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Wombi Rose

world." Perhaps most significantly, LovePop is involved in the Rock Accelerator, "a relatively intense program where you keep going in front of this investment committee," first to get into the program, then to gain... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Manufacturing/Energy; Retail/Hospitality
  • February 2024
  • Supplement

Dena Almansoori at e&: Fostering Culture Change at a UAE Telco Transforming to a Global Techco

By: Emily Truelove, Michelle Zhang and Alpana Thapar
Dena Almansoori, the first female and one of the youngest members of the United Arab Emirates-based e&’s leadership team, joined in 2020 just before e& began a strategic transition from being a regional telecommunications company to becoming a global technology... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Telecommunications; Employee Mobility; Leading Change; Human Resources; Organizational Culture; Transformation; Talent and Talent Management; Change Management; Employee Relationship Management; Telecommunications Industry; Technology Industry; Middle East; United Arab Emirates
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  • 24 Sep 2018
  • Research & Ideas

How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti

School. Originally used to measure product and services costs in manufacturing, finance, and retail, TDABC had more recently been used to analyze expenses in large American hospitals. The Haiti study was the first time the system had been... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Debunking Teenagers: 200 Research-Based Parenting Strategies to Help Your Adolescent Successfully Navigate the “Tempteen” Years By Daphne Adler (MBA 2004) Independently Published Why are teenagers constantly tempted to behave... View Details
  • 30 Nov 2016
  • What Do You Think?

How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?

influence on whether or not an organization crosses the line from pride to arrogance. (3) It is possible to lead close to the line between pride and arrogance without crossing it; several suggestions were offered for how to do this. Ken Johnson made the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 08 Feb 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad

essential that managers from the highest levels of the company be involved in the decision-making process from the start. Senior scientists met with high-level managers and entered into a long series of discussions. Their first decision:... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
  • 31 Jul 2015
  • Blog Post

Transitioning From the Military to Business School

doing well. Because of this, in the midst of a schedule filled to the brim with cases and recruiting, I found it difficult to effectively balance my priorities. Midway through first semester I ended up sitting down to talk it through with... View Details
  • 24 May 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Career Advice for Minorities and Women: Sharing Your Identity Can Open Doors

professor at Harvard Business School, who co-authored the study published in Nature Human Behaviour with the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania colleagues Erika Kirgios, Aneesh Rai, and Katherine Milkman. “One of the... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 30 Jun 2021
  • In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
  • 22 Jul 2019
  • Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

Failure to get that pricing right inevitably leads to decline. You can see examples in businesses like ridesharing. The first player in the space was a company called Sidecar that never was able to figure... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?

Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, first published in 1776, helped create the discipline of economics with its conjuring of the invisible hand, self-interest, and other explanations of market forces that have influenced academics,... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 07 Feb 2019
  • Book

How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption

obviously the most challenging. Lagace: What are common errors when companies try to create innovative cultures? Pisano: Big companies too often try to emulate startup cultures, and that’s misguided. First of all, not all startups have... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 28 Feb 2023
  • Blog Post

Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 1)

in the fact that I have a family who, despite their lack of higher education, raised children who pursued education without hesitation. It could have been easy for them to expect me and my siblings to find jobs right after high school.... View Details
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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Spring 2026 Q3 1.5 Entrepreneurial Sales 101: Founder Selling Mark Roberge Lou Shipley Fall 2025 Q2 1.5 Mark Roberge Lou Shipley DJ DiDonna Spring 2026 Q3 1.5 Entrepreneurial Sales 102: Building the First Sales Team Lou Shipley Spring... View Details
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Melcolm Ruffin

"It was definitely the right decision," he says. "UMass had a supportive ecosystem I wanted and needed." While there, Melcolm fulfilled two sports-related internships: a summer at Octagon sports agency, where he worked... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment/Media
  • March 2004
  • Case

L.L. Bean: A Search for Growth

By: Rajiv Lal, Walter J. Salmon and James Weber
In mid-2003, CEO Chris McCormick felt L.L. Bean was in a good position to begin to grow again. For nearly 90 years, the company sold clothing and gear for outdoor enthusiasts through its catalogs and a single retail store in Freeport, Maine. In the three decades prior... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Restructuring; Growth and Development Strategy; Cost Management; Sales; Performance Improvement; Diversification; Distribution Channels; Resignation and Termination; Retail Industry; Web Services Industry
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  • 17 Dec 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Rise of Medical Tourism

first for-profit hospital in the southern city of Chennai in 1983. Today the Apollo Hospitals Group manages more than 30 hospitals and treats patients from many different countries, according to the case. Tarun Khanna, a Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 15 May 2015
  • Blog Post

Tips for Applying to Business School

stronger applicant. Sam: I worked for six years before deciding to apply for an MBA, so first I’d encourage applicants not to feel rushed by anyone else’s timeline. For me, the right time to apply to MBA... View Details
  • June 2025
  • Article

Riding the Passion Wave or Fighting to Stay Afloat? A Theory of Differentiated Passion Contagion

By: Emma Frank, Kai Krautter, Wen Wu and Jon M. Jachimowicz
Prior research suggests that employees benefit from highly passionate teammates because passion spreads easily from one employee to the next. We develop theory to propose that life in high-passion teams may not be as uniformly advantageous as previously assumed. We... View Details
Keywords: Passion; Emotional Contagion; Emotions; Groups and Teams; Employees; Power and Influence; Performance Improvement
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

28, 2024 10:00-11:15 a.m. EDT Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well Professor Amy Edmondson (PHDOB 1996) + More Info - Video Recording – Less Info - Video Recording As the push to innovate intensifies in many industries, the... View Details