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Online Transforming Customer Experiences Course | HBS Online
types an answer in the discussion board in response to a peer's question Immerse yourself in real-world, case-based service examples brought to life by experts at world-class organizations like Getaway, Tessei, Commonwealth Bank of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
with a team of fellow alums to create a $2.5 billion technology company. Today, Langford’s focus falls under an entirely different category of urgency: As executive director of the Georgia Prevention Project (GPP), he leads a nonprofit... View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
employees much more effectively—creating high-performance teams reliably, matching people to projects that fit both their skills and their interests, and dramatically increasing the probability that work will be productively creative. We... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
considerable energy to reconstructing Winfrey's life and the path she had forged before founding Harpo (Oprah spelled backwards) Productions. The women saw the project as an entrepreneurial story, according... View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
to move away, while the other rejects farm life to pursue a bigger payday smuggling drugs over the Canadian border. It’s a tough but touching story with a very un-Hollywood ending. Yet, for Jared Simon (MBA 2008), the making—and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
blockbuster projects we just can't seem to get enough of. Your book's thesis suggests that, in the business of entertainment, big moves are the best moves. That's right. Many people think that making many small bets is playing it safe.... View Details
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Lisa Cousins
of attending HBS. My parents don't have university degrees, and they wanted to ensure my brothers and I could achieve what we wanted in life without financial or educational limitations. They always emphasized the importance of school,... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
network of long-distance transmission lines, and we have to establish all kinds of precedents as we move our projects along.” A Patient Entrepreneur In addition to its Plains & Eastern Project, Clean Line Energy Partners is involved in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
climate change, and economic resource nationalism. Readers will learn how risk management is being transformed from a business prevention function to a values-based framework for thriving in increasingly perilous times. Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being... View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
plumbing a career of extraordinary effectiveness, we have sought to learn as much as possible, extracting useful insights into the art and science of negotiation from Kissinger’s dealmaking at the highest level. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud
more risk in projects by limiting their use of “cost-plus” agreements, which make it easier to overcharge government agencies, according to researchers. This renegotiation of contractual terms allows the agency to hedge its bet with a... View Details
- 19 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Connecting School Ties and Stock Recommendations
individuals' charitable giving in the United States. Further, unlike corporate boards where directors are appointed and leave, school attended is a network that doesn't change over a person's life (after graduation). In addition, a... View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wired and Black: Focus on Careers
said. "The flatness of the organization gives a lot of opportunity. There’s much fewer people you have to deal with, and I think having fewer people to win over is a valuable thing," Selassie said. But Thomas warned students against expecting corporate View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- 17 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream Series: Marty
take them. DJ created the Sabbatical Project to explore questions like this through interviews with individuals who have experienced sabbaticals, as well as with companies which offer them to their employees. During these interviews, DJ... View Details
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
find that lean projects perform better than the non-lean projects in our sample in many, but not all, cases. Building on this result we see that the impact of the techniques on problem solving, coordination,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
By: Agrawal, Ajay, Christian Catalini, Avi Goldfarb, and Hong Luo Abstract—Traditional innovation models assume that new ideas are developed up to the point where the benefit of the marginal project is just equal to the cost. Because... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
venture money? A: The vast majority of venture capital is allocated to technology-driven businesses: software, hardware, Internet-related spaces. There is also significant investment in the life sciences and... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 18 May 2021
- Book
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
times—get started on the right foot. “It really is possible to bottle up life experience and tacit knowledge and deconstruct it to accelerate the learning curve,” he says. Ng says that unlocking the best career opportunities requires job... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
of Hazleton Laboratories Corporation, a Virginia research and laboratory-services company, Nielsen returned to his native Washington State. “I had retired early and decided to devote the balance of my working life to something totally... View Details
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
alongside global brands. Retailing and distribution remain largely local. And American consumers show a desire for increasing cultural variety in their life experiences, eating more often at ethnic restaurants and vacationing more often... View Details