Vision - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Jan 2023
News

Forged in Fire

life, the things outside my sphere of influence, what can I do to make them work for me instead of against me? For me, it was figuring out how can I make blind look good? And if I could never sit back and reimagine my vision of greatness... View Details

02 Jul 2010
What Do You Think?

Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?

realizing intermediate goals or through some kind of overarching mission and vision that helps an organization achieve long-term shareholder value as well. Of course, it assumes that we know what those things (missions, visions,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

19 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Radical Design, Radical Results

within the organization. "Rather than being pulled by user requirements," he wrote recently, "design-driven innovation is pushed by a firm's vision about possible new product meanings and languages that could diffuse in... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation

For high-powered executive women, the HBS program Women Leading Business: An Executive Forum offers a unique opportunity to discuss strategy, examine problems, and explore solutions. Below Professor Myra Hart shares her vision of the... View Details

Keywords: Re: Myra M. Hart & Cynthia A. Montgomery

06 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows

HR&A Advisors, he crafted policies promoting housing development and economic growth for historically underinvested neighborhoods. Danno said, “HBS provides the opportunity to turn my vision for community-driven urban development into... View Details

08 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Koppert Cress: Macro Greenhouses, Microgreens

today, in the next decade other hubs containing the needed infrastructure will hopefully begin to develop around the world. Instead of viewing this as a threat, Koppert Cress has started selling seeds to its competitors. Baan’s vision is... View Details

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Rock 100: The Summit - Entrepreneurship

Better Business Model , John Mullins & Randy Komisar Hypothesis-Driven Entrepreneurship: The Lean Startup , Tom Eisenmann Vision versus Hallucination – Founders and Pivots , Steve Blank Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything , Steven... View Details

28 Mar 2018
News

Fueling the Future

new logo, website, and mission statement to reflect the broader vision for the waste-to-energy business. “Combusting garbage to produce electricity in an environmentally controlled manner keeps waste out of the landfill and creates... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

17 Feb 2015
News

The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)

producer of Adaptation Now? “I think HBS was really an inspiration when it comes to taking initiative, to taking that first step in pursuit of a vision not knowing what the journey will be.” Which HBS professor had the greatest impact on... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

Career Coach

Erika Osterling

Erika (HBS '09, ITESM '00) brings 20 years of experience as an operating leader and advisor. She has spent most of her career within Energy & Industrial, with additional roles in Consumer and Retail. Erika's 12+ year career at GE progressed from supply chain to... View Details

Keywords: Energy; Oil & Gas; Energy; Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Manufacturing

Career Coach

Deborah Resnick

Deborah (HBS '06) has deep expertise in consulting (breaking into consulting, navigating a career in consulting, and breaking out!), complemented by a diverse set of operational and managerial experience across Fortune 500 companies and a private-equity backed natural... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products; Retail

30 Nov 2017
News

Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

would be a ways off. “This is a really big ship to turn,” he says. “But when I started hearing real, actual time lines—that was music to my ears.” It wasn’t just a vision but a plan. And just as importantly, that plan wasn’t a short-term... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia

21 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse

grand vision for the unified metaverse, the developers of the proto-metaverses will need to agree on a common set of standards for interoperability.” Building a virtual world that’s both equitable and cooperative must go beyond serving... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Nover; Computer; Information Technology

01 Jun 2000
News

Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette

to time." The seeds of Jenrette's passion for historic houses were planted as he grew up in Raleigh during the Depression. In his book, Jenrette recalls seeing the movie Gone with the Wind in 1939, when he was 10: "It came at a time when we were all poor in the South,... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

07 Jan 2025
Blog Post

Revolutionizing Wellness: Kate Twist (MBA 2008) Shapes the Future of Consumer Health Brands

startup with twelve locations across the country. From setting the vision to managing construction build outs, crafting pitches to navigating permits, and having meetings in closets to seeing Ever/Body’s first feature in Vogue, Twist has... View Details

10 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Cofounders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke

management. “We have decided to start building a product for which there is an urgent need amongst our target customer base as well as a willingness to pay,” said van Poecke. “Needless to say, our medium-term product vision is larger as... View Details

15 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

asteroid miner. Such visions are clearly not going to become reality in the near future. But detailed roadmaps to them are being produced, and recent progress in the required technologies has been dramatic. If such space-economy View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

03 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 3

explores the Forum's understanding of its role in the world, the vision of leadership that animates the program, and the structure and content of the program. It asks how successful the program has been in providing the kind of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Jul 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11

versus improving their existing marketplace and how to pitch their evolving strategic vision to investors. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817103-PDF-ENG View Details