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- 06 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge
co-workers can help those employees improve. “When you are exposed to different ideas or a different way of working, it can change your own behavior,” says Christopher Stanton, the Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration in the View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Mar 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business
This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details
- 09 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back
help anyone succeed in any industry: Entrepreneurial Sales 101 with Senior Lecturers Mark Roberge and Lou Shipley. It helps students develop tangible tools to improve dynamic View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971
Overseers; and benefactor to many good causes. Not bad for a "cop's kid" who grew up nearby in the blue-collar city of Everett. O'Donnell's entrepreneurial streak started early. "I always wanted to have some degree of independence," he... View Details
- 12 Dec 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock
designing, positioning, marketing, and selling the animated snooze-button thwarter, as well as the challenge of expanding the company's product line. The cases deal with universal entrepreneurial consumer product questions: Should the... View Details
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James Sharpe | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Transcript (PDF) James “Jim” Sharpe, HBS 1976, spent the early part of his career at General Electric, where he eventually had P&L responsibility for $15 million in sales and 100 employees. He then joined Hoover Universal, where he had... View Details
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Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online
model and mindset to our business and culture. Dave Nelson Head of Sales at WegoWise Discover what causes customers to buy your products and why, and predict when disruption will happen. The course equipped me with new ways to think about... View Details
- 24 Jul 2017
- Blog Post
Transitioning to Product Management at HBS
my professor in my Entrepreneurial Sales and Marketing course, both gave invaluable advice). I was connected to the startup I ended up joining, Salsify, through one of Salsify’s investors Mickael Skok, who... View Details
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Judges - Alumni
/AR and frontier technology by Goldman Sachs, CB Insights, and Pitchbook. Brandon spent time in sales operations and corporate development at Box. His passions and focus are mainly in enterprise technologies; notably applied machine... View Details
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
2021. As a result, total Publishing revenue increased 5 percent from fiscal 2020 to $274 million. HBP international revenue continued its steady growth, increasing 8 percent and representing approximately 40 percent of the group's total annual View Details
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
evidence that this effect is driven by psychological reactance rather than by overcompensation for potential bias. We discuss both the theoretical and practical implications of our findings. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2280370 The View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
creating an inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem can be seen through the stories of four women—two of them Black, one Latinx, and one white—who launched new enterprises in Miami with an eye to diversifying tech jobs in the future.... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 23 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform
traditional resellers. Also, MSPs can be less capital intensive for start-ups. No wonder, then, that an increasing number of entrepreneurial ventures such as thredUP have been attracted to the MSP model. But in 2012 thredUP's management... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
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Harvard Business School
Benaree Wiley served as president and CEO of the Partnership, increasing the representation of professionals of color and opportunities for their leadership in Boston area businesses and institutions. Wiley's management consultant and View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
expanded into other parts of the country, added four production facilities, and saw sales top $7 million. In 1960, Barford sold his share of the business to his partners and returned home with his family to Toronto. The following year, he... View Details
- 16 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be
entrepreneurial ventures. It's a field in constant change, which often creates significant opportunity." The Evergreen Challenge Heritage and prestige are the hallmarks of many luxury brands, some of which are hundreds of years old.... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
entertainment industry and outline the most effective business strategies and biggest entrepreneurial opportunities in these sectors. The Future of Work in the Era of AI Professor Joseph Fuller (MBA 1981) No additional materials available... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
background, and they have a good idea of what they want to do with that experience when they get here." The flexibility and freedom of academia has an entrepreneurial appeal that is extremely rewarding for those who want to set their own... View Details
- 09 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)
“Nothing sells itself,” says Frank Cespedes, senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School. “When companies introduce new products, they are offering something that by definition is going to replace... View Details
- 15 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives
indicates that while production efficiencies have enabled an average S&P 500 company to reduce the cost of goods sold by about 250 basis points over the past decade, SG&A (selling, general and administrative costs) as a percentage of revenue has not declined.... View Details