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- 08 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Entrepreneurship Immersion - Four Highlights
revenue by 6x and tripled our headcount to 150 over the past two years! Prior to that, I helped Dropbox scale from a Series B startup to a post-IPO public company, going from 200 employees to 2,000 employees. I served as VP of Corporate Finance & Strategy and led...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
too.” —Yong Tao, Chairman, Strategic Decision Resources Group “Executives who now make 350 times what the lowest worker in their firms make are behaving in an especially unbecoming way when they seek to explain that raising the top...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
Science Museum: “We’re changing the cultural landscape of an entire city.” The Hub in the Heart of Texas The success of any large-scale project usually comes down to the effective management of hundreds and hundreds of small, pressing details. As director of View Details
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
species' survival by triggering learning and adaptation; it can have the same effect on organizations. Businesses and the people inside them don't learn to change unless they have the courage to confront difficult truths. Because most View Details
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by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
1959, DBA 1963) Laura Moon 03 Oct 2019 McArthur is remembered by so many of us for his genuine care, his extraordinary investment in peo... 25 Years of Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management Sarah Appleby 18 Sep 2019 This summer...
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- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer DataUse It
their companies' CRM initiatives had failed to deliver profitable growth and had damaged long-term customer relationships. Tempting as it may be to point the finger at your CRM technology, that won't help you reverse these worrisome...
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by Jean Ayers
- 18 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'
have been filed in the US patent system,” Choudhury says. “If you look at the way knowledge gets subsequently recombined, then that knowledge production becomes much bigger than the initial transfer.” Choudhury has long been investigating...
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- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
that Enhance the Effectiveness of Workforce Diversity Initiatives in Knowledge Intensive Firms Authors: Modupe N. Akinola, David A. Thomas Abstract Workforce diversity continues to be a key focus for organizations, driven by globalization...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
Strategic Interactions in Two-Sided Market Oligopolies (revised) Authors:Emmanuel Farhi and Andrei Hagiu Abstract Strategic interactions between two-sided platforms depend not only on whether their decision...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Socioeconomic Inclusion at HBS: Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)
those multiple facets, Mbanusi took a position at MDC, a non-profit in Durham, focusing broadly on poverty alleviation across the South. Over the next five years, he gained exposure to efforts with employment, economic security, and View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
leather that is produced through sustainable, non-polluting practices. Many years later, it’s gratifying to see the positive results of that project.” As CEO of Competitiveness.com until 2012, Duch personally led more than 120 of the nearly 200 View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 28 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on Entrepreneurship
Initially, I worked for three years at the Nike World Headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon, as a rotational operations analyst. Following this, I relocated to Los Angeles, California, to serve as a program manager. In this role, I helped build inclusion View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance
Initiative to apply innovative business practices to drive high-impact social change. 1994 Building on his earlier work, Michael Jensen advances “agency theory,” the underpinning for compensating executives with stock and stock options....
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Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton;
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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
From Chalkboards to Chatbots
more than 100 articles on the subject published daily online by leading newspapers as well as Bloomberg, Wired, The Verge, The Information, and other technology sites. “We do the initial curation, drawing on trusted resources, and use...
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- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
amazed that we've come so far so fast," says Associate Professor David M. Upton, who has spearheaded the latest initiative with the strategic input of Clark and many others on the faculty, the services of a...
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by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
Strategic Leadership Development. The mission of the CDC is to improve the capabilities of clients' in-house legal departments, such as by making them better partners with the business units and improving their leadership skills. The CDC...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: CVS Health
specific strategic initiative for their business area with set goals and anticipated outcomes for their work. We also offer many opportunities to connect across our business both on an individual and group...
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Health Care
- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
Sony's current keitai initiatives move the company in the right strategic direction? Allows for an in-depth examination of viable business models for established media companies competing in digital markets...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
signed may sour. Risk Factors The most common causes of social contract problems are lack of awareness and benign neglect. The parties involved inevitably form expectations about how the deal will be carried out, whether they discuss them or not. Even if View Details
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
performance. That initially led managers inside both companies to resist devoting scarce resources to developing those technologies because their lead customers were saying they wanted additional performance features, not fewer. But...
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