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- 10 Oct 2024
- News
Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes
Two days before Thanksgiving 2002, the 4th graders of Irving Primary in Peoria, Illinois, gathered in the school’s gym for an assembly. The students were restless, Jen Wilfong (GMP 3, 2007) recalls. They were chatting and jostling one another and had little interest in... View Details
- 21 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing
explained that grant-givers and their recipients often don't have any specific plans for growth. "Traditionally, capital flow has had nothing to do with outcomes and performance," said EMCF's Roob, "or you're being asked to... View Details
- 13 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part
help communities of color.” One of the issues ARF plans to help tackle is recruiting, hiring, and supporting diverse workforces. Kevin noted, “It’s not just giving money or looking at active injustices, it’s considering the implicit... View Details
- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
annualized abnormal returns of 14.1 percent while mismatched pairings saw returns of -39.8 percent. (See "The Impact of Fit.") Consider the experience of Paolo Fresco, whose success spearheading GE's growth into Europe did not... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
donations, it raises more funds per capita than any other nonprofit in the world — one out of two Singaporeans contributes to NKFS." In part because it is already so successful with its marketing and management of treatment programs, NKFS... View Details
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down
always done. And when an organization has had a succession of leaders, resistance to change is even stronger. A legacy of disappointment and distrust creates an environment in which employees automatically condemn the next turnaround... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
group of successful entrepreneurs who shared their experiences of launching and sustaining a minority-owned business. “Start planning early. Save money. And go back to your community,” said L. Londell... View Details
- Profile
Sheila Marcelo
Marcelo, who ultimately followed in her parents’ footsteps, building the successful online marketplace Care.com. Marcelo, the fifth of six children, was raised in a tight-knit family. Her parents, who eloped in their late teens, did not... View Details
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
of low-cost, scalable interventions leveraging behavioral insights, and in many cases they’re being applied for the social good.” The success of BIT’s tax letter helped the organization grow. Nicknamed the “nudge unit,” BIT started with... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
critical decision for leaders seeking to strike the right balance between the needs of the core business and the need for growth is how they situate new growth efforts within the company. You need to make sure the teams are talking and that you have a View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
of financial and social objectives warrants significant rethinking of organizational democracy’s merits compared both to hierarchy and to nondemocratic alternatives to hierarchy. In making this argument, we draw on some parallels with political democracy: the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Feb 2018
- News
David Perry’s Green Revolution
working on at an oil refinery for Exxon to startup CEO. (Perry exhibited his entrepreneurial vision while at HBS, telling the Bulletin in 2001 that he wrote four business plans while earning his MBA.) After running and selling two View Details
- 15 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience
team. They will be responsible for designing and maintaining the business continuity and disaster recovery management plan, ensuring a robust and effective response to potential disasters. Process: Maintaining the plan iteratively and... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch
- Web
Entrepreneurial Sales 101: Founder Selling - Course Catalog
Sessions Paper/Project ‘Nothing happens until a sale is made’ Nothing happens until a sale is made. That simple point underlines the critical importance of sales. Every operating model and business plan ‘assumes’ a certain amount of... View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
4 Things You Should Know about Entrepreneurship at HBS
Clemens, whom we met through the Rock Center Entrepreneurs-in-Residence program. Sam was the perfect match for us, as we were exploring SMB software-as-a-service opportunities and he had co-founded one of Boston’s most successful startups... View Details
- Profile
Mike Maples Jr.
When Mike Maples, Jr. was growing up, there were two things he never dreamed he’d do in life: go to business school or become a venture capitalist. But after graduating from Harvard Business School and becoming a successful entrepreneur,... View Details
- 01 Aug 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’
"called it 'creative destruction'" many years ago, the inevitable result of competition and entrepreneurship at work. Others pointed that whether size and success are compatible may rely on a number of factors. Usman Ghani... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
important for company leaders to see themselves as facilitators of progress, as being there to serve the people who are in the trenches. If they do a good job of planning and organizing projects, and keeping in touch with how things are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
likelihood of success was 15 percent at best. But by December 2020, the first NHS patient received a vaccine. Now, nearly every adult in Britain has had the jab, lockdowns have ended, and we can finally live with COVID. What lies behind... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
will become an annual event. Jefferson, a 1988 West Point graduate and former captain in the Special Forces, planned to stay in the military as long as he was “serving with elite units and enjoying being in the Army.” A training accident... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley