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Leadership - Faculty & Research

or lean into the bottom-up, developer-led momentum that had already propelled it to eight-figure ARR within a month of launching a paid plan? This case examines strategic trade-offs in AI-first product... View Details

12 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

first time. Get help—don’t try to figure it out yourself. You will spend more working hours than you ever imagined learning how to navigate people things while running your business, fundraising, etc. Hire a coach or find friends with management experience and View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

19 Oct 2022
Op-Ed

Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

many times your cofounding team will disagree on things—from product and hiring decisions to operating procedures and a fundraising strategy—and how you process these decisions together is fundamental to a healthy cofounding relationship.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

11 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups

including design thinking and lean startup approaches, that have given rise to some of the world’s biggest technology companies. But does the Silicon Valley mantra “fail fast, fail often,” which encourages early testing of new ideas and... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

16 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 16

technologies compete in production and innovation, in the sense that research can be directed to either clean or dirty technologies. If dirty technologies are more advanced to start with, the potential transition to clean technology can... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Nov 2023
News

So You Want to Join a Startup

regional franchise of a fast-growing restaurant promotion company, was ultimately successful, named to the Inc 500 list of fastest growing private US companies, and launching Bessalel's 30-year career as an entrepreneur and investor. Bessalel View Details

30 May 2024
News

How to Have Effective Conversations

quickly what kind of conversation you're in. AW: In the book you call this Rule One. Rule One of conversation is figuring out what conversation you're having. This is rule one of four, so we're not finished yet. What are the next steps to having these View Details

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Leading Successful Digital Transformation

transformation in large organizations for three main reasons: Focus on optimization and efficiency: Many companies use technology to cut costs, improve efficiency, or enhance the productivity of their current operations. Artificial... View Details

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

University technology that stabilizes vaccines into a thin film strip which can be shipped and stored without refrigeration, eliminating the need for the cold-chain. Vaxess strives to not only lower the cost of distribution, but also increase access to life-saving... View Details

11 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

resource capacity that are necessary to fulfill the sales and production needs of the strategic plan. Without this coupling, operational plans either provide too little or too much capacity for the strategic plan. A third challenge is... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2023
News

A Continuum of Innovation

below). We are also incorporating content about inclusive leadership across the RC and in elective options. Our Data Science for Managers course is another product of this effort, having been an elective RC course for the previous two... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

30 Aug 2018
Blog Post

My Difficult Decision to Leave Google for HBS

Thirteen months after starting at Google and my first product went live, I was simultaneously filled with excitement, anxiety, and relief. But most significantly, the product launch sparked a real reflection... View Details

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

the view that crises are the by-product of predictable, boom-bust credit cycles. This predictability favors policies that lean against incipient credit-market booms. See Robin’s other research here , Sam’s other research here , Andrei’s... View Details

20 Apr 2021
Book

A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success

New Video: Books@Baker Interview with Felix Oberholzer-Gee Click to watch. Some companies gain advantage by commanding premium prices. Others lean on their world-class talent. But, a small slice of companies manages to do both—and... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

20 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh

their product recommendations in a personalized way,” says Yeomans, who co-authored the article with Jon Kleinberg of Cornell University and Anuj Shah and Sendhil Mullainathan, both of the University of Chicago. “The fact that the market... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

12 Oct 2022
Blog Post

11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

my breakup, I resorted to the love and support of my family, only to realize that the people who are important in my life, like my dad, did not know truly me. This was not a product of his lack of curiosity. I kept him at the peripheries... View Details

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It

the right times. They'd done it by implementing techniques and technologies at an unprecedented pace; among them, the lean production method introduced by W. Edwards Deming, just-in-time manufacturing,... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

26 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast

interdisciplinary problem, and we need large networks of people both within and outside of our direct industry to address it. Paul McDonald, Senior Director, Opower Product Strategy & Marketing at Oracle Climate Rising episode: How... View Details

13 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)

When Rory M. McDonald was working on his PhD at Stanford University in 2007, it was the heyday of the lean startup in Silicon Valley. “It seemed like pretty much every week there was some new market category being touted as the next big... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Aerospace; Food & Beverage; Retail

04 Dec 2023
Blog Post

My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service

WWII planes, boat docks, and everything in between. My role was to help them design a more sustainable operating and funding model to ensure their long-term viability within the park service. Before I started at HBS, I was a medical device engineer working on View Details

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