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Michael Johnson Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Applying Strategic Perspective Lessons from HBS While Thinking Bigger and Bolder... View Details

01 Sep 2006
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Project Runway

the show by the judges (but not by viewers responding to a live online poll), Estrella picked up valuable lessons that she’ll use in her design business (www.staceyestrella.com). “I learned to work faster,” she said, “and I’m more... View Details

Keywords: Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Wholesale Trade

12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 28 Sep 2018
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How to Drive Company Performance and Employee Sustainability

Learn how to empower your teams in a way that encourages both high performance and sustainability, from Carolyn Everson, VP of Global Marketing Solutions at Facebook. View Details

01 Sep 2005
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Perfection’s Price

MICHAEL KAPLAN (left, with brother and partner Nicholas) reflects on lessons learned and looks ahead to future growth. Michael Kaplan (MBA ’02) had a great idea for a start-up: a fashionable apparel company catering to plus-size women.... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

20 Jun 2014
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Innovation is not a side business to running a company—innovation is the business

Leading innovation is the foundation of a company's success—in bad times as well as good. This is the lesson Lynda M. Applegate, Baker Foundation Professor, has drawn from her research. Applegate has identified an approach to managing... View Details

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Lucasz S. Babiarz

together." In fact, Lukasz's clinical rotations are themselves lessons in both clinical care and business operations. At Cambridge Hospital, Lukasz worked largely with a poor and medically underserved population. Later, he served a... View Details

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22 Feb 2022
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Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path

previous financial crisis. “Thankfully, things turned out dramatically different from what we expected,” adds Greenwood. Here, he discusses the scientific, business, and government response that prevented the predictions from becoming a reality and the View Details

Keywords: April White

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Andrew Goldin

experience prepared him for yet another transition. "The education reform 'buzz' was all about applying lessons from the private sector," says Andrew. "As I became interested in how the school district was managed, I wanted... View Details

15 Nov 2020
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How Scholarships Helped One Student Achieve Many Firsts

took full advantage of the opportunities available to her, and how her formal business education complemented the informal lessons she learned from the small-business owners in her family’s restaurant plaza. View Details

13 May 2013
Blog Post

3 Projects, 1 Priceless Picture

goes on. But, I suppose I should dedicate at least one entry to my professional experience this summer. Unlike most interns at Nike who have one project over the course of the summer, I’ve actually had the opportunity to learn invaluable View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

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Myoung Cha

To be changed by the world around me. Many people come to HBS to "change the world." I was one of those people. But I have come to realize that it is HBS that has changed me. I have learned how to optimize a cranberry factory, absorbed life View Details

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Kyle Angelo Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Simple Lessons, Shared Values, and Unlocking Organizational Potential Kyle Angelo 07 Dec 2017 I’ve learned this simple... View Details

08 Aug 2016
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CS50 for MBAs: Coding at HBS

would have to manage and interact with people who do. The lessons and exercises in CS50 for MBAs departed dramatically from the case method in terms of pedagogical method and philosophy. The lessons were... View Details

11 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?

training courses to help people track their own negotiating experience. "A book is very linear," he says. Negotiation 360, by contrast, "is a template or matrix a user can make his or her own. It becomes their negotiating buddy." Lessons... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

07 Sep 2021
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In the Hot Seat

Illustration by Ket-le / iStock; photo courtesy of Jeff Immelt Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1 The makings of a CEO and lessons in leading change Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2 Case studies in crisis management and what it takes to... View Details

01 Oct 2018
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Learning About Leadership

Abigail P. Johnson (MBA 1988) is chairman and CEO of Fidelity Management and Research in Boston and a recipient of the 2018 HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this interview, she reflects on her early lessons in business leadership and on... View Details

Keywords: Finance

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Matias Ruiz

Growing up in Argentina with loving parents and finding the love of my life were the strongest things that shaped the person I am today. Early on when I started this fantastic experience I promised myself that I would gather some of the View Details

Intriguing Questions

criteria of success since I leave with more questions than answers, and three broad lessons that I would like to share. The first is that as much as history is shaped by political figures and pivotal events, it is also shaped by... View Details

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