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- 14 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Understanding Users of Social Networks
as Facebook and MySpace. He has also applied many of the insights to help companies develop strategies for leveraging these various online entities for profit. Addressing Network Failures "Online social networks are most useful when...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
people-watching, and the general ambience, it was extremely attractive to customers. Also, a key aspect of our strategy is to be preemptive; we get there ahead of the competition, and if we're a little late,...
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
The Next Big Thing
It's a case of competition and strategy on a global scale, and the stakes could hardly be higher. The prize? Leadership in the realm of life sciences, a field that experts say will shape and dominate 21st-century enterprise. What city or...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Alumni Books
questions, presenting unique strategies and concrete steps useful for handling the growing number of giants in our personal and professional lives. The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of...
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- 03 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Money Making Movies
the momentum generated in the U.S. Buzz, it appears, quickly wears out. There is an important caveat. Our study suggests that foreign exhibitors—not foreign audiences—mostly drive this effect. Shortening release times can thus be a useful...
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- 15 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands
Green and Black's, and Coca Cola purchasing a significant interest in HonestTea.) As the authors write, "Making a virtuous mouse and rich elephant merger work is a delicate, but potentially high-value undertaking in terms of View Details
- 16 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters
Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. "Interdepartmental coordination doesn't tend to happen organically. It needs some intervention to create collaborative networks." “What corporate-level View Details
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- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Your Balance With Customers
value" of a customer. Customer growth strategies generally involve striving to expand the share of each customer's spending by expanding the company's range of products or services. This involves...
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by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 30 May 2018
- News
HBS Fellowship Program Puts an MBA Within Reach
job within Allstate’s leadership development program in Chicago. She later pivoted to personal finance startup NerdWallet in San Francisco, where she realized that colleagues who had the internal strategy jobs she aspired to had MBA...
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- 06 May 2019
- Blog Post
2019-2020 Recruiting Calendar Available Now
time. Internship interviews can generally begin at 3:00pm and full-time interviews can begin at 9:00am due to varying class schedules. Let’s Talk Strategy As you consider which events and interview options...
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Amanda Pratt
graduation, Amanda took on a traditional engineering role – working on medical imaging devices within General Electric's Healthcare business – that took her to some nontraditional worksites: Wisconsin, India, and Southeast Asia. Yet after...
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Healthcare/Biotech
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Three Profs Win McKinsey Award
Articles about the disastrous effects of outsourcing on the American economy and the origins of creative business strategies have earned three HBS professors top honors in the annual competition for best contributions to the Harvard...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
Jim Knott's Aquamesh lobster traps set a new standard for durability, quickly supplanting the wooden traps used by generations of lobstermen. Chinese knockoffs failed to match Aquamesh's patented process. Will business leaders reconnect...
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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise Q4 - Course Catalog
will and will not be effective in the various circumstances in which our students find themselves. We integrate a unique understanding of strategy formulation with practical solutions to the execution challenges faced by View Details
Rick Grinnell
Engineering from MIT and an MBA from HBS. Areas to support: - General start-up foundation development - AI roadmap and talent recruiting - GTM strategy - Driving initial customer adoption - Career advice
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Field Course: Go to Market Sales Playbook Field Study - Course Catalog
either alone or as a team of two. This field course will be designed to put into practice the tactics and strategies covered in ES 101, Founder Sales, although taking Founder Sales is not a requirement for the field course. This course...
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Expanding Horizons
Geoffrey Jones’s course, Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism. The students, who had arrived at HBS with diverse industry experiences, often raised questions and posed creative solutions that I had not considered. Hearing their perspectives and View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- News
How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft
her frustration during an interview for a case study. “We had consistent performance, but generated no confidence,” Hood told him. “People did not believe we were relevant.” Foley says some value investors even wanted Microsoft to quit...
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- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
a dealer's back lot, it will nonetheless embody a defining moment in a global race for supremacy. Manufactured by Toyota, this is the car that will propel the Japanese company ahead of General Motors as the world's largest automaker, a...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The New Global Business Manager
function of today’s global manager? We used to think of the CEO as being the grand strategic architect. Now the world is so complex and fast-moving that the general manager’s role is less about managing content and more about managing...
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Management