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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (MBA 1978) (Harvard Business Review Press) Part of a manager’s job is making tough calls, and the hardest challenge can be resolving “gray area” problems, situations where analysis of the facts View Details
- 30 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
How My Engineering and Manufacturing Background Prepared Me for an MBA
I graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering in 2005 and started working in a chemical manufacturing plant that same year. On my first day on the job, with limited technical competence View Details
- summer 1990
- Article
Retraining Mid-career Managers: Career History and Self-efficacy Beliefs
By: Linda A. Hill and J. Elias
Hill, Linda A., and J. Elias. "Retraining Mid-career Managers: Career History and Self-efficacy Beliefs." Human Resource Management 29, no. 2 (summer 1990): 197–218.
- 14 Dec 2010
- News
A Career Focused on Innovation and Manufacturing
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
have shaken up incumbents and threatened the status quo. For disruptors to pose a threat to an industry, they have to successfully break the link in choosing, purchasing, or consuming a product or service. Upstarts do not try to View Details
- 2017
- Book
HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business: Think Big, Buy Small, Own Your Own Company
By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Find, acquire, and run your own business. Are you looking for an alternative to a career path at a big firm? Does founding your own start-up seem too risky? There is a radical third path open to you: you can buy a small business and run it as CEO. Purchasing a small... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurs; Small Companies; Small Business Finance; Negotiation; Due Diligence; Sourcing; Search Funds; Search; Deal Sourcing; Deal Structuring; Funnel; Debt Financing; Small And Medium Enterprises; Small Business; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Negotiation Deal; Ownership; Equity; Borrowing and Debt
Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business: Think Big, Buy Small, Own Your Own Company. Harvard Business Review Press, 2017.
- 2013
- Case
Advanced Leadership Pathways: David Weinstein and Write the World
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Juliane Calingo Schwetz and Patricia Bissett Higgins
David Weinstein, a lawyer and former Chief Administrative Officer of mutual fund giant Fidelity Investments, launched Write the World, a proprietary online platform that included a writing curriculum, essay prompts in distinct subject matter, and access to expert... View Details
Keywords: Writing; Online Platform; Social Entrepreneurship; Education; Internet and the Web; Competency and Skills; Change Management; Leadership
Kanter, Rosabeth M., Juliane Calingo Schwetz, and Patricia Bissett Higgins. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: David Weinstein and Write the World." Harvard Business Publishing Case 314-030, 2013.
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
System for Growth by Christina Wallace (MBA 2010) and David Kidder Currency Most established companies face a key survival challenge. Operational efficiency and outdated bureaucracy are at war with new... View Details
- August 2020
- Supplement
Mary Guerrero and the Advancement of Latinx Talent: Developing an Employee Resource Group at a Top Tier Bank (B)
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Amy Hernandez Turcios
Mary Guerrero decided to pursue the challenging road and kicked off Hispanic/Latinx Advancement and Career Engagement (HACE) at her Bulge Bracket Bank (BBB). For Mary, her larger purpose was to advance Latinx talent in the U.S. because she believed it was important for... View Details
Keywords: Latin America; Career; Engagement; Bank; Inclusion; Scale; Latinx; Talent and Talent Management; Diversity; Ethnicity; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Leadership Development; Banks and Banking
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Amy Hernandez Turcios. "Mary Guerrero and the Advancement of Latinx Talent: Developing an Employee Resource Group at a Top Tier Bank (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 321-018, August 2020.
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
spurring the growth of some powerful business groups, and raising the self-confidence of the business class who began to think of themselves as capable of competing globally. In contrast, our book reports... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2024
- Blog Post
From Harvard to Miss New Jersey: A Journey of Perseverance and Self-Belief
learning to think like a strategic leader. What resonated with me deeply was the way each case study became a narrative of decision-making, where we had to navigate through uncertainties and conflicting perspectives. This experience not... View Details
- 07 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success
address customers‘ evolving needs and desires, rather than simply selling their existing products and solutions. 3. Build a data-informed culture by upskilling talent Fewer than half of survey respondents... View Details
- August 29, 2017
- Article
How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures
By: Tsedal Neeley
According to a recent McKinsey Global Institute report, the number of people in the global labor force will reach 3.5 billion by 2030. Among the enormous changes this will demand are new skills, attitudes, and behaviors. A five-year study of the global workforce at... View Details
Neeley, Tsedal. "How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures." Harvard Business Review (website) (August 29, 2017).
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Australian wool handling and shipping merchant Dalgety, which had been organized as interlocking colonial and London partnerships, incorporated in Britain in order to access the capital required to View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- Article
Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India
By: Lakshmi Iyer and Anandi Mani
We develop a framework to empirically examine how politicians with electoral pressures control bureaucrats with career concerns as well as the consequences for bureaucrats' career investments. Unique micro-level data on Indian bureaucrats support our key predictions.... View Details
Keywords: Framework; Government and Politics; Investment; Competency and Skills; Personal Development and Career; Rank and Position; Forecasting and Prediction; India
Iyer, Lakshmi, and Anandi Mani. "Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India." Review of Economics and Statistics 94, no. 3 (August 2012): 723–739.
- 14 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Trust the Process, and Trust Yourself Even More: Interview with Wellness and Empowerment Leader, Dilan Gomih (MBA 2019)
love for storytelling. “It's not just about watching stocks go up or down,” she explained. “A country’s election or a medal won in the Olympics can affect the story of a currency on any given day. I learned the numbers and the selling... View Details
- Web
FAQs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
ability to identify the best people to ask for particular information. The manager should have strong communication and management skills along with strong existing relationships within the organization.... View Details
- 22 May 2020
- Blog Post
Remembering Well and Making Meaning of Memorial Day
‘desired end state’ and ensure I had the skills to get there. While business school is far from the only way to reevaluate your life goals and purpose, it’s a really fantastic... View Details
- 07 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
3 Ways to Gain a Competitive Advantage Now: Lessons from Amazon, Chipotle, and Facebook
Foursquare and Facebook Stories to compete with Snapchat—or by outright acquiring competitors, as it did with Instagram. Karp notes, however, that network effects can suffer from diminishing returns. If you... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 2007
- Working Paper
Dynamics of Platform Competition: Exploring the Role of Installed Base, Platform Quality and Consumer Expectations
By: Feng Zhu and Marco Iansiti
This paper seeks to answer three questions. First, which drives the success of a platform, installed base, platform quality or consumer expectations? Second, when does a monopoly emerge in a platform-based market? Finally, when is a platform-based market socially... View Details
Keywords: Price; Network Effects; Digital Platforms; Monopoly; Quality; Competitive Advantage; Digital Platforms
Zhu, Feng, and Marco Iansiti. "Dynamics of Platform Competition: Exploring the Role of Installed Base, Platform Quality and Consumer Expectations." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-031, November 2007.