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Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online

challenges associated with developing, overseeing, or interacting with a platform business Explore strategies for transitioning a product or service into a platform Build offensive and defensive plans to effectively develop or compete... View Details

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Pam Wildeman

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? After a few years in Finance, I learned that career success and passion don’t always go hand in hand. I also felt that my experience base was very industry-specific. So more than just wanting to View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media

01 Oct 2015
News

Banking on Trust

she brought in a former government minister who had guided a similar transition in his South American country. “Hearing directly from someone who had been through it helped convince the president and parliament that they could make the... View Details

January 2018 (Revised May 2018)
Case

AT&T Managing Technological Change and the Future of Telephone Operators in the 20th Century

By: Daniel P. Gross and William R. Kerr

By the 1930s, AT&T dominated the American phone industry, serving 10 million telephones and employing over 100,000 switchboard operators. But beginning in the mid-1910s, the company began changing from manually operated switchboards to mechanical switching systems that... View Details

Keywords: AT＆T; Bell Telephone; Phone Lines; Phone Operators; Mechanical Switching; Layoffs; Technological Change; Transition; History; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Disruption; Change Management; Communications Industry; Telecommunications Industry; United States

8 AM – 5 PM EDT, 31 May 2018
Career Events

HBS Career Reboot Camp in Boston

Career Reboot Camp is coming to Boston! Led by Professor Tim Butler and facilitated by HBS career coaches, participants will work through exercises to reflect on their key career interests, what's important to them in work and life, and create a plan to move forward... View Details

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Kendall Brinker

the perfect transition to the case method, "which really recruited me to HBS," she says. "I originally thought I would learn a lot of models, but instead, HBS emphasizes the thought skills you need as a manager. Through the... View Details

01 Sep 2016
News

3 Minute Briefing: Y Combinator’s Qasar Younis

perspective, Y Combinator is about one word: focus. We strip a company down to its core. What service or product are you providing? How are you getting those customers? And are there enough of those customers? When I was in Chicago and making a View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2003
News

HBS Launches Alumni Survey

marking a reunion year, plus alumni who are two years out — a critical time of transition for many grads. The initial survey will be sent to the 2003 MBA reunion classes. It is designed to take about twenty minutes to complete, and... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

09 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 9

Competency-destroying Technology Transitions: Why the Transition to Digital Is Particularly Challenging Willy ShihHarvard Business School Note 613-024 This note discusses technical aspects of the transition... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Apr 2018
Blog Post

Carol Fishman Cohen (MBA 1985) On Getting Back into the Workforce

need to figure out exactly what you want to do before you can relaunch or transition in your career. The career break can be a gift in this regard- it's the first time you allow yourself to step back and reflect on whether you were on the... View Details

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Energy & Environment Club’s Icelandic Adventure! - Blog - Business & Environment

Baseload is taking to help us get there. After this introduction, we traveled to Transition Labs , a company focused on accelerating climate startups. We were hosted by Kjartan Örn Ólafsson (MBA 2005), the CEO and co-founder of View Details

Horace C. Wright

Wright spent 44 years with the company and led it through its transition from the small Chicago Flexible Shaft Company to its present incarnation as Sunbeam Corporation. Under his leadership, Sunbeam dramatically expanded its home... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

Portrait Project

Tedde Tsang

Fillmore. Geary. Stockton. Mission. Polk. Van Ness. The names of San Francisco's bus lines still come easily to my mind more than half a decade after working at the city's transit agency. In my time there, I religiously rode all 66 bus... View Details

February 2000 (Revised November 2000)
Case

Women.com

By: Myra M. Hart and Sarah S. Khetani

Entrepreneurs Ellen Pack and Marleen McDaniel have founded a women's online network and watched it grow from an online subscription service in 1992 to one of the best known, widely visited women's networks on the web in 1999. While the company's vision has remained... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Internet and the Web; Partners and Partnerships; Initial Public Offering; Networks; Transition; Web Services Industry

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August 2012
Case

Growing Pains at Stroz Friedberg (Abridged)

By: David A. Garvin and Michael Norris

In late spring 2009, Stroz Friedberg co-presidents Edward Stroz and Eric Friedberg had to set growth targets for 2010. The leading global consulting firm they had built specialized in managing digital risk and uncovering digital evidence and had grown very rapidly.... View Details

Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Change Management; Transition; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Consulting Industry

June 24, 2016
Other Article

Why Brexit Is a Big Deal

By: John A. Quelch

The consequences of yesterday's vote by the British people to leave the European Union will be far-reaching, but there is no reason for global markets to panic.
Brexit is a vote against the European Union. Once heralded as the engine of a one-for-all and... View Details

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March 1974 (Revised June 1996)
Case

First National City Bank Operating Group (A)

By: Jay W. Lorsch

Growth in the banking field has produced new demands on the "back office." Traditional management practices in check processing and paper handling operations have resulted in ten years of cost increases and quality loss. New manager of the operating group faces an... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Transition; Banks and Banking; Management Practices and Processes; Managerial Roles; Production; Banking Industry