Pivotality - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2020
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Lesson Plans

going to help fill a gap for those people who find themselves without a job and want to learn a new skill or brush up on an old skill to make themselves more competitive. I hope it’ll help people get employed faster or even pivot to a new... View Details

Keywords: Jen Mele

01 Aug 2001
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George C. Lodge

America, Lodge realized that ideology could be used as a multidisciplinary analytical tool for comparing countries and understanding change within a particular nation. The concept was pivotal in his award-winning 1975 book, The New... View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; Stanley F. Teele; Ezra F. Vogel; John W. Rosenblum

15 Jun 2021
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Turning Point: Tell Me More

and so on. My pivot from the business world to journalism happened in 2016, when a friend who was working for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign called. At the time, I was CEO of an education startup, but I’d spent 14 years building... View Details

Keywords: politics; communication; voting; demographics

23 May 2019
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Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998

intended to build an e-commerce platform, but she changed course and invested in bricks and mortar when she saw a need for customer-friendly neighborhood stores. The pivot offered a personalized shopping experience that relied on a cadre... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

06 Dec 2021
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Tipping Point

forced to work from home in the pandemic, it pivoted from B2B sales to a consumer-focused business plan. The shift allowed Nyamumbo to more fully realize her initial goal of connecting producer and consumer. According to Nyamumbo,... View Details

Keywords: April White; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

10 Nov 2020
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Learning to Fight

faculty member at Harvard Medical School when he received the grant. “The Sontag Foundation was pivotal in helping me design and sustain a research career,” says Johnson, who is now chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery at UMass... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 1999
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Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

versions were attempted in 19th-century Europe) has enjoyed truly phenomenal growth. Almost from the outset, HBS has played a pivotal role in the success of this thriving industry. Says Jay Light, who holds the Dwight P. Robinson, Jr.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

12 Jan 2017
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Personalizing Women’s Path to Success

caught the entrepreneurial bug. She realized she was passionate about solving problems with new and innovative solutions. Three years later, the newly married Skeete Tatum applied to HBS to pivot to venture capital, and convinced her... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Jun 1998
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Generation Next

November, the School offered a new Executive Education program, Families in Business: From Generation to Generation. The five-day program, designed for teams of two to eight members of a family business, examines pivotal issues and... View Details

01 Jun 2020
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Homeschooled

John Jong-Hyun Kim (MBA 1993) saw the School pivot its entire MBA and doctoral curriculum to an online model in just ten days—a move informed by years of experience developing HBS Online, the Harvard Business Analytics Program, and other... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; online learning; Educational Services

01 Jun 2003
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to lead the Alumni Association over the last two years at such a pivotal time in the School’s history. Susan Luick Good (MBA ’71) May 2003 View Details

Keywords: Susan Luick Good; HBS Alumni Association; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2016
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How Do I Get Your Job?

educate them about these issues. It took a real pivot for me—a real U-turn—to understand that I couldn’t shame customers into feeling bad about past decisions. I could only give them a product that made them feel really great about what... View Details

Keywords: April White

22 Nov 2022
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Alumni Summit Explores Leadership for a Sustainable Future

intelligence to help or hinder human progress; University of Montreal Daniel Jutras who elaborated on the implications of these new stakes on younger generations; and Ilham Kadri, CEO of Solvay, who described the concrete steps required to View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

15 Jun 2021
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HBS Addresses Racial Equity

business, and we saw the numbers increase during the pivot to a virtual experience because of COVID-19. The REP accelerates these efforts through programs such as a need-based application fee waiver and a new fellowship, RISE (Recognize... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

22 Feb 2022
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An Rx for Small Business Recovery

Tools “The good news is that small businesses are resilient. Many of them are already using apps driven by AI and algorithms to pivot their business models,” Mills adds. In her book, she coined the term “small business utopia” to describe... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Mar 2023
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Action Plan: Casting Call

Bert Berkley (MBA 1950) calls it “the dumbest thing I’ve ever done in my life.” Having served in the US Army during World War II for three-and-a-half years, he was offered (and accepted) the chance to go home one day early if he signed up for the Army Reserves. Called... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 1996
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Faculty Symposium Honors McArthur

sometimes vigorous debate about pivotal issues. The "tip of the iceberg" is how Professor Thomas K. McCraw, one of the principal organizers of the symposium, described the event's program. "A tremendous amount of important research and... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

22 Sep 2016
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Words and Pictures

about a blind student who photographed cracks in the sidewalk that impeded her progress, “became a pivotal metaphor that helped me define my calling in the world,” says Deifell. Since graduation, he has published a book and presented a... View Details