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Ramya Sundar
Why did you choose this path at this point in time? My learning curve had plateaued at my previous job. Choosing to do an MBA was part of the promise I made myself to get out of my comfort zone! Coming to HBS is like... ...a roller... View Details
- November 2022
- Teaching Note
Proximie: Using XR Technology to Create Borderless Operating Rooms
By: Ariel D. Stern, Alpana Thapar and Menna Hassan
Founded by Nadine Hachach-Haram in 2016, Proximie was a digital medicine platform that used mixed reality and a host of digital audio and visual tools to enable clinicians, proctors, and medical device company personnel to be virtually present in operating rooms (ORs),... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
John Crowley’s Extraordinary Measures
their dismay they learned that because Pompe afflicts so few people — less than one in 40,000 — no treatment had yet been developed. Determined to change that, Crowley quit his job as a marketing executive for Bristol-Myers Squibb, befriended a scientist who was... View Details
- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
almost exclusively in those same large vehicles likely to be made obsolete by a new 35.5 MPG standard the Administration has promised to implement by 2016. Daniel Heller, Visiting Scholar: All stakeholders must work together to make GM's... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Redefining How Businesses Operate
knowledgeable about it as you think critically about the strategy for your company. To be a business leader today, you need to have a fundamental understanding of the advancements shaping our world.” For HBS and Harvard AI-related resources, please visit... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 20 Apr 2021
- Book
A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success
feel unreasonably stretched, here is your chance to cut back. Unless an initiative promises to increase WTP or decrease WTS, it is not worth pursuing. Reprinted by permission of Harvard Business Review Press. Excerpted from Better,... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- Web
Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement
tailored therapies based on gene targeting feels like the promised land. A patient doing what she can today While potential therapies for HHT feel more tenable today than ever before, I found I could not sit on the sidelines. I never... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
running and investing in large companies were doing quite well. But working- and middle-class Americans were struggling, as were many small businesses. The most promising efforts we found to restore shared prosperity were local,... View Details
- 14 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
LOVE At HBS
started HBS. We didn’t expect moving to a new country and adapting to a new culture to be easy but, looking back, decisions that normally would have been tough seemed obvious and easy thanks to the love and support we gave each other. As we View Details
- 2010
- Working Paper
Introductory Reading for Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model
By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron and Kari L. Granger
This paper is the sixth of six pre-course reading assignments for an experimental leadership course developed by the authors over five years (2004-2008) at the U. of Rochester Simon School of Business working with students, alumni, executives, and faculty from various... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Development; Curriculum and Courses; Strategy; Performance Capacity; Attitudes; Behavior; United States; Netherlands; Texas
Erhard, Werner, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron, and Kari L. Granger. "Introductory Reading for Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-091, April 2010.
- 06 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Four Strategies for Making Concessions
outset, they reasoned, perhaps they had set their sights too low. As the union's aspirations rose to unrealistic levels, a promising negotiation unraveled and culminated in a strike. Concessions are often necessary in negotiation. But, as... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
- 17 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)
will be a combination of case discussions, guests, panels, and workshops. Fintech: Disruptions in Credit, Payments and Real Estate The advent of new technologies and big data promise to revolutionize the finance world by disintermediate... View Details
- 05 Oct 2020
- Book
Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time
After earning a doctorate, Ashley Whillans received two tempting job offers: one in her hometown, where she could remain close to family and friends and work reasonable hours for the local government, and another that required a cross-country move and View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
The Energy & Environment Club
speakers from the energy industry, as well as a startup competition that will bring together some of the field’s most promising young entrepreneurs to present on their value proposition to the symposium’s attendees. As the panel wrapped... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Competing in the Age of AI
Above: Karim Lakhani discussed GenAI with alumni during his presentation at When Professor Karim Lakhani leads discussions about generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), he often begins by asking audience members to stand if they’ve used an AI tool like ChatGPT or... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 07 May 2024
- Blog Post
Opportunity to Offset Travel Emissions with Carbon Credits that Meet HBS Criteria
rating agencies; and, the types of risks related to projects delivering the promised GHG emissions, such as additionality and permanence. Many organizations are using carbon credits as a strategy to meet their carbon neutral goals, so it... View Details
- 03 Jan 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?
described her organization as “mission-focused, values-based (contained in the Girl Scouts Promise and the Law), and demographics-driven” (her code word for diversity). She once described to me a teeter-totter, writing a “$24 million... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- Portrait Project
Rishon Benjamin
promise to retain the undying grit of that teenage immigrant who came to the US looking for a better life; the grit that I know will allow me to persevere no matter the challenge. Asset turn . what I rely on to make a difference in the... View Details
- Portrait Project
Haley Brown
“For you, a thousand times over.” It is a quote from The Kite Runner, a book my parents and I read when I was in high school. A quote that they engraved on a bracelet when I graduated. These six words hold a promise of loyalty,... View Details
- 05 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Is JC Penney’s Makeover the Future of Retailing?
brands, simplified pricing that replaces the retailer's constant sales and coupons, and an updated store design that promises to make one think more of Apple's high-touch emporiums than a typical department store layout. “J.C. Penney is... View Details