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- 18 Jul 2023
- News
The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)
What inspired you to launch Forby Entertainment Partners? I started working on film and TV shoots in New York City during college. My first boss, an executive producer, recommended Edward Jay Epstein’s book, The Hollywood Economist: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind... View Details
Keywords: Robert Bochnak
- 12 May 2021
- Book
The Hard Truth About Being a CEO
they get there." Not only do CEOs struggle to learn how to run a company from a lonely role at the top, but they often quickly find that the network of coworkers they relied on for years are no longer faithful allies. “They don’t realize... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Best Person to Lead Your Company Doesn't Work There—Yet
Companies looking for the best possible leaders—and leaders looking to become CEOs—would do well to heed the model of private-equity (PE) backed companies, which often look outside their ranks when hiring for the top job and see excellent... View Details
- Web
Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research
Initiative encourage innovation to address the large-scale issues that beset society. Entrepreneurship Social Enterprise Our long tradition of research in Entrepreneurship goes back to the 1930's and 1940's with the “the father of venture... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Solving for Z
With nearly 20 years of experience as a senior human resources executive, Matthew Breitfelder (MBA 2002) has seen a lot of change in the corporate talent space. But what’s happening now looks like a tectonic generational shift. From his perch as global head of human... View Details
- 24 Oct 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?
fit. “At our first startup after a series of roles at large enterprise software companies, we tried to force a big company perspective on how we did employee feedback and reviews. We were too structured with this initially and quickly cut View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
That Was Then, This Is Now
It started with a question. But before that, it started in the classroom. Tony Deifell (MBA 2002) loved the discussions in his LEAD course, taught by Professor (and now former Dean) Nitin Nohria; wanting to make them more tangible, Deifell adapted the idea of... View Details
- Web
Organize Care Around Medical Conditions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
outcome relationship results from specialized teams who see higher volumes of specific conditions that leads to better outcomes. A well run integrated practice unit accululates more and more experience leading to better teams, more... View Details
- 14 Mar 2023
- In Practice
What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?
on SVB were no more apparent than the runs we have seen in the crypto space. The swift government actions to back regional banks, in my view, are commendable, although more targeted to managing general... View Details
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
services. This technical note is intended to provide practical guidelines for designing, conducting, and analyzing a conjoint analysis survey. The note discusses the six steps needed to effectively run a conjoint analysis study and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
built with blockchain—a quickly growing technology at the time. AirFox was an early stage startup that sold Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to small telecom companies. AirFox was generating revenue and had a pipeline of interested customers, but it was View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Mar 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: LEGO
be combined. Thomke's experience goes back a long way—as a kid growing up in Germany he participated in a LEGO competition. As an adult, though, his interests lie more in the business behind the bricks. "When you've written many... View Details
- 20 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Is the MBA Worth It? Hear What Recent HBS Grads Have to Say
life goals and a path to achieve them. I would also never take back the opportunity to have my kids exposed to life living at HBS. What advice do you have for prospective HBS students? To consider what they want out of their MBA and... View Details
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
jobs, and people applied for them. For many of us, however, the pandemic has brought back into focus the critical job we “hire” employers to do for us—make progress in our lives and careers—and how divorced that progress has become from... View Details
- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Quiet Leader—and How to Be One
everybody to do it. You have the famous example of Rosa Parks, saying, "I'm not sitting in the back of the bus." Well, while that was a remarkable act of courage on her part, and in some degree was kind of a spontaneous event,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Back in 2014, When Chris Marinak (MBA 2008) was in the process of rolling out the instant replay system as a Senior Vice President at... View Details
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
impact of immigrants on natives tend to find limited consequences in the short run, while the results in the long run are more varied and much less certain. Immigrants in the United States aid business and technology exchanges with their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jul 2020
- Book
Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity
failed, and what should I do next?” Badaracco says. “But you ought to look at the full range of things you have already done, including non-work tasks, and pat yourself on the back occasionally.” 3: Ponder your hard issues The second... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
How to Demotivate Your Best Employees
award was out of their reach, their punctual behavior slipped back downhill. Larkin says this runs counter to what some people believe—that such an award program might instill a long-term pattern of on-time... View Details
- 27 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11
was about running a business. It was all about supply chains and helping the military figure out the best way to get stuff to Europe. Of course, identity and structure both had to change. And then the war was over, and we went View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel