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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS
well-being without degrading the natural systems that are also critical to our well-being is one of the great challenges — and great... View Details
- 2011
- Chapter
American Exceptionalism?: A Comparative Analysis of the Origins and Trajectory of U.S. Business Education Development
By: Rakesh Khurana
As business education in an academic setting becomes an increasingly global phenomenon, the university-based business school in America remains a unique institution. This holds true despite the fact that the American business school as it evolved in the post-World War... View Details
- 04 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Finding My Passion in the Startup Space
rely to a large extent on how well you gel with the team during the interview process. Early on at Blueground, it was clear that the culture was a View Details
- January 2004
- Article
Corporate Venturing: The Origins of Unilever's Pregnancy Test
By: Geoffrey Jones and Alison Kraft
The relative ability of different sizes of firm and organisational designs to develop and sustain dynamic capabilities in innovation and create new businesses remains a matter of contention. While Chandler among many others has emphasised the pre-eminent role of large... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Organizational Design; Technological Innovation; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Brands and Branding; Multinational Firms and Management; Product Development; Product Launch; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Great Britain
Jones, Geoffrey, and Alison Kraft. "Corporate Venturing: The Origins of Unilever's Pregnancy Test." Business History 46, no. 1 (January 2004): 100–122.
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
How to Close the Health Gap
companies largely ignored the world’s poor: few new drugs were created to combat tropical diseases and TB. The needs of the developing world also were neglected by View Details
- 2009
- Chapter
The Decline and Renewal of British Multinational Banking.
By: G. Jones and Lucy Newton
This chapter discusses the renaissance of British multinational banking from the 1990s. British commercial banks had pioneered multinational banking during the 19th century, but they were unable to build on this legacy during the new wave of global banking that began... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
office.” “The private sector vendor community has done a great job of attracting that talent,” says Lefkowitz. “You may not want to wear a suit—and maybe you’d have trouble passing a background check, and maybe you want to play video... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 15 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
One Month into the New MS/MBA Biotech
We were so delighted at the level of engagement from the students. It was a great start to the program and provided wonderful momentum for View Details
- September 2016
- Case
Truly Human Leadership at Barry-Wehmiller
By: Dylan Minor and Jan Rivkin
The chief executive of Barry-Wehmiller, a large maker of industrial equipment, has resolved to run the company via “truly human leadership” in which “success is measured by the way we touch the lives of people.” With unusual people practices and a distinctive strategy,... View Details
Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Values and Beliefs; Organizational Culture; Employees; Business Strategy; Manufacturing Industry
Minor, Dylan, and Jan Rivkin. "Truly Human Leadership at Barry-Wehmiller." Harvard Business School Case 717-420, September 2016.
- 13 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
Benefits of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
his business and leadership skillset, Damjan planned to spend the next two years focused on engineering. “I knew it wasn’t enough just to be a strong software engineer. It might be enough to build a great... View Details
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
encompassed other important inflection points. The end of the Civil War was one. The onset of the Great Depression... View Details
- 26 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
The Road Untraveled: VC Perspectives on COVID-19
environment. We are officially live on Spotify, so please go follow 'The Road Untraveled' and share with anyone who may be interested. If you know of someone who would be a great guest on the show, please... View Details
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the ‘Flutie Effect’ on College Marketing
rises from mediocre to great on the gridiron, applications increase by 17.7 percent. To attain similar effects, a school has to either lower tuition by 3.8 percent or increase View Details
- 05 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
Reflecting on the Section Experience at HBS
his reaction when we told him what we had done. The section is a place where you will find your closest friends at HBS, and it’s a pretty great place to “have” to go every day in your RC year. View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Attending HBS to Grow the Family Business
As a kid, Lauren Derse (MBA 2010) hit the family business jackpot. Her mom was the CEO and founder of—you guessed it—a chain of toy store franchises. After growing up in small town Massachusetts (and... View Details
- 03 Jan 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?
that the Girl Scouts paid for their operations out of money earned from cookie sales. It was a set of assumptions difficult to change; it mattered a great deal in an organization in which each of View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 04 Nov 2002
- What Do You Think?
What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?
organizations, like Southwest Airlines, seek to minimize employee turnover and go to great lengths to avoid downsizing, concentrating instead on very careful hiring and training. Others, like GE, in addition to providing an array of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
HBS Faculty Explore Ideas Around the World
responsibility shared by so many business leaders in countries with great income disparities. Learn more at www.hbs.edu/businesshistory/emerging-markets Global Case Writing Shaped by Faculty Interests Assistant Professor Doug Chung’s... View Details
Keywords: faculty research
- 09 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Navigating Grey in the Ever-Evolving Tech Community
could offer to incoming MBAs interested in the tech community? My favorite tech roles to date have all been ones where I felt strongly about both the company culture and the... View Details