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James Reinhart
One of the toughest challenges for young entrepreneurs is figuring out the most effective strategy to turn a good idea into a great venture. A bad decision early in the game, such as sticking to an original concept despite evidence that... View Details
- 04 Mar 2008
- News
HBS Blogs
Fitness, Baby Boomers, Business, and Living”; archived since July 2006) MBA 1980I Jim McGee, McGee’s Musings, http://www.mcgeesmusings.net/ (book reviews and comments on design, technology, learning, organization, resources, and more; archived since Jan. 2003) MBA... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
traditional ways of getting work done, and organizations where “lines and boxes” still define how people are managed. As work and organizations have become more fluid and business strategy is no longer about planning years ahead but about... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
developing countries is both challenging and exciting, says Maddy. Her advice to others who might wish to follow her lead? "Things generally take a lot longer to implement, and you need to build certain cultural factors into your business... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
own reality check to offer. Director of the Chinese Cultural Center in Singapore, she debunked the lumping together of all Chinese on the assumption that they are somehow linked to each other simply because they are Chinese. The... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- November 2008
- Teaching Note
Crossing Borders: MTC's Journey through Africa (TN)
By: Tarun Khanna
Teaching Note for [708477]. View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
communicated with, and what kind of schools you went to. Those create your identity and that identity will become the essential part in communicating to anybody. I was born and raised in the city of Mito, and I experienced its culture and... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
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Faculty & Advisors | MBA
MBAs; Avoiding Startup Failure; and Managing Networked Business _,_ which surveyed strategies for platform-based businesses that leverage network effects. He twice co-led a Harvard Innovation Lab course, View Details
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
These changes did not—as often assumed—result in the decline of family businesses but instead gave rise to a different kind of competitive and internationally oriented "Mittelstand." The study integrates approaches from new institutional economics, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
Bhusri, general partner, Greylock “After 9/11, do we want or need an ID card? From a technology stand-point, that’s a no-brainer. We need to get our act together first on policy and cultural issues.” — Mark Cleverley, senior consultant,... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
country that had missed the industrial revolution that happened in many other countries in the 19th century, and then had suffered terribly under Mao since 1949. The so-called Great Leap Forward in 1958 triggered a famine that killed 40 million people, and in 1966,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
institute, The Broad Institute. The culture of the Broad centered on science, and those involved considered it to be at the edge of the scientific frontier. In just four years the Broad had made many important scientific contributions to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
managing very well. You did-- I believe-- have another psychotic break, is that correct? Switz: Yes, I went from HBS to McKinsey for three years and then, to GE Capital in a strategy role. And a couple of weeks after my wedding, had my... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
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The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
the prospects of video game competition as a spectator sport—“for two mind-numbing hours, contestants stared at their screens and manipulated laser guns”—but Warner Communications was elated by all the attention it received, and the contestants understood its View Details
- 20 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 20
green building, including evolving boundaries of professional jurisdictions; changing industry strategies and structures, including the roles of ownership, supply firms, and market niches; new operational, organizational, and View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
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Digital Exhibits | Baker Library
Digital Exhibits All Exhibits From Concept to Product: Meroë Morse and Polaroid’s Culture of Art and Innovation, 1945–1969 Explores the extraordinary career of Meroë Morse—a key contributor to the development of instant photography,... View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- News
A Leader’s Call to Action
and professionally,” she recalls. “It was a deep dive into the key aspects of accounting and finance, strategy and organizational performance, and—most of all— leadership. We got this larger worldview from colleagues who were business... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
information. We owe it to those who passed away in the disaster to upgrade our systems to help save lives in any future calamity." —GE AGRICULTURE John Whiteside Grass Farmer, Wolf Creek Farm For years, the résumé of John Whiteside (MBA 1983) was classic HBS: He worked... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
manufacturing. But even as Bradley understood the importance of protecting the new units from the processes and cultural norms of the old business, he realized they also had to share expertise and resources, both with the traditional... View Details