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- 01 Jun 2025
- News
For the Records
found her footing here in the record aisle. “Music is a recession-proof industry. It’s never going away, but the way we monetize it will forever be changing,” she observes. “I realized that if I could find a path where I’m always focused... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
subsequently developed a great career as a marketing professor. Thank you, Professor Salmon, for a wonderful experience. Jose M. Faustino (MBA 1963) Professor Walter Salmon was, perhaps, the member of the HBS faculty who was most... View Details
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
revolutionary functionality. We explore a second path to entry that does not rely on Schumpeterian innovation: platform envelopment. By leveraging shared user relationships and common components, one platform provider can move into... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
companies in South Africa and abroad, and sheds a light on the harsh realities of corporate environments. Drawing on her years of experience and research, the author argues that many young Black professionals struggle early on in their View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
played a crucial role in shaping the career paths of many HBS students. Class Project to Religious Quest Like the businesses that have sprung up from the contest, origins of the HBS Business Plan Contest can... View Details
- 31 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies
they do form.' And that's a positive approach, where you're focused on explaining the positive and what brings it about." Similarly, when researching the career paths of minority executives in the 1990s... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Web
Delving Deeper into Development with the Joint MBA/MPA-ID Program | MBA
My family bonded over storytelling. Older family members recounted tales of their past experiences over shared meals, emphasizing the transformational role that education, hard work, and generosity played in their lives. One story I often reflect on is my grandpa’s... View Details
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
2008 Financial Crisis ultimately found more interesting career paths than some of the previous sort of standard choices that we’d all thought about. I think there was a lot more stress and uncertainty, but... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
political pressures. If successful, the Chinese Communist Party will forge a new path of urbanization, building cities before recruiting urban citizens. The process, however, entails possibilities of yet other social dislocations,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
says, ‘I left my heart in San Francisco,’ but it wasn’t the ‘little cable cars climbing half-way to the stars’—it was the willingness to follow a long path of discovery and try and fail repeatedly until one succeeded. And the best... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
his remarkable career as a scholar, teacher, and administrator and culminating with his appointment as the School’s seventh Dean. McArthur’s vision, passion, and unparalleled gift for building consensus transformed the School. “John felt... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
A: In business, preparation means thinking something through and establishing a plan. The execution phase is then managing to the plan. That's not remotely how the quartet prepared. Early in their career together they, especially Paul,... View Details
- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
lucrative gig that taught him a lot about business but ultimately landed him in prison. Once he’d served his 14 months, Blakeman sought to build a career and turn his life around. But when his criminal record kept him from getting a job,... View Details
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
firms will have a new CEO within the next four years; your company could very well be next. Senior executives know that a CEO transition means they're in for a round of firings, organizational reshuffles, and other unwelcome career... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Dec 2016
- News
The Story Behind the Stories
business school? Gayle Tzemach Lemmon: I really believed that business is among the most powerful forces changing the world for the better. And also, for the worse, but I wanted to be part of the for the better part. And really, have a View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
great career to be an entrepreneur. It's something you do out of necessity if you haven't gotten a job in the other sectors. And that needs to change as a way to continue attracting the best talent, the best entrepreneurs that want to do... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
find valuable. No school is better positioned than we are to create a set of offerings that serve alumni throughout the arc of their careers and lives. Do you worry that the traditional, two-year, full-time MBA is losing relevance?... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
fantastic job raising sponsorship funds. All in all, we will pursue both paths in the future to engage our alumni in-person and virtually.” The club has established a fairly selective process for evaluating potential honorees, according... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
smaller) communities and collaborations of inventors. Fleming and his colleagues found, for example, that at the end of the last decade, half of the patented inventors in Silicon Valley could trace an indirect collaborative path to one... View Details
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
share the same ethnic, educational, or career background are more likely to syndicate with each other. This homophily reduces the probability of investment success, and the detrimental effect is most prominent for early-stage investments.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne