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03 Aug 2022
News

Hungry for Change

damaged the health of the planet, with single-use plastic from food packaging clogging landfills. Flynn had never imagined herself as an entrepreneur, but she quickly recognized that the food system was not one she could change from within the existing structures. She... View Details

Keywords: April White

04 Mar 2014
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

employees to raise their creative game. But Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, has a different approach, creating an organization that values and rewards innovation rather than attempting to create it with his bare hands. AG Lafley, P&G's chief executive, revivied the... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

01 Jun 2022
News

Vision: Into the Breach

Cyberattacks are surging: Accenture reports that cyber intrusions jumped by 125 percent, globally, in the first half of 2021 over the same period in 2020. And while all those data breaches and ransomware attacks have meant major headaches for View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

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Why Home Construction Has Slumped for Decades | Working Knowledge

sector is very entrepreneurial. Many new firms are started every year, and the sector accounts for a disproportionate share of small businesses in America. But you also very rarely see those companies scale... View Details

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Jon Puz

background spans from small to large companies across most sectors of the industry (particularly health IT / digital health, healthcare services, provider, payor, and some pharma/biotech). Jon also has... View Details

28 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World

company-no matter how large-was immune to failure, and that the lessons he was learning from startups could be applied far more broadly. "I realized it wasn't just small companies who were fragile, and whose... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Mar 2008
News

Sarah Talley’s Key Negotiation Principles

ignore small issues or let things fester. Do not let Wal-Mart become more than 20 percent of your company’s business. It’s hard to negotiate with a company that controls yours. Never go into a meeting... View Details

Keywords: General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade

19 Feb 2020
News

Running a Decathlon

Group, a small company that advises and invests in aerospace, defense, and homeland security companies and whose advisory board includes a number of U.S. Air Force generals,... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

Richard W. Sears

After having much success selling a small order of watches he had come across while working as a telegrapher, Sears entered the merchandising business full time and devoted his business to rural, relatively poor farmers. Though Sears was... View Details

Keywords: Retail

01 Dec 2014
News

Case Study: Growing the Family Business

center the company remodeled, is expected to cost about $200,000 to break even.) The sector is not of interest to venture capital or many angels. The company is too small for... View Details

Keywords: childcare; Finance

01 Oct 1997
News

Antitrust in Historical Perspective

turn, means putting the "mom-and-pop" operations cherished in American lore out of business. Indeed, the creation of the Standard Oil Trust in 1882, which put small companies out of business and... View Details

Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow

Career Coach

Christina LaMontagne

Christina (HBS '09, Dartmouth '03) has held senior roles across innovative healthcare companies. She has led small digital health companies to achieve market leadership and >$100M ARR and has helped... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Technology

11 Jan 2019
Blog Post

The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS

Conversations as Coffee Chats at other MBA schools. These 1:1 or small group meetings are a great way to connect with companies and get to know them on a personal level. View Details

10 Jan 2020
Blog Post

Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Retail

makes them important partners for retail companies seeking to attract and retain talent. What Students Want HBS student interest in retail has remained steady over the past five years with approximately 3% of the class joining the... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma

keep up, he said, they create the potential for a disrupter to take hold: to fill a ready niche and quietly, over time, expand and invade the market. And as each company gets big and successful, it loses its ability to pursue View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

24 Apr 2014
News

Betting big on star power can be a winning strategy in business—not just show business

Researching the entertainment industry, Anita Elberse, the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration, has found that blockbuster strategies work. Content producers who pursue these strategies make huge investments in a small... View Details

01 Oct 1997
News

Expanded Elective Curriculum Offers Students A Wealth of Choices

entrepreneurship, for example, nine courses will be offered this year, including four that are new or substantially revised: Starting New Ventures, Running and Growing a Small Business, Entrepreneurial Marketing, and Management of the... View Details

04 Nov 2019
News

A Home for Startups

Ankit Samdariya (MBA 2013) is CEO of The Hive, a collaborative workspace firm in Chennai, India. In this video, he discusses how the company is serving the rapidly growing trend toward collaborative work among Indian startups and View Details

Keywords: work space

07 Dec 2022
News

Dubai-Based Proptech Builds Up

Dubai to Saudi Arabia and beyond. "There are almost 25,000 short-term rentals here in Dubai and 550 companies are operating them," he said. "These are often small companies... View Details

01 Apr 2000
News

Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti

individual taxpayers with wage and investment income; small business and self-employed taxpayers; large business taxpayers; and exempt organizations, such as nonprofits and state and local governments. Each unit will focus on... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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