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  • 06 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 6

in the very early phases of a new industry. We identify two distinct essential journeys that enabled the company to grow: an internal journey focused on developing and refining a business model and an external journey focused on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Investor - Entrepreneurship

Student Journey Investor Required Curriculum Elective Curriculum FALL Attend the Rock/CPD Career Panels to learn about careers in VC. Learn about the role of a VC/Investor and recruiting approach. Meet with: Rock Venture Capital Partners Career and Professional View Details
  • 07 Jul 2003
  • What Do You Think?

Can We Have Too Much Productivity Improvement?

as the result of exporting jobs to China, India, and other developing economies. Still others argued that the issue relates to end objectives, not the means, of achieving greater productivity. Jim Noon characterized the first point of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

excellence in economics research in 2022. 2021 Rebecca M. Henderson : Winner of the 2021 Responsible Research in Management Award from the Fellows Group of the Academy of Management and the Community for Responsible Research in Business... View Details
  • June 2001 (Revised May 2002)
  • Case

Spir-It, Inc. (B): Managing People

When Jack Sindler founded Spir-it, Inc. in 1934, he was the company's sole employee. By 1999, Sindler's firm more than survived its first 55 years. Employment was up to nearly 200, with facilities in two states and work done in three shifts. The product line--which had... View Details
Keywords: Growth Management; Production; Business Growth and Maturation; Interpersonal Communication; Logistics; Human Resources; Diversity Characteristics; Manufacturing Industry
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  • 29 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

  Working PapersProduct Development and Learning in Project Teams: The Challenges Are the Benefits Authors:Amy C. Edmondson and Ingrid M. Nembhard Abstract The value of teams in new product development (NPD)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • September 2013 (Revised June 2017)
  • Supplement

IBM and the Reinvention of High School (B): Replicating & Scaling P-TECH and Partners

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
IBM's Corporate Citizenship office created an innovation in public education through a business-school partnership for widespread replication and diffusion. In 2012, while P-TECH (Pathways in Technology Early College High School) was still in its first year operating,... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise; Partnerships; Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership; Partners and Partnerships; Social Entrepreneurship; Education; Business and Community Relations; Innovation and Invention; Growth Management; Chicago; Idaho
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Bridgette Slater

adventure. Also, over the course of my years in consulting, I developed a concrete vision of the work I wanted to pursue – something along the lines of ethical sourcing of agricultural products, namely chocolate, coffee, and tea – and... View Details
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Recent Alumni - Alumni

Volunteer Recent Alumni OPPORTUNITIES FOR RECENT ALUMNI Recent alumni support the School and the global alumni community by volunteering in a wide range of important roles, from reunion planning to fundraising to writing Class Notes, as... View Details
  • 09 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government

"private-public entrepreneurs" who establish private businesses that sell to government agencies or sometimes to citizens directly. In Philadelphia, for example, Textizen enables citizens to communicate with city health and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 08 Feb 2023
  • Op-Ed

Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears

needs. Employees respond better when communication is clear, when leaders are transparent about decisions, and when they believe that they are part of the process. What has your company achieved? When you have a handle on your own... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore
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John H. McArthur | About

John H. McArthur 1934—2019 John H. McArthur, a member of the Harvard Business School community for more than six decades—as student (MBA 1959 and DBA 1963), as faculty member (beginning in 1962), as Dean (from 1980 to 1995), and as Dean... View Details
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Harvard Business School

Wilkins began his career as a finance and management consultant before becoming president of Syndicated Communications in 1977. Wilkins served in that capacity through 1989, then took posts as managing general partner of Syncom Capital... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

Graduate's Gift Honors HBS Friend

undertaken in 1966 as cofounder of Cleveland's Hough Area Community Development Corporation (HADC). "In the summer of 1970," de Rothschild related, "I spent time with Frank in Cleveland, and it was then that... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
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Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online

what skills you need to thrive. Access Your Free E-book Upskill Your Team, Transform Your Organization Whether you represent a large multinational corporation or a small local business, we have a solution for your learning and development... View Details
  • 07 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 7, 2007

http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13281 Diasporas and Domestic Entrepreneurs: Evidence from the Indian Software Industry Authors:Ramana Nanda and Tarun Khanna Abstract This study explores the importance of cross-border social networks for entrepreneurship in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 May 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First

Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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Molly Welch

tremendous impact on human problems -- but that its impact would depend on how systems are developed and the problems to which they are applied. I came to the joint MBA/MPP program interested in more directly shaping the governance and... View Details
  • 04 Dec 2023
  • Blog Post

My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service

Care Units. I came to school passionate about access and equity in health care, and curious about systemic barriers to resources that allow communities to live healthy lives. As soon as I got to campus though, I realized I had no idea how... View Details
  • 20 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

  Working PapersFinding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya Authors:Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine, and Dean Karlan Abstract In much of the developing world,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace