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- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
selective anecdotal evidence to pose a question. After all, John Doerr is a graduate of Harvard Business School. But think about it. The Silicon Valley and its neighbor to the north Seattle have influenced management and the conduct of...
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Jason A. Kilar
interviewed with Bezos in a professor’s office, flew to Seattle a week later, and accepted a job offer on the spot. He thought he would stay for two years but he spent the next nine years working alongside Bezos whom he called “the...
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- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
connected with their communication skills. This concept can be seen in Belichick of the Patriots. He has consistently surrounded himself with young assistants and maintained solid working relationships with leaders in the locker room. View Details
- August 2015
- Case
Yabbly (A)
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Christopher Payton
In November 2013, with less than 10 months of cash on hand, Tom Leung, the founder and CEO of Yabbly, must decide where to focus his resources. His startup, a question-and-answer application for shopping decisions, had benefited from a strong showing at the SXSW...
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Keywords:
Startup;
Mobile;
Online Product Reviews;
Consumer Products;
Business Model;
Business Plan;
Business Startups;
Entrepreneurship;
Innovation Strategy;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Internet and the Web;
North America;
United States;
Washington (state, US);
Seattle
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Christopher Payton. "Yabbly (A)." Harvard Business School Case 816-030, August 2015.
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
parents divorced when he was nine, Kacyvenski enrolled at Harvard, graduating cum laude in 2000 with a premed degree and earning All-American honors as a four-year starter at linebacker before being drafted by the NFL's Seattle Seahawks....
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- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
Another option was to deepen penetration within Seattle by recruiting caregivers with less experience and by broadening the range of services caregivers could provide, e.g., driving children to appointments. Purchase this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
Seattle cable television company, and in 1969 sold the enterprise -- by then a multimillion-dollar business -- to CBS. He then "dabbled in real estate" and during a trip to the South Pacific to explore potential investment opportunities,...
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Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Professor Ranjay Gulati, whose research looks at how the most resilient companies approach growth and profitability, chaired the Advanced Management Program at HBS for many years. Over time, more and more...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
electric buses to transit agencies across the country, says that his business “has to a large extent gone mainstream,” with orders coming in from some of the biggest cities in the US, including Seattle and Chicago. But mass transit is,...
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- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
optimal: “We’re going to miss that camaraderie, the badgering that goes back and forth, and the direct communication with the coaches, teammates who lean over and whisper to help out on a play,” said John Schneider, the Seattle Seahawks’...
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- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
affect positive change.” Do you apply some of what you learned in the military to The Mission Continues? If so, can you tell us how? “Absolutely. Going to a community meeting in Los Angeles, Phoenix, or Seattle is not at all unlike...
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- 02 Mar 2017
- News
Such Great Heights
mountaineering. How long have you been a climber? Tom Vogl: I've been a climber most of my life actually. I started climbing when I was in high school and have continued really through my adult life. And I'm increasingly as I have spent time working in the outdoor...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
enthusiastic Tait was working on an idea for a game and wanted to run it by Furlong. When the pair met for breakfast at the Hi Spot Cafe in Seattle the next Saturday at 7 a.m., the bleary-eyed Furlong was surprised to learn that Tait was...
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- Web
Annual Report 2016 - Annual Report 2016
to digitally enabled prescription medicine to cultured beef.View episodes A Vision for the 21st Century Alumni events were held in Seattle and Cleveland, two of six cities visited during FY16 as part of The Harvard Business School...
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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
on to become a household name. Consider David Cowan’s (MBA 1992) initial response to eBay: “Stamps? Coins? Comic books? You’ve GOT to be kidding. No-brainer pass.” Chad Waite (MBA 1983) had this to say about a certain Seattle...
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- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
employees created a group called “Amazon employees for climate justice” and they staged a walkout. They walked out of the Seattle headquarters. When they did, they were joined by employees from Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Facebook, who...
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- February 2024
- Case
Can Cities Beat the Heat? (A): A Comparative Analysis of Climate Actions and Change Enablers in 14 U.S. Cities
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
Throughout the early 2000's, emphasis was placed on initiatives to adapt to and mitigate climate action in cities. This series presents overviews (snapshots) of 14 U.S. metropolitan regions to help identify similarities, differences, and opportunities for developing...
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Keywords:
Climate;
Climate Impact;
Innovation;
Mitigation Policies;
Carbon Footprint;
Investing;
Climate Finance;
Renewable;
Mobility;
City;
Climate Change;
Adaptation;
Renewable Energy;
Weather;
Problems and Challenges;
United States;
Boston;
Detroit;
Miami;
Minneapolis;
St. Paul;
Pittsburgh;
Seattle;
San Jose
- March 2022 (Revised June 2023)
- Background Note
Climate Issues on the Ground: Snapshots of Diverse American Cities
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Coelin Scibetta and Ryan Barr
This compilation provides brief snapshots of climate action and its geographic and institutional context in 13 U.S. cities that send diverse participants to the Harvard Business School Young American Leaders Program to learn about cross-sector collaboration to address...
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- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
culture. We got the best people we could have found across the globe. We have big teams in Japan, in China, in Singapore, in Germany, in U.K., in France, and of course, in Romania. And then in U.S., we have a few bases. We have our New York commercial headquarters. We...
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