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- 30 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
My Difficult Decision to Leave Google for HBS
get accepted into HBS and decided to attend. Even though I was already on a great track and well-compensated at Google, I determined that attending would be a long-term investment that would likely pay off during the twilight of my... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
philosophy that Mills — who graduated from HBS at a time when women managers felt driven to follow the fast track to "having it all" — has come to embrace. "I've learned that the right next step might be an evolution, or it might be a new... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
Bulletin since 1974. What was your first job? Delivering the Hartford Courant at 4:30 in the morning when I was in high school. I was on the track team, and I used to run through my paper route, which allowed me to get in an extra workout... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
traditional career path in a culture where becoming a doctor, lawyer, engineer, or banker represents the accepted pathway to success, he explains; but Sityodtong’s track record, passion, and Harvard degree have helped break the ice with... View Details
- 31 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator
by the same person. "It's like having a convenience store that's not manned, and everyone who comes in can either steal or pay, but there's a video camera that nobody knows about, and it's tracking everyone's every move," Larkin says.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 May 2017
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Promises and Limitations of Big Data
discusses the water industry as an example, and the organizational changes and levers relevant to extracting value from emerging data-analytics technologies. Big Data: Big Deal or Big Hype? Google's announcement in 2008 that it could View Details
- 23 Mar 2023
- News
Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition
US to treat elective procedures and a patient-centric platform with end-to-end support to connect both sides. Aldo Farah Orozco, MBA 2019, Cofounder & Co-CEO Region: International Track The Endowment Project The Endowment Project is an... View Details
- 06 Jan 2016
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?
designed to facilitate effort while encouraging every employee to contribute. The effort of each employee and circle is tracked by means of proprietary software. The notion was introduced in March of last year, receiving a relatively cold... View Details
- 20 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms
data, combined with the voter registration records of 3,786 top executives working at 941 firms in the S&P 1500 between 2008 and 2020. They pulled documents from states that share records and track voter party affiliation,... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem
Assistant, which helps new sellers prepare professional-looking online listings, and its Turbo Lister service, which tracks and manages thousands of bulk listings on home computers. The company has also established and maintained... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 29 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas
tracks startup funding, with each Kickstarter entrepreneur. Of the 314 entrepreneurs studied, some 76 percent missed their initial deadline. Peterson and Wu followed up, interviewing 11 entrepreneurs in-depth to find out why each product... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- Web
HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
tuition in fiscal 2022 was $73,440, flat with fiscal 2021. Combined tuition and fees for fiscal 2022 were at the bottom of the peer business schools tracked by HBS and amounted to 14 percent of the School’s total revenues. From an... View Details
- 30 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup
Eisenmann interviewed recommend that entrepreneurs step back and ask if their ventures are still on track to fulfill their original goals. If the answer is “No,” if they are out of moves, or simply lack the resolve to carry on, founders... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
but unique specialty component from an Asian company with a plant in China that has shut down. Supply chain managers who previously focused their attention one or two levels down into their supply chains will have to go back to work and develop the systems and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Jul 2005
- What Do You Think?
How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?
what to do about it? Jeffrey Garten has put forth some suggestions as he departs his job. Among them are such things as "some real-world experience" as a requirement for faculty promotion, a "two-track faculty" with the second View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why IT Does Matter
tracked the number of MIPS or CPU cycles on the network from 1990 to 2002. Even using a log scale on the vertical axis would be barely enough to tilt a vertical straight line enough to create something resembling the curves of the other... View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
- 03 May 2024
- Blog Post
From Harvard to Miss New Jersey: A Journey of Perseverance and Self-Belief
experience attending this program. How did you hear about the Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP)? I first learned about Harvard Business School’s Summer Venture in Management Program during my freshman year of college. A few years later, I was on View Details
- 02 Oct 2017
- What Do You Think?
Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?
in less than 30 seconds. "In one case, $35 million was raised in less than 30 seconds" The most highly developed of the digital currencies is Bitcoin, the product of an ingenious and secretive tech programmer who developed a complex algorithm for “mining” the... View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
it is the nation's largest catering business, which is not very often known. And also the nation's largest fast-casual delivery player. So it's a very strong brand. Now the background was that Panera has had a track record of success over... View Details
- 12 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb
and 334,906 reviews in New York City, one of Airbnb’s major markets. Using reviews as a proxy for bookings, the researchers tracked reviews for the year before and the year after the pandemic began. They turned to NamePrism, a publicly... View Details