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- 03 Dec 2024
- News
Magic Numbers
Courtesy Shalinee Sharma Courtesy Shalinee Sharma As a sixth grader in Buffalo, New York, Shalinee Sharma (MBA 2005) believed math just wasn’t her thing. There were only a few girls in the honors class at her new school, and Sharma soon realized that she was far behind... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Karmic Kickstart
up an advanced and highly aggressive cancer. Even with a hideous year of surgeries and chemotherapy, the best I could hope for was a 50 percent chance of surviving the next five years. I was forced into an abrupt fire sale of the business... View Details
- 18 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation
Allen’s closing remarks at the end of the course emphasized adaptation as a multi-stakeholder problem that requires a systems thinking approach: “What if my house survives because I raised it, but neighbors don’t is that adaptation? If... View Details
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2025 Commencement Remarks | About
you embrace changes in your environment, your ability to react and respond to those changes requires adaptability. Charles Darwin’s work reminds us that the species most likely to survive are not necessarily the strongest or the most... View Details
- 23 Feb 2015
- News
Preserving a Musical Tradition; Inspiring Future Generations
hustled to book gigs for bachata artists in the United States and Europe, de Menil dreamed of a bachata academy that would ensure the survival of the art form that had typically been passed down informally. “I had a dream of a musical... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
women and meant the difference between survival and starvation for dozens of families. Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL by Roger L. Martin (MBA '81) (Harvard Business Review Press) Martin lays... View Details
- 28 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants
system to provide good matches so patients survive longer, but with fairness. By contrast, rather than designing a policy and then looking at what the outcomes are, Trichakis and his coauthors allow policymakers to start with desired... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
and survival requires comprehensive strategies that in many cases will transform and revolutionize brick-and-mortar retail as we know it. The strategies outlined in this book are a good starting point for retailers to rethink their... View Details
- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
future laws and reforms in the financial arena. One thing is clear: Despite severe criticism, the act and the institutions it created have survived almost intact since enactment. But so have condemnations. It's a puzzle, say the authors,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Major Career Transitions by Michael D. Watkins (PhDDS ’92) (Harvard Business Press) Although leaders get their toughest tests in career transitions, far too often they fail to move effectively into new roles. Watkins shows how to survive... View Details
- 29 Jun 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change
retrenchment; think growth. Key concepts include: Companies that survive the financial crisis by identifying and exploiting innovation will serve as economic growth engines in the future—and will be the industry leaders of tomorrow. This... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 02 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
Built to Last or Bought to Sell?
years ago. They claim that no company, whether "visionary" or not, can outperform the market for more than ten to fifteen years, and that the companies "built to last" may have survived but have not outperformed the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Wide Angle
time when the sector was already reeling from a whole range of other problems. I fear that a significant chunk of higher education is not going to survive this moment in time. That’s the bad news. The good news is that the pandemic is... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Former HBS Dean Fouraker Dies at 74
also the recipient of several honorary degrees from institutions in this country and abroad and served on the boards of many major corporations throughout his professional life. Fouraker is survived by his wife of forty-eight years,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.
available online (www.thecoop.com). He may also expand retail operations as the University's Cambridge/Allston footprint grows. “One of the reasons the Coop has survived this long is its ability to respond to the changing needs of the... View Details
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
the entry size of new firms using micro-data from the U.S. Census Bureau. We find that the average entry size for startups did not change following the deregulations. However, among firms that survived at least four years, a greater... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Apr 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should We Brace Ourselves for Another Era of M&A Value Destruction?
shareholders of acquired companies. On the other hand, short-term value is more often destroyed than created for shareholders of acquiring organizations. There are conflicting conclusions about whether mergers and acquisitions contribute directly to long-term value for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age
advise entrepreneurs not to ignore some of the old rules of doing business. "Companies still have to build competitive advantage and concentrate on efficient processes and quality products," they note. But by also mastering the new techniques of judo strategy, firms... View Details
Keywords: by Daniel Penrice
- 05 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
The Reflective Leader
increasingly hear on the HBS campus is "lifelong learning." If you are a first or second-year student, then this may be difficult to grasp, especially when you are just trying to survive the next cold call. I didn’t fully grasp... View Details
- 01 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Climate Finance SIP
together to solve this collection action problem: regulation, realization that this is a question of long-term survival for businesses, factoring climate into investment models, and focusing resources and manpower on this issue. View Details