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Maha Malik

Maha plans on returning to Bain in Boston, and expects that her subsequent career will pivot back and forth between the private and public sectors. "One of my ambitions is to run for office," she says. "Women bring... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Financial Services

17 Dec 2020
News

Making Club History in Japan; Startup Accelerator Case Goes Virtual in Atlanta

talked about how to bridge the distinctly different cultures. Comcast was a corporate, suit-and-ties culture, while The Farm was a startup, jeans-and-T-shirts culture,” says Prince, who was hired as the director of Boomtown, the management company View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies

The anesthesiologist and perfusionist [the technician who runs the heart-lung bypass machine] now must work closely together to regulate blood pressure, the surgeon and the anesthesiologist must coordinate to monitor the position of the... View Details

Keywords: by Hilah Geer

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CEO Leadership - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

their workshops for new CEOs, held at Harvard Business School in Boston, the authors have discovered that nothing--not even running a large business within the company--fully prepares a person to be the chief executive. The seven most... View Details

20 Dec 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

How to Design a Better Customer Experience

(The accompanying teaching note is available to instructors to help them run the exercise.) Thomke, who has worked with global firms on upping their customer experience game, has taught the class in the HBS executive education programs,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Entertainment & Recreation

26 May 2022
HBS Case

Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right?

came to a head on December 2, 2015, when a husband and wife claiming to be affiliated with the Islamic State opened fire at a party in San Bernardino, California, killing 14 people. Police found one of the shooter’s phones, an iPhone 5C View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

01 Dec 2019
News

Bridging the Gap

running and investing in large companies were doing quite well. But working- and middle-class Americans were struggling, as were many small businesses. The most promising efforts we found to restore shared prosperity were local,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

04 Aug 2023
Blog Post

Aaron Sabin (MS/MBA 2023): Engineering a Climate Change Solution by Cutting the Cost of Carbon Capture

primarily to run current through the cells and run air over the exposed solution. Moreover, it can be scaled up, with large plants housing many units and concentrated in areas with low population density. An... View Details

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FAQs for Alumni Virtual Programs - Alumni

link. Follow the prompts to download and run Zoom. Do I need to join the Zoom event before the scheduled start time? It is helpful to join the event five (5) minutes prior to the scheduled start. This will provide time to make sure you... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

Buy Big, Sell Small

If you live in a rural village or small city in India and run low on toothpaste, rice, or cooking oil, you’ll likely visit your local kirana, the equivalent of a US neighborhood variety store and a mainstay of the country’s $932 billion... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; retail; supply chain management; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

16 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

Understanding the ‘Want’ vs. ’Should’ Decision

with Milkman and Rogers, they discuss their working paper "I'll Have the Ice Cream Soon and the Vegetables Later: Decreasing Impatience over Time in Online Grocery Orders," which looks at our tendency as consumers to choose "want" items in the short... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Retail; Entertainment & Recreation

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

claim boils down to the argument that past run up in stock prices do not seem to predict lower future returns. Authors Greenwood, Shleifer, and You seek to evaluate Fama's claim using stock return data gathered from a variety of US... View Details

01 Jun 2024
News

Quantum Leap

digital computer, a room-sized behemoth that sported 18,000 vacuum tubes and resembled the unholy offspring of a fuse box and a telephone exchange when it was unveiled in 1943. “This is the complexity you need to run five qubits,” Levy... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen; quantum computing; innovation; leadership; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

09 Jan 2020
Book

Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI

more akin to an Apple, a Tesla, or a Nest, or a GoPro—where it’s a consumer product that has the foundation of sexy hardware technology and sexy software technology,” he is quoted in a book published today, Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2023
News

A More Accommodating Approach

Shelly Nooner (GMP 33, 2022) had already proven herself to be visionary and execution-focused during her two decades at Trimble, an industrial technology company that provides hardware, software, and services across agriculture, construction, geospatial, and... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

28 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

The Profit Power of Corporate Culture

operations, and how can these challenges be overcome? A: The basic question to be faced is whether the organization will be run as "one company" with a common set of values, such as at Mexican-based cement and concrete producer... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Jan 2023
Op-Ed

Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage

partners have significant others, do not lose sight that they too are going through this transition. A partner whose significant other is all of a sudden more available than they were when they were running a company, or who is feeling... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

29 Mar 2022
Book

5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries

chairperson of Narayana Health; and Rahul Bajaj, the late chairperson of the Bajaj Group. Leadership to Last finds five common characteristics among Indian and other South Asian companies that built lasting enterprises and a legacy of leadership. 1. The businesses are... View Details