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- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
explains how large and small companies can position themselves to survive—and thrive—in turbulent times. Applegate is head of the School's Entrepreneurial Management Unit and faculty chair of the Executive... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Eight Join HBS Faculty
Torfason is an instructor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and teaches the first-year course The Entrepreneurial Manager. His research focuses on how behavior is... View Details
- 28 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
Nairobi Love: Heading Home
questions of development, public policy, and politics have always pulled me. But having studied economics for my bachelor's, and then working with McKinsey thereafter reaffirmed that I have a private sector mind – questions of leverage, generating capital, and... View Details
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Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month | Baker Library
variety of statistics and facts related to Asian Americans. Explore HBS Cases with Asian American protagonists: Managing a Public Image: Sophie Chen Ming Min Hui at Boston Ballet Contemporary Collections Contemporary Collections aim to... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
is a particular need for managers to be entrepreneurial in spirit, to view business from a global perspective, and to know how to use information technology to their companies' best advantage. To meet this... View Details
- 10 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Summer Fellows Focus on Racial Equity and Justice
is new and there's no way I could execute without my first year at HBS. From go-to-market planning in Marketing to understanding how VCs and term sheets work in The Entrepreneurial Manager course, I am... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Faculty Updates
Change (2000). He led the development of the School's first required course in human resource management in the 1980s and then cowrote Managing Human Assets (1984), the first book to frame human resource... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Green Dreams: Eco-Friendly Countertops
husband was a terrific source of support, uncomplaining even when her entrepreneurial responsibilities lengthened her workdays and ate up her weekends. “I couldn’t have done it without him,” she says. Or, of course, without that best pep... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
she describes as her “wake-up call” followed the death of her mother in 2001. “I thought, Why am I waiting to do something that matters?” she recalls. She flew to India to work with CARE, the disaster-relief organization, in helping earthquake survivors to find their... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
the required curriculum course The Entrepreneurial Manager Jim Sharpe (MBA ’76) is looking forward to stepping off the page to advise students who may be pondering some of the same questions he considered... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
25th Annual African-American Student Union Career/Alumni Conference
conference will feature management seminars and panel discussions on information technology, the nonprofit sector, prominent African-American women business leaders, venture capital, and the music industry, as well as a "town meeting," an... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
In January 2000, Thomas J. Tierney (MBA 1980) announced that he would step aside as worldwide managing director of Bain & Company, a position he had held since 1992, and become chairman of The Bridge Group, a new Bain affiliate. Tierney's... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Perfection’s Price
Kaplan realized he had made a classic entrepreneurial mistake. He let his quest for perfection get in the way of progress. “We thought we could find the perfect location, get the right costs, the right cotenants, and the right... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
definition means being comfortable with failing.” “Failure is not just the opposite of success,” says Shikhar Ghosh, a senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit who has founded or led eight tech... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Less Risk, More Reward
people are more likely to take on the risk of joining a small firm. It’s not starting a firm, but it’s an entrepreneurial spirit, being part of that startup culture, that small business culture. View Details
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Gary Shi
used to think about leadership,” Gary says. “How do I lead from a junior level? How do I manage without being senior?” But, Gary says, “HBS has changed my ideas about leadership. It’s not about how high or low your position is, but how... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Encouraging Women Leaders
In describing the impact of the HBS experience on her life, Veronica Allende Serra (MBA 1997) says, “Ask me how it hasn’t had an impact.” Serra, the founder of Pacific Investments, a private equity firm based in São Paulo, Brazil, where she View Details
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Sheila Lirio Marcelo
out, are often underestimated and even overlooked, but they all display an inner strength that wins the day. For Marcelo, a young woman born in the Philippines, the road to entrepreneurial success was marked by moments of doubt from... View Details
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Dana Hoffmann
entrepreneur. “Even when I was in the corporate world, I always enjoyed building something,“ Hoffmann said. “While Apple has a very entrepreneurial mindset, I wasn’t the one building the products. I worked on the... View Details
- 04 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage
More importantly, when the CEOs were asked "What's your past level of success in managing significant change?" only 15 percent said they had been "very successful." Another 15 percent said they had had "little or... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate