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23 Jun 2014
News

Freedom to Explore

former president of the HBS Alumni Association in the UK and organizer of the 2005 HBS Global Leadership Forum, explains that the School gave her the confidence to succeed. “HBS showed me the right path. I’m an entrepreneur, and I help... View Details

15 Jul 2020
Video

The HBS Health Minute: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Deep-Learning Insights to Improve Health Outcomes and Reduce Costs

01 Mar 2013
News

Commitment to Leadership

stakeholders. Our group is very excited to be helping fine-tune the new required Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development (FIELD) course, which gives students an opportunity to test what they... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

From Big Pharma to Startup

diagnosis and treatment with genomic sequencing and machine learning to solve antibiotic resistance Nix—develops biosensors that analyze electrochemical biomarkers to deliver... View Details

Keywords: April White

27 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Recovering from the Need to Achieve

comparing, busyness, and worry and take the steps towards where you want to be." Seeking out others is key to recovery, he writes, recommending the SKS form, which he View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

12 Apr 2007
Working Paper Summaries

From Manufacturing to Design: An Essay on the Work of Kim B. Clark

Keywords: by Sylvain Lenfle & Carliss Y. Baldwin; Manufacturing

16 Oct 2018
Blog Post

2 Tips to Beat Imposter Syndrome

I’ll first ask myself: Did you do something difficult, and survive (like get cold-called)? Did you make a wise choice? Did you create value for someone or an organization? Did you learn from a mistake? Then, I’ll jot it down on a Post-It... View Details

13 Feb 2020
Book

Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations

twenty years and the concurrent growing mistrust of leaders and institutions—are rooted in the inability of corporate leaders to learn the truth and respond effectively. Few corporate leaders would want... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

19 Jun 2023
Blog Post

The Road to Impact

When he turned 50, David Offensend (MBA 1977) decided to make a change. He’d had a successful career in finance, but ever since his undergraduate days of studying public and international affairs at Princeton, Offensend planned that, one... View Details

01 Dec 2009
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Back to School

Priest Photo courtesy Anthony Priest While scrubbing graffiti off the desks and walls in my classroom, I often ponder “What am I doing?” “Am I learning anything?” “Did that student really mean it when he said, ‘I will find you and mess... View Details

Keywords: Anthony Priest; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

The Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology, and Inbound Selling to go from $0 to $100 Million

The Sales Acceleration Formula provides a scalable, predictable approach to growing revenue and building a winning sales team. Everyone wants to build the next $100 million business and author Mark Roberge has actually done it using a unique methodology... View Details

July 2022
Teaching Note

Arçelik (A), (B): From a Dealer Network to an Omnichannel Experience

By: Ayelet Israeli, Fares Khrais and Menna Hassan

Arçelik Turkey, the country’s market leader in household appliances, was at an omnichannel crossroads in January 2020. Arçelik was a B2B player utilizing a dealership network with an umbrella of brands and had one of the largest brick-and-mortar store networks in... View Details

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June 2022
Article

A New Initiative to Track HIV Resource Allocation and Costs

By: Ryan McBain, AK Nandakumar, Michael Ruffner, Carlyn Mann, Mai Hijazi, Susanna Baker, Linden Morrison, Kalipso Chalkidou, Shufang Zhang, Iris Semini, Fern Terris-Prestholt, Steven Forsythe, Sarah Byakika, Joshua Musinguzi and Robert S. Kaplan

In early 2020, several global health institutions – including the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS); United States Agency for International Development; and Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator at... View Details

Keywords: Activity Based Costing; HIV; Cost; Health Care; Healthcare; Health Care and Treatment; Activity Based Costing and Management; Resource Allocation; Health Industry; Africa

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28 Apr 2023
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From Harvard Business School to Spotify: Four Lessons in My Journey to Land My Dream Job

your MBA experience From the first day of my MBA, my classmates knew that I loved music and wanted to explore careers in Entertainment and Media. On the professional front, I joined the Entertainment & Media Club, became the VP of... View Details

09 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

Five Steps to Better Family Negotiations

influence the other side to give them what they want. As a result, most people do not go into negotiation with the goal of listening to and learning about the other party. This... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra

11 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

The Quiet Leader—and How to Be One

Often, if you're not sure you're being pulled in different directions, that's because the situation itself is complicated. It's not because there's something wrong with you—unless you feel this way all the time. Then, those are the times when a degree of modesty that... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

September 2017
Case

From 80 Thoreau to Mooncusser Fish House & Moon Bar (A)

By: Lena G. Goldberg and Sandra Bahous

After extensive planning, Ian Calhoun, (MBA 2010) who was also a chef trained in Paris at Le Cordon Bleu, and two co-founders launched 80 Thoreau, a “progressive fine dining” restaurant in Concord, Massachusetts, that became a local favorite as well as a special... View Details

Keywords: Small Business; Expansion; Decision Choices and Conditions; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Boston; Cambridge

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27 Sep 2021
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Working to Change the Food System

important next step for us is finding strong product market fit – among all the different capabilities we can engineer within our microalgae, which ones are most important? And to whom is it important? If you’re reading this and have... View Details

May 2021
Teaching Note

From Globalization to Dual Digital Transformation: CEO Thierry Breton Leading Atos Into 'Digital Shockwaves'

By: Tsedal Neeley

Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 419-027 and 419-046. Thierry Breton, chairman and CEO of IT company Atos, faces a pivotal juncture. After spending eight intense years scaling the company globally to over 100,000 employees in 70 countries, he sees digital shockwaves... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Transformation; Strategy; Disruption; Employees; Competency and Skills; Training; Organizational Culture; Digital Transformation; Information Technology Industry

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2023
Article

Green Bargains: Leveraging Public Investment to Advance Climate Regulation

By: Jonas Meckling and Jesse Strecker

Climate policy has entered a new era as public investment is increasingly moving to center stage, including recovery spending and long-term climate investment plans. While essential for decarbonization, public investment is not enough – the carrots of investment need... View Details

Keywords: Government and Politics; Environmental Regulation; Climate Change; Policy; Motivation and Incentives

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