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  • Career Coach

Betsy Edwards

Betsy (HGSE, '12) is a Corporate Relations Director in HBS Career & Professional Development with over ten years of coaching experience.  Her focus is on supporting students and alumni seeking an impact-oriented career primarily in... View Details
Keywords: Education; Fintech; Financial Services (All); Impact Investing; Financial Services (All); Government; Health Care; Social Enterprise
  • Career Coach

Eileen Stephan

Eileen offers over 20 years of professional experience in recruiting, career management and career coaching in both the corporate and academic worlds. Her most recent position as Global Head of Graduate Recruitment and Program Management... View Details
Keywords: Education; Commercial Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Hospitality; Retail; Social Enterprise
  • Web

The Five Forces - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Strategy Strategy Strategy Explained Business Strategy Creating a Successful Strategy Corporate Strategy The Role of Leaders Related Topics Business Strategy Business Strategy The Five Forces Strategic Positioning The Value Chain... View Details
  • 2020
  • Book

Capitalism at Risk: How Business Can Lead

By: Joseph L. Bower, Dutch Leonard and Lynn S. Paine
Who should take the lead in fixing market capitalism? Business—not government alone. The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before. But capitalism's future is far from assured. Pandemics, income inequality, resource depletion, mass... View Details
Keywords: Capitalism; Business And Society; Economic Systems; Economic Growth; Policy; Leading Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Community Relations; Corporate Strategy
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  • June 2023
  • Case

Block: Creating an Ecosystem of Ecosystems

By: Lauren Cohen, Richard Ryffel, Grace Headinger and Ruoshi Qi
At Investor Day 2022, Block announced a new vision for its businesses: creating an ecosystem of ecosystems. Outside the norm for many public growth companies, Block had recently acquired a variety of new business streams in the creator economy and Bitcoin despite a... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth; Fintech; Company Management; Growth Strategy; Innovation And Strategy; Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Change; Finance; Growth Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Communication Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Business Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; United States; California; San Francisco
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  • September–October 2024
  • Article

Why Multibusiness Strategies Fail and How to Make Them Succeed

By: Bharat Anand and David J. Collis
Enterprises that own multiple businesses often have a flawed approach to strategy: They focus too much on the makeup of their portfolios and too little on enhancing the businesses in them.
Strategies for adding value to a corporation’s businesses fall on a... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Structure; Management Systems
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  • Career Coach

Phillip Andrews

Phillip (MPA, New Hampshire ’06; JD, Suffolk Law ’09) is formerly a Corporate Relations Director in HBS Career & Professional Development responsible for employer relations in Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East, as... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Education; Emerging Markets; Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Government; Social Enterprise; Clean Technology; Energy; Telecommunications; Impact Investing; Financial Services (All); Manufacturing; Auto/Transportation/Logistics
  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

philanthropy, later incorporating such ideas into their organizational vision and values. Mexico's Bimbo Group provides a clear example; this world leader in the food industry, a multinational corporation... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

    Capitalism at Risk: How Companies Can Lead

    Q. Who should take the lead in fixing market capitalism? A. Business, not government alone. The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before. But capitalism's future is far from assured. Pandemics, income inequality, resource depletion,... View Details

    • 2015
    • Book

    MOVE: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead

    By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
    Americans are stuck. We live with travel delays on congested roads; shipping delays on clogged railways; and delays on repairs, project approvals, and funding due to gridlocked leadership. These delays affect us all, whether you are a daily commuter, a frequent flyer,... View Details
    Keywords: United States; Railroad History; Airlines; Airline Industry; Air Transportation; Passenger Transportation; Cities; Urban Planning; Freighting; Change; Leadership; Public Policy; Change Leadership; Public Finance; Infrastructure; Policy; Technological Innovation; Change Management; Leading Change; Urban Development; Project Finance; Entrepreneurship; City; Transportation; Transportation Industry; Shipping Industry; Rail Industry; Air Transportation Industry; United States
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    • 2016
    • Chapter

    Trade Associations, State Building, and the Sherman Act: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 1912–25

    By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
    From its founding in 1912 through the interwar years, the Chamber’s history shows a persistent preoccupation with progressive economics and policy making. Rather than flouting the new ideas of institutional economics, which favored federal regulators overseeing data... View Details
    Keywords: Competition; Fairness; Supply and Industry; Policy; Business and Government Relations; United States
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    • 12 Oct 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: October 12, 2006

    diverse backgrounds, had to develop an integrated organizational culture. Pedersen had just administered a new performance evaluation program for seventeen senior executives. This was the first time that they had been measured against competencies aligned with the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Career Coach

    Kendall Borges

    Kendall Borges (HGSE ’16) is the Director of Alumni and Student Programming in Career & Professional Development at Harvard Business School. In her role, she leads high-impact programming to support both students and alumni throughout their career journeys. She... View Details
    • 2011
    • Book

    Detour: My Unexpected, Amazing, Life Changing Journey With OnStar

    By: Chet Huber
    Detour is the story behind the launch of OnStar’s now well known blue button, as told through the eyes of its founder and CEO of over fourteen years, Chet Huber. It’s a personal narrative that describes the events that led up to General Motors’ unexpected choice... View Details
    Keywords: General Motors; OnStar; Technological Innovation; Business Startups; Transportation; Safety; Personal Development and Career; Creativity; Success; Business History; Auto Industry
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    • 23 Jul 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’

    spirit and in practice, organizational conversation is quite different from corporate communication. The latter function grew naturally out of the command-and-control model. Top-down and one-way in its orientation, View Details
    Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
    • Web

    Faculty & Advisors | MBA

    school of business where he teaches Corporate Finance. He is also an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School serving as a guest speaker in finance classes, and providing support in the new Joint MS/MBA in Life Sciences program. Andrew... View Details
    • Career Coach

    Michele Chambliss

    hiring/interviewing/performance management process in the West Coast office of a global management consultancy. She attributes a mid-career stint in strategic software sales for significantly honing her listening skills. Her current work in preparing start-up leaders... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology

      MOVE: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead

      Americans are stuck. We live with travel delays on congested roads, shipping delays on clogged railways, and delays on repairs, project approvals, and funding due to gridlocked leadership. These delays affect us all, whether you are a daily commuter, a frequent... View Details

      • Career Coach

      Ellen Harris

      Ellen (HGSE ’86) is the Director of Outward Bound Professional/Facilitator at Thompson Island Outward Bound Professional where she is responsible for business development and corporate team and leadership development. Ellen enjoys working... View Details
      Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products; Education; Hospitality; Manufacturing; Retail; Social Enterprise
      • 10 Sep 2018
      • Research & Ideas

      Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later

      people who directly impact the world, and not just by teaching MBA students and executives here at HBS. It's through consulting. It's through activism. I've always been interested in that. Ely: You published Men and Women of the View Details
      Keywords: by Robin J. Ely