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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
opportunities? The most successful entrepreneurs I interviewed demonstrated that the key is to focus on finding customer problems first, and only then on searching for solutions that can help. “The real dividing line is simple,” explained... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
Senior Associate Dean of Executive Education W. Earl Sasser, Jr., who oversaw the formal development and implementation of EDP, calls it "the most ambitious customized executive education program the School has ever undertaken." The... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
at the bottom of the pyramid so it makes good business sense — not a sense of do-gooding — to go after it.” Today, market forces, private-sector know-how, and grassroots initiatives such as microfinance are all being looked to as tools to... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
learn outside her comfort zone. Today Wallace is founding director of BridgeUp: STEM, an educational initiative at New York’s American Museum of Natural History focused on introducing girls and minorities to computer science. “It’s very... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
was hampered by a lack of test subjects; on the investor side, there was no longer a ready customer base for a SARS vaccine. None ever came to market. In the early days of January 2020, before anyone fully understood how widespread the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Elevator Pitch: Power Sourced
grand-prize winner in the 2021 Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge, Chaku launched its first product, Nikki’s Plantain Crisps, in South Africa in 2020. For its US market approach, the company is initially employing a higher-margin,... View Details
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
Stone Herman, and I'm class of 1997. My professor, Carl Sloan, who was our lead professor, gave the advice that you will probably achieve greater monetary and overall career success than you initially thought possible, but you'll have to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
Photo Courtesy The Timken Company Product innovation and customer service initiatives have also been key to development of The Timken Company, a 104-year-old bearing and steel maker based in Canton, Ohio,... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Fellowships Fuel a Passion to Help Underserved Communities
coursework, Asamoah has served as a student consultant for the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she analyzed how Grand Rapids, Michigan, could increase workforce diversity. As a summer intern... View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Design Thinking: Hands-On Learning At The Harvard Innovation Lab
Professor Srikant Datar’s creative problem-solving course, Design Thinking and Innovation, brings students together to hone their skills in identifying opportunities, prototyping solutions, and iterating to meet customer needs. “Creative... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
Issue Focus: Business and the Environment Zobel de Ayala Photographs by Tom Epperson Issue Focus The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS The City Solution Green Day Related Links Watch Ayala discuss sustainability Sixteen years... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Case Study: A Good Fit
employer would be interested. —Harry McCracken (AMP 114, 1994) A highly competitive market with one-year sales cycles on the one hand; a pilot customer in a less-competitive niche with a massive opportunity to create value for insurers on... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean
Twenty years ago, when a broker called to tell Jon Simon (MBA 1980) about the possibility of acquiring Parkway Custom Drycleaning, the broker didn’t initially reveal what it was—a high-end dry-cleaning... View Details
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
Growing from Within
expectations; helping us understand impact at the restaurant level of initiatives we are rolling out; and developing a pipeline of talent for the company. What have you seen as the largest growth drivers in the past 12 months? It all... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Faculty Books
A Sense of Urgency by John P. Kotter (Harvard Business Press) Most organizational change initiatives fail spectacularly (at worst) or deliver lukewarm results (at best). In his 1996 book, Leading Change, Professor Emeritus Kotter revealed... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
are focusing on retraining (upskilling/reskilling) initiatives aimed at either equipping “at-risk” workers with skills relevant to new digital technologies, or helping them leverage existing skills across different occupations enabled by... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
manage their assets, tenants, and leasing, the software solutions that Lerner and Holder supported offered the promise of a cutting-edge solution. The implementation process once a customer signed on, however, could be a struggle, with... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Tackling the data dilemma
firm with innovative products, services, and solutions to help companies transition to the new style of IT. Since joining HP in 2011, Whitman has championed initiatives that help customers navigate the new... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
In this new series, the Bulletin will feature occasional reports on faculty research in progress. Who Has Your Number? Customer information is the lifeblood of business. Indeed, a company's success often hinges on how well it understands... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
imperative. (photograph by Jamie Tanaka) "At IBM," Gerstner said at the ceremony, "we're diverse by design, not mandate. With customers in more than 160 countries, our workforce has to reflect the rich array of cultures, perspectives, and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons