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Engineering Meets Advocacy: Driving Innovation in Women’s Health - Blog: Health Supplement
used LEAN and Scrum frameworks that are common in manufacturing and product development. These are methodologies that prioritize breaking large, complex challenges into smaller, prioritized tasks. That kind of structured approach is... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
Suisse Group), Orit Gadiesh (Bain), Bill Foote (USG), John Hess (Amerada Hess), and Allan Moss (Macquarie Bank Limited) among them — who are using what they learned at Soldiers Field to make a real difference. Within days of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America, for... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21
attractive to both consumers and merchants, while trying to accelerate deployment at reasonable cost. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/Pivots-and-Incentives-at-/an/915001-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-055 Rent the Runway (Abridged) Two months after... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2007
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First Look: First Look: October 10
in-depth examination of new product development and launch strategies in the context of the music industry. Provides rich insights into how grassroots and mass-marketing approaches can facilitate new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
The Challenge of Managing National Security
Associate Professor Jan Rivkin joined the HBS faculty in 1997 as a member of the Strategy Unit. His special area of interest is examining the interactions that occur between and across the various functional and product boundaries of the... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22
her husband. In the former case, the reason for the production of that thought is clear ("I thought of him because I looked at his picture while reminiscing about the past"). In the latter case, she lacks both control over the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
When Hayley Barna (MBA 2010) launched the beauty startup Birchbox in 2010, she expected fundraising would be a challenge. Every entrepreneur knows the long odds: By some estimates, less than 1 percent of new companies receive that coveted... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
Above: Illustration by Hannah Barczyk When Hayley Barna (MBA 2010) launched the beauty startup Birchbox in 2010, she expected fundraising would be a challenge. Every entrepreneur knows the long odds: By some estimates, less than 1 percent... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
been collaborating for three years to increase the number of African American biologists and chemists. In 1995, they launched the UNCF Merck Science Internships. The undergraduates, doctoral students, and postdoctoral scientists who... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007
Business School Case 806-044 Fred Khosravi is a serial medical device entrepreneur. In his latest venture, he must decide whether to sell now or continue to develop his current product and whether to market it, sell the company, or IPO.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
for the launch by an unknown start-up, considering the wisdom of taking a B2C rather than B2B approach with a novel technology, and using analogous products to forecast demand and sales for a new technology.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
find turnover increases for the most productive workers. We detect limited effort responses and find no evidence of different effects based on workers’ expectations of fairness or future promotion. The findings suggest that adjustment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time
classmates at Harvard Business School, and became fast friends over their passion for the gig economy and the future of work. They both spent their summer before HBS working with fintech-focused venture capital funds in India and the US, exploring investments in... View Details
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
foundation for entrepreneurial pursuits, in 1998 they launched GoLite, a company that manufactured and sold lightweight, high-performance outdoor clothing and gear. Kim took the reins as CEO in 2000, and the company quickly became a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
he always remained open to a better idea if someone truly believed in it. I only had a few days before I would have to cancel my HBS trip. Knowing that Grove by reputation was, above all, a manufacturing maven, I called Professor Bob Hayes, who was head of the View Details
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Asia Pacific - Global Activities 2021
Japan asked Professor of Management Practice Hirotaka Takeuchi to lead a service-oriented learning trip to T ō hoku, a region devastated by the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake, tsunami, and Fukushima nuclear explosion. It launched what... View Details
- 09 Apr 2020
- News
“Raise the Line”
healthcare workers now. That’s why we launched raisetheline.org, where we are starting to train people for free online. We’ve also partnered with Coursera and Teachable to provide a COVID-19 course that healthcare workers can take for... View Details
- 05 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 5, 2007
Working PapersNone this week. Cases & Course MaterialsArtisan Entertainment Inc. Harvard Business School Case 207-067 Geoff Rehnert and Marc Wolpow have left Bain Capital to launch Audax Group. As part of their separation, they... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Past Issues - Alumni
productive work environments. Complete Table of Contents December 2007 Lighten Up How two East Coast HBS alums went West to launch a radical, lightweight outdoor gear business and struck an innovative deal... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
clear: many retail segments are under assault by cheaper, more convenient retailers selling online. "The surprising thing is that despite the success of lots of big businesses in having developed Internet businesses, despite the fact that they have View Details