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- 09 Mar 2023
- News
Four Alumni Clubs Mark Milestone Year
With over 300 members, Stidman says the Houston club is very active with a wide range of programs and special interest groups, including an Executive Speaker Series, a breakfast forum, a Women's Leadership Group, Alumni Angels, Alumni... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
the existing target markets. Great enterprise selling happens at the intersection of true customer pain and a credible solution. Play to win the game! —Rob Biederman (MBA 2014) is a managing partner of Asymmetric VC, the chairman and cofounder of Catalant Technologies,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
things. Of course technology affords us that ability these days, but it will require a bit more perspective shift too. Whenever we’re with students in the classroom—with MBAs or senior executives from around the world—their experience... View Details
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
couples and individuals from a variety of backgrounds, ages, and sexual orientations to build families. This case examines Circle Surrogacy (CS), one of the premier surrogacy agencies in the world, as its president and founder, John Weltman, was about to share an View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
fashion and execute against a higher-ambition agenda. Q: Many companies in your book have a global reach. At the same time, however, they are often connected to a local identity or home base. How do higher-ambition leaders view culture?... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
ones. For example, the two Mars missions launched in 1998 were given a budget of only half that of Mars Pathfinder, well before anyone knew how Pathfinder would fare. As one NASA executive remarked, "It was like being in the Olympic... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
regulations,” he said. Dimon also agreed with criticisms of excessive executive compensation. “There were a lot of people who in hindsight wound up making a lot of money who didn’t deserve it.” As for politicians, Dimon railed against... View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
problem here was the first a-ha, and then the next a-ha was that we came up with a really elegant solution to it. And then we were like, wow there’s a really interesting business model around this. We did a lot of upfront work. We crystallized that we wrote it down and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
plans that our team could use to execute different projects; then I was able to choose a couple to pursue for my own interest,” recalls Naidoo, who also cites the need to immediately shed any sense of MBA “specialness.” “At Oxfam, there... View Details
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
stalled. Eager to succeed in his new role in Paris, Jianguo has lots of fresh ideas, but they seem to be falling on deaf ears. Members of the executive team, for their part, find Jianguo to be largely indifferent to their input. Can... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
intranet. The personal behavior of executives reinforces the message. Employees become truly empowered by understanding what the organization wishes to accomplish, and how they can contribute to these accomplishments. This understanding... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
Sometimes executive education has little to do with what happens in a classroom. Mentoring and coaching are the time-tested ways for wisdom and knowledge to be passed through an organization. Harvard Business School professor Dorothy... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
formed True Wealth Ventures in 2015, and it is the philosophy that drives the firm today. Its requirement that there be at least one woman in a decision-making role on the executive team of any startup it invests in is “not just a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
private and public sectors can tilt the odds back to our favor—and what victory would really look like. Unite the Fight On February 13, 2015, President Obama announced an executive order that encouraged the exchange of cyberattack data... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
aspect of business is up for re-evaluation as a result of the pandemic, from the most granular to the most overarching level. Two executives shared vivid descriptions of the early days when the reality of the pandemic set in. It was like... View Details
- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
shuttle disaster to explore the relationship between data visualization, effective communication, and decision-making. Students review and analyze excerpts from the 13 charts engineers presented to NASA executives the night before the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
practical use by managers or teaching by instructors of MBAs and executive MBAs. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51126 The Climate Custodians By: Eccles, Robert G., and Tim Youmans Abstract—Can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
executives with general-management responsibility. Our findings revealed that the shift from corporate communication to organizational conversation has occurred because of several long-term changes that have affected the business world... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
interviews of over 80 individuals from 6 service delivery units and 8 support departments that provide them with equipment and supplies, we find that a lack of interconnectedness among interdependent departments-rather than errors or View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
operationalization of meaningful economic activity. As a first step to redressing this shift, we offer a definition and operationalization of meaningful action, and we propose a typology of executive behaviors as a foundation for a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace