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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
South Asian Women at Work
Smart but passive. Good technicians, but not likely managers. Women from India and Pakistan frequently must combat stereotypes about how they function at work. But they should resist labels and pursue the careers of their dreams, said... View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Tech Investment the Wise Way
Business Model Concept This term "Business Model" is widely used, but seldom well defined. In our usage, the functions of a Business Model are to: identify a market segment, that is, the users to whom the technology is useful... View Details
- 29 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Merging the Worlds of Finance, Investing, and Environmental Impact
more finance-heavy as a result. Acquiring that knowledge was one of my functional goals—and I achieved that—but the relationships I built at HBS, including with my wife, Leadership Now founder Daniella Ballou-Aares (MBA 2001), have had... View Details
- Mar 2012
- Article
Does America Really Need Manufacturing?
fall into four quadrants: pure product innovation, pure process innovation, process-embedded innovation, and process-driven innovation. In the first two quadrants, locating design near production isn't critical, but separating the two View Details
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Anne Marie Checcone
Anne Marie (HBS ‘04, Johns Hopkins ‘98) is an executive coach and career advisor to leaders who strive for the highest professional and personal achievement and who inspire the same in their organizations. With 20+ years of experience in product management,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Online Job Bank Debuts
Services. She notes that as of mid-December, the job bank had posted more than 1,000 positions in 47 geographic regions (primarily in the United States), representing 61 industries and 34 functional areas. Of its strong portfolio of job... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
controlled by the firm, then the latter is functioning as a traditional business; if the transferable decisions are controlled by the professionals, then the firm is functioning as a platform. Follow the... View Details
- 19 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
Morgan Sheil (MBA 2021), Climate and Decarbonization at KKR & Co. "Climate change impacts every industry and every function in every geography globally so there are infinite opportunities for MBAs to work on addressing it. We are... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
Morgan Sheil (MBA 2021), Climate and Decarbonization at KKR & Co. "Climate change impacts every industry and every function in every geography globally so there are infinite opportunities for MBAs to work on addressing it. We are... View Details
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
CEO-doubled during this period, this growth was driven primarily by an increase in functional managers rather than general managers, a phenomenon we term "functional centralization." Using panel data on senior management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
is a powerful distinction to be drawn between two potentially profitable cross-border functions that firms can perform: arbitrage, which involves capitalizing on differences or distance between countries, and replication, which involves... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Kristin Brennan
Kristin (Duke ’03) applies her background as a management consultant, nonprofit Chief Talent Officer and negotiation strategist to her work helping students and alumni chart a course for their career and take the practical steps to achieve it. She looks forward to... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise
- 01 Aug 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’
(through outsourcing), and give their jobs meaning, then overall size will cease to be much of an issue." Shadreck Salli agreed, commenting that "Any entity is designed to function at different levels/scale. Regardless of the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Taking MBA know-how on tour across America
entrepreneurs functioned in their natural habitats of Washington, DC, New Orleans, Albuquerque, and Asheville, among other cities. “MBAs Across America isn't about know-it-alls going out into the country to ‘fix’ things,” says Gerald, CEO... View Details
- Profile
Chris Hurst
“Infrastructure remains deficient in the Middle East,” Chris says, “but often there’s a significant economic element in conflict. People frequently view the legitimacy of a state as a function of their economic well-being. I wanted tools... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
2006 MBAs Go to Work
“We encourage them to give function a high priority because it’s been shown to result in the highest career satisfaction from a long-term perspective. The numbers show that our message is being taken to heart.” Class of 2008 Class Size... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Father of Modern Advertising
Don Draper and the rest of the Mad Men crew can thank Albert D. Lasker for their fame. A new biography convincingly nominates Lasker as the “father of modern advertising,” noted for creating brilliant ad campaigns selling everything from Kotex — an unknown product... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Dot Vertigo
organizations, Nolan says, technology has so thoroughly penetrated every aspect of the business that its activities, strategies, and functions have become transparent, thereby circumventing any possibility of the disorienting dot vertigo... View Details
- 03 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising
control," Deighton says. "In the 1950s, Dove's advertising approach was similar to a World War II military campaign with a heavy bombardment of 30- and 60-second messages with very strong, functional content. It was all delivered with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI
at Berkeley Haas developed an “AI mentor” to offer advice to entrepreneurs. They found that high-performing businesses functioned even better with the help of the software, while low-performing ones did worse. As the researchers note,... View Details
Keywords: April White