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- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Cold Call Horror Stories
pretty funny. It was pretty funny. Katherine Randolph, 1993, Section H. My cold call story was being cold called by Michael Porter, the day that we did the Five Forces. Now as backstory, I got into Harvard Business School as the total diversity admit after working in... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
student-sponsored talks given by venture capitalists and other business professionals on topics such as market research and financing. Besides providing practical information and support, these get-togethers serve as a catalyst for... View Details
- Web
HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
economic impact of the pandemic, the primary objective was to avoid layoffs and furloughs. The School scaled back on myriad expenses, curbed overtime, and froze pay rates for faculty and exempt staff. As a result, salaries and benefits... View Details
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
trust. Why is One Report important now? "The capital markets and our planet have simultaneously reached a fork in the road. One path continues the status quo. The other and new path is a commitment to a better society, stronger financial... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
impossible for primary breadwinners; the kids learned independence early on. So here we are, 25 years after graduation. We’ve lived in Ecuador, Costa Rica, Sweden, Brazil, and now Malaysia (our sons are grown). My conclusion is that it is... View Details
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
the past fifteen years of the contest, it's extraordinary." The Art Of The Pivot A few common experiences filter to the surface in conversations with past contest participants, whether their venture sells crème brûlée or online video... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
have today's senior executives, trained in the days when the pyramidal organization and domestic markets held sway, made the transition to a global, technology-driven economy? For three 1971 classmates and corporate leaders, Donald J.... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
performance, and not performers. Performance may be based on factors besides the talent and motivation of the individual in question, such as job or market conditions. A person may perform well in some aspects of the job but not in... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
Americans in her apartment building and moved to Boston, where she became a dance instructor at Tufts University. Thinking she might want to lead an arts organization, Barron applied to HBS. After cutting her teeth with McKinsey on a... View Details
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
performance, and not performers. Performance may be based on factors besides the talent and motivation of the individual in question, such as job or market conditions. A person may perform well in some aspects of the job but not in... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
dynamic, long-term impacts of bundling on demand. The primary explanation for the profitability of bundling relies on homogenization of consumer valuations for the bundle, allowing the firm to extract more surplus. We find bundling can be... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
like Cisco, Microsoft, and Airbnb to scale their impact. Since its programs are driven by local needs across 40 geographies, they run the gamut, from agriculture and financial inclusion to food security, market development, policy, and... View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
quantity and quality. Performance data was always at the heart of those efforts, but it wasn't a leading factor. Q: What is your primary focus? Morino: Performance really starts with the leadership of the organization. I didn't set out to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
arm that would later be published in the local paper. (A journalism major at the University of Georgia, Langford won two years’ free tuition for an editorial he penned on the value of free markets.) While his work—first as an international View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
most recently as a Middle East expert at Oxford University and as chairman of Falcon Intercapital in Geneva, Switzerland. “Most of the Iraqi Governing Council and Cabinet believe in free market principles and the principles of an open... View Details