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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Conversation with John Doerr (MBA '76)
market; and a set of financings reasonable for all parties. Fifth, and most important, is a tremendous sense of urgency. We want to back ventures that are the first or second entrants in their markets, so speeding the product to market in... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Releases
can respond appropriately to demand, lean inventories, and the rapid replenishment of stock. "The old way was to gear planning and production decisions to forecasts and guesses made months in advance of a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Tax and Grow
prod corporations to put some of their remarkable cash hoards to productive use. Estimates of the cash held by U.S. public corporations easily exceed $1 trillion; several technology companies alone are sitting on cash balances in excess... View Details
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World, and his views on subjects ranging from whether globalism has been a force for good to what Nazi Germany tells us about the difficulty in planning for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
A Silent Workplace Crisis
relatives over the age of 50 also hold down jobs. Nearly three-quarters of those caregivers report a negative impact on their work lives. With 10,000 baby boomers turning 65 daily, the current estimate of $17–$33 billion in annual View Details
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Pasha Nahass
writing code than in what the vision for the product should be.” A subsequent rotational program at Google introduced Pasha to product management, where he “worked with multiple stakeholders—engineers,... View Details
Keywords: Tech
- 21 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Leveraging Academic Opportunities to Attain My Post-HBS Job
Earlier this summer, I joined Plaid as a Product Manager, culminating my transition from HBS back to the “real world.” My path to joining Plaid full-time didn’t follow the traditional recruiting route. My View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Devtosh Khare
a business plan to solicit venture capital and helped with strategic planning for a new Web-based product launch. To further expand his knowledge of India's thriving... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman photograph by Webb Chappell
- October 2019 (Revised December 2019)
- Supplement
Extend Fertility: Conceiving the Market for Egg Preservation (B)
By: Debora L. Spar and Olivia Hull
Keywords: Strategy; Information Technology; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Commercialization; Science-Based Business; Marketing Strategy; Business Plan; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Mission and Purpose; Personal Development and Career; Social Issues; Integration; Health; Health Industry
Spar, Debora L., and Olivia Hull. "Extend Fertility: Conceiving the Market for Egg Preservation (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 720-017, October 2019. (Revised December 2019.)
- Profile
Yaping Wang
business lens to make recommendations for leadership: planning road maps, choosing products for development, differentiating and positioning the brand. As a manager, there is so much to learn in order to... View Details
- Portrait Project
May Lam
found it difficult to relax and simply enjoy the journey. Instead, I lived for the future, meticulously planning and relentlessly driving toward my goal. To me, the end product was the crowning jewel of any... View Details
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
tasks like perfecting their technology, learning how to manufacture it, and financing the needed investments in research, development, and marketing through a combination of product sales and venture funding. And so emerged several... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
Rich (MBA 1999), director of product planning and strategy, Ford Asia Pacific operations “Within mainstream, old, dinosaur auto companies, there’s no lack of enthusiasm about electrification.” —John Rich... View Details
- Portrait Project
Nathan Bruschi
envied my friends who could say precisely what they wanted on the first try. They didn’t have to plan pauses or precipitate their prose to plow over problematic phrases. For them, telephones were not objects of fear. Yet my stutter was a... View Details
- 10 Dec 2015
- News
Leveraging Curiosity to Broaden the Impact
seeing the product that was eventually going to touch someone’s life,” he says. “While I am still passionate about engineering, I want to work with people and teams in the business world to broaden my impact, especially in strategic View Details
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Martha Tassinari
includes start-up consulting, executive coaching and career counseling. Work Experience: High Tech, 20+ years (mostly start-ups, including UNIFI communications, Exit41, Elm Square Interactive; corporates include Verizon, Octel and Osram Sylvania). Roles: View Details
Stanley C. Gault
Taking the helm of the company his father helped to found, Gault was instrumental in reorganizing and revitalizing Rubbermaid from a small household gadget company into a streamlined and efficient multinational corporation. He embarked on a dual View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
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IT Strategy: IT Modernization Drives Academic Library Innovation | Information Technology
the vanguard of academic library innovation, linked data experimentation, semantic data modeling, and digital product development through new, cutting-edge technology and processes. The current architecture needs to be redesigned to... View Details
- 20 May 2020
- Blog Post
Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12
weeks later Surette was connected with TB12, a brand new company at the time, through a fellow HBS alum. He joined the company as a freelance consultant to help establish the business plan and grow the impact of TB12 over time, including... View Details