Filter Results:
(1,391)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (1,391)
- Faculty Publications (356)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (1,391)
- Faculty Publications (356)
- 16 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
What is the HBS Leadership Fellows Program?
graduates can experience high-impact management positions in nonprofit and public sector organizations (for one year) at a competitive salary. We checked in with the Social Enterprise Initiative’s Director of Programs, Margot Dushin, to... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 21 Aug 2014
- Blog Post
HBS Social Enterprise Initiative Visits NYC
Transit Authority, he often finds himself going between on-the-ground construction sites and strategic planning meetings at the central office with the Recovery and Resiliency group – a team that started in 2013 in response to the effects... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- Profile
Dave Vitello
with a five-year-old.” Although his professional intention is to move from accounting to a more strategic leadership role, HBS is very much a family affair. “It’s important that this be a full family experience,” says Dave. Brita has... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Q & A: Pat Russo - Focused on the Future at Lucent Technologies
years before Lucent Technologies was born. At AT&T, she held executive positions in strategic planning, marketing, human resources, and operations. In 1992, Russo assumed the View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Passion & Purpose
who aspire to have an impact on business and society. Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987 Cofounder and Managing Partner, Strategic Grant Partners Boston, Massachusetts Joanna M. Jacobson “A fulfilling career doesn't always follow a straight... View Details
- 03 May 2021
- What Do You Think?
Where Does CEO Activism Go From Here?
“Ensuring social cohesion in democracy is part of a CEO’s job of managing the strategic environment.” "When they identify with their corporations, do CEOs assume that they are representing them?" One question these events raise for us is... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for James Austin
shareholders? A: CEOs perceive integrative relationships as strategic alliances and investments that generate significant benefits to the companies. Those benefits vary from case to case but encompass superior capacity to attract,... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 06 May 2002
- What Do You Think?
What’s Driving the “New Marketing?”
Summing Up Respondents to my column about the tenets of new strategic marketing by and large projected the view that new strategic marketing, as propounded by the authors of the new book, Marketing Moves: A... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Portrait Project
Jessica Gelman
company or professional sports league, write a book, publish my poetry, positively impact and give back to society by mentoring younger people and improving the educational system, sit on four company boards, allow myself to fall in love,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
At Your Service
Frei and Morriss: No heroics, please—partner with customers to make strategic service choices instead of trying to be the best at everything. In their new book, Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Books: Judo Strategy
Netscape’s head of engineering how he could ever hope to compete successfully with Microsoft, given the dominant position of Windows, he gave a very judo-like answer. ‘You can look at Microsoft’s operating system as an asset, or you can... View Details
- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
all contract talks likely were swamped with information and misallocated their time. Those who were willing to delegate would have been better positioned to see the big picture. Individuals and organizations should operate at a high tempo... View Details
- 27 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge
machines that included information about the product’s name, price, description, and consumer ranking. Two of the 10 products included in their product information pages a strategic text string, a sequence of letters and numbers produced... View Details
- 21 Sep 2016
- Blog Post
How HBS Changed My Life
section mates who became truly amazing friends (something I will discuss later). Sometimes we agreed; other times we disagreed; but one thing was clear: we were building what I call our “confidence muscle”. Over our two years at HBS we put ourselves in the View Details
- 16 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Digging Into Data: Making A Career Change
Tell us about your role at HBS. As the Market Intelligence Manager in Career & Professional Development, I strive to identify, analyze, and understand MBA hiring trends that influence the strategic priorities of our office. Although... View Details
- Profile
Whitney Wilson
business problems they were solving.” After the Chamber, she accepted a consulting position with Deloitte in Washington DC where she “worked in the strategy and analytics practice for public sector clients. I focused my work around... View Details
- 30 May 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride
attributes are most easily explained in terms of a spectrum, with entrepreneurial firms falling on one side and more bureaucratic firms on the other. The first attribute is pursuit of opportunity. Strategic orientation is driven either by... View Details
Keywords: by William Mahoney
- Profile
Kamen Bliznashki
Why is getting a HBS MBA important to you? Coming from an investment banking background, I lacked deep understanding of the larger strategic challenges of clients. I see my HBS experience as an opportunity to broaden and deepen my skill... View Details
- 26 Sep 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Negotiation
value-creating tradeoffs. Effective negotiators get past stated positions (what a party demands) and understand the underlying interests (why the party wants what it demands). What's The Strategic Way To... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Juicy Story
2005, that figure increased again to over $4.5 billion. “This is a case where you can focus on strategic success as well as strategic failure,” Yoffie notes. “There aren’t many instances where you have both... View Details