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- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
the Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, Paul W. Marshall, the MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Management Practice and course head for The Entrepreneurial Manager, View Details
Keywords: by Staff
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Grupo Argos S.A.
Empowering Executives to Lead Collaboratively div class="shim15"/> "It became clear that we couldn't rely solely on capital or acquisition to be successful. We needed to invest in human capital and talent to... View Details
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Marla Malcolm Beck
always had a talent for seeing opportunity where others miss it. She decided the time was right to start her own venture and spent the next six months casting for an idea. The Internet was awash in startup... View Details
Arthur A. Kent
Kent introduced the mass production of high quality receivers. By 1926, Kent had sold more than 1 million sets, with annual sales exceeding $60 million. He was renowned for his philanthropy interests, Atwater Kent Foundation and Atwater... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
the bill. Moguls have propagated a myth that justifies their poor performance: since they manage creative talent and artistic product, traditional strategic, financial, View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- News
How Michael Sheresky Helped Hidden Figures See the Light
Photo via Vanity Fair Photo via Vanity Fair Talent agent Michael Sheresky (MBA 1997) is half of a Hollywood power duo that helped the Oscar-nominated film Hidden Figures become a box office success. A recent feature in Vanity Fair details... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
The American Dream
LAWSON: Campaigning for Congress, a probusiness entrepreneur who advocates for the middle class. An IBM engineer, Stacey Lawson (MBA 1996) noticed that a number of her colleagues, though surrounded by technology, still used pencil and... View Details
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
senior management and board positions, which became increasingly difficult due to the turmoil and poor performance of the company. Recruiting and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Brittany Williams
girls, but we lose talent at the college level—that’s where the gap is.” To prepare herself for leadership, Brittany served as the African American Student Union’s director of career and academics, “matching... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
and complementary effects across channels to provide sales forecasting, promotion planning, and customer relationship management guidance to multichannel managers. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
A Growing Array of Engagement Opportunities
inspired an expanded menu of opportunities for alumni to contribute their wisdom, time, and talents across the HBS community. Long involved in small pockets of campus activities, alumni are now returning to... View Details
- 25 Apr 2018
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Corporate Success
John Rice (MBA 1992) founded Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), a national nonprofit organization, to equip underrepresented minorities with the skills, coaching, and relationships they need to become... View Details
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Leadership | Working Knowledge
Leadership Explore expert leadership insights, from Deion Sanders' disciplined team strategies to David Beckham's talent-driven success in soccer. Learn how businesses can empower talented women to lead, prevent Boeing-style crises, View Details
Michael Ovitz
Ovitz founded and led one of the most successful talent agencies in Hollywood. By representing both scriptwriters and actors he was able to offer a unique service that often... View Details
Keywords: Services
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Amy C. Edmondson | Working Knowledge
to the betterment of society. Edmondson has been recognized by the biannual Thinkers50 global ranking of management thinkers since 2011, and most recently was ranked #1 in 2021 View Details
- 05 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?
Ninety percent of new entrepreneurial businesses that don't attract venture capital fail within three years. A software engineer at the government contractor EG&G, Don Brooks had been working on computer systems for the Idaho National Engineering View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
collaborate with other networks, the professors advise. "Students come to HBS because, in addition to having access to great faculty like Yuhai, they get the opportunity to interact with other students who are extremely talented View Details
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
less worthy a profession. Marketing in the United States benefited mightily from the endorsement of management guru Peter Drucker, who famously stated: "Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two—and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
schools: teachers, parents, students, curricula, state and federal mandates, operations, and finance. "There's a huge need for great management View Details