nucleate Eco? What are the requirements to apply? Sutton: Nucleate Eco is a student-lead, no equity, accelerator for student companies focused on applying life sciences principles to sustainability challenges. View Details
- 16 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM
problems and the HBS classroom challenges me to critically think about everything I say and do. But my background has been the most significant in my Technology and Operations Management (TOM) class, where I often provide first-hand... View Details
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
bottom of the S). Then more people jump on board, and the take-up of the innovation accelerates (the steep middle of the S). Finally, the innovation starts to saturate the market, as everybody who wants one gets one, or every product in... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
Photography by Jared Leeds "Our students use traditional academic theory to take on problems that have fundamental relevance in today's business world," says Janice McCormick, executive director of the HBS Doctoral Programs. "Many come in... View Details
- 27 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Working to Change the Food System
you to HBS. In 2018, I started reflecting on the big existential question of "what is my calling?" It was really intimidating to think about – my main criteria were to work on problems that mattered to me,... View Details
- 12 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team
start is to revisit the team’s sense of shared purpose. Revisit your shared purpose. A relaunch ensures that every team member understands and buys into the clear and specific goals that the team has been mobilized to accomplish. It is an... View Details
Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley
- Web
2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
well as the most problematic. Based on more than two decades of research, this presentation will explore the power of digital platforms, the emergence of AI as a platform, and how to manage the numerous problems digital platforms can... View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
improvement and innovation. Below are three suggestions for enabling continuous improvement in your company: Call on cross-functional teams to help solve problems In order to achieve greater efficiency, one best practice is to build a... View Details
- 01 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
ground and long-term viewership. As realJoannLyles put it, “YouTube t-h-i-n-k-s it has a suppression problem. Instead, YouTube has a moral problem ” David Wittenberg added, “There's no ‘right answer’ here. No matter what YouTube does or... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
finding the will to start implementing at-scale technologies that are already working,” Carty observes. Here, we take a look at alumni who are pursuing those opportunities, working to make tomorrow’s cities more sustainable across five... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 29 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The History and Influence of Andy Grove
wonder Grove's search for the truth in the business world was so intense, so passionate. He has an uncanny ability to abstract himself from a decision in which he is deeply, emotionally involved and view the problem as an outsider would.... View Details
- 06 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
The Business of Medicine: MD/MBA Students Having an Impact
experience working in the global health arena, says she feels that both programs have equipped her “to tackle big problems in health care.” A childhood spent partly overseas with parents who work in international development established... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Accidental Innovator
of the problem is that the word "accident" is rather imprecise; not all accidents are equally accidental. If you bump into your neighbor at a local grocery store, without planning to, you might call that an accident. But that... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert