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Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship | About

Arthur Rock & Company, which was instrumental in the birth of Apple and Intel. Unlike many venture funders, Rock’s formula for success relies on maintaining long-term ties with the companies he finances, often staying on company boards for decades. HBS Professor... View Details

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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

Hart Rosabeth M. Kanter Joseph B. Lassiter Howard H. Stevenson Josh Lerner Paul A. Gompers See All HBS Working Knowlege 12 Nov 2024 Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers Re: Paul A. Gompers 29 Oct 2024... View Details

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For Alumni - Health Care

and Harvard Kennedy School. Moderated by Robert Huckman, Howard Cox Health Care Initiative, Faculty Chair Jan 31 31 Jan 2025 Blavatnik Fellowship Applications Deadline (Applications opened on January 6) HBS Health Care Initiative Are you... View Details

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Healthy Outcomes - Managing the Future of Work

acknowledge it Ruth Reader 16 Jan 2019 | Fast Company The Caring Company Joseph Fuller & Manjari Raman 16 Jan 2019 | American Enterprise Institute Employers Are Clueless When It Comes To Family Caregiving Howard Gleckman 16 Jan 2019 |... View Details

24 Apr 2017
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Op-Ed: Courage: The Defining Characteristic of Great Leaders

entire enterprises. The courage cohort includes Delta’s Richard Anderson, Starbucks’ Howard Schultz, Xerox’s Anne Mulcahy and Ursula Burns, Nestle’s Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Novartis’ Dan Vasella, Tesla’s Elon Musk, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos,... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Auto; Food & Beverage

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Dan Lufkin | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Howard E. Cox Greylock Michael Danzi US Labs William Donaldson Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Timothy C. Draper Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) William H. Draper, III Draper Richards, L.P. T. J. Dermot Dunphy Sealed Air Charles Ellis... View Details

26 Jun 2013
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How a Trivial Pursuit Became a Significant Case

of designing and launching the TV Game was $50,000; revenues were $7.3 million. All this and more is detailed in a 1985 HBS case study, "R&R"—the name of Reiss's company—which was supervised by Professor Howard Stevenson (and prepared by... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

24 Apr 2018
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Op-Ed: What Mark Zuckerberg Can Learn About Crisis Leadership from Starbucks

support of founder Howard Schultz and his team in Philadelphia. Zuckerberg did not seem to rely upon the wisdom of Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg or lead board director Susan Desmond-Hellmann. Instead, he trotted out his deputy... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Technology; Food & Beverage

18 Aug 2022
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Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent

experienced burnout differently. Organizations currently comprise multiple generations of employees simultaneously and must understand how each group may view any incentives companies provide to encourage people to stay at an organization. In June, Business Insider... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson

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The Caring Company

refuse to acknowledge it Ruth Reader 16 Jan 2019 | Fast Company The Caring Company Joseph Fuller & Manjari Raman 16 Jan 2019 | American Enterprise Institute Employers Are Clueless When It Comes To Family Caregiving Howard Gleckman 16 Jan... View Details

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

from Harvard Business School and a BS from Kansas State University. He and his wife, Sandra, reside in Brookline with their four children. Thomas Eisenmann (MBA 1983), Harvard Business School. Thomas Eisenmann is the Howard H. Stevenson... View Details

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HBR Classics - Alumni

in Decision Making , John S. Hammond, Ralph L. Keeney and Howard Riaffa Who Has the D , Paul Rogers and Marcia Blenko Ethical Leadership Ethical Leadership and the Dual Roles of Examples Ethical Leadership and the Psychology of... View Details

20 Dec 2022
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Employee Feedback: The Key to Retention During the Great Resignation

isolating at home, the remaining workers asked for KN95 masks, better testing protocols, and the right to turn away illegally unmasked customers. These requests were flatly refused—a surprising response from a company whose founder, View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer

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A Perspective on Entrepreneurship

By: Howard H. Stevenson

Designed to highlight alternative concepts of good management and the need for entrepreneurship as a response to societal changes. It argues that entrepreneurship can be fostered or destroyed as a function of the administrative setting. View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Management Style

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Thomas Murphy | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Howard E. Cox Greylock Michael Danzi US Labs William Donaldson Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Timothy C. Draper Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) William H. Draper, III Draper Richards, L.P. T. J. Dermot Dunphy Sealed Air Charles Ellis... View Details

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Community | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

1959 Howard W. Goldsmith Fellowship Through the Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowship, awards of approximately $10,000 are given to 7-10 first-year MBA students who have exhibited leadership and an extraordinary commitment to working in the... View Details

15 Jun 2021
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Leading at State

Courtesy Howard Cox Courtesy Howard Cox This past fall, 49 employees of the US Department of State logged in to a virtual HBS classroom from all over the world—Honduras, China, Namibia, and Kazakhstan, to... View Details

Keywords: leadership; international relations; politics; Executive Education

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HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

founders (All welcome) Pre-Summit Programming Ends HBS Entrepreneurship Summit DAY 1 1:30 p.m. Registration Opens 2:15–2:45 p.m. Welcoming Remarks Jodi Gernon (MBA 1991), Director, Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship Thomas R. Eisenmann (MBA 1983, DBA 1998), View Details

01 Jun 2023
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Pet Project

that demand payment for product placement and by wholesalers who are slow to pay. If Katie pursues this direction, she needs senior team members with the experience to navigate this challenging path and investors who can offer good guidance. —Tom Eisenmann is the View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

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Leadership - Health Care

Health Care Initiative Leadership 1ms Robert S. Huckman Howard Cox Health Care Initiative Faculty Chair Professor Huckman teaches the second-year course in Operations Strategy and has taught HBS Executive Education programs and the... View Details

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