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- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
mature industries, nascent markets offer little certainty and plenty of ambiguity—undefined customers, unclear products or features, uncertain customer demand, and even an ill defined set of competitors. Yet, for these startups to have... View Details
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow
Whether their mission is to protect wildlife, help disabled people, or offer financial services in developing countries, nonprofit organizations often believe they need to grow big before they can achieve significant social impact. HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Nov 2023
- News
A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway
and leaders from Southern California. We’re expecting a great turnout and we’re optimistic that we can again offer a substantial set of scholarships.” During the dinner, several past recipients will share their experiences and talk about... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
order. In fifth grade, he and the late humorist Erma Bombeck started a school newspaper; in high school and later, after serving in World War II, Levitt worked as a reporter and sportswriter for the Dayton Journal Herald, where he helped Bombeck get a View Details
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HBS - The year in Review
Program by revising the need-based formula for financial aid and waiving application fees, and becoming the first academic partner to the OneTen Initiative , which aims to create 1 million jobs for Black Americans without a college degree... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
behavior that make this redeployment feasible and sustainable over time. "A vast majority of the initiatives that companies are implementing do not require large capital investments or radical innovation." How companies are responding This thoroughness and... View Details
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Involvement in Faculty & Student Ventures | About
members can and should play a valuable role with students by offering them advice and counsel on academic and career issues, including new ventures. Conflicts of Interest: Financial or business relationships between students and faculty... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
employed full time and reported high levels of clinical depression or anxiety, as well as those experiencing workplace distress, with signs of presenteeism or burnout. One group was given full access to the Happify platform, which offers... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
to name the building Madikizela, in honor of the late South African political activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, a symbol of Black female resilience.) The upper floors will contain well-appointed rentals, whose target market includes single moms working low-wage View Details
- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
to where I’m “really from.” My peers will sometimes offer statements like, “I don’t think of you as Asian,” an attempted wink and nudge that despite my Japanese heritage, they still see me as one of them. Through telling his experience in... View Details
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker
Insurance built a wonderful business by selecting relatively low-risk customers from among generally high-risk motorcyclists. Step 4: Keep it simple. Don't shoot yourself in the foot by mismanaging your own product or service line. Many companies View Details
Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
and with a family to support, “living in a dump over a hardware store with kerosene heat,” one biographer wrote. But the Army learned that MacDonald had done well in Industrial Procurement at HBS and offered him a job. He enlisted in... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
functionality, such as through inexpensive or free licensing terms. One strategy for launching an innovation platform in a market where no platforms exist yet is to identify an industry-wide problem. Then offer your product as a solution... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
5 Career-Related New Year’s Resolutions (and 5 Tips for Keeping Them)
getting the help they need.” To that end, Simons created a free online job design optimization tool. Try it out to see if your job is offering a healthy mix of responsibility... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 04 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Should You Outsource Your Marketing?
may lack the left-brain analytics needed to better understand their customers in today's information-rich environment. Besides, argue McGovern and Quelch, outsourcing marketing can lead to better quality and lower costs. McGovern offers a... View Details
Keywords: by Poping Lin
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
create job creators instead of job seekers through an entrepreneurship training program at the grassroots level? In a serendipitous twist, that same year, as part of an HBS alumni outreach program, Bhargava... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
Blakeman says. A pitch to the right person at the right time at a bar led to a $100,000 angel investment. Diversifying his business, Blakeman started to work with prisons to put his search tools into the hands of inmates before their release. Honest View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Back by popular demand, we offer a second collection of alumni recounting their experience at their first jobs. READ MORE Hey, everybody, it's Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho
The Class of 2007 is settling nicely into the world of work, with 94 percent of graduates seeking jobs having accepted an employment offer by September. Just over 15 percent of the class are not now looking... View Details