Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Jun 2021
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The Power of Resilience

It's how we face them that is in our control. It is up to us to figure out how we will thrive from them. Skydeck is produced by the External Relations department at Harvard Business School and edited by... View Details

01 Jun 1996
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Keepers of the Flame

enormous pressures of his job and deploy the full range of management skills, savvy, and perseverance that he was hired to bring to what is truly a remarkable civic effort. On its first try (a virtually unheard-of accomplishment),... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

07 Jun 2019
Book

Are You a Digital Manager?

teams within and sometimes outside their organization. This raises questions like: How will you innovate? How will you bring out the best ideas in your teams working together near and far? How will you drive change within the organization and the broader View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Jan 2023
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Forged in Fire

become coaches. And so we created this acronym that the first "C" in "COACH" is to care about people. Because people are not going to listen to you until they know you care about them. And then I think our View Details

31 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

Working PapersCorporate Social Entrepreneurship Authors:James Austin and Ezequiel Reficco Abstract Corporate Social Entrepreneurship (CSE) is a process aimed at enabling business to develop more advanced and powerful forms of Corporate... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Jan 2018
What Do You Think?

In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?

Sam agreed: "This should be standard business practice." He asked, "Why do these boards not have a member who truly understands Compliance/Governance?" John would go even further. "Yes to a compliance officer This... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Sep 2008
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Building a Better MBA

For the school that so boldly launched the MBA 100 years ago and went on to become the bluest of blue-chip brands in business education, it seemed only fitting that Harvard Business School should mark its... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

26 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 26

increasing managerial slack, and/or to GPs making it attractive for executives to go along with some value-decreasing acquisitions that do not serve shareholders' long-term interests. Our findings have significant implications for ongoing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Jul 2019
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Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens

McGinnis. A venture capitalist and author of the bestseller The 10% Entrepreneur, McGinnis has since turned FOMO and FOBO into a career unto themselves, with a podcast on the HBR network called FOMO Sapiens and a book on the topic in the works. In this excerpt from... View Details

01 Jun 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016

Alumni Books The Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth by James Allen (MBA 1989) and Chris Zook (Harvard Business Review Press) Based on their decade-long study of companies in more than 40 countries, the... View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

Rescue & Recovery

that I won’t be able to lead if we’re not transparent.” “As leaders in purpose-driven organizations, we have to remember that it’s not always driven by a hard business decision or legal decision; we have to look at View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Stephen Voss; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

22 Jan 2020
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What It Takes

Schwarzman told him that he was making a mistake. It was all for naught, but this chutzpah was a bit of a hallmark: A year earlier, Schwarzman spearheaded a successful effort to get Anthony and the Imperials—then one of the most popular musical View Details

07 May 2018
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What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries

Photo courtesy of Francis Tapon Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Francis Tapon (MBA 1997) was off to a bright tech career after HBS, working at a Silicon Valley startup before stints at Hitachi and... View Details

09 Sep 2024
HBS Case

McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

job and getting banned from serving as an executive or director at any other company for five years. This consensual workplace relationship—forbidden under the iconic fast-food chain’s fraternization policy because of potential conflicts... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage

18 Jan 2022
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HBS Alumni Mentor Students; Shanghai Club Hosts Entrepreneurship Conference

kids’ high school. “It was a business club that evolved into a mentoring program,” says Mallory. “I wanted to do something a little different, and specifically help underserved people in our community.”... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

12 May 2022
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Onboarding

a member. JH: Drawing on the expertise of business leaders across multiple industries, from finance to technology to manufacturing, BENS acts as a partner, offering concrete strategies for issues ranging... View Details

01 Sep 2008
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Mara Aspinall

Personalized Medicine,” a Harvard Business Review article that outlines an agenda that could hasten the transition from “trial-and-error” therapies for life-threatening illnesses to a more targeted line of attack. Aspinall began her... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

17 Dec 2017
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How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression

experience that I had. Otherwise, you're just an aid tourist and, oftentimes, a draw on those organizations resources. The opportunity I found was setting up a job trading center at one of these IDP camps. While I was there, someone had... View Details

02 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 3, 2008

Note on Generic Drugs in the European Union Harvard Business School Note 309-019 Rules governing the introduction of generic drugs in U.S. and EU have some similarities but significant differences because of the Hatch-Waxman View Details