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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
thinking, translating his insights into practice and correcting the most common misconceptions about them. Guide to Managing Growth: Turning Success into Even Bigger Success by Rupert Merson (PMD 71, 1996) (Wiley) Successful growth... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
There's No Quick Shortcut to Success: Zorpads Takes Off
build off their current momentum. Breaking barriers to entrepreneurship It's hard to imagine that with all this success, they're still devoting only part of their time to Zorpads. Noting that one of the biggest misconceptions of... View Details
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Take Responsibility for Rising Stars
Many executives believe that leadership development is a job for the HR department. This may be the single biggest misconception they can have. As corporations have broken down work into manageable activities and then consolidated... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution
already have lower occupancy due to advances in technology. Then where does the misconception arise that expensive technology - such as MRIs and CAT scanners - is pushing up the cost of health care? Hospitals like to showcase the latest... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
devising a new cooperation model, with less emphasis on competition and more on building working relationships within and between companies. Mills writes that the book is about "how people, limited by misconceptions based on past... View Details
- 02 Aug 2004
- What Do You Think?
For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?
of the article. Richard Eckel opined that "A basic misconception is that Section 404 increases transparency afforded to stakeholders... What 404 does is require that corporate leadership demonstrate that the processes used to produce... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Sep 2016
- Blog Post
How HBS Changed My Life
friendships I made at HBS. And truly, it was a beautiful thing to experience. I had my misconceptions about HBS before I applied. In fact, I almost didn’t apply. Today, I am forever grateful for the class visit I made to Professor Anita... View Details
- 01 Feb 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?
point out possible misconceptions about job creation by small businesses off the mark? Do they miss the point? What do you think? Original Article In the late 1990s, a group of faculty at the Harvard Business School proposed a new... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection
Zaltman. "Another misconception is that it doesn't take much time to understand what's going on." Companies that have succeeded at probing the psyches of their customers, he says, have "taken a lot of time to extract... View Details
- Web
Entrepreneurial Sales 102: Building, Managing, and Scaling the First Sales Team as a Founder, Investor, or Advisor - Course Catalog
not true. No matter how strong your product, even if it easily fits into already established habits and anybody who tries it likes it immediately, you must still support it with a strong distribution plan.” -From “Zero to One” by Peter Thiel One common View Details
- Profile
Andres Sarmiento
that understanding. But even more important, the role required me to understand marketing, to understand that the product we were building had to satisfy the needs of our customers. I had my first marketing class ever at Harvard Business School and realized that I had... View Details
- 19 May 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts
learned is the nature of the problem. We, perhaps like many others, had the misconception that cultural factors were the primary inhibitor to literacy development in India. However, it turns out that 85 percent of school-age children... View Details
- 08 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
“There’s no quick shortcut to success:” Zorpads takes off
build off their current momentum. Breaking barriers to entrepreneurship It's hard to imagine that with all this success, they're still devoting only part of their time to Zorpads. Noting that one of the biggest misconceptions of... View Details
- 04 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Finding Your Creative Outlet on Campus
with just about any aspect of your life. At first I thought: oh no, everyone here is so professional. No one likes trashy TV. But actually, so many people do! Like the Bachelor! Half my section is watching the Bachelor.” Farrah summed it up: “I think there’s a View Details
- 02 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps
what can be done to reverse that trend. In doing so, they take aim at some misconceptions about what keeps voters home, and show the surprising effectiveness of door-to-door canvassing at getting more people to the polls. Voting is not... View Details
- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
how capital markets value the R&D portfolios of companies. I want to make sure I give you a sense of the breadth of it, because one of the misconceptions is that only a few faculty at the school are doing health care. Some of it is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reimagining China and India
misconception that these countries are too unfamiliar for us to really grapple with. Getting over that barrier allows one to invest in acquiring the knowledge that’s necessary. There’s really nothing mysterious about either country.... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ink: The Three-Step Startup
themselves as entrepreneurs. “There’s a misunderstanding that you have to be from a certain place, to look a certain way, to have a certain type of background training, to have one type of personality—all these misconceptions about what... View Details
- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
Cappelli says the research is clear: “The evidence is unbelievably huge. Basically, older workers perform better on just about everything.” Specifically, they have lower absenteeism, less turnover, and superior interpersonal skills. Another common View Details
- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
MBA students often fall into one of two categories—those hungry to rush into careers as venture capitalists, and those eager to found a venture-funded start-up. For all of them, Harvard Business School professor Joseph Lassiter has some intriguing advice: Spend a few... View Details