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- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
offerings that people truly want to buy, firms instead need to home in on the job the customer is trying to get done. Some jobs are little (pass the time); some are big (find a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
airlines, discount retailers, and index mutual funds all created growth by offering overserved customers "good enough" functionality at lower prices. New-market disruptive innovations connect with nonconsumers by making it... View Details
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women—a History
Elizabeth Murray A panel of distinguished historians offered interesting perspectives on the evolution of entrepreneurial women in the U.S. The historians were asked to delve into their reactions to the exhibit, "Enterprising Women:... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 28 May 2019
- News
Planting the Seeds of Positive Growth
for Tomato Jos, even after she was offered a job at a major agricultural company. Mehta says, “Even if my business ends up failing—which I hope it doesn’t—if I am able to inspire one student a year to come... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: On the Fly
changing, he says, but he believes it is “structurally more stable today than it has been in many years.” Here, Carty answers some of your questions and offers some insight into what the future holds. Why charge passengers for checked... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
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Joe Khoury
Business School is an immersion experience and a continuous self-discovery process. At HBS, I was able to hone my leadership skills and develop life-long relationships with classmates, professors and alumni. HBS offered me a range of... View Details
- 04 Sep 2013
- News
From HBO to HBS
Henry McGee Photo courtesy of HBO When he graduated from HBS, Henry McGee (MBA 1979), a former Newsweek reporter, was pretty sure he wanted to get into the business side of media. Time Inc. offered him two jobs. One would put him on the... View Details
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
and risks associated with job moves are discussed. The authors' research with executives is noted. The mistakes in career development that job hunters make are not doing enough research on the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charles Stoddard (MBA 1969)
enough to make me say yes to the offer. I joined the company as assistant to the president. But when the president lost his job, mine disappeared, too. Back in Michigan, my father had passed away, and my older brother became CEO of the bank. He View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Leonard Dick (MBA 1990)
it’s not drug problems or throwing a stapler at the assistant. It’s missing a delivery date. A veteran I worked with told me, ‘Your job isn’t to make it great; your job is to get it in by Tuesday.’ ” Dick’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
the 1929 stock market crash revealed disastrous investments made by his superiors, Weinberg, who became head of the firm in 1930, worked tirelessly throughout the Great Depression and World War II to keep the firm alive. At the same time, in service to his country,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 18 Mar 2014
- Blog Post
BaubleBar Brought to Life, and Other Tales of Joining a Start-up
without retail experience? Julia encouraged them to get relevant summer experience, like her internship at New Balance. She jumped on an e-commerce project there, and did related independent work during her 2nd year that definitely helped her sell herself to PopSugar... View Details
- 17 Jul 2017
- Blog Post
Podcast: Should You Consider the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program?
new program. Read on to hear thoughts from Tom Eisenmann and Rob Howe about the benefit of the interdisciplinary offering (and hear the full podcast below!). What would you say to an engineering student who's thinking, "I don't... View Details
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Predoctoral Experience | Research Associates
expected to participate in all professional development-focused programming offered by Research Staff Services, often in partnership with the HBS Doctoral Office. Events and seminars are designed to provide Predoctoral RAs with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Class Day, Commencement Mark New Beginning for Newest Alumni
things it has to do, and policy is something you all will have to work on, to make sure we do things right all the time. We all need to do things that make the planet better.” Student speaker Thomas Rajan (MBA ’09) noted that a number of his classmates had not yet... View Details
- 17 Dec 2018
- News
Tomorrow, Transformed
our day with research and teaching that will help prepare the next generation of leaders for the coming century. Here we offer a glimpse into some of the ways in which HBS is already expanding the notion of what’s possible across the... View Details
- 04 Jun 2015
- Blog Post
Why Career Switchers Make a Great Hire
transferable skills, and are driven to be strong candidate in their target field. Here's why you should consider hiring them: 1) Career Switchers can round out a team by adding relevant experience from their prior industry. 2) They offer... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
of real pride for her. And she has reached out to her extended family in Castiglione by offering scholarships to all of her nieces and nephews there to study at her schools. Russo savors the irony that she has built a thriving education,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
— a common experience that might bind the entrepreneurs I wrote about and give the reader some focus. Serendipitously, I came across an article from Fortune, written in 1999 at the height of the Internet bubble. “For new MBAs at Harvard Business School,” the article... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
the potential to write a new chapter, to set an example. But he was also a realist. On that trip to Caen, it became clear that saving the company and the workers’ jobs would require a new factory and new equipment—in short, way more money... View Details