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- 02 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Pursuing A Passion in Health Care
Hej! Reporting from Copenhagen here. My first year of HBS is complete, and I moved here one month ago for my summer internship. I’m working in New Product Development at Radiometer – a medical device subsidiary of Danaher. I came to HBS... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 17 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve
discovery work to validate the problem or their target customers. While gut feel or personal experience with a problem can be a strong signal there is a problem to solve, without proper product discovery work you won’t truly know if you... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 31 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Where Can Digital Transformation Take You? Insights from 1,700 Leaders
launch new products or programs, experiment with them, refine them, and even drop them. Digitally mature organizations leverage design thinking, lean start-up, and agile methodologies to power innovation.... View Details
- 02 Mar 2012
- HBS Seminar
Joe Lassiter/Gordon Jones, Harvard Business School/Harvard University
- Web
Courses - Entrepreneurship
for making those decisions. We will also introduce a range of specific tools—including business model design, lean testing, and customer and channel analytics—that are particularly relevant to entrepreneurs, as well as introduce students... View Details
- 09 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
Called Back to the Office? How You Benefit from Ideas You Didn't Know You Were Missing
the same view, he says. Implications beyond universities While the study focuses specifically on academic research, it may also have meaning for other organizations, Duede says—those that similarly lean on employees for their ability to... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 24 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Growing the Seeds of an Early-Stage Startup
It all started with a cold LinkedIn mail to Aaron Gailmor, the founder of Brass Roots, an early-stage startup that I happened upon while tracking Expo West 2019 (World's largest natural, organic and healthy products event) with a... View Details
- 18 Jul 2023
- News
The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)
What inspired you to launch Forby Entertainment Partners? I started working on film and TV shoots in New York City during college. My first boss, an executive producer, recommended Edward Jay Epstein’s book, The Hollywood Economist: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind... View Details
Keywords: Robert Bochnak
- 07 Jul 2022
- HBS Case
How a Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Startup Melted Down (and Bounced Back)
way. We’ve got to do this.’” They invested their entire life savings—$225,000—into opening the store. The store sold all of its products within four days of opening, forcing it to temporarily close. Earning $1 million in total sales, the... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 14 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age
values—and empower others to execute. Lean on others. We’re not talking about delegating to trusted lieutenants with similar backgrounds and the same life and career experiences. It means learning to collaborate with an increasingly... View Details
- 17 Jan 2023
- In Practice
8 Trends to Watch in 2023
As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 26 Sep 2023
- Book
Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target
to the new digital context. ” Enthusiasts and advocates of the digital revolution would submit that digital transformation changes everything, from product design to how value is built and captured in the market. In some cases,... View Details
- Web
Latin America - Global
entrepreneurs so that they can navigate the complexities of their environment more effectively. October 2024 EVENT Revitalize, Reinvent, Reskill: Unlocking Workforce Productivity Event in Medellín In October, in collaboration with the... View Details
- 15 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Kids Benefit From Having a Working Mom
workplace. "Liberalizing Egalitarians" were those countries where respondents' attitudes toward gender were already egalitarian in 2002 and became even more so over the following decade (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, and Slovenia). "Stagnating... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
that can make a doctor-backed product like Systole a reassuring option, says Lee: “The patients I see are worried that the commercial options are too intense to be safe, or that they’ll be out of place if they aren’t a 20-something... View Details
- Web
Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
of entering a financial crisis within the next three years. The evidence challenges the view that financial crises are unpredictable and supports the view that crises are the by-product of predictable, boom-bust credit cycles. This predictability favors policies that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Exchange: Help Wanted
Image by John Ritter The path to a job in the C-suite isn’t what it used to be. For many years, companies could lean on financial expertise and industry connections when recruiting candidates, but HBS professors Raffaella Sadun and Joseph Fuller say that so much has... View Details
- Web
Leadership - Faculty & Research
How should Windsurf grow? Should it continue pursuing top-down enterprise sales or lean into the bottom-up, developer-led momentum that had already propelled it to eight-figure ARR within a month of launching a paid plan? This case... View Details
- Web
Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
production workers) are associated with more autonomy and a wider span of control. By contrast, communication technologies (like data networks) decrease autonomy for both workers and plant managers. Treating technology as endogenous using... View Details
- 11 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups
including design thinking and lean startup approaches, that have given rise to some of the world’s biggest technology companies. But does the Silicon Valley mantra “fail fast, fail often,” which encourages early testing of new ideas and... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz