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05 Nov 2020
Blog Post

12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition

would I be able to pick up the necessary skills to succeed in a new role and build meaningful relationships with the team and the entrepreneurs? Would I enjoy this experience? I had some previous experience working remotely, but being... View Details

January 1999
Case

Bell Atlantic and the Union City Schools (C1): Project Explore

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ellen Pruyne

The third in a five-part series about Bell Atlantic Corp.'s technology-in-education partnership with the Union City, New Jersey school system. Describes Bell Atlantic's efforts to identify an appropriate site for testing emerging telecommunications technology and its... View Details

Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Education; Business and Community Relations; Wireless Technology; Education Industry; Telecommunications Industry; New Jersey

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13–14 Jun 2025
Reunions

2025 HBS Reunions, June 12-15

We look forward to welcoming you back for your reunion! This is a special opportunity to reconnect with old friends and make valuable new connections; strengthen your professional career and personal life with the latest thinking on critical topics; and feel... View Details

06–07 Jun 2025
Reunions

2025 HBS Reunions, June 5-8

We look forward to welcoming you back for your reunion! This is a special opportunity to reconnect with old friends and make valuable new connections; strengthen your professional career and personal life with the latest thinking on critical topics; and feel... View Details

8:30 AM – 6:30 PM EST, 28 Jan 2021
Virtual Programming

Leading with Innovation and Purpose

In a new virtual program for alumni, Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter will show advanced leaders how to dream bigger and dare to be audacious, activate allies and build coalitions across sectors and siloes, and think outside the building in order to thrive and prosper in... View Details

September 1992 (Revised January 1994)
Case

Reshaping Apple Computer's Destiny 1992

By: David B. Yoffie and Johanna M. Hurstak

Examines John Sculley's approach toward transforming Apple Computer. Focuses on Sculley's management style, his creation of a new management team, and his efforts to create a professional management system inside Apple. View Details

Keywords: Management Style; Transformation; Management Teams; Management Systems; Computer Industry; California

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15 Apr 2015
News

Lessons From Steve Jobs, Andy Grove and Bill Gates

01 Jan 2014
News

Women leave the door open for other women

01 Feb 2018
News

After Era That Made It a Verb, Xerox, in a Sale, Is Past Tense

18 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments

latest e-commerce enterprise. And in a new MBA elective course he has developed, Large-Scale Investment, Esty examines how private firms structure, value, and finance large, first-of-a-kind (or greenfield) projects. "Although the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

23 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Strategy-Focused Organization

illustrate how major organizations have used the Scorecard to create an entirely new performance management framework that puts strategy at the center of a company's key management processes and systems. Mobil North America Marketing and... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

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Data - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

this space as we will be regularly updating our data page with new datasets as we make progress. Last Data Update: March 2022 Themes Measuring Sentiment & Expectations Sentiment & Expectations Data Global Crises Data By Country Global... View Details

09 May 2016
Blog Post

What Is the Difference between RC and EC Year?

easy to spontaneously plan lunch, dinner, or a night out. I went into my EC year with a very strong core group of friends. EC year you pick your own courses, and you likely won't know everyone in each class. You can develop new... View Details

23 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Putting the Project Puzzle Together

A: The most enduring characteristic of a successful MIS organization is its ability to understand new technologies and launch a series of investigations to see how they can impact their organization. Out of these pilot projects, they can... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Jan 2021
Blog Post

2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Marc Duranteau (MBA 2019)

skills prove essential when I try to sketch new processes and new ways of working in my current role because I have to take into account every idea, opinion, and need on subjects in which I have little... View Details

23 Jun 2023
News

Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

The planned growth of HBS and Harvard includes more than doubling the number of housing units in Allston, moving the American Repertory Theater to Allston, and eventually adding a new faculty building and other buildings over time as part... View Details

14 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Breaking the Smartphone Addiction

work, no matter where they are. "Let's face it," writes HBS Professor Leslie Perlow. "When that phone buzzes, few of us have the mental fortitude to ignore it." In her new book, Sleeping With Your Smartphone, Perlow... View Details

Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow

15 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise

Jim Austin, picked by Dean John McArthur to lead the new initiative, saw the potential for research, curriculum, and career development around the challenges of social enterprises, including both nonprofit and for-profit organizations.... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

05 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures

If you’re a business leader who oozes achievement, sprints up the corporate ladder, and earns big bucks, your co-workers probably resent you to some extent. New research says high-achievers can win over their colleagues with a simple... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

November 1993 (Revised April 2007)
Case

Continental Airlines--1992 (Abridged)

By: Stuart C. Gilson

The CEO is preparing a recommendation to the board regarding several potential outside investments in the company, which is currently operating in bankruptcy. In making his decision, the CEO has to consider various financial and strategic factors, including possible... View Details