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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
at Fidelity Investments to launch a venture aimed at providing analytical information to bond traders. He showed Sahlman his business plan for a company that he was calling Technical Data Corporation. Basically, Parker had figured out a... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 30 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 30
Publications 2006 Harvard Business Review Press What You're Really Meant to Do: A Road Map for Reaching Your Unique Potential By: Kaplan, Robert Steven Abstract—How do you create your own definition of success-and reach your unique... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
school system—and to take action to improve it. There has been much work to do, as Harvard Business School's Stacey Childress details in two case studies. According to Childress, "The New Orleans public school district was already in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
the Bulletin about her experiences as an executive, a woman, a mother, and a New Yorker. In doing so, she shed light on some major social and business developments that have shaped — and been enriched by — the lives and careers of her... View Details
- 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15
Distributed Innovation Author:Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract Systems of distributed innovation-so-called business ecosystems-have become increasingly prevalent in many industries. These entities generally encompass numerous corporations,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
in several major cities. Ira A. Jackson (100th AMP), the executive vice president of BankBoston, is also finding a way to turn social ideals into good business practice. Locally, Jackson is guiding the bank in its efforts to provide jobs... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14
Cloud Computing Authors:Kyle Armbrester and Robert G. Eccles Publication:European Business Review (January 2012) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/?p=5748 Assent-maximizing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
Weinberg this was an opportunity to go the other way and reach out to be helpful to the president, and he took it. In 1933 the president had him organizing the Business Advisory and Planning Council, through which corporate executives... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
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comprises the lowest two quintiles of the population. The course focuses on business at the base of the pyramid as a core commercial activity of the enterprise. Accordingly, it is not for those primarily... View Details
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morell, host of Skydeck. In 2023, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in 67% of two-parent families with children, both parents worked, which was up from 59% in 2013.... View Details
- 16 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 16
an important driver of solo deal outcomes. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2159229 September 2014 Multidisciplinary Insights from New AIB Fellows Business History and the Impact of MNEs on Host... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
insistence on more data and deeper analysis than had been the McKinsey norm. In the 1970s, he began touting the importance of strategic management for every kind of firm; eventually strategy consulting would become the core of McKinsey’s... View Details
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
potentially at a moment of inflection." Turbulent economic and social conditions look like they could become even rougher, she said. One response by many companies would be to "pull up the drawbridge" and focus solely on core View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
School has done a great job maintaining its core values over the years. What are some of the biggest changes you have seen? Certainly, the mix of our student body is quite different; you can see it when you look at photos from across the... View Details
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
deftly: “How to most effectively communicate with all employees remotely and show empathy, while running around with [my] hair on fire trying to save the current business while at the same time trying to shape the future of the company in... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
Harvard economist Joseph Schumpeter and HBS professor and Baker Librarian Arthur Cole at the Research Center in Entrepreneurial History at HBS. Professor Myles Mace, back from military service in the Pacific where he found GIs eager to start View Details
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
into the business to the day the product departs the shipping dock. The researchers encouraged businesses to think of that order as the actual customer, and watched as they routed that person here and there... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7
PublicationsSeven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution Author:Robert L. Simons Publication: Harvard Business Press, 2010 Abstract To stay ahead of the pack, you must translate your organization's competitive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Clark Bids Farewell to HBS
information technology for pedagogy; in teaching entrepreneurial management; in global research and scholarship; and in its commitment to values and leadership as core elements of its curriculum and mission. Clark also oversaw a... View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
different in scope and age and mission: the Clark Foundation and Pfizer pharmaceuticals. These two organizations wanted to get rid of trachoma by the year 2020. "They both had very specific and clear core capabilities. Pfizer had... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace