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- 28 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance
And consumer finance businesses are the touch points between the financial system and millions of consumers. Despite its size and importance, we had ignored this sector almost entirely in our curriculum. Q: Was HBS alone in not offering a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Clay Christensen (MBA 1979)
several MIT professors, I cofounded Ceramics Process Systems Corporation, a technology company where I served as chairman and president until I earned my DBA and joined the HBS faculty in 1992. It was really my time with that company that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
doctors, administrators, and finance folks, all trying to work through the nitty-gritty details of how to implement this patient-care innovation. “What does the transition plan look like to get from where we are now to a new model?” asks Midtown COO Dane Peterson. “We... View Details
- May 2001 (Revised August 2001)
- Teaching Note
Jumpstart TN
Teaching Note for (9-301-037). View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
shown over the last few months. Following is a quick overview of each committee’s work. The Clubs Committee, chaired by Kathleen Jackson (MBA ’86), focused on two areas: creating a system for encouraging and tracking faculty travel to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
“To use economic terms, there are diminishing marginal returns to data-dumping in your answers.” — HBS professor emeritus John Kotter, author of Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down, on avoiding overuse of facts and figures. (Harvard Business Review... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Entrepreneurial Unit Travels to China
While China’s Communist Party still controls the country’s political machinery, the nation’s booming economy is increasingly in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs, with an estimated 70 percent of the nation’s GDP now produced by the private sector. To get an up-close... View Details
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
education and employment systems,” says Misan Rewane (MBA 2013), a native of Lagos, Nigeria, and cofounder and CEO of WAVE. In its first three years, WAVE, which only charges a fee once alumni secure a job, has served more than 1,000... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
to top management in companies of five hundred or fewer employees. He then shared some of his findings. “All companies that start small, whether they grow tremendously or stay modest in size, deal with the question of how to put systems... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
C.D. Spangler, Jr.: A Leadership Role in Business and Academe
father of two daughters educated in North Carolina public schools, Spangler has long been interested and involved in the state's educational system. He first took an active role in View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; photo by Ann Hawthorne
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
& Co., kicked off the first plenary session with a quick overview of factors contributing to the U.S. pharmaceutical industry's success in competing in the global market. Among other ad- vantages, Gilmartin cited the U.S. government's investment in biological research,... View Details
- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
what he did. Kenny: That's great to hear. It gives me more confidence, I guess, going forward. So, you've discussed this in class, I'm guessing, with both MBA students and probably executive education participants. How do people react to... View Details
- 2021
- Working Paper
Entrepreneurial Learning and Strategic Foresight
By: Aticus Peterson and Andy Wu
We study how learning by experience across projects affects an entrepreneur's strategic foresight. In a quantitative study of 314 entrepreneurs across 722 crowdfunded projects supplemented with a program of qualitative interviews, we counterintuitively find that... View Details
Keywords: Experience; Interdependency; Strategic Foresight; Crowdfunding; Timeline; Delay; Forecasting; Entrepreneurship; Learning; Complexity; Forecasting and Prediction; Product Development; Planning
Peterson, Aticus, and Andy Wu. "Entrepreneurial Learning and Strategic Foresight." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-123, January 2021. (Revised May 2021.)
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
clinician.” But if a business career was Fisher’s new goal, and if she was going to become a leader, she soon realized that she needed a more formal education than that she had received in visiting the startups financed by her father. In... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
social, and financial performance. Those societal pressures are absolutely critical. Look at the level of inequality and the impacts of climate change—the system is not sustainable, it has to change. Maybe decades ago people thought of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A Call to Innovation
decline: an eroding educational system relative to other top nations, a talent drain, the drop-off of spending for basic R&D, and a lackluster telecommunications infrastructure. Meanwhile, Finland — with the... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
with HBS professor William Kirby and Regina Abrami (PMD 76, 2001) of the Wharton School. In addition to teaching in several HBS Executive Education programs, McFarlan has been a guest professor at Tsinghua University’s School of Economics... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- Profile
Shana Hoffman
The very thing that attracted Shana Hoffman to engineering (she completed a BSE in electrical systems engineering at the University of Pennsylvania) frustrated her when she and her family were doing their best to help her father weather a... View Details
- 2012
- Book
A Year Up: How a Pioneering Program Teaches Young Adults Real Skills for Real Jobs--With Real Success
Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Training; Equality and Inequality; Income; Competency and Skills
Chertavian, Gerald. A Year Up: How a Pioneering Program Teaches Young Adults Real Skills for Real Jobs--With Real Success. Viking Press, 2012.
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Faculty Books
Financial System by David S. Scharfstein, as part of The Squam Lake Group (Princeton University Press) In the fall of 2008, fifteen of the world’s leading economists — representing a broad spectrum of economic opinion — gathered at New... View Details