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- 08 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Ashley Zumwalt-Forbes (MBA 2017)
paired student teams with technologies developed at the University, alongside an experienced industry mentor. The student teams were responsible for developing a commercialization strategy for the inventor... View Details
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
when other approaches would produce better results for customers, employees, and shareholders and foster better long-term performance of the company. “I’ve been a leader during three recessions, and I’ve never heard a management team talk... View Details
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Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online
Module 1 Ideas and Opportunities Identify and evaluate an entrepreneurial idea, and gain confidence with twists and turns. Highlights Welcome to Entrepreneurship Introduction to Opportunity Evaluating an Idea’s Value Individual Versus View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Buyer-Seller Relationship
are in an arm's-length transactional relationship, how do you move it into a fuller relationship? For the first puzzle, Narayandas and Manu Kalwani of Purdue University teamed up for an empirical study later published in The Journal of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Jan 2018
- News
The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: When Kristy Cunningham (MBA 1998) arrived at McDonald’s in 2014 as vice president of strategy and insights, she asked her team about the most common requests... View Details
- 02 Apr 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Making the Move to General Manager
this transition into general management." For new general managers—or just as likely in companies these days, senior functional managers who operate as part of an executive team or who have important cross-functional or... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
hovering around 5 percent, Thndr’s marketing team launched a campaign highlighting users like Marwa Helali, a single mother from Port Said investing for her 16-year-old son’s education. The number of women... View Details
- 04 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors
Should I launch the company solo or with cofounders? Who should my cofounders be—friends, relatives, prior coworkers, strangers? Which role should each of us take? How should we divide equity? He goes on to delve into the myriad issues... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
intensive process? That question draws a quick response from the firm's eponymous founder as he sits at his desk in Zurich, where he single-handedly launched the firm in 1964. "We're looking for a lot more than intellectual ability and... View Details
- 12 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb
though they left host photos on the listing pages. In June 2020, Airbnb launched Project Lighthouse, a US-based research effort that aims to identify and measure bias involving names and photos to help the company create better policies,... View Details
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
responsibility for the problems, often as a result of the direct or indirect pressures they put on their people. Authentic leaders find ways to resolve this struggle. Expressing humility is a great skill because it not only brings leaders closer to their management... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures
California, I stayed engaged through extracurriculars, including screening and judging 200 pitches of entrants for AASU’s Black Venture Competition.” He also seized upon an independent project, collaborating to launch Nucleate Eco, an... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
technology helps users combat mental health disorders by relaxing, meditating, and completing other mind-calming exercises. Competitors include meQuilibrium, Headspace, Big Health, and myStrength. The research team conducted an eight-week... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
was a good inside fighter,” Keen says later. “I could take a lot of stomach hits. You get me up against the ropes and I can fight.” He also was a punter and placekicker on the football team his first year at Dartmouth, before moving over... View Details
- 13 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas
R&D also come with more investment risk. While science-based patents are more likely to have higher values, they are also more likely to be total flops. In efforts to commercialize novel science, R&D teams often fail to replicate... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
enrollment increased 2 percent to nearly 42,000. While enrollment growth slowed from fiscal 2022, the group continued to see strong demand from women, minority, and international participants, while maintaining an overall completion rate of 88 percent. HBS Online View Details
- 08 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
International Women's Day Featured Stories
and work with my team to help where we can. I have tried to stay motivated and to be thankful, even when things did not look so bright. I must confess that last year I felt all sort of emotions: I was scared, nervous, worried and even... View Details
- 18 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education
innovation, which is our field of specialty, proved a great way to help us do just that." Christensen, Horn, and Johnson recently teamed up via e-mail to answer a few questions from HBS Working Knowledge on the best paths to better... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
producing vacuum pumps and systems. Its Chinese team was the first to live through the effects of the new pandemic and the restrictions imposed by the government. Learning from its subsidiary in China gave the company tremendous... View Details