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- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
most vital of all agile initiatives. Senior executives learn to manage the transition as an agile team. They view it as a continuous improvement program, not as a project with predictable end points or fixed completion dates. They realize that going too slowly may fail... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Over 70 years later, Feigin made a stunning discovery: her Jewish father had kept a detailed journal that chronicled their family’s escape from Nazi Germany. Her parents had never spoken of it, and she remembered nothing of their... View Details
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
A few years ago, there were a lot of ads on the Super Bowl that had a political undertone to them, whether it was about immigration, whether it was about inclusiveness. Some consumers loved that but some consumers absolutely hated that and they thought the Super Bowl... View Details
Jon Staff
Jon Staff is the founder and CEO of Getaway, a company that provides simple, unplugged escapes to tiny cabins outside of major cities across the United States. Getaway grew from Jon’s lifelong appreciation for the great outdoors, having... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Faculty Books
Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd by Youngme Moon (Crown Business) Professor Moon examines what it means for a company to offer something that is fundamentally, comprehensively different. She identifies iconoclastic companies like... View Details
- Portrait Project
David Askaryan
school's flagrant violation of a free-market system. I didn't actually articulate it that way back then, but I did know how it felt. Treacherous. Unfair. This was especially ironic for a kid who escaped to the States as a refugee from the... View Details
- Portrait Project
Alex Pak
When my father was a young boy in Korea, his mother carried him south to escape the war. Left behind were his younger sister and grandmother. They were both too weak to travel. The borders closed, and promises of a quick return turned... View Details
- 23 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Propel Your Career Forward with Some of Our Favorite Books
reflect on your values and motivations, build an effective team, and stay grounded. Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd How can your company stand out to consumers? Youngme Moon suggests that the key is to think differently and take... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Poverty and Security
For them, it is a chance to escape poverty.” He cited a World Bank study in which 60,000 poor people in sixty countries were asked about poverty. “The $1 a day or $2 a day that they live on was almost the last thing mentioned. What... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Chai Ling
crushed by the Chinese army, Chai had to flee her homeland to escape the authorities who relentlessly sought her arrest and imprisonment. For the next ten months, often alone, frequently in disguise, Chai, aided by supporters, traveled... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Jeetendr Sehdev (MBA 2004)
(photo by Christina Gandolfo) Growing up in Bristol, England, I went to a very strict private boys’ school. But when I was 10 years old, my father took me on a trip to Los Angeles. Even though I was a child, I intuitively understood the appeal of Hollywood at the time,... View Details
- Portrait Project
Nick Gerry-Bullard
Juan islands, camping each night in a different inlet, surrounded by otters and whales. Another time, sleeping under the stars in the badlands of Utah, we had to scramble on top of our van to escape a herd of wild burros pounding across... View Details
Jon Staff
Jon Staff is the founder and CEO of Getaway, a company that provides simple, unplugged escapes to tiny cabins outside of major cities across the United States. Getaway grew from Jon’s lifelong appreciation for the great outdoors, having... View Details
- Portrait Project
Vysh Ravikumaran
My dad had escaped a terrorist attack at the Colombo Airport that night. I couldn’t help but think how I would have felt if things turned out differently. I was an adamant nine-year-old who refused to say goodbye to him before his shift –... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
Former Blackberry CEO Uncovers Historic Shipwreck
that sets up the tantalising possibility that British sailors re-manned the vessel after she was abandoned at the top of Victoria Strait in a desperate attempt to escape south. Balsillie noted that this discovery—like the discovery of the... View Details
- Blog
Tech Power at HBS: Faculty Boost Technology Ecosystem
range of companies inside and outside technology sectors, including many startups. She also serves on several boards, including Unilever and Warby Parker. To explore some of her work, check out: Book: Different: Escaping the Competitive... View Details
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
Blockchain for Good
After immigrating to the United Kingdom in the late 1960s to escape the Nigeria-Biafra civil war, Stella Dyer (MBA 1994) and her family lived in public housing and had very little money. “But we still had more than our friends and relatives back home,” she recalls. “My... View Details
- Portrait Project
Rosita Najmi
family and my faith that I have learned the significance of leading a life of sacrifice and service to others. My mother left her native Iran and escaped the terror of religious persecution for us, her four children. She knew that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Male Consumers as Man-of-Action Heroes
products and activities that help them escape the daily pressures of families and careers, in order to become rebels for a day. But in a working paper titled “Man–of–Action Heroes: How the American Ideology of Manhood Structures Men’s... View Details