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01 Jun 2022
News

A Sustainable Solution for Fashion

launching and running their business,” Bussgang says. “I would bet their customers—major retailers who are counting on Syrup’s platform for mission-critical business processes—would be surprised to learn that James and Ferdinand were... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Judges - Alumni

Laboratory. Brandon received a B.A. in Economics and International Relations from Stanford University. He helped run BASES (Stanford’s leading entrepreneurship organization) and was awarded Pac 12 All-Academic Team honors as a varsity... View Details

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Article databases: Which to choose?

regulations, and other government information. ProQuest TDM Studio Yes Yes Yes TDM Studio is a text / data mining tool Allows researchers to run... View Details

01 Apr 2000
News

Student "Treks" Lead to Jobs and Opportunities

With interest running high in areas such as entrepreneurship, technology, new media, and the Internet, HBS student career "treks" to venues like Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, and London have become all the rage during the holiday break.... View Details

29 Jan 2024
News

On the Road to Recovery

Alejandro Moreno (MBA 1988) didn’t know much about travel nursing when he met a fellow entrepreneur by chance at a child’s birthday party in 2003. The man was considering starting a new business providing short-term staffing assistance to hospitals around the country.... View Details

16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

operations that Guide Dogs had been responsible for, such as running hotels and holiday programs for the blind. "She sought partners who would have the capability to take ownership and continue running... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

30 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Are You Supporting Your B Players?

By day, managers run themselves ragged worrying about their A players: their stars, their rainmakers, their top 15 percent. By night, the same managers fret over their C players—their bottom 15 percent of staff. The C players are those... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Mar 2023
News

Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition

have their own age-specific needs and preference. Tingting Zhong, MBA 2006, Cofounder & Co-CEO Region: Asia/Pacific Deeper Pulse Deeper Pulse runs platform that generates innovative designs for electric motors. Its software provides motor... View Details

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Selected Digital Historical Resources – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

the Depression The studies monitoring the output of relay assembly workers, which began in 1927, continued until 1932, becoming the longest running Hawthorne experiments. The six operators studied in a separate test room were single women... View Details

02 Nov 2018
Blog Post

When Ideas Become Reality: Entrepreneurship at HBS

to run events and are hoping to automate key pieces of our product by the end of the school year. Our hope is to raise some financing that will allow us to pursue Venuefly full time after graduation. Maybe I’m not a natural-born... View Details

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It

risk, Raman explains, has been through inventory. But "for numerous reasons, inventory became very expensive." Shorter product life cycles contribute to higher expenses, for example, in the personal computer market, where the cost of carrying inventory can... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

22 Sep 2022
News

The Beauty Guide

Courtesy Michelle Freyre Courtesy Michelle Freyre When Michelle Freyre (MBA 1997) was a brand manager at Neutrogena, Michael McNamara, global president of the beauty brand at the time, asked what she wanted to do with her career. She answered, “I want to be you. I want... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

10 Feb 2016
HBS Seminar

Hong Luo of Harvard Business School and Julie Mortimer of Boston College, Department of Economics

06 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea

the proposal was for a very innovative automotive parts product, and no one could have logically defended the superior worth of all the other projects in the works. But those who were running some of the current programs, and receiving... View Details

Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead

21 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Harvard Square's Hidden History

And I saw something else: I saw rock and roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.” The review became the cornerstone of Springsteen’s marketing campaign for his album Born to Run and catalyzed Springsteen’s rise to national renown. View Details

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Wombi Rose

"pretty much everything was completely different from anything we'd worked on before." Then, during a stretch of downtime, Wombi and his college roommate, John (who happened to be on the same trip), "were walking one evening through the streets of Ho Chi... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Manufacturing/Energy; Retail/Hospitality

20 May 2022
Blog Post

Nucleate Eco: Connecting Aspiring MBA Entrepreneurs with Cutting Edge Climate Research

scientists in the early stages of deploying their research dramatically increases the number of ‘shots on goal’ we collectively get to tackle climate change. What is unique about the program? Sutton: Several things! First off, we’re entirely student lead and View Details

12 Feb 2021
News

How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World

He recalls this moment in his new book, Around the Corner to Around the World: A Dozen Lessons I Learned Running Dunkin’ Donuts. “Up until that point,” he writes, “the only thing I had managed were a couple of donut shops—replacing... View Details

Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

21 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style

different resources to accomplish something productive,” says Khanna. “That means you are motivating people to do things, and the only way to motivate people is to communicate with them.” As crucial as communication is to running an... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 May 2020
What Do You Think?

Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?

appropriate for certain types of jobs. As she puts it, “working remotely and workflow is better in some departments as they do not have to deal with the somewhat unhealthy political environment at work. In other departments like sales and admin View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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