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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Startup Success Beyond Silicon Valley
public companies. “It has gone global.” To explore this trend, Gompers has spent a year conducting in-depth field research spanning continents. His work will inform the creation of a new MBA elective course called Entrepreneurship Outside... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Mele
- 30 Nov 2021
- In Practice
What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?
The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Mar 2008
- HBS Case
JetBlue’s Valentine’s Day Crisis
JetBlue founder, chairman, and then-CEO David Neeleman would later call "the worst operational week in JetBlue's seven-year history." A Storm Brews It started with a winter ice storm forecasted to change to rain. With that... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
Multidisciplinary Aerodigestive Centers By: Kaplan, Robert S., Jordan A. Garcia, Bipin Mistry, Stephen Hardy, Mary Shannon Fracchia, Cheryl Hersh, Carissa Wentland, Joseph Vadakekalam, and Christopher J. Hartnick Abstract—Time-driven... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
The Railroads: The First Big Business - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
Horses drew wagons along rails made of wood and later iron. In the 1820s, the English introduced the first successful steam locomotive engine. As routes were carved out, mining areas transformed into industrial centers and coastal sites... View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
What's a Boss Worth?
clerk to ring up a customer; or a call center employee to troubleshoot a customer’s problem). To a lesser extent, they also looked at the amount of time employees actually spent with customers compared to... View Details
- 09 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Secret of Effective Mentoring Programs
Old-fashioned mentoring may be one of the most effective ways to improve job performance, but many mentorship programs don’t reach new hires who need guidance most, new research suggests. Newly hired employees at a United States call... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 02 Apr 2020
- What Do You Think?
What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?
years The greatest COVID-19 failure was clearly the failure to adapt in time to an emerging threat.” Bill Wallace said, “I’m calling the COVID-19 pandemic a White Swan: inevitable through global mobility and the absence of safeguards,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Business History - Faculty & Research
consumers based on new green brand identities. Spring 2014 Article Charting Dynamic Trajectories: Multinational Firms in India By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tarun Khanna In this article, we provide a synthesizing framework that we call the... View Details
- 02 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities
What makes for the ideal entrepreneurial opportunity? To learn about the frameworks firms use when evaluating potential venture opportunities, Mike Roberts, executive director of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, and HBS senior... View Details
Keywords: by Lauren Barley
- 04 Apr 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?
and seeing what sort of results and ads he’d get back. He wasn’t happy with what he saw . Some of the ads were completely unrelated to the search . In a normal company, the CEO, seeing a bad product, would call the person in charge of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 May 2023
- In Practice
After Silicon Valley Bank's Flameout, What's Next for Entrepreneurs?
crisis. In addition to the operational learnings around banking and ensuring not all of their cash is in one vulnerable place, it was a big wake-up call for many founders in terms of how they do everything to keep their cool with... View Details
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching
surgery with an out-of-network clinician. And I write this in the book all the time, check your insurance, do it right, but even I make mistakes. DM: I want to come back to, this idea that you come to, about keeping your North Star front and View Details
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
consultancy now called Monitor-Deloitte. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School and a director of PVH Corporation, Aera Technology and Helios Consulting, a trustee of Western Governors University and a Senior... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
overlook our most powerful tool for effecting change: our own thoughts. Through a variety of exercises called Think Keys, Zaltman guides the reader through the mind’s most important unconscious and conscious dynamics. Zaltman has used... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?
COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of... View Details
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Health Care - Faculty & Research
Affordable Care Act. The (A) case in this series discusses the legislative strategy in the House of Representatives, where three different committees each had jurisdiction over health care legislation. Blog Post Innovation in Health Care Education: A View Details
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Curriculum - Business & Environment
opportunities. Harvard University and Urban Mining Industries: Decarbonizing the Supply Chain The case describes Harvard University's consideration to decarbonize its supply chain by replacing cement with a low-carbon substitute called... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
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Interviewing - Alumni
music and the tv; let your roommates or guests know that you will be doing a phone interview. If you are using a cell phone for an interview, be sure your phone is fully charged and that you take the call where you have good reception.... View Details