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- 31 Jan 2018
- Blog Post
Tiffany Nida’s Amazon Journey: “I Continue to Grow Because They Keep Giving Me Responsibility.”
people. It’s a company that’s impatient on behalf of its customers. There’s a bias for action that doesn’t like the status quo, but is always looking for ways to innovate.” The feelings must have been... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 13 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
Following My Dream: Launching a Venture
Throughout my entire career, I’ve always been tempted by the entrepreneurial journey but have never had the courage to quit an existing opportunity and work on my own start-up. Coming to HBS, View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered those remarks in a now famous speech in Memphis on April 3, 1968. Everyone present felt the power of his words, but no one could have known just how prescient they were.... View Details
- 24 May 2018
- Blog Post
3 Ways to Get to Know HBS
page for these events or sign-up for our newsletter. 3. Connect with HBS On the Road Attend a Domestic Event: We know it’s not always possible for prospective students to visit the HBS campus, so we also... View Details
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
activities on the job that are not perceived as work while "working" in ways that are non-productive. In short, we're not thinking creatively enough about work. Those are themes that recur in the comments to this month's column.... View Details
- 02 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Uncovering the Virtual Advantage at Humana
ease given a company culture and infrastructure that supported remote work. Tiffany Layfield, Graduate Recruiting Lead at Humana, shared “A large percentage of our workforce already worked from home. Therefore, it was a no brainer to continue bringing View Details
- 02 Feb 2007
- What Do You Think?
Is There Too Little “Know Why” In Business?
"Purpose is just one part of the whole process . We definitely have to concretize the steps we intend to do, break down the core purpose to objectives, and then to relevant action plans ." Shrikant Sortur reminded us of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 11 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Venture Capital
skill sets that are valuable in the industry, but there are relatively few who have pure venture experience before business school. Educating students on what being a venture capitalist really looks like, particularly at your firm, will... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
recently wrote a book about it: Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity, to be published April 21. Although facilities managers might think they’re saving a few dollars on electricity and air filters,... View Details
- 05 Apr 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should We Brace Ourselves for Another Era of M&A Value Destruction?
(no matter the company source) in charge is always the best plan ... 3) ... thinking that a top-down communication, sent once, is sufficient." Marcus Dancer blamed some of the problem on the way that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
Fifty years ago, when America was unquestionably a man's world, one small but influential part of it officially opened its doors to women: the MBA program at Harvard Business School. On Thursday, about 800... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
products and services. It's not always the flashiest idea that wins. Mayo gestures to a striking lamp on his desk with a lampshade depicting the HBS campus. Hand-painted by an artist in New Hampshire, the... View Details
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg take a systemic approach to healthcare reform. Today's system is dysfunctional, they argue, rewarding participants who redirect costs and... View Details
- 08 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs
"What's not to like about an enjoyable service environment and knowledgeable employees? But they aren't always the key to profits," Ton says. "My findings suggest that for retailers that sell undifferentiated products, offer a... View Details
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
Amazon). But is there an economic rationale to the investment? Or to put it more bluntly, is there a viable future for these newspapers after the Internet has disrupted the traditional print business? Since Bezos's strategy for any business has View Details
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital: Hot Markets and Current Industry Trends
doesn't mean you always agree—hopefully you don't," she said. "There is a need to push each other, but also to know your goals are the same at the end of the day." Their vision becomes your vision, Fagnan said. "I... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
Moss: One of the things that a historical perspective helps make clear is that risk management has always been an essential function of government. From the very earliest days of the American Republic,... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
$10 million. Other companies have raised amounts in the thousands to produce specific products or apps, offering those who donate funds an advanced version or limited edition of the product. "It's a really good example of one of the... View Details
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
Cancer research, it has been said, is not unlike a group of blind men studying an elephant. One man feels the elephant's tail and says it is a rope. Another blind man handles its tusk and calls it a spear, and yet another declares its... View Details
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
which both empirical characteristics of bias are observed in equilibrium. The key assumptions are that the information contained in the facts about a news event may not always be fully verifiable, and consumers have heterogeneous prior... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace