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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
role as co-CEO of Birchbox (Beauchamp continues to run the company as CEO), Barna again beat the odds. In 2017 she became a general partner at First Round Capital, an early stage investor in Birchbox. She was the first woman to hold that... View Details
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
win in the marketplace. This means channeling resources into the right efforts, striking a balance between innovation and control, and getting everyone to pull in the same direction. How do you accomplish all this? Continually ask the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
economy. Success requires a continuous influx of new ideas, new challenges, and critical thought, and the interpersonal climate must not suppress, silence, ridicule, or intimidate. Not every idea is good, and yes there are stupid... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
Personalized Learning in India IMAX is a provider of comprehensive testing and personalized content across mid-range and low-cost private K-10 schools in India. It aims to improve learning outcomes by providing schools with an integrated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
games. It was all part of a long term strategy to improve the franchise by getting better draft picks. And it necessitated a short term strategy of losing. Throughout, though, the 76er CEO Scott O’Neil (MBA 1998) says his front office... View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
forecasts to align investors' expectations with their own, we predict that managers increased the quality of their earnings forecasts during the 1990s in order to keep pace with the improved forward-looking information provided by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
he produced on what he called the “artistry” of teaching. Inspired by Christensen’s example, successive generations of teachers — in business, law, medicine, and other disciplines — continue to take up that challenge today. “For many of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundwork
progression from the 1925 McKim, Mead & White footprint for the first residential business school in America to an array of HBS projects slated for completion by 2023, he emphasizes the importance of continuity and symmetry. “When the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Prescriptions: Free the Data! Build a Killer App Measure Health Care's Real Costs Make Medicine Personal Leverage Human Nature Integrate Preventive Care and Payment BUSH: A passionate advocate for improving health care efficiency and... View Details
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
trying to secure specimens. Alongside primary medical education providers, a large number and wide range of other users are also trying to secure cadavers for their own needs. The continuing training of medical doctors, for instance,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
and children. But part of the transition, which continues into our own time, has been political and social. From the Boston Tea Party to the civil rights boycotts, consumers have used their buying power to express dissatisfaction with the... View Details
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
needed while some are not. How to change the organization and management teams to create new competencies without changing your essence and core values?” Skills needed now: Continuous learning and integrating new information; developing... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
Liverpool's Inconvenient Imperial Past, 300-332. Studies in Imperialism. Manchester: Manchester University Press, forthcoming Abstract John Holt & Co is one of a group of unlikely survivors from the imperial era: medium-sized firms that View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
read "Go home Googlers." It was a daily reminder, she says, that something was broken. That this great technological revolution just wasn't working for everyone. Today, Ingersoll works as COO of Code for America, a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to View Details
- 29 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 29, 2007
needs of the "poorest of the poor," who cannot even repay loans and therefore do not qualify as Habitat beneficiaries? How can Makar continue to innovate to achieve the greatest mission impact while maintaining funding and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
international awards. How could the company capitalize on this success? Should Grace expand its operations to multiple Chinese provinces? Should Grace continue as a premium boutique winery serving a growing but ultimately limited niche... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview
humblebraggers. The takeaway: Seriously, stop humblebragging! "Not only do we like humblebraggers less that braggers, but we're less likely to be generous to them," Gino says. Next Steps And Lessons Learned Gino says her team plans to View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 May 2011
- Op-Ed
Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society
Editor's note: Please see related story, Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It's Effective. To what extent companies contribute to a sustainable society is a question increasingly important, not only to the companies themselves, but also to investors, the countries... View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Potential Downside of Win-Win
better off, since $100 million is more than $80 million. A would also do better, since overall earnings of $200 million would exceed $150 million. Who would be worse off under this proposition? The consumer, who must continue to pay $3.05... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- Blog
Two-Year Action Plan Update: Q+A with Terrill Drake, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Harvard Business School
We want to be the catalyzing force that empowers folks to work on their own behalf, for their colleagues or the constituents they serve, and the institution. There continues to be much interest and excitement about the work that our... View Details