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- 03 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors
period of intense reflection, Cisco’s board determined that they would need a more innovative mindset to compete in a rapidly changing industry, and leapfrogged over the company’s two presidents to name the head of sales its new CEO....
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by Michael Blanding
- 19 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
Leadership Fellow Ming Min Hui: Figuring Out Her Mission
recognized that Leadership Fellows is great for this kind of work – everyone benefits. The organization gets financial support from HBS for the first-year salary, and a pipeline of talent they wouldn’t have access to themselves. Students get a guaranteed View Details
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Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
integrators, and leaders must embrace a new mindset in which marketing is viewed as an enterprise-wide responsibility. Marketing Moves: A New Approach to Profits, Growth, and Renewal. The Internet, globalization, and hyper-competition are...
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- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
class grew with large disposable income, and these foreign brands returned, it pushed the local brands to improve their quality and services. Competition rose and consumers benefitted. Q: So at this very fortunate time, Ranjan Kapur comes...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Making Eco Easy
consumption, but found that everything from shampoo to toothpaste to glass cleaner came packaged in single-use plastic. Gina Pak (MBA 2015) during her presentation at the 2019 HBS New Venture Competition (photo by Susan Young) Gina Pak...
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Jennifer Gillespie
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Figuring Out Her Mission | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
position. “We both recognized that Leadership Fellows is great for this kind of work – everyone benefits. The organization gets financial support from HBS for the first-year salary, and a pipeline of talent they wouldn’t have access to themselves. Students get a...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
discusses how the United States can reformulate some of these ideas from China to foster much-needed change at home. Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy by Joan Magretta (MBA 1983) (Harvard...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
What I Do: Lindsey Mead (MBA 2000), Vedica Qalbani and Jessica Wu (both MBA 2007)
its competitors in the hunt for talent in the high-stakes, trilliondollar finance industry. Ratio’s focus is on search for private equity and hedge fund firms, and its founders’ strategy for winning in that specialized, competitive market...
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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
proposes a mindset that will help executives to expand and grow their businesses in the new international economy and describes strategies that come to terms with the realities of globalization and technological change. Mills, the Alfred...
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Tessa Vacher-Desvernais
literature, languages, and creative arts. When Tessa completed her master’s degree at the ESSEC Graduate Business School, she began her career with another hybrid: luxury brands eager to embrace modernity. She was selected for a View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
educational videos. The line between business- oriented entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs is blurry and easily crossed. In fact, as I have seen in my research as part of the US Competitiveness Project at HBS, service is one way to...
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Health, Social Assistance
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Mastering Consulting and Advisory Skills - Course Catalog
prepare to enter other careers where their roles will be more advisory than operational. Often with only limited work experience as analysts or, in most cases, no background whatsoever, these students face a daunting set of challenges. Never has a career in consulting...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
these ventures is competitive advantage and profit. For Israeli companies, cooperation can open up new markets, provide cost-effective outsourcing opportunities, and significantly lower the costs of production, which is especially...
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- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
our business. We have built a business that is, despite our small scale, has a very clear track record of profitability, and have had the fundraising challenges And his response was "Well, you're not really a fast-growing business." And he's right. He was applying a...
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Rock 100: The Summit - Entrepreneurship
Tom EisenmannEverything Is Obvious: How Common Sense Fails Us, Duncan WattsBuilding BrandDifferent: Escaping the Competitive Herd, Youngme MoonBuilding Teams/CultureCompilation of posts on early team issues, Tom EisenmannCompilation of...
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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Q&A: Suzy Wetlaufer
worked at Bain long enough to get that “business is war” mindset — don’t turn your back too long or else.... What’s the most rewarding aspect of your job? Seeing the impact of HBR. I recently gave a speech to a group of CEOs, and one of...
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- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
that acquisitions can build competitive advantage partially through retention of valuable human capital of the target firm. However, making commitments to retain and motivate successful top managers is a challenge when contracts are not...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
it. My preferred artistic medium is music—I played the piano and violin and sang competitively from age five through high school. I don’t have as much time for it anymore, but, growing up, it helped me to relax, to engage with and develop...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
You can’t be that impatient. Another lesson from top-tier venture groups is the importance of a global perspective when it comes to best practices and competitive strategies. The smart venture firms make global connections. Too often,...
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- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
Professor Linda A. Hill and Kent Lineback write in the new preface to their book Being the Boss: The Three Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader, first published in 2011 and reissued this spring, “Leadership has always been hard, and in a world in which the View Details
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by Martha Lagace