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Dana Hoffmann
She thrived at Apple, working on new product introduction finances for such smash hit offerings as the new iPad, and from the outside Hoffmann seemingly had it made. But after three years, a twinge of dissatisfaction turned into an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping the Beat
fan to be comfortable with consuming musical experiences in a virtual format.” —Kiran Gandhi (MBA 2015) Dan Morrell: Artist and activist Madame Gandhi got her big break in the music industry when she was invited to join the group MIA on their world tour—which View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
London, traveling to the Continent several times a week to help launch MTV Europe. By the following year she had left MTV, married a Frenchman, and moved to Paris, where she consulted briefly for HBO. After the birth of her first child,... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
on, I got a job fixing rotary compressors in refrigerators. DM: Mm-hmm [affirmative]. JI: I was leading, kind of, 7,000 people. I was 32 years old. It was the biggest product recall in the history of GE. So it was a crisis every day. And... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
As wide and fractured as the partisan divide feels right now, the challenges to America’s underlying democratic systems cut deeper still: The productivity of Congress has declined steeply in the past 20 years. The country’s voting rate in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
however, New York has historically lacked a top engineering school, and has had to rely on talent imported from elsewhere. In 2010—the same year that Gotsch cofounded the FIL—the administration of Mayor Michael Bloomberg (MBA 1966) View Details
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
negotiate in the right order. Sorting Out The Possibilities When Steve Perlman was preparing to launch WebTV in 1996, he faced a critical sequencing dilemma. He had obtained seed funding, developed the technology to bring the Internet to... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
growing concern that such regulation may simply shift production to unregulated regions, potentially increasing overall carbon emissions in the process. Carbon tariffs have emerged as a possible mechanism to address this concern by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
(e.g., rubber and coffee) ended up having higher revenues per capita and, thus, lower cost of capital. We also explain that the variation in revenues per capita was both a product of the variation in natural endowments (i.e., the fact... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
From McRibs to Maseratis: The Power of Scarcity Marketing
ourselves). Happy Money provides valuable information not only for pleasure-seeking consumers, but also for companies looking to increase the happiness of both employees and customers. The following excerpt describes how the power of limited access led to fanatical... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael I. Norton
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
Technologies' Systems Generation and Delivery Unit (SGDU), was charged with creating a single global company from a set of fragmented businesses in Asia, Europe, and the United States. To gain control over product decisions being made by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
invests in programs that merge education with workforce development and help low-income youth prepare for sustainable, productive careers. After starting at HBS in 2011, Anderson interned at Next Street, a Roxbury-based merchant bank that... View Details
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
momentous. Since we launched in December 2013, we have already seen five of our formerly homeless artists gain housing; not simply because of this new opportunity to earn income, but because being validated—being shown their talent is... View Details
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
education experts concerning her organization's mission and effectiveness. Provides information on the leadership development of the protagonist, tracing her youth and education and the process of launching Teach for America. Raises... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Michael R. Bloomberg
launched the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative to provide intensive leadership training for mayors and senior city officials. In 2021, that partnership grew into the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University, which... View Details
- 13 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Blending my Tech and Managerial Mindsets
way I perceive life, career, and business: I was fortunate enough to have Professor Clayton Christensen himself teach us his Building and Sustaining Successful Enterprises (BSSE) class, frameworks from which I use literally daily, and View Details
- 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
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
For years, the United Kingdom sent out letters to delinquent taxpayers urging them to pay their overdue tax bills. The letters cost the government tens of millions of pounds per year, but, unfortunately, most citizens ignored these pleas for payment. In 2010, the UK... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Oct 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Building a Business in the Context of a Life
out to do something fun for themselves and ended up creating a production that continues to attract a huge following. Kraus uses Blue Man Group as an example of finding your "flow"—experiencing such enjoyment from an activity that you... View Details