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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
Kerr: There’s a lot of alignment between general management and entrepreneurial management. We define entrepreneurship following the early work of Howard Stevenson at HBS as “the pursuit of opportunity beyond resources controlled.” What entrepreneurs and their teams... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
You're really looking for the sweet spot of contribution and passion. To me that accounts for a ton of great “leader A” days. April: You raised a really good point. This sort of clarity that these principles can offer in the working world... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
Europe and the United States, he said, "they have already reached a threshold in customer orientation, so you have to do different things to succeed." That's not the case yet in Asia, he pointed out, as Deshpandé listened intently. HBS professor Paul M. Healy spoke on... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
that have shaped the world of business scholarship, education, and practice, said Nohria. The School’s distinguished faculty can lay claim to introducing the concepts of business strategy, the balanced scorecard, venture capital,... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
intense pricing wars by electronics chains and discount department stores destabilized account bases." Some record executives have admitted to losing touch with their audiences and to alienating consumers by relentlessly pursuing and... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
them. And so I sort of approached the investment process with some degree of skepticism in terms of how interested they would be, and it was a very fast turnaround. They basically decided in a day to invest in our seed round, and it was--... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
its ties to the Soviet Union. Later that summer, a government plan to again dramatically increase the price of food and other basic commodities sparked large, violent protests in Warsaw and its suburbs. The unrest led to the formation of... View Details
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
confidence that we can draw on all our past strengths and look forward to a remarkable future. I grew up in Bombay, as it was called then, Mumbai in India, came to the United States after having done my undergraduate degree in India and my chartered View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
time that certain activities, such as marketing, must remain local in concept and execution to be successful. At the same time, the defining feature of globalization has been the push by multinationals toward organization-wide... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
"Creativity," explains MBA Class of 1954 Professor Teresa Amabile, "is not just for the arts - it is possible and desirable in any activity." In her course Entrepreneurship, Creativity, and Organization, Amabile aims to expand students' notions of management and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
insistence on this point . . . accounts for much of our trouble with American society today." Articles on the social and ethical aspects of cases in the marketing curriculum and the results of a poll of business leaders' views on... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
by Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Takashi Yasui Sato-san’s hospital bed is wedged diagonally across his living room, relics of regular life pushed to the perimeter. For four years the retired accountant traveled back and forth to a... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
says Anthony Sun (MBA 1979), a managing general partner at Venrock Associates in Menlo Park. “We can’t deploy $20 billion in quality investments. And we can’t generate $20 billion in exit values, either through IPOs or acquisitions. So the industry still is not in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
mispricing in trade imports and exports; country-by-country accounting of sales, profits, and taxes paid by multinational corporations; confirmation of beneficial ownership (i.e., naming the real owners, not frontmen) in all banking and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
management careers and management problems were carved up by function,” he continues. “A typical manager would spend his entire career within one function — say marketing, finance, or accounting — and he would be given only a piece of a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
setup, Hall explains, is much like a venture capital fund. "We basically seek the highest-performing charter school organizations, and give them philanthropic funds to help them build a long-term sustainable model," he says. CSGF has seen... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
itself. Viana sensed that the workers, and brand, enjoyed broad-based public support. So he turned to crowdfunding, still a relatively unfamiliar concept in France, posting his cause on the site Bulb in Town and cross- promoting his... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
accountability and people working together to solve problems. This is Chuck Callan, 1982. My first job-- oh, that's going back a ways. Well, I guess I was somewhat industrious as a kid and I used to rake leaves and stack wood, cut grass... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
the cement market, Evans points out, followed by India, while the United States accounts for only 4 percent. “China’s most recent five-year plan includes some serious commitments to reducing carbon,” he notes. “I think its going to be, as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
re-create the transparency and social accountability that would come if a couple met offline through a mutual friend. The app populates a user’s dating profile with information and current photos from Facebook; recently Hinge added... View Details
Keywords: April White