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19 Oct 2022
Op-Ed

Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

take this choice lightly. Consider getting a coach early on who specializes in working with cofounders who also have personal history together. I guarantee you will not be able to put your personal stuff in a box outside your business.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

08 Mar 2018
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Lehman Brothers Family Partners | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content Lehman Brothers Collection Resources Baker Library Collections Corporate Reports Collection R. G. Dun & Co. Credit Reports HBS Cases Baker Old Class Collection Related Archival Collections Bibliography Site Credits Baker Library View Details

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Recognizing Our Donors - Alumni

Giving Recognizing Our Donors Giving Recognizing Our Donors Celebrating Your Commitment HBS is grateful for every donor All donors are recognized in the annual Report on Giving and receive information about the impact of their support on the work of the School. HBS... View Details

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies

specialized arena of MICS, but can be applied, they write, to technologies of a much broader scope, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems in manufacturing, or interactive software tools that continue to revolutionize the way... View Details

Keywords: by Hilah Geer

01 Jun 2023
News

Curb Appeal

“straight” time in dual-bin trucks that could handle both organic and inorganic waste. And while earlier programs required participants to opt in and order special bins, compost would now be collected on regular recycling days and people... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

20 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators

and Alvy Ray, who headed up a small computer graphics operation called Industrial Light & Magic (the group created special effects for George Lucas's movies). Fascinated by their operation, Jobs bought Industrial Light & Magic for... View Details

Keywords: by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gergersen & Clayton M. Christensen

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Innovation & Innovative Capacity - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

extend locational advantages takes on equal weight with R&D process management. Locational advantages - rooted in proprietary information flows, special relationships with local companies, and preferential access to local institutions -... View Details

08 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Silos That Work: How the Pandemic Changed the Way We Collaborate

Communication Networks during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Zuzul is an assistant professor in the Strategy Unit at HBS and specializes in how leaders and organizations navigate new industries and periods of dramatic change. A treasure trove of... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

17 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

2017 Boston: Harvard Business Review Press Entering StartUpLand: An Essential Guide to Finding the Right Job By: Bussgang, Jeffrey J. Abstract—Many professionals aspire to work for startups. Executives from large companies view them as models to help them adapt to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March–April 2023
Article

Market Segmentation Trees

By: Ali Aouad, Adam Elmachtoub, Kris J. Ferreira and Ryan McNellis

Problem definition: We seek to provide an interpretable framework for segmenting users in a population for personalized decision making. Methodology/results: We propose a general methodology, market segmentation trees (MSTs), for learning market... View Details

Keywords: Decision Trees; Computational Advertising; Market Segmentation; Analytics and Data Science; E-commerce; Consumer Behavior; Marketplace Matching; Marketing Channels; Digital Marketing

Summer 2008
Editorial

Will the Stork Return to Europe and Japan? Understanding Fertility within Developed Nations

By: James Feyrer, Bruce Sacerdote and Ariel Dora Stern

Only a few rich nations are currently at replacement levels of fertility and many are considerably below. We believe that changes in the status of women are driving fertility change. At low levels of female status, women specialize in household production and... View Details

Keywords: Income; Household; Gender; Japan; Italy; United States; Sweden; Spain

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09 Mar 2016
HBS Seminar

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Dean Srikant Datar Statements & Speeches | About

objectives, and recent accomplishments. What makes HBS so special? What makes him proud? What is he most looking forward to? Learn more about our new Dean—during his first few days on the job—in this special episode of the HBS podcast... View Details

15 Feb 2024
Blog Post

How I Spent My 2+2 Deferral: Carol Wright

communications, and social impact consulting firm specializing in corporate, entertainment, brand, and nonprofit sectors. When I was first hired, I was an assistant to one of the company's founders and CEOs, and a senior publicist in the... View Details

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

the Arab Gulf. The Special Committee of each generation sought to minimize the gap between capabilities and performance. However, no Special Committee began with a clean sheet of paper. Indeed, they... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

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Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online

Egg What You Earn Certificate of Completion Boost your resume with a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online Earn by: completing this course Certificate of Specialization Prove your mastery of leadership and management Earn by:... View Details

09 Mar 2023
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees

GS’s investing arms. I started as part of a structured equity investing team within the firm’s Special Situations Group, before transitioning to a role as an investor within the consumer and healthcare verticals of Goldman’s Growth Equity... View Details

22 Sep 2023
News

Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS

Photo provided by Harvard University Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Who was the most important person you met at HBS? And why? This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck, and when my colleagues set up on Spangler Lawn during Spring Reunions... View Details

21 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

can impair an enemy organization’s performance don’t need to come from highly trained federal operatives, but can be pulled off by “ordinary citizens” without special skills or training. “Sometimes when things go wrong, an organization... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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