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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
- 30 Apr 2020
- Book
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
- 12 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day
responsibilities – like being a good son or having a financially stable career for instance – deserved the sunlight. For 26 years, this meant putting a lock on my self-expression. I only applied to colleges on the East Coast far from... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
John Crowley’s Extraordinary Measures
two youngest children, who were born with a rare and often fatal neuromuscular disorder. Watching its production was, alternately, an unreal, thrilling, and deeply emotional experience for the Crowley family. Less than a year after... View Details
- 25 May 2011
- HBS Case
QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off
benefits including health insurance, performance bonuses, and paid vacation—all relatively rare in the industry. Blueprint For Transformation The QuikTrip (QT) case, taught in the MBA course Coordinating and Managing Supply Chains, offers... View Details
- 06 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are You a Level-Six Leader?
Achiever, fills the senior executive ranks. These leaders rarely fail to achieve their goals and often exceed sales quotas, create generous profits, and are frequent stars at merit-award dinners. The Achiever, to use Peter Drucker's... View Details
Keywords: by Mitch Maidique
- 22 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can Amazon Remake Health Care?
How are they going to use it? What safeguards will patients in this new Amazon/One Medical health care have on how their data will be used? I would like regulators to think about and wrestle with that issue. “Amazon is good at selling... View Details
- 30 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup
enough to make sound decisions, Eisenmann says. But deciding when to pull the plug is rarely easy. Here’s why: Failure happens slowly. A struggling business might limp along for months or even years, sometimes with small bursts of hope... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
Karan Shah (MBA 2016) Karan Shah (MBA 2016) Karan Shah (MBA 2016) is executive director of Precision Camshafts Limited, a large precision manufacturing company in Solapur, India, and a partner in MAYU, a luxury goods startup. What’s a... View Details
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Rights of First Refusal Are a Bad Deal
give the right holder a last-mover advantage. As we discuss in the paper, that conveys a lot of benefits: It allows the right holder to move in and take good deals if they become available to third parties. And if, as is often the case,... View Details
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
disruptive innovation has gained considerable currency among practitioners despite widespread misunderstanding of its core principles. Similarly, foundational research on disruption has elicited frequent citation and vibrant debate in academic circles, but subsequent... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Mar 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Firing the CEO
hesitant. Yet sometimes, this is necessary. But when? You should fire your CEO under two of these three conditions: (1) there is a weak and unfixable fit between the CEO's skills and the needs of the company, (2) the CEO disrespects the core values of the company, and... View Details
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
“Crises offer rare opportunities to make major changes in an organization because they lessen the resistance that exists in good times.” "Leaders must be willing to ask for help," he continues.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Profile
Emily Schlichting
At age 19, in the spring of 2009, Emily Schlichting was diagnosed with Behcet's, a rare autoimmune disease that introduced her "to the realities of U.S. health care firsthand." Although the disease has proven manageable, her... View Details
- 08 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching
While some lessons can be learned by watching—a parent’s reaction after touching a hot stove can be a good lesson for a youngster on dangers in the kitchen—other lessons are harder to learn through observation alone. No matter how many... View Details
- 26 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)
will get a bonus or greater respect from my peers or simply the confirmation that I am a good employee—so I will make choices to exhibit high levels of effort.” In some cases, tournament incentives are structured in such a way that when... View Details
- 01 Oct 2014
- What Do You Think?
Is Too Much Focus a Problem?
"fail to consider or know how to recognize what is outside their industry that is impacting their business (such as) customers who are buying their goods but don't fit the target profile, or alternative (product) uses Focus has a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career
apprenticeships, internships, or work-based learning. That figure pales in comparison to other OECD countries like Germany or Switzerland, where 40-70 percent of students split their time between traditional school settings and learning in a workplace. Technical and... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
messenger RNA (mRNA) Therapeutics. The data that Bancel saw that evening were shocking. The numbers suggested Moderna had found an entirely new way to treat diseases—one that promised to change the medical world, resulting in cures for View Details
- 10 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
What I Did Differently Before Reapplying to HBS
I first applied to HBS through the 2+2 program when I was a senior in college. I had good grades, did well on my GMAT, and had two great mentors to write references letters for me. I worked hard on the application, and was disappointed... View Details