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Guidant: Cardiac Rhythm Management Business (A)

By: Steven C. Wheelwright and Mikelle Eastley

Examines the choices Guidant must make in research and development spending and new product development. More specifically, CEO Jay Graf considers the payoffs and tradeoffs of using product development skills that he learned in CPI's core business when applied to a... View Details

Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Product Development; Business or Company Management; Management Skills; Research and Development; Business Strategy; Communication; Product Design; Market Design; Organizational Design; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

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01 Sep 2010
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Dean Nohria Looks Ahead

Visit Dean Nohria's page Watch Dean Nohria at Fall Reunion (LEFA login required) Fresh out of a highly competitive engineering school in Mumbai, 22-year-old Nitin Nohria aspired to pursue his interest in business, earn an MBA in America, then return home to become an... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

Rudina Seseri

community involvement. Rudina has been published in TechCrunch, Forbes, Quartz, VentureBeat, GigaOm, and other leading business publications. She graduated magna cum laude from Wellesley College with a BA in Economics and International... View Details

Keywords: Software/App;#75;#Venture Capital

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Jamira Cotton

in a team environment. However, I felt that an MBA from HBS would greatly enhance my ability to think critically and adeptly about problems from a general management perspective. I also knew that the network I would develop with my classmates and the alumni View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Entrepreneurship

04 Aug 2020
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HBS Career & Professional Development Responds to COVID-19

support and creativity of the HBS community since COVID first changed our lives. Seeing students, alumni, faculty and staff all pulling together to help our MBAs secure internships and full-time opportunities is something that will... View Details

23 Apr 2020
Blog Post

Fireside Chats with Harvard Faculty: A COVID-19 Symposium

leading role in organizing the business community in the fight against COVID-19—will be the symposium’s keynote speaker. Perspectives on the COVID-19 Pandemic: View Video Keynote Speaker Mr. Ken Chenault, CEO of General Catalyst, and HBS... View Details

01 Mar 2017
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Promoting a Deeper Understanding

“Once you understand the environment each of us is coming from, it makes it a lot easier to communicate, which is what business is all about. Communication is key to solving problems,” says Bullard, chairman of E.D. Bullard Co., a... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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Touching All the Bases: Stephen A. Greyser

achievement in advertising. A one-time sports broadcaster and radio-TV producer, Greyser has served as a consultant and/or research collaborator on marketing and communications issues for the NBA, NHL, NFL, and MLB, as well as for the... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Feb 2002
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Driven

innovative framework for understanding the human experience and offers intriguing insights into individual and organizational behavior with practical applications for government, business, and community leaders. Noted experts on... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

19 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Seven Lessons from the Section Experience

had personal relationships with each other. Through joint birthday celebrations, small group trips, baby showers, and more, these individual connections brought our community closer together. Even within our section, we had extremely... View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

HBX: Reimagining HBS for the Digital Age

message for my team and how we communicate with our customers has begun to shift.” Paige Peterson, participant in Disruptive Strategy certificate program, sales manager “I have already applied so much of what I learned. My strategy and... View Details

07 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Looking to Leave a Mark? Memorable Leaders Don't Just Spout Statistics, They Tell Stories

“The question can be better understood as how people learn from qualitative information. If you think about it, it’s not that people communicate by numbers, but by natural language, by stories. A newspaper article is not just numbers.”... View Details

02 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

complexities and pressures. It's Not Nagging: Why Persistent, Redundant Communication Works (18,159) http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6629.html Published: April 18, 2011 Managers who inundate their teams with the same messages, over and over,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

09 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact

Both impact investing and traditional philanthropy are on the rise after the decade-long economic boom following the Great Recession. But when does an impact investment make a bigger difference than a grant? The question is far more complicated than simply evaluating... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

13 Jun 2014
Op-Ed

World Cup Soccer: 770 Billion Minutes of Attention

"sticking power" in people's minds. In other words, the passion of football fans further increases the value of their attention for advertisers. And it's not only advertisers who are after this scare resource. The Brazilian government has been a voracious... View Details

Keywords: by Thales Teixeira; Sports

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age

become the dominant player on the Web, Microsoft announced that it would follow Netscape's lead in supporting all popular Internet protocols (i.e., the rules computers use to communicate with one another on the Internet), even when they... View Details

Keywords: by Daniel Penrice

10 Jul 2024
News

Next Level

Network for Harvard Women. She’s also a member of Chief, a private network of women with a mission to change the face of leadership. “It’s a great way for women to connect with other C-level executives,” she says. “It’s healthy to have View Details

Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace

02 Feb 2021
Blog Post

Finding My Focus in Health care Amidst a Global Pandemic

that have been bright spots. (1) The jointee community More than anything, I have really loved getting to know my fellow “jointees” - fellow students in the HBS/HKS joint degree. Due to social distancing measures and restrictions, the... View Details

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Talia Gillis

part of the HBS community so they have full access to the professors and resources provided by HBS. Of particular value is the way in which HBS faculty members have ongoing partnerships with companies and government agencies. Learning... View Details

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Undergraduate Technology Innovation Fellows Program | MBA

first step in learning more about our inspiring and collaborative community of Roberts Family Fellows. Please note: By submitting this form, you are opting into HUTIF email communications. Applications will open on Tuesday, January 21st .... View Details

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