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22 Sep 2022
News

The Beauty Guide

gave her some advice: Leave the comfort of marketing and join sales; learn the business from the inside out. The suggestion made little sense to Freyre, who considered herself a marketer and a brand strategist at her core. But she trusted... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

10 Sep 2001
What Do You Think?

Do MBAs Need More Street Smarts?

Summing Up Summing up the unusually large number of responses to the piece on street smarts, the consensus is that they represent skills taught by experience, role models, and experiential learning techniques such as case analysis and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

30 Jan 2019
Blog Post

The Life and Role of a CEO

traits/styles of successful CEOs? 1) Traits Before: Intelligence After: Awareness and judgement Throughout this course, we learned various tensions CEOs need to manage, none of which had a clear right answer (e.g., short-term vs.... View Details

20 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry

successful strategy of commercializing new technologies by using the learning and income from the previous set of successful innovations. Matsushita's story is different and unique. In 1952, Matsushita arranged to acquire the technical... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Consumer Products

Profile

Tom Adeyemi

section mates sharing their personal experiences during a Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD) case on a senior executive who was debating whether to reveal her sexual orientation at work. The vulnerability that people showed in... View Details

17 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

How Managers Stifle Creativity

conducive work environment, is external. The internal components are: Expertise. People need expertise to be creative. So, to the extent that you can continue to learn not only in your primary domain, but in other, related domains, you'll... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

16 Aug 2018
News

Working with a Giver’s Spirit

If you were looking for the perfect candidate to run a nonprofit that fights poverty through entrepreneurship, Manny Ayala (MBA 1992) is just the person you’d want. That was the opinion of Cindy Ko (MBA 2005) in 2013 when she was... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

26 Oct 2018
Blog Post

Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness

to bring my vision to fruition I needed to evolve as a person, both personally and professionally. I also wanted to be in an environment that could nurture my desire to explore and meet others I could learn... View Details

30 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Are You Supporting Your B Players?

labeled. "If you want to threaten a really smart person who is task driven, question his or her competency. That's the very soul of who they are," he said. These managers also keep busy schedules and are reluctant to slow down... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

30 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

Eisenmann says. “It also helps if the person who presided over a failure can thoughtfully discuss what really happened, what they learned from it, and how they’ll manage their next startup.” Danielle Kost is... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

21 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

to be learned for all global companies as they confront language and culture challenges. Examining the strategic use of language by one international corporation, The Language of Global Success uncovers how all organizations might... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

13 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?

Porsche person wouldn't do that because that shows a lack of respect to the car.' " Method #2—The "Not Real" Strategy: Derogating the legitimacy of the brand extension product itself. Porsche claims on its website that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Auto

27 Mar 2017
Blog Post

Should Entrepreneurs Get an MBA?

introduced me to a great VC firm where she just started working. The addition of lots of kind and helpful people into an entrepreneur’s life should not be discounted. Classroom: The knock on business school education often includes the argument that you don’t need to... View Details

17 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 17

economists and other social scientists as they guide our most important personal and societal decisions. Bank Lending During the Financial Crisis of 2008 Authors:Victoria Ivashina and David S. Scharfstein Publication:Journal of Financial... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

design, competing interests, global health, personalized medicine, residential care, and concierge medicine, among others—and structures what has been a highly fragmented research area into a coherent scientific discipline. The Handbook... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

23 Aug 2023

HBS Perspectives from Taiwan

Join a panel of local alumni and current students from Taiwan who will share their backgrounds and how they have cultivated their personal and professional interests while at HBS. This in-person event will be a great opportunity for... View Details

05 Jun 2019
Blog Post

Exploring the Beauty Industry through an Independent Project

respondents, respectively. This was consistent with findings that, among information sources, third-party product reviews are most trusted and company advertisements are least trusted. I learned that beauty brands must be deliberate about... View Details

18 Dec 2019
Book

6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation

Unit. From practical wisdom to action The book expands on the authors’ original theory that companies build organizational knowledge by turning tacit knowledge, which people learn through personal... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

Profile

Mireya Iglesias Ayala

a masterful literary work, ensures that our experiences in the dynamic sections and moments of introspection contribute to our evolution as future leaders. Just as readers immerse themselves in the plot with curiosity, our journey at HBS is a transformative tale,... View Details

01 Aug 1998
News

High Honors

to remove a cancerous tumor in his throat. Stripped of his voice box and vocal cords, he had to learn to speak using his esophagus. Batten, an entrepreneur who thrives on difficult challenges, says that coping with cancer was one of the... View Details

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