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- 17 Jun 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Excellence Comes From Saying No
background in the topic. "Often we don't need better ideas, we just need to frame them more effectively," says Frei "To describe something simply, you must really understand it deeply." Mixing It Up The class had just... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
Get Involved - Entrepreneurship
wide range of backgrounds and diverse skillsets. Meet them now New Venture Competition A year long entrepreneurial journey that culminates with a capstone event for students who have worked to develop new ventures while at HBS. All... View Details
- 16 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Turning a Moment into a Movement: Interview with Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders Kenneth and Kevin Chenault
their expertise on what we don’t know.” For example, without a background in website design, the ARF founders turned to Kevin’s classmate, Brendan Lind (JD/MBA 2023) who designed the organization’s online presence used for sharing... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
After a year at an investment bank, Dunn began his venture capital career at J.H. Whitney. Having earned his education the hard way, Dunn is particularly interested in improving educational opportunities for new generations of students from disadvantaged and minority... View Details
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
her hometown of New Orleans before moving to Miami. Gibson shifted her focus to cultivating higher-wage jobs in marginalized communities and drew on her background in environmental sciences to form EcoTech Visions, a company providing... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 07 Nov 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United
after people," is how the kit manager put it, and many people at the club spoke about the family atmosphere he creates. I think that allows players of all different backgrounds to thrive. “Sir Alex himself seemed perfectly at home in our... View Details
- 29 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The History and Influence of Andy Grove
youth. Q: Grove was also a prolific writer on the art and science of business management, including the books Only the Paranoid Survive and High Output Management. How does he stack up as a thinker in this area? Why do you think someone with such a great engineering... View Details
- 11 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Meet the MBA Class of 2020
BACKGROUND CAN ADD VALUE TO THIS SPACE.” HOME REGION Montclair, NJ UNDERGRAD EDUCATION Howard University, English, 2013 PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Harlem Capital Partners, Goldman Sachs & Co., McMaster-Carr Supply Company HBS ACTIVITIES... View Details
- Teaching Interest
Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD)
Professor Bernstein taught Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD) from 2013-2016 (7 sections). This course focuses on how managers become effective leaders by addressing the human side of enterprise.
The course is divided into five modules:
- 27 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Working to Change the Food System
believed I was best positioned to drive innovations in business models and strategies, and bring new, world-changing technologies to market. I came to HBS to get exposure to people from different backgrounds and have time and space to... View Details
- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
picture themselves as the star of their story instead of a background character. Until then, I’ll keep working to find success and happiness on my own terms and, just maybe, stand a little straighter. View Details
- 04 Nov 2015
- What Do You Think?
Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?
comment from “The Real Deal” echoes this belief: “If you want real diversity, surround yourself with people from different backgrounds who do not think like you. You could hire 50% women, and if they are clones of your existing leaders,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education
their background and expertise to improving education? A: It's a good question. Given the impact businesspeople have in society, it is crucial that they understand the root causes of why schools have struggled so much and why so many... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
longer take pride and satisfaction in the one little fragment that is his part of the whole ball of wax.” And if money is at the root of much evil, then business inevitably carries a taint. In MacDonald’s fiction, business is a kind of View Details
- 04 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors
know they have other choices." Pulling together these considerations, one serial entrepreneur offered this rule of thumb: "If your family comes from a business background and are well-informed about finances and they know to... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
- 05 Jul 2021
- What Do You Think?
Do Companies Really Need Chief Experience Officers to Know Their Customers?
customer service and product design, information technology and administration. Finding people with these kinds of backgrounds and experiences has not been easy. While several of their best successes—at Best Buy, for example—were... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class
community, and then determining what influence we have to make change.” Reflecting on her decision to join the Joint Degree Program in 2008, Rentas recalls recognizing an opportunity to build skills that would allow her to lead effectively. “I knew I needed the... View Details
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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
balancing basic and applied research while demonstrating accountability to the company's stockholders: Our scientists get half of their time for themselves, to be free scientists, to think, to dream, to imagine . . . But the other half of the time, they . . . [apply]... View Details
- 19 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Company Loyalty
says Grantham. Based on her interest and commitment to furthering her career, as well as on her educational background and strengths—including attention to detail, adherence to rules, and persistence—the company offered her the position... View Details
Keywords: by Lauren Keller Johnson
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details