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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
may indeed have been the best of the best, McCall’s theory gives a causal explanation of why. It wasn’t because they were born with superior skills. Instead, it was because they had honed them along the way, by having experiences that... View Details
- 03 Jan 2018
- News
Finding Faith in an NFL Locker Room
them, challenging them to challenge each other on their assumptions, and to hear thoughts. There's a number of people in the room. So you've got a broad range of sort of multi-ethnic, multi-talented individuals in the room to sort of bring their own personal View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
Illustrations from VectorStock.com The Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard (D^3) aims to supercharge HBS’s research agenda by applying a lab-based model similar to that used by the scientific community for problem solving,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fast Casual
electrical engineering, who designs the procedures and logistics that ensure smooth, efficient operations. Of PRG and its husband-wife leadership team, Peggy said, “We had to standardize everything from recipes to kitchens.... I think... View Details
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
social, emotional job to be done. And the mix of functional, social, and emotional elements-- that mix changes by the job. But once we understand the job, then I need to ask the next question, which is-- all right, so if that's the job, what are all of the View Details
- 02 Apr 2001
- What Do You Think?
Telecommuting: Dangerous to Health?
how Xerox machines were really fixed, Xerox brought in an organizational consultant and anthropologist who found, among other things, that some of Xerox's service representatives' most productive time was spent in telling stories (leaking knowledge) over breakfast each... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Lovepop Woos The Sharks
Between two matching bids, the Boston-based company—which creates cards that open to reveal intricately designed 3D structures—chose Shark Kevin O’Leary’s $300,000 offer for 15% of the company. We talked to Rose about pitching the Sharks,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Stiletto Science
feet.” Or, as Hughes described it, “A shoe you can think in.” Hughes is chairman of HBN Shoe, which owns Insolia, a biomechanically correct design that’s built into a heeled shoe and can’t be seen when the shoe is being worn. Nordstrom is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
organs. My husband, an MIT physicist, started a company that developed technology intended to keep a diseased heart beating while the patient was awaiting a transplant. Working with him on that start-up was a fascinating experience that... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
1933-1945; the Federal Republic (West Germany) or German Democratic Republic (East Germany) 1945-1989. In terms of political or economic history, these divisions make a lot of sense, but in terms of individuals' experiences or business... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Shop Talk, Different Avenues
disruptive business model: an online site that requires customers to register, featuring flash sales of discounted luxury goods for men and women in categories including designer clothing, accessories, home goods, food and wine, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Sky’s the Limit
and went to school for engineering,” he says. “Then I got a job, got married, and had kids. There was no time for flying.” With his aviator dreams grounded, Hamilton pursued another passion: designing and building things. A Seattle... View Details
- 14 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Growing CEOs from the Inside
leadership, to draw on his 40 years of research and teaching experience at Harvard Business School to discuss the issues surrounding CEO succession. Sean Silverthorne: What's wrong with the way most companies today pick CEOs? Joseph... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
It was a milestone to celebrate: Earlier this year, designations from FDA and European Union regulators moved researchers at the Boston-based startup Akouos, Inc., a step closer to producing the first-ever therapy for gene-mediated... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 22 Jan 2018
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
of medicine, work with our leadership team to design our strategy, and then partner with staff across the agency to execute on our priorities.” Dhar: “Most recently, I ran the store-in-store business at b8ta, which drove about 60 percent... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Barbara Bry: Business is Blooming
University of California, San Diego. "It was clear," Bry says, "that growth in the old Navy town of San Diego was going to have to come from new technology companies. CONNECT was designed to link entrepreneurs with the resources they... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Finding Their Way
The best-laid plans — even those designed and implemented by the remarkably talented alumni of HBS — are seldom immune to life's twists and turns. This is perhaps the overriding lesson that each member of the Class of 1976 has learned... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 11 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Brittani Rettig (MBA 2010)
entrepreneurial and get my hands dirty—I develop fitness choreography, select music, work with graphic designers on the look and feel of my blog, and write all the content." How did Grit by Brit come into being and what are your goals for... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Searching for a Better Society
experience I have had," he says. At 44, Dumon has had more experience than most. A self-described "Internet product guy," he has known both success and failure, and he believes that failure can be a good... View Details
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Mohamed Farid
job offers to seek positions as assistants to CEOs, or even to start a school. Even the classes are designed to challenge convention. "You get more than six hundred cases here—you're guaranteed to find at least a dozen of them... View Details