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Andres Sarmiento
that understanding. But even more important, the role required me to understand marketing, to understand that the product we were building had to satisfy the needs of our customers. I had my first marketing class ever at Harvard Business School and realized that I had...
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Entrepreneurial Sales 101: Founder Selling - Course Catalog
your product, even if it easily fits into already established habits and anybody who tries it likes it immediately, you must still support it with a strong distribution plan.” -From “Zero to One” by Peter Thiel One common misconception is...
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- 01 Feb 1999
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New Releases
industry leaders, Competing on Internet Time details the strategies, policies, and products that contributed to Netscape's breathtaking growth and success. The book further reveals, through candid quotations and thoughtful analysis, the missteps and View Details
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Nancy O. Perry
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Take Responsibility for Rising Stars
Many executives believe that leadership development is a job for the HR department. This may be the single biggest misconception they can have. As corporations have broken down work into manageable activities and then consolidated...
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution
already have lower occupancy due to advances in technology. Then where does the misconception arise that expensive technology - such as MRIs and CAT scanners - is pushing up the cost of health care? Hospitals like to showcase the latest...
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- 30 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Compensation Game
rise of executive pay over time as a product of efficient markets and argued that the increase merely reflects the growing marginal productivity of chief executives. Unfortunately, this standard defense reflects a broad misconception of...
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by Lucian Bebchuk & Rakesh Khurana
- 01 Mar 2014
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3-Minute Briefing: Frank Blethen (PMD 35, 1978)
of a sudden I became the credit manager in the worst economic times we'd had since the Depression. I'M THE ONLY PERSON in my family who didn't grow up in Seattle. I've always felt I can walk away anytime, even today. IT'S A MISCONCEPTION...
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- 21 Sep 2016
- Blog Post
How HBS Changed My Life
friendships I made at HBS. And truly, it was a beautiful thing to experience. I had my misconceptions about HBS before I applied. In fact, I almost didn’t apply. Today, I am forever grateful for the class visit I made to Professor Anita...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ink: The Three-Step Startup
For the last two decades in his classroom at Brown University, Danny Warshay (MBA 1994) has been using a structured approach to teach entrepreneurship—what he calls “see, solve, scale.” But roles reversed when his students pointed out that the executive director of...
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- 09 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
3 Myths About HBS
3. “There is no way that a random group of 90 people will become my best friends.” This is probably my favorite misconception to address, and definitely the generalization that I got the most wrong. I will admit, walking into Aldrich...
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- 13 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
There's No Quick Shortcut to Success: Zorpads Takes Off
build off their current momentum. Breaking barriers to entrepreneurship It's hard to imagine that with all this success, they're still devoting only part of their time to Zorpads. Noting that one of the biggest misconceptions of...
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- 19 May 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts
learned is the nature of the problem. We, perhaps like many others, had the misconception that cultural factors were the primary inhibitor to literacy development in India. However, it turns out that 85 percent of school-age children...
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- 08 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
“There’s no quick shortcut to success:” Zorpads takes off
build off their current momentum. Breaking barriers to entrepreneurship It's hard to imagine that with all this success, they're still devoting only part of their time to Zorpads. Noting that one of the biggest misconceptions of...
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- 15 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner
has historically worked. Entrepreneurs often have misconceptions about the role that venture capitalists play in new ventures. Our book provides a framework for entrepreneurs to understand the venture capital process. But rather than...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
thinking, translating his insights into practice and correcting the most common misconceptions about them. Guide to Managing Growth: Turning Success into Even Bigger Success by Rupert Merson (PMD 71, 1996) (Wiley) Successful growth...
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- 02 Aug 2004
- What Do You Think?
For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?
of the article. Richard Eckel opined that "A basic misconception is that Section 404 increases transparency afforded to stakeholders... What 404 does is require that corporate leadership demonstrate that the processes used to produce...
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by James Heskett
- 04 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Finding Your Creative Outlet on Campus
with just about any aspect of your life. At first I thought: oh no, everyone here is so professional. No one likes trashy TV. But actually, so many people do! Like the Bachelor! Half my section is watching the Bachelor.” Farrah summed it up: “I think there’s a View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reimagining China and India
misconception that these countries are too unfamiliar for us to really grapple with. Getting over that barrier allows one to invest in acquiring the knowledge that’s necessary. There’s really nothing mysterious about either country....
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- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection
Zaltman. "Another misconception is that it doesn't take much time to understand what's going on." Companies that have succeeded at probing the psyches of their customers, he says, have "taken a lot of time to extract...
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- 01 Feb 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?
point out possible misconceptions about job creation by small businesses off the mark? Do they miss the point? What do you think? Original Article In the late 1990s, a group of faculty at the Harvard Business School proposed a new...
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by James Heskett