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- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Get Off the Dime!
Buffalo. We would use the same basic steps to purchase a pen, generator, or a hammer. The point was to use new technology to take advantage of economies of scale. The executive committee for our company met one month to discuss changes... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
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Commencement 2020 Address | About
found a way to get a college education and even study and work abroad. He went on to become the chief executive of a company that worked on electrifying India—bringing fans, air conditioning, electric lights, and other modern conveniences... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
across a set of technologies.” Pisano is heading up a June Executive Education program (Leadership and Strategy in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech) that will focus on these matters. He notes that such programs are synergistic learning... View Details
- 18 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Have a Better Idea To Improve Health Care?
share $150,000 and the opportunity to present their ideas at the Forum's invitation-only conference in April 2015, which attracts senior executives from big pharma, for-profit and non-profit hospitals, major insurance companies, and... View Details
- 24 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers
hoping to recruit African students more aggressively and to expand our executive education offerings on the continent. Our new initiative, Making Markets Work, has already received great interest from African universities and we are... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 10 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)
While in this role, I worked with executives across several companies and ultimately accepted a job offer from one of them, also an HBS grad. They became a demanding mentor who offered guidance, helping me to mature as a manager, develop... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 20 May 2019
- Blog Post
Makeup: How Kenya Hunt Transformed Her Career Through Cosmetics
degree, Kenya dove into career research, confident that there was a cosmetics firm out there that would appreciate her ability to conduct R&D – a foot in the door that could lead to more advanced executive positions. She learned that... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
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Concrete Symbols - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
HBS Quick Links HBS Home MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions A Concrete Symbol The Exhibition Introduction Educating Business Administrators Core... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits
Charlotte New York Philadelphia Fundraising for local nonprofits or for scholarships to attend Executive Education’s Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management program Austin Ottawa San Diego Washington, D.C. All-day alumni... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Turning Point: Living History
wants to accomplish and why. Yet there was nothing in my career path that indicated I would find myself where I am today. Sometimes you don’t know what the future will bring. This experience has taught me to be open to that fact. Mallika Ahluwalia (MBA/MPA-ID 2011) is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Surviving Success
David Strohm (MBA ’80), a VC advisor on Wily’s board, requested that Cirne step down to CTO and clear the way for an executive with the expertise to lead the company in its next stage of development. After the initial shock, Cirne agreed,... View Details
- 10 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)
marketing professor where I gained deep exposure to the management and decision processes of executives. While in this role, I worked with executives across several companies and ultimately accepted a job offer from one of them, also an... View Details
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
and fundamental to Kodak’s identity. In January 2016, Clarke and his executive team traveled to Las Vegas, Nevada, for the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) where the company unveiled a prototype of its new Super 8 camera—an analog... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
couldn’t persuade his own executive team and board of directors that whatever package he ultimately agreed to with Moore was a reasonable one, even though an acquisition of Metasploit would come with no meaningful revenue and considerable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
http://ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-orgpsych-031413-091305?nosfx=y August 2013 Harvard Business Review Manage Your Work, Manage Your Life By: Groysberg, Boris, and Robin Abrahams Abstract—Work/life balance is at best an elusive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
the frustrations that can emerge as we talk to people who work with or study strategy is they read these ideas and say, "OK, so the resource allocation is complicated and it can get in the way of the execution of our great strategy... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
Yelp. This year’s New Venture Competition may yield the famous names of the future. The following represents a sampling of past participants who executed their plans upon graduation. @hoc Guy Miasnik, MBA 1999 Ly Tran, MBA 1999 @hoc... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Borders and the Self By Chinwe Ajena-Sagna (MBA 2003) Masobe Books “Who are you?” Every border tells a story. Every story has its origins. Tracing a cultural lineage from the beginnings of Igbo history in the ninth century by delineating... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
you do live and die by your taste.” With even the best actors, script, director, and production values in place, generally most movies don’t break even. According to Dominic Ianno (MBA 1995), a former studio executive at Artisan... View Details