Filter Results
:
(468)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(3,960)
- People (1)
- News (468)
- Research (2,975)
- Events (20)
- Multimedia (12)
- Faculty Publications (1,940)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(3,960)
- People (1)
- News (468)
- Research (2,975)
- Events (20)
- Multimedia (12)
- Faculty Publications (1,940)
Sort by
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Author Charley Ellis on Goldman Sachs
outrageous. Others would argue that these are exceedingly high-skilled talents working brutal hours in an extremely demanding and competitive environment, that the firm was risking its own capital and doing things that the world as a...
View Details
Keywords:
Finance
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA '56)
summer employment to take a road trip across America. Captivated by the country, he decided to stay on after graduation; in 1961, he became a U.S. citizen. Dunphy was recruited by Westinghouse Electric and worked in various marketing and...
View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
market fit.” In the beginning, Outreach didn’t have a pricing model: “We just kept upping the price, and people kept paying.” Yet the software, while powerful, was unstable. The team had built it quickly and on a budget, because...
View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
reports that in that sector, "the M&A; market is not well-developed, although demand is growing. The transactions that do occur are conducted for strategic rather than corporate control reasons. "Emerging markets," Palepu continues, "are...
View Details
Keywords:
Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
his wife's salary as a sales representative at Wang, Shafir struggled to grow his business, barely keeping ahead of his creditors each month. Finally in 1993, new financing from another relative provided enough cushion to allow Shafir to turn up the heat on Kettle...
View Details
Keywords:
Deborah Blagg
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
Business School professors Joseph Bower, Herman Leonard, and Lynn Paine argue that while robust governments must play a role, leadership by business is essential. For enterprising companies—whether large multinationals, established regional players, or small...
View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
development partners lined up at the door.” True to the core: Because the market demand for flexible childcare wasn’t completely clear when it launched, Sweet Kiddles offered regularly scheduled care to ensure that it was View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
George C. Lodge
1987 book with Harvard professor Ezra F. Vogel, Ideology and National Competitiveness, looked at the relationship between ideology and economic performance. In the mid-1980s, Lodge joined HBS professor Bruce R. Scott in contributing to and editing U.S. View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
according to Karim R. Lakhani, is that thanks to the Internet, crowdsourcing has moved into new and unexpected industries and organizations, establishing itself as a mainstream strategy for innovating and gaining a competitive edge....
View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
Capitol Hill. The Case for More Regulation Looking at the historical record, Moss makes a strong case that targeted government regulation of financial markets has worked in the past to lower risk and instill consumer confidence. “From the...
View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
Out-Innovate, calls it the “frontier market model.” Founded in places with limited resources and nascent entrepreneurial ecosystems, these startups have to be scrappier and leaner. And these limitations, Alex says, make businesses more...
View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
from the office building/landlord. The benefit to the landlord was an additional amenity to retain their existing tenants and to better market vacant space to prospective tenants. The employer and landlord contributions would help defray...
View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
objectives. Identifying how to best achieve our mutual objectives can be challenging, but also provides a great learning and growth opportunity.” How do you use what you learned at HBS in this position? “In some way or other, every class I took at HBS has been...
View Details
Keywords:
Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
trade barriers but because gasoline prices were so much lower than in other auto-producing countries. With no serious challenge from abroad, and only relatively benign competition among themselves, the Big 3 and their stakeholders were...
View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
herbicides, reducing risk.) In general, Reinhardt asserts, it is market leaders who, by virtue of their power to shape the nature of competition in their industries, can force other firms to follow. Flexing...
View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit
increased competition or Booz, Allen & Hamilton's emergence into the world market, HBS professor Leonard A. Schlesinger, who is chair of the unit, notes that "the course material is immediately useful to our students. It involves people...
View Details
Keywords:
Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Class of 1949 Gift Supports HBS Faculty Development
when competition for outstanding talent has intensified among private industry and other top-tier business schools." The Class of 1949, one of the first post-World War II HBS classes to be awarded MBA degrees, has a long-standing, close...
View Details
Keywords:
Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
cofounder of Intuit, the world leader in software for personal and small business finance. After studying economics and math at the University of Southern California and earning his MBA, he learned the ropes of product marketing at...
View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
exciting. There probably are only five or ten universities in the world where you could teach a course like this. We draw on science from labs across Harvard, and our student teams are tasked with determining if there is a market for the...
View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
New Releases
strategy represents the new competitive standard, replacing the conventional "make and sell" method of doing business. Sense & Respond: Capturing Value in the Network Era, edited by HBS professors Stephen P. Bradley and Richard L. Nolan,...
View Details