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- 09 Sep 2016
- News
Marla Malcolm Beck’s Path to CEO
In a New York Times piece that asks “How to Become a C.E.O.?”, Marla Malcolm Beck (MBA 1998) is highlighted as an example of the entrepreneurial path one can take to the chief executive position. Malcolm Beck, the founder and CEO of beauty retailer View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- News
Wilson Claims Title of Fastest American Solo Sailor
Bulletin is considered “the Mt. Everest of the seas.” This year’s competition was his second successful solo ocean race. He soundly bested his time in the 2008-9 edition of the race of 121 days and 41 minutes. While battling storms, rough...
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Vendee Globe
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
two-person long-distance ocean sailing. A former Pentagon analyst, energy consultant, and high-school teacher with a master’s degree in interdisciplinary science from MIT, he has turned this and other extended View Details
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
strategies that could be adopted by BWXT after the spin-off. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/118045-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 118-046 Blue Harbour's Activism at...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Making Eco Easy
microplastics per liter. “All the plastic our society is consuming is ending up in our oceans and waterways, where it is breaking down into tiny pieces and appearing in the water we drink, the food we eat, and the formula I was making for...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
Victor Vescovo (MBA 1994) had been descending through the waters of the Pacific Ocean for more than two hours. The headlights on the exterior of his state-of-the-art submersible illuminated only a tiny slice of this strange world. An...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Invisible Edge: Taking Your Strategy to the Next Level Using Intellectual Property by Mark Blaxill (MBA ’84) and Ralph Eckardt (Portfolio) With the right intellectual property (IP) and the right strategies, companies can command premium...
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- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma
the mark. "Microsoft can innovate faster than your life can change," Christensen observed dryly. The only thing we know for sure is that nobody knows the right strategy as the disruption takes root.—Clayton M. Christensen When...
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- 22 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Control Your Inventory in a World of Lean Retailing
Manufacturers generally classify products in terms of broad product lines, developing a single marketing strategy and production plan for each line. That makes sense for marketing, but it's a mistake for production. Different SKUs...
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- 30 Apr 2021
- News
Revealing the Rules
with speaking the unspoken rules. This is all analogous to some interesting research that I read about the color blue. Linguists found that words to describe that color were introduced to our vernacular later than other colors like red. In the Odyssey, for example,...
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
HBS Global Forum Set for June
for spouses or partners and for children ages 11 to 18. In addition, there are several pre- and post-forum tours, including trips to the Shenandoah and the Blue Ridge mountains and to Civil War battlefields at Manassas and Gettysburg.
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- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
some implications for the future growth of the industry. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=804176 Blue River Capital Harvard Business School Case 708-448 Examines the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
Ariane Cornell Head, Astronaut Strategy and Sales, Blue Origin Cornell calls the West Texas launch and landing a “learning experience,” noting that Blue Origin is slated to...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
way to success, the first step, the authors say, is to take action now and learn on the way. They show how to determine the best strategy and tactics when the future is uncertain, how to minimize financial risk in every decision, and why...
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- 20 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment
joining HBS. Cal Brooks (MBA 2022, Section A), Summer Internship: Commercialization Strategy Intern at Malta Malta is building a new type of electro-thermal energy storage system that can collect and store energy from any source (i.e....
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- 11 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Kel Jackson, MBA 2019: "[My Job] Matters. I Didn't Want a Role that Would Box Me In."
Representative, public speaking instructor, and tutor. When applying for an internship, his wide-ranging interests made it difficult to pinpoint just one industry. Jackson considered private equity but ultimately landed an internship in the same sector he’d been in...
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Manufacturing
- 19 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition
strong emphasis on emotional intelligence as a core value in conducting business. I love the lesson from strategy about defining blue oceans instead of competing in red...
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All Industries
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809062 JWT China: Advertising for the New Chinese Consumer Harvard Business School Case 809-079 This case analyzes the business strategy and expansion of JWT China from the late...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
forthcoming Boston: Harvard Business Review Press The Three Box Solution: A Strategy for Leading Innovation By: Govindarajan, Vijay Abstract—How to Innovate and Execute. Leaders already know that innovation calls for a different set of...
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