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- 09 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
From Truck Driver to Manager: US Foods’ Novel Approach to Staff Shortages
Foods was having was caused partly by COVID-19, partly by competition for workers from Amazon, and partly by changes in lifestyle,” says David...
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by Pamela Reynolds
- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
In June, Professor Joe Bower (with fellow HBS professors Dutch Leonard, David Moss, and Lynn Paine) led an HBS faculty colloquium on "The Future of Market Capitalism." The HBS Alumni Bulletin spoke with Bower shortly after the...
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by Garry Emmons
- 16 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advice on Advice
realize that it involves skills that can be learned and refined, according to Harvard Business School professors David A. Garvin and Joshua D. Margolis. Highly skilled advisers pay close attention to how they advise as much as what kind...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Dec 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Performance Persistence in Entrepreneurship
- Apr 12 2017
- Interview
The Future of Professional Service Firms
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Do You Have Change Fatigue?
its operating companies. Two weeks after the kickoff event—three fabulous days of inspirational talks by inventors, creators, and consultants—each attendee received a big box with the words "Tool Kit" on the front. It was filled...
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by Nick Morgan
- 23 Oct 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Decarbonization Factors
- 06 Oct 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Optimal Illiquidity
- 17 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
KFC’s Explosive Growth in China
different, not by being the same. In the Harvard Business School case "Yum! China," professor David E. Bell and Agribusiness Program director and senior researcher Mary Shelman examine how Yum!...
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- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
challenges and opportunities posed by digital platforms, The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power is a new book by Harvard Business School Professor View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 22 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Control Your Inventory in a World of Lean Retailing
perspective of actual consumer buying patterns, a blazer in an atypical size actually has more in common with a fashion-driven product than with the same style jacket in a popular size. For example, sales for 46-regular, one of the most popular sizes, vary only View Details
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
In When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager, David A. Moss explores government's role as insurer of last resort in everything from crafting consumer protection law to bailing out airlines after September 11th. He...
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by Laura Linard
- 08 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy
In the new book International Strategy: Context, Concepts, and Implications, Harvard Business School Adjunct Professor David J. Collis presents a comprehensive guide to a topic of ever-increasing relevance for managers across all sectors...
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by Julia Hanna
- 22 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries
and efficiency, lean's influence (and various interpretations of its tenets) continues to grow. In their working paper "Lean Principles and Software Production: Evidence from Indian Software Services," HBS doctoral student Bradley Staats and professor View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Testing a Purportedly More Learnable Auction Mechanism
- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
Companies often manage strategy in fits and starts. Though executives may formulate an excellent strategy, it easily fades from memory as the organization tackles day-to-day operations issues, doing what HBS professor Robert S. Kaplan calls "fighting fires."...
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by Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
HBS Section I Celebrates Parents, Mentors, and Partners Day
If there’s one thing our LEAD (Leadership and Organizational Behavior) Professor David Fubini (MBA 1980) tried to drill into the MBA Class of 2024 Section I, it’s that we should take the time to thank the...
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- 08 May 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Writing the Case for Public School Reform
working with leadership teams from nine urban school districts over the course of three annual sessions to coordinate research and create coherent, scalable systems for education reform. Two cases written for PELP and taught by HBS...
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- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Manager or Mentor? Why You Must Be Both
HBS professor David A. Thomas hates the word "mentor." In his opinion, it's as empty a buzzword as "coach." In fact, when Thomas spoke to an audience of around 100 administrative managers at Harvard University...
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by Martha Lagace