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- 26 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni Explore a Changing Hong Kong; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Singapore
a vibrant Harvard Business School community here in Hong Kong.” Meet the Club Leader: HBS Club of Singapore President Prashant Pundrik (PLDA 9, 2014), Founder of Athena Cleantech, Athena Partners and IED Consulting. Prashant Pundrik (PLDA 9, 2014) When and why were you... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Profile
Philipp Schäelli
forced to develop your own perspective on business questions with limited information and within a short time frame. Beyond the academic experience being surrounded and connected with 900 other ambitious young professionals gives you a new peer group for View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
suggestion would be to expand their service to DC, which is very transient and should be a good opportunity. —Susan Holliday (AMP 187, 2014) My advice is D2C, since the connection to the end customer is hugely valuable. But to scale, they... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Robert Kraft, MBA 1965
to be an extremely risky decision made by a sports fanatic, but in time it proved to be a winning business move. The decision to buy the Patriots fits a pattern that Kraft developed at a young age. He is a man who believes that anything is possible, and he is willing... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978
important to surround yourself with the best people who are different from you; diversity matters not just in terms of gender or ethnicity, but also in how people think about problems and their solutions. HBS taught me to nurture healthy debate and make the tough... View Details
- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
When the pandemic forced employees to flee offices and work from home in droves last year, many business leaders worried that productivity might take a dive. Would remote workers be too tempted by the lures of Netflix or too distracted by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
speculation—and then, hopefully, sell it? “One of the top questions screenwriters talk about in their online communities is whether to pitch or to spec,” says Luo. In her paper published by Management Science, When to Sell Your Idea: Theory and Evidence from the Movie... View Details
- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
Then hand over the technical work to them (that way nobody inside has to learn anything new) but refuse to take their advice about how the site should look (after all, you're the industry experts). Use more... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Stuck in Gear: Why Managers Don’t Act
that a success formula may frequently go stale or, as he puts it, "harden," for a complex set of reasons that are, in fact, surprisingly predictable—though not easy to avoid. "To succeed in business, every manager must make choices and View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2024
- Research & Ideas
AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen
efficient by automating busy leaders’ routine tasks—such as the electronic communication that takes 24 percent of a CEO’s time, studies show. In theory, this would allow the executive to devote more time to strategic planning, for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
ELY: Drilling down for valuable perspectives on how gender issues affect efficiency, safety, and productivity in the workplace. Field-based research can take HBS faculty members to some unusual places. Professor Robin Ely’s recent working... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
British government to declare a state of emergency and place businesses on a three-day workweek to conserve electricity. It would take more than luck to grow a business in such conditions. By 1977, two of the founding partners had moved... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
that are far from the norm in most organizations today. The authors take their own advice and deliver this message with vivid images of innovative, real-life change in action. A broad range of stories drawn... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
whether it makes sense for their particular region. What would be a wiser strategy? States and countries, for that matter, because this also happens internationally, should look at clusters of entrepreneurial activity that are already View Details
- 11 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes
make its strawberry-flavored drinks look more strawberry-like. It’s a natural ingredient, but not what nature intended. Yet that part of the story didn’t garner headlines. While crushed-up bugs may alarm some people, most of us tend to View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Unlocking Innovation: A Leader's Guide to Turning Bold Ideas Into Tangible Results By Robyn Bolton (MBA 2005) Page Two Press Only 1 in every 50,000 incubated ideas reaches $1 million in sales. If you ask most corporate executives why their... View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition
organization. Having only worked as an investor professionally, I used to think about a given business simply through that investor lens, but spending time with classmates at HBS who came from all different backgrounds really helped give me a broader perspective on all... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2022 Commencement Remarks | About
qualities. You were resilient. After all, not even COVID could stop you from coming to HBS. Resilience will give you greater confidence to attempt things that are difficult, and to take on challenges because they help you grow. You were... View Details
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
sense that the observer cannot distinguish between the settings in which different plays occur. If the observer does not believe that he will be able to offer beneficial advice then he must believe that the players are playing a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
center of much discussion. The advice most often provided to managers is to weave the brand into the most potent popular culture trends. Recently, consultants and ad agencies began emphasizing the reverse: recommending that managers seek... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace