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25 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures

the best means of driving climate change – fast enough – to make a real dent in CO2 emissions. “Climate technology has been my fascination since high school.” – Hilton Augustine III Both of Hilton Augustine III’s (HBS MBA 2021) parents... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Full Court Press

delivers down the road.” Video Embed Victor Williams on the personal meaning of his work with NBA Africa Forging local business partnerships also can offer the league singular insight into new markets that a global corporation might not... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

04 Sep 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Level II Negotiations: Helping the Other Side Meet Its ‘Behind the Table’ Challenges

Keywords: by James Sebenius

04 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping

Collaboration with suppliers to dramatically increase supply of green shipping fuels. Maersk’s massive scale means that they can essentially create a new market for sustainable shipping fuels, which they are doing in biomethanol. While... View Details

26 Nov 2001
Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

performance—by legitimate means or, if push comes to shove, by illegitimate ones. If the measure is profits, for instance, she will have a strong incentive to increase the current year's earnings at the expense of next year's, either by... View Details

Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen

05 Sep 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Making the Right Technical Hire

clip, then a contract designer may be prudent while you iterate on your MVP. You may pay a little more per hour for these contractors, but that far outweighs over hiring and paying a full-time salary early on. 4. Time delay + J-curve Just because you have cash in hand... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin; Technology

27 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution

and within four years Sears was selling one million units per year.1 In the mid-1960s, B.F. Goodrich embraced radial technology as a means to win market share from its larger rivals, and the company introduced the first American-made... View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation

21 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

means closeness, and while social distancing remains important to mitigating the spread of COVID-19, psychological proximity—interpersonal trust, alignment on values and strategy, shared understanding of key facts—has never been more... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden

04 Feb 2010
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?

that success requires some talent and some luck, while great success requires some talent and a lot of luck. The importance of this observation is that systems that involve significant amounts of luck, such as investing for many people, revert to the View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Feb 2016
Blog Post

Meet the HBS Tech Club

club can help provide them the skills, knowledge, and connections to get that dream job. In addition we aim to provide members with the motivation and means with which to give back to the club — in terms of forming close friendships with... View Details

02 Aug 2007
What Do You Think?

How Will Millennials Manage?

that millennials will come to appreciate their predecessors over time, Fred Olande commented, " life is just a circle and we all transit from one level to another ." And there were some worries as well. Mike Flanagan fears that because of the emergence of... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

Web

Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education

then to go into business means a great deal," Du Bois wrote. "It is, indeed, a step in social progress worth measuring." 3 Harvard Business School (HBS), the country's first graduate program in business administration, opened its doors in... View Details

04 Nov 2015
What Do You Think?

Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?

mean that gender diversity necessarily accounts for much if any of the performance. On the other hand, a number of studies have compared the management styles of women and men. Even though there is a wide overlap on most dimensions among... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education

which customers exchange with each other. For example, telecommunications is a user network because we send information to you, and you send it to us. In education, this will mean that the tools of the software platform will make it so... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

27 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

technology, operations, finance, etc.), different levels in the customer's organizational hierarchy, and different customer regional and line of business organizations. Customers are reached through complex overlapping means including... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro

27 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Working to Change the Food System

combine data science, biotechnology, and sustainability. If PicoGreens succeeds at scaling sustainable unit economics for microalgae as a production platform, this would have a staggering impact on many traditional means of producing... View Details

13 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis

product development terms, you might call this something like "jumping to the next S-curve." By the "S-curve" we mean the pattern that new innovations typically follow when they are introduced. At first a few people,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

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

24 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?

HBS. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/NaY2NjI9Ny4EI4XXDoN7][/div] “There can be important barriers to switching to remote work, even if an employer allows it,” says Luca. Some employees worry that working from home means being passed... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Jan 2002
News

Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)

advice," he asserts. "Sometimes that means the best person for the job is already in the company." Although Egon Zehnder International is also involved in helping corporations find outside directors and in appraising the effectiveness of... View Details

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