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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes
by $100 billion spent annually on management consulting and training. Yet that message doesn’t always get to the people who need it most: fewer than half of public-facing employees are well versed in these grand strategic ideas when it... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Book Review: The Old West
disruptive ideas are likely to fail." —Mark Hurst and Phil Terry (MBA 1998) in Customers Included: How to Transform Products, Companies, and the World—with a Single Step What I'm Reading Photo courtesy of Bill Dunaway "He had a profound... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
holding its own; in fact, Clorox has adopted many of its sustainability practices. “The idea that Burt’s Bees could in fact have a huge impact on Clorox’s culture is something that students find intriguing,” he says. “I think they were... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Chaotic Funding Derails Research
have invested years in developing their careers and selecting an area on which to focus their research. People need predictability — not in the research ideas they pursue, but in basic human issues such as pay and employment. It may be... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
less regulation and more opportunities for something like this to happen. Sam Bankman-Fried’s idea in the beginning was actually fine; he was taking a risk, and it was all legal. But when he couldn’t make as many profits as he wanted, my... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
we’ve greatly improved options and opportunities for our women employees, who tend to have more traditional roles in companies here compared with the United States. All of these ideas — innovative for Japan — have been well received.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Time to Make Time
goal is a great marketing plan or a brilliant idea for a software system, it doesn't matter if it took 2 hours or 20 hours. The client is paying for the quality of the solution. What do you think about the issue of flexible work hours?... View Details
Keywords: Time management
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
of future generations to meet their own needs," it is slowly becoming a part of the lexicon of business leaders around the world. Easy Being Green? "One of the problems with turning the idea of environmental sustainability into a viable... View Details
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
perspective, assuming the world continues to do okay and there's not some big disaster between now and then, we can afford to decarbonize the atmosphere to the point where we're not going to explode in a ball of flames. DM: The number you hear a lot is $100 per ton.... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
politics. The fact that Americans can’t agree on facts right now isn’t a unique experience. What does historical context suggest about breaking the cycle of misinformation or finding a way to move forward? Rawi Abdelal: I think that pushing against the View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
community and examined paths to success in the new economy. Held during the last weekend in February, the three-day event, titled “The Digital Dilemma: Challenges to Excelling in the New Economy,” gave participants an opportunity to exchange View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
the space before he arrives, Mareva sits down to reminisce about HBS. She came to appreciate it all anew in 2011 when, after a dozen years in investment banking at Deutsche Bank and running her own asset management firm, she became an entrepreneur. The View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
between ideas and then visualizing and building maps to explain those correlations. These cartography skills have proved vital to her career. In the late 1990s, Lo was working on innovation and ventures for a media company in London when... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
consumer technology - no matter how amazing or elegant - means nothing unless it is useful, convenient, and readily accepted by customers. The fact that his wife's MBA degree didn't ease the drudgery of tracking the family's finances gave Cook, a veteran of Procter &... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
Illustration by Martin Leon Barreto In a lot of ways, it didn’t seem like a very good experiment to run. A young HBS professor—a rising star in the Finance area, an economist by training, by then already looking down the road at an all-important tenure decision—had an... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
firm’s approach differed from BCG in that it kept its work closely held and its ideas proprietary, thus earning itself a reputation for being secretive. In another departure, Bain vowed the firm would work with only one client per... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
spending on R&D. It’s unclear whether manufacturing’s overall contribution to the economy will shrink along with its employment base. The sector’s future is a topic of heated debate between those who see the United States shifting to an economy of View Details
- 14 Apr 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)
your idea or project, but figure out ways how to incorporate it into your evenings or weekends.” Austin, how has Mike impacted your life? Austin Scee: “I always tell people that I get as much out of our relationship as Mike does. For one,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
reinforced the company’s shared basic assumptions, including the belief that everyone, at every level, was in service to JetBlue passengers. The most important assumption he surfaced—a somewhat radical idea at the time—was that customers... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
strategy because strategies typically change over time, even for the best entrepreneurial teams. We also tend to be investors that focus very heavily on market share and growth. A typical business that we would like to see is one where there’s a very simple View Details