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Strategy for Entrepreneurs - Course Catalog
Decide in the face of uncertainty and limited data. You can learn more about the course on the public version of the course website: www.sfehbs.com Copyright © 2024 President & Fellows of Harvard College. All Rights Reserved. View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
On The Case: The Base Factor
very first version of this book and was providing comments, I thought there would be a fantastic learning opportunity for a standalone session to go with it. So I said, ‘Let me create a juicy, 80-minute discussion about this,’" Ascarza... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: The Business of Burning Man
There are no trash cans, electricity, or running water.” Character study: “I have two costumes for each day stored in Ziploc bags. One year I dressed as Marie Antoinette in mourning, in head-to-toe 18th-century French rococo black silk and foot-high hair. I stood in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Finding a Balance
pirate by global pharmas that consider Cipla’s products a direct rip-off of patented drugs. From 1999 through 2002, Cipla enjoyed an average annual growth rate of 30.3 percent from the sale of more than 400 drugs, including generic View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
Spanish-language versions and on mobile devices. In addition to working with Tufano (soon-to-be dean of the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford) on policy change that allows tax filers to direct some of their refunds to... View Details
- 16 Nov 2011
- News
Are Humans Cost-Effective?
On Halloween, before a raucous audience in Burden Hall, Watson, the IBM game-playing computer, took on student teams from HBS and MIT in a friendly game of Jeopardy! During the match, a slimmed-down, traveling version of Watson showed off... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 29 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
3 Insights from My First Year at HBS
ripe and unripened version that I will be testing in South Africa. A Rock Summer Fellowship from HBS provided me with funding so I could pursue this venture. I have already been applying what I have learned from marketing, finance and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Bookshelf: Try As One Might
Error By Kathryn Schulz “This book offers a thoughtful, psychological understanding of how we react to failure and why it’s so hard for us to be wrong. The version of doubt that we often come to first is a cynical doubt: a dismantling,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors
impaired when a director moves to a new career position or ceases to be a top executive. Be it in theory or practice, the "butterfly rule" makes no sense as a precept of corporate governance. It is a bad idea that doesn't fly - and that doesn't deserve a following in... View Details
Keywords: Joseph Hinsey IV
- 29 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites
what it does. When I presented early versions of this paper, people just couldn't believe the press could actually uncover accounting malfeasance. Of all the papers I've written, this was the one where I had to do the most to convince... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
enjoyed their own versions of success with the mega-retailer. Getting a ground-level view of how two companies achieved those positive outcomes illustrates the story-within-a-story of implementing corporate change. “Achieving that is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Managing the Map
Whitehead's genome research center. Renowned as a thoughtful, charismatic speaker on biotech issues, Lander memorably described the Human Genome Project as biology's version of the discovery and consolidation of the periodic table: "Not... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
More than a Game
other side off the ball.” To the uninitiated, a scrum looks like a more anarchistic version of the American football line of scrimmage, with both teams entwined in a brawny pushing match that ends when the oval rugby ball is kicked... View Details
- 24 Feb 2017
- Blog Post
Advice for Prospective Latino Students
surround myself with others that could empathize with my challenges as one of the few Latinos in my engineering and business courses. Transitioning into my career was an elevated version of undergrad with fewer Latinos, creating more... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
president’s biggest challenge will be to prevent America’s slide into a position where it is dependent on foreign sources for both capital and energy. We have the human resources to accomplish these goals. The question is whether we have the will. — Byron Wien is chief... View Details
- 09 Aug 2011
- News
A Toast to Macchu Pisco
countries are riding the pisco boom but the Peruvian version has a quality edge, the Times asserted. Explains Asher, “We get our grapes from a cooperative of women growers. We monitor the wild yeasts, use cold fermentation, and generally... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Forward Thinking
but a study funded by the Department of Energy found that, over a five-year stretch, reality didn’t match predictions. Already AI technology is making progress, Nussey says. He points to the July release of GPT-4o mini, a lightweight View Details
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
software product over its entire lifetime, comprising six major "releases." In particular, we develop measures of modularity at the component level, and use these to predict patterns of evolution between successive versions of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups
upgrades, forming hypotheses and conducting experiments with each new version along the way. Intuit adopted such a strategy when developing Fasal, a mobile platform that delivers agricultural market price information to farmers in India.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Get Well Soon
Medical Center” (CCHMC) details how one institution has implemented its own version of health-care reform, taking overall perfor-mance levels from well below average to the top 10 percent in the industry. Coauthored by HBS assistant... View Details