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- 04 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: JESSE LOU (MBA 2022) – WORKING TO CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM
important next step for us is finding strong product market fit – among all the different capabilities we can engineer within our microalgae, which ones are most important? And to whom is it important? If you’re reading this and have... View Details
- 24 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
conversations with people at the company. Not every cleantech startup I talked to had opportunities that were a good fit for an early-career MBA like me; some were too far from commercialization and too focused on solving technical... View Details
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Diversity on Teams: Our Own Harvest - Race, Gender & Equity
ensure these choices are facilitators for exchange vs mandates for assimilation? Culture fit “Just because you’re getting more people there doesn’t mean you’re actually dismantling the structures that are leading to these inequalities.”... View Details
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Women on Boards: How Lara Druyan and Ann Lucena Are Shaping the Future of Corporate Leadership - Blog: RGE Report
CFO, everyone wants you on their board,” she says with a laugh. “If you’re a mere mortal, you need to fit a pretty specific profile that a board needs. I have digital, but I also understand cybersecurity, finance, and inclusion,” making... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Case Study: Inside Story
2010), managing partner at Material, founder and chairman of Blue Apron, and cofounder of Embark Veterinary Not All Users Are Created Equal Building consumer products is notoriously hard. It’s a long road to figure out what gets to the elusive product-market View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
inquiring into whether he had any interest in a leadership role within local government. Though he had given the field little thought previously, Gower realized it fit the parameters of the new career he had been seeking. “Local... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
argued that advances in communications technology were increasingly inspiring consumers around the world to want the same things. Therefore, he declared, international companies should cease to act as “multinationals” that customized their products to View Details
- 04 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: JESSE LOU (MBA 2022) – WORKING TO CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM
important next step for us is finding strong product market fit – among all the different capabilities we can engineer within our microalgae, which ones are most important? And to whom is it important? If you’re reading this and have... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
"paternalistic" culture here that didn't fit well with my style. I was very committed to teaching but really couldn't pull off the strong, formal control that my male colleagues—especially senior male colleagues—had in the classroom.... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- HBS Case
How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?
follow a general roadmap. The product needs to fit into a company's price hierarchy and also the rough price hierarchy of competitors and the market in general. And in the watch's case, the fact that it was a limited edition of only 100... View Details
- 07 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts
the product assortment, without changing prices, and with minimal investment” Less intuitively, however, they argue that making discount items less prominent presents a wider range of products to customers, allowing them to find items that better View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
featuring less product-centered and more information-centered economic activity.” It highlighted opinions at the time that “Growing ratios of market-to-book value that resulting stock prices produce can be justified as the monetization of valuable information assets... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Aug 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?
Reconcile yourself to the fact that sometimes leaders have to “behave badly” to do good Recognize that leadership situations and the qualities they require are idiosyncratic—one size does not fit all Recognize that leadership is a matter... View Details
- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
the world has many shades of gray." Over the past several decades, thousands of companies have been privatized in both the developed world and emerging markets. While every company in the former Soviet Union was once state-owned, now only several thousand businesses... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter
select their leaders carefully, so managers become "more and more homogenous" the higher you go. Or, to put it another way, organizations try to weed out the crazies, the incompetent, or anyone who just doesn't fit in. That means that... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
in their businesses. After one such session, a senior manager asked, "Is there anything you won't get involved in?" I felt I had to get deep into the businesses to create the necessary changes in behavior. Creating a more challenging environment was natural... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 08 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Co-Founders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke
fast-growing Series C start-up, in New York that provided data intelligence software to large enterprises. She later returned to Europe to join her family investment firm, Atlas Invest, investing in energy companies. Product-Market-Founder View Details
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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
emphasized "the study of products, new ideas, new developments and questions of research." 6 The charismatic professor imbued the class with his philosophy on leadership and business ethics and helped students "develop a realistic grasp of executive problems and View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Breaking Free from Fear of Change
progress of a particular task, and show continued interest in that person’s work and career development. This approach goes a long way toward defusing the anxiety that can lead to some of the unproductive behaviors. If you fit this... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
exploring the feasibility of canopy tours of the rainforest. “I was interested in startups and had experience in Latin America, so it seemed like a good fit after HBS,” recalls Skelly. “We wound up building what was essentially a... View Details