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Career Coach

Matt Spielman

Matt (Columbia ’94, HBS ’99) is the Founder and Managing Partner of Inflection Point Partners, an executive coaching and leadership development firm dedicated to igniting careers and energizing lives. Matt and his team at Inflection... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products; Entertainment / Media; Entrepreneurship; Financial Services (All); Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Sports; Technology; Venture Capital; Financial Services (All)

20 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 20, 2007

understanding of design and manufacturing processes to instruct successfully her American and offshore contractors on how to mass-produce designer clothing at affordable prices. Claiborne was an industry pioneer in many ways. She... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Articles - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

in attempts to cut costs, uncovering multiple opportunities to improve processes in ways that lower total costs and deliver better care. Publications Delivering Higher Value Care Means Spending More Time with Patients HARVARD BUSINESS... View Details

01 Oct 2001
News

The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision

margin of about one dollar to repay the loan and earn a profit. The LCAE team is in the process of selecting countries in which to operate, examining factors such as market size, regulation, and access to... View Details

Keywords: eyeglasses

29 Sep 2015
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September 29, 2015

evolved in those markets. New business processes had to be created from scratch as a network originally intended for research and military defense had to deal with network interconnectivity, the needs of commercial users, and a host of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Sep 2015
Blog Post

4 Challenges All Early-Stage Startups Face

diversity of skill-sets on the team. Through the process, we tackled four challenges that every early stage startup will face. Here's how we approached each of them. 1. Choosing a team Choosing a team can... View Details

30 Oct 2018
News

Paths of Victory

teams applied to the New Ventures Competition (NVC), competing in one of three tracks—Alumni, Social Enterprise, and Student Business. While student teams prepared on campus, alumni View Details

Keywords: Alumni New Venture Contest; Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government

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Turnarounds and Transformation - Course Catalog

Students will work in teams of three or four. Each team will choose an organization that has undergone a recent turnaround. The turnaround effort must have ended or be advanced enough to allow in-depth... View Details

30 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

Amit Seru Abstract—We examine whether firms have an informational advantage in selecting arbitrators in consumer arbitration as well as the impact of the arbitrator selection process on outcomes. We collect data containing roughly 9,000... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

11 Jun 2014
Blog Post

Alumni: Where are they now? Featuring Joe…

technologies, performing due diligence on prospective investments, conducting deep dives into new spaces and developing investment theses, helping our existing portfolio companies as a board observer, and supporting the firm’s fundraising View Details

Keywords: Technology

01 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 1

experience yields improved performance. Experience, however, can take many forms. Building on recent studies on learning in operations, we distinguish between repetition of task (i.e., prior experience with the task) and repetition of interaction (i.e., prior... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27

demonstrates that SFP always enables truth to speak to power safely, and in a majority of cases enables senior teams to transform silent barriers into strengths, realign their organization's design and strategic management View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Sometimes Success Begins at Failure

discovered these negative results, some firms might have thrown in the towel and moved on to other projects. But Pfizer's scientists picked up on—and decided to pursue—what they thought might be an interesting side effect. That side effect led the View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough; Health; Pharmaceutical

07 Nov 2014
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Investing for the Long Term in Education

building the processes that make sure that anybody who comes into the team can operate and feel really good about their contributions to the team.” Find HBS alumni at Carnegie Corporation (Published November... View Details

26 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?

When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology; Information; Technology

26 Jul 2017
Blog Post

“Uncertainty Makes It More Interesting.”

through the efforts of a tiny team that began with three people and had grown to just eleven. “I thought it was the ideal place to go,” Felipe says. “The uncertainty makes it more interesting. How do you take a product aimed at a Canadian... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

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IFC: Israel; Startups and Venture Capital - Course Catalog

combination of both depending on your individual circumstances. The Add/Drop process at the start of the term is the mechanism for any IFC enrollment changes, and, after that point, the course fee is non-refundable. Refer to the GEO... View Details

10 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table

bolster their bargaining power, and channeling the flow of the process through time. They understand that actions taken away from the negotiating table can be as important as what goes on at the table, if not more so.1 Specifically,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins

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IFC: Italy; Tradition and Innovation - Course Catalog