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- 08 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Co-Founders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke
Continuous Learning is Key van Poecke had spent some time at a software business before co-founding Key ESG, but there remains a learning curve for both co-founders as they grow their business. A learning View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Right from the Start: Common Traps for the New Leader
In this excerpt from Chapter 1 of the their book, Dan Ciampa and HBS Professor Michael D. Watkins describe some of the common traps into which new leaders can fall. Falling Behind The Learning Curve Not using the time before entry... View Details
Keywords: by Dan Ciampa & Michael D. Watkins
- Web
Creating and Sustaining Competitive Advantage - Course Catalog
advantage or disadvantage? Why exactly does it matter to ‘be different’ and what does that imply? Is competitive advantage that is rooted in economies of scale or in the learning curve sustainable? While the focus is mostly on value... View Details
- 25 Jul 2013
- News
An Engine of Education Innovation
Related Links 5 Bright Ideas Charter Revolution Redux Lesson Plans Minding the Gap Learning Curve Building Great Schools around Great Teachers So when Leschly returned to HBS to teach entrepreneurship, he also successfully pitched the... View Details
- 10 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Cofounders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke
Continuous Learning is Key van Poecke had spent some time at a software business before co-founding Key ESG, but there remains a learning curve for both co-founders as they grow their business. A learning View Details
- 13 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Women Heart Patients Have Better Survival Odds with Women Doctors
became. Male doctors performance also improved when emergency rooms had more female doctors. For Huang, the price of that learning curve seems too high for women. “There's lots of these scenarios where people have to advocate, have to... View Details
- Web
The Experience | Information Technology
The Experience A seamless experience for highly engaged online learning Designed to recreate the look and feel of Harvard Business School’s world-renowned instructional spaces, HBS Live Online Classrooms feature 96 high-definition screens on a gracefully View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Disaster Master
three “musts” for any well-managed company. In terms of reactive activities, once a disaster has occurred you need the right people to support you from the legal, communication, and process recovery perspectives, because you don’t want to go through that learning View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 28 Oct 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Nick Soman (MBA 2010)
if you are in control of the information you share.” What have been the best and most challenging parts of launching your company? “The most challenging and best parts are the same—building a company is hard, so the learning curve is... View Details
- 16 Aug 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers
it is often one of the hardest. Pricing decisions require managers to understand how sensitive consumer demand is to changes in price. This requires constructing and interpreting a demand curve to understand how responsive (or elastic)... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- Fast Answer
Bloomberg: Investment Management course tips
How can I locate futures information in Bloomberg? How can I compare futures in Bloomberg? Government Debt Information How can I get data on government bonds, bills, and notes in Bloomberg? How can I generate yield curves in Bloomberg?... View Details
- Profile
Katy Lankester
should look like. I have the analytical firepower and quick learning curve to make a contribution; HBS solidified that foundation and gave me a toolkit that I can use to continuously grow throughout my career as I step into roles with... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Steven C. Watson
schools — were having limited success,” he explains. “My take is that with the huge bureaucracies in public education and the teachers' unions, reform needs to happen from the inside out. To make a difference, I knew I had to start my learning View Details
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Concrete Symbols - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
separate classroom building would be too costly to construct. The rooms featured sloping, tiered floors of curved rows with desks, a design Dean Donham and his team first outlined in early stages of the competition. The arrangement, they... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundwork
progression from the 1925 McKim, Mead & White footprint for the first residential business school in America to an array of HBS projects slated for completion by 2023, he emphasizes the importance of continuity and symmetry. “When the first buildings took shape along... View Details
- 11 Jun 2020
- In Practice
Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?
chains and people analytics to artificial intelligence-based models and automated biotechnology research, organizations further along the digital curve are responding differently than those still wondering how to evolve. The digital... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- Portrait Project
Jessica Gelman
optimization and detailed "game plans" which leverage the Patriots' assets, extend the brand and reach the Patriots' loyal fans. Over the last 5 years, when I have doubts or life throws me some curve balls, I have looked back at... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet
Dwight Crane. "There is a learning curve in conducting business over the Internet. After people break through a few initial barriers and see the power of the medium, there is no telling what will happen." One futuristic device that... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
offering technical assistance to small business owners has been an onerous, difficult-to-scale process, resulting in drawn-out learning curves and missed opportunities: “AI enables us to sift through massive amounts of data in real time... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
New Virtual Classrooms Expand Digital Learning
classroom experience has everything to do with the level of interactivity between faculty and students, and these virtual classrooms provide a better online experience.” Students log in from their respective computers all over the world and, through a custom interface,... View Details