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- 04 Nov 2019
- News
A Home for Startups
which acts as a platform to bring these people together and let them interact with each other to generate new ideas, new business opportunities. “Collaboration is the currency of the future, and we are stepping forward in that direction. We have a very View Details
Keywords: work space
- Portrait Project
Valerie Bockstette
them are too busy keeping order in the classroom, making rent, or joining gangs to notice them. To ask: "Do you want to go to college?" - "Have you read a good book lately?" - "Can you even read?" How do we... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Fulfilling Their Promise
was humbling. “Up until then, I thought I was a smart person,” says Schooner, whose lengthy career was spent primarily at Chrysler and Textron. “I was well-educated, well-traveled, made a lot of money, had a good career, and [then I had]... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
Illustration by Martin Leon Barreto In a lot of ways, it didn’t seem like a very good experiment to run. A young HBS professor—a rising star in the Finance area, an economist by training, by then already... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A Call to Innovation
the United States will never again dominate the world stage as it did in the latter half of the 20th century. But it can yet again be the “indispensable nation” by “using our mastery of innovation as a force for good in the world.” Kao,... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
the book with an anecdote about Bob, this well-liked employee of yours who produced subpar work. Can you recount that story and talk about how that experience was instructive for you? Kim Scott: This View Details
- 07 May 2025
- News
Scaling New Heights
Brianna Brown, chief product officer at City Fresh Foods in Boston. (Photo/video credit: Susan Young) City Fresh Foods has long served nutritious meals to students, seniors, and daycare centers in Greater Boston’s under-resourced communities. But when the company saw... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
Issue Focus: Entrepreneurship Cassidy: At Google, a more intense and frenetic experience than launching his own companies. Art by Joe Ciardiello Related Links Watch a video of Mike Cassidy explaining his approach to rapid product... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
A Conversation with Dean Clark
of lively conversations before I took this job - mostly about ideas, rather than mechanics - and those discussions have continued. Neil and I share similar views on the School and its opportunities, so our relationship is on a sound footing. Our students have to View Details
- 24 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Internship In Action
different teams including Buyers, Seller Relationship Managers, Product Managers, and Developers. I now have a very good understanding of how much effort and resources go behind every single button we press on any website or mobile... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
good fit. After joining the firm, he found that he enjoyed the work and he was good at it. “It was intense, there were really sharp people, and we worked on deals, so you kind of get hooked on the sense of... View Details
- Profile
Sid Shenai
doing this because I could, not because I wanted to," says Sid. Encouraged by his friends at Harvard Law School, Sid visited a few classes; the experience "blew my mind. The professors pushed students past their assumptions. It... View Details
- 25 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Advice on Switching Careers While at HBS
It is a feeling that is familiar to many of us, the “career switchers”: beginning an MBA program with a keen interest in a different industry, yet not really sure where to start. I had worked in management consulting for three years before HBS, and while I loved my... View Details
- 05 Jun 2017
- News
Women on Boards: A Course Becomes a Movement
Only, no one tells you,” says Frei. “This course tells you.” Martinez says she certainly came away with far more knowledge than she expected. “I left the program with a very clear understanding on how a board operates, the role of the different committees, what is... View Details
Keywords: Margaret Kelley
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Mark Pincus (MBA 1993)
eBay, Skype, and more recently, Uber. I saw the opportunity to do that with play—to make it a social, bite-sized experience that would give adults permission to put play back in their lives. I don’t think Zynga has achieved that status... View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12
the company started in management consulting. After graduating from Harvard College in 2005, Surette joined Parthenon for three years before matriculating at HBS in the fall of 2008. Amid a global recession, his business school experience... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
a release and when. Several projects that have created foundations are experimenting with this tension now—"How much structure can we impose on volunteers?" People are intimately aware of the fact that too much structure will... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 30 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Driving Social Impact Through Consumer Behavior: Nonprofit to Finance to Retail with Nicole Krantz (MBA 2022)
testing a new work environment. “I had worked at two smaller companies and founded a startup, so I thought, ‘What’s the opposite of that in retail?’” Krantz said. When she saw an internship opportunity at Dick’s Sporting Goods posted on... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories
The use of the prototype center reflects an important tenet of service experiments: design and production problems should be worked out off-line, in a lab setting without customers, before the service delivery is tested in a live environment. An View Details
- 04 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Female Stars Succeed in New Jobs
a good choice.” Overall, we found that stars did poorly at their new firms. Analyzing the data further revealed that there are gender differences in how well stars do after they jump ship. In fact, the decline in performance was... View Details