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  • 18 Jul 2019
  • News

Lessons from the Rise and Fall of VisiCalc

launching VisiCalc, the world’s first independent software company and the first spreadsheet program for personal computers. The program came with a $100 price tag, but people were so eager for it that they also bought an Apple II, to the tune of $2,000, in order to... View Details
  • Profile

Jay Bhandari

of his selection tests, where dozens of candidates had to swim together across a pool at night without visibility. Short on breath and under time pressure, many would attempt to exit the pool as quickly as possible. However, a select few... View Details
  • 14 Oct 2020
  • Blog Post

Veteran Financial Aid Outlook

are paid very generously. I probably should have put mine towards tuition, but I decided to travel over winter break and chose to put much of it toward travel. Now for some tough love. Harvard’s Financial Aid model is need-based and relies on a shared investment with... View Details
  • 07 Nov 2012
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United

big part of Ferguson's story is his amazingly high and consistent performance over time-26 years. What are some of the key characteristics he demonstrates that account for these strings of successes? A: I think his willingness to develop... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 18 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

self-development. In the course of my work, I have had the privilege of developing teaching materials about many experienced leaders and their career development. This chapter builds on stories from some of the talented managers I've... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
  • 08 Mar 2022
  • Blog Post

Recalling My First Cold Call: A Conversation with Second-Year Students

information, I will be able to give good recommendations in a very short amount of time. This will be invaluable for my career. LIAM DORPALEN-BARRY (MBA 2022) Dorpalen-Barry is a member of the HBS Democrats Club, Entrepreneurship Club,... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

One Man Crime Wave

young woman about to make a splash is, of course, beautiful, very much alive, and inconvenienced by the cement block wired to her leg). By the time he died in 1986, MacDonald had published nearly 500 short View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • Web

John H. McArthur | About

impressing people.” Shortly after announcement of McArthur’s decision to step down as dean, a group of HBS alumni organized an effort to pay tribute to his leadership with a special gift to the School. In a relatively short period of... View Details
  • 08 Nov 2018
  • Blog Post

Long Distance Relationships: What if my partner can’t join me at HBS?

short months together we have had two marriages and two newborn babies! Yes, we’ve been through a lot already! Since I consider my Section my new family, I look for support from them whenever I can. I integrate my life outside of HBS with... View Details
  • 07 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

data-id=_/HwZhW1Gssbb77V0GBoue][/div] Which types of brand stories should companies tell? After KFC was chastised by the U.K. Advertising Standards Authority for what it deemed inappropriate ads promoting the brand’s “finger licking good”... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
  • 14 Jul 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?

Your New Duties The easiest thing to do when you're saddled with new projects is to give them short shrift. In the name of survival, it is tempting to make sure you know enough to manage current processes and leave it at that. This... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
  • Web

Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

Although professors and guest experts will not have direct, real-time interactions with learners, you will hear from them via short videos that explain key concepts and guide you through cases, exercises, and other interactive learning... View Details
  • 12 Feb 2021
  • News

How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World

He recalls this moment in his new book, Around the Corner to Around the World: A Dozen Lessons I Learned Running Dunkin’ Donuts. “Up until that point,” he writes, “the only thing I had managed were a couple of donut shops—replacing managers for their summer... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
  • 20 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry

further investigation into the development of the consumer electronics and computer industries. Here is an excerpt.I have just completed an initial sketch of the evolution of two industries—Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story... View Details
Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Consumer Products
  • 30 Jun 2021
  • In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
  • 03 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Box Office Power of Stars

course, is only one of many factors that determine a film's market performance. Film characteristics such as story line, genre, and the use of special effects also affect demand. The role of directors and other creative talent could play... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Entertainment & Recreation; Motion Pictures & Video
  • 11 Mar 2021
  • News

Leading with Heart

share with everybody that at the end of the eight-week marathon, I would typically ask a couple of students to tell their story about their company or about themselves. And in my class, I remember your sharing that journey of yours. By... View Details
  • 16 Aug 2022
  • Op-Ed

Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense

companies. As one of my CEOs put to me, wryly: “In my January board meeting, I wasn’t hiring and scaling fast enough and told to ‘go, go’, go’. In my April board meeting, I was burning too fast and was told to ‘stop, stop, stop’.” Her experience rhymes with many View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
  • 15 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

great-grandfather, the business editor and analyst Henry Varnum Poor, to 2 recent volumes, published while he was in his 80s: Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Industries and Shaping... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

Singing to the Corn

more of an expert on indigenous populations than the people themselves. Keen says Walker was before his time in using his research to partner with, and help, the tribes he studied. “I said, ‘Corn? What are you talking about, Deward?’ And in typical fashion, he got a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture
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