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Brighton Mudzingwa

leaders." "Coming to HBS," Brighton explains, "would allow me to expand my leadership capabilities while exposing me to a range of views, realities, and different perspectives that make successful organizations."... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

01 Mar 2005
News

House of Bread on the Rise

McCANN: Former defense atforney learned the bakery business from scratch. The lessons Sheila McCann (OPM 24, 1996) learned from the surprising failure of her second House of Bread retail bakery turned out to be an essential ingredient in the company’s subsequent View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

November 2001 (Revised October 2004)
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IBM Network Technology (A)

By: Michael L. Tushman and Robert C Wood

An unconventional manager within IBM leads the creation of a business unit with multibillion-dollar potential, winning over customers and nudging the organization to make the changes needed to achieve dramatic growth. This case provides an example of how organizational... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Leadership; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Change Management; Management Practices and Processes; Business Plan; Organizational Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Success; Technology Industry

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Deborah A. Farrington

assets under management, in the U.S. In an industry where just six percent of the partners in venture capital firms are women, finding a successful firm run by a woman is more than unusual. But unusual is nothing new for Farrington.... View Details

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Judging | New Venture Competition

Judging Social Enterprise Track Social Enterprise ideas are evaluated on their potential to become the basis of a viable new venture and will focus on the idea, its potential for social value creation, and the likelihood of achieving View Details

04 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage

required. Define a plan for evolving strategy and capabilities to exploit long-term value potential. Implement to reduce risk and manage uncertainty: Successful entrepreneurs are not risk seekers. Instead,... View Details

Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate

Portrait Project

Sarah Mullen

I plan to CREATE... a successful business that provides a valuable service to my customers – where I can see the fulfillment and satisfaction on their faces and know that the outcome has somehow improved... View Details

17 Mar 2020
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A Bid for the Future

states were likely to offer, but Moret knew immediately that Virginia could make a strong case. Both his own career and the planning he had undertaken in the early months of his tenure were perfectly aligned with what he called “the... View Details

01 Dec 2007
News

Faculty Books

The CEO Within: Why Inside Outsiders Are the Key to Succession Planning by Joseph L. Bower (HBS Press) Professor Bower explains how companies can develop internal candidates for the CEO role by grooming... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Jun 2005
News

McCance First to Serve as Entrepreneur in Residence

McCance also worked with HBS assistant professor Noam Wasserman on issues relating to founder-CEO succession in entrepreneurial start-ups. Their research resulted in a new case, “Founder-CEO Succession at... View Details

Keywords: entrepreneur in residence; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

02 May 2016
News

Building Startup Skills for Business and Life

Bill Daugherty (MBA 1991) believes in the power of entrepreneurship—not just to launch successful businesses, but also to jump-start successful lives. After selling his profitable Internet search company in... View Details

01 Dec 2013
News

Faculty Opinion: Making It Better

Global Health Care (BIG), an Executive Education program that attracted, among others, the Nigerian and Liberian ministers of health, the founders of South Africa's second-largest health insurance firm, a highly successful Russian... View Details

Keywords: Herzlinger, Regina; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2014
News

Groundwork

could build on the cross-university success of the nearby i-lab in Batten Hall, expanding further the opportunity for collaboration, interdisciplinary research, and entrepreneurial innovation.” Crispi acknowledges the historic scope of... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; George F. Baker III; real estate; Tata Hall; Educational Services; Real Estate

01 Sep 2016
News

How I Got to Google

Laboratory. I do think technical skills have helped over the years in some of my roles, but that doesn’t mean you need to be a coding ninja. Two students from PM 101 who went on to be very successful had backgrounds as a video journalist... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

17 Feb 2015
News

The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)

me, this meant not doing as much extracurricular activities as many other students—and being very selective about what I did do (I was one of the writers for the ‘HBS Show’ in my second year and worked on a business plan for a nonprofit).... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2013
News

Faculty Opinion: No Magic Bullet

wrestled with these issues for the past 30 years, I have come to believe that achieving your aspirations lies not in "being a success" but in working to achieve your unique potential. This requires you to create your own definition of View Details

01 Apr 2020
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How Scott Linzmeyer Crafted a Business He Loves at Reveler Beverage

needed for work and family life so he could prioritize what mattered most to him. With that in mind, he has worked hard to develop a team he can trust, planned business growth around his family needs, and modeled to his employees the... View Details

Career Coach

Craig Husa

As the founder or CEO, Craig (HBS ’90, USNA ’83) has grown and sold four technology-enabled companies to leading public companies. He attributes most of his success (the rest is luck) to building and leading high performing teams who can... View Details

Keywords: Clean Technology; Energy; Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Technology; Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Energy; Oil & Gas; Energy; Impact Investing; Financial Services (All)

01 Dec 1998
News

Research Grows from Asian Financial Crisis

success of several major corporations in the region. In the past decade or earlier, he notes, a number of large "corporate groups" gained prominence, many family-owned and some run by HBS graduates. Yoshino sought to understand why these... View Details

Keywords: Anne Kavanagh

01 Sep 2012
News

Reunion Magic

class attendance records were also broken for the 15th, 20th, and 60th Reunion classes. In addition to these milestones, the weekend was a big success with returning alumni, who heard from Dean Nitin Nohria in his welcome address and at a... View Details

Keywords: Professor Thomas J. DeLong; reunions; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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