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- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
inspired-makes all the more impressive what the design firm IDEO has already achieved. Its help-seeking and help-giving culture is behind the firm's success. But how has IDEO managed to make helping the norm? To answer this question, the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
PublicationsHigher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value Authors:Michael Beer, Russel A. Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, Tobias Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2011 Abstract...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
value than e-commerce, such as immediacy, curated selection, or allowing touch and feel of non-digital experiential goods. Thinking of online shopping as a compliment and an opportunity, rather than as a substitute and a threat to offline...
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- 07 Sep 2007
- What Do You Think?
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
management by building more value in their alumni networks than in their curricula and teaching. 2) Business school curricula, if not always their teaching, reflect the demands of the market. This is or is not appropriate, but not...
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by Jim Heskett
- 25 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups
later stages. Network Effects Managers often think about innovation in terms of exploring new markets. But Cook said it's often wiser for firms to innovate within their well-established existing businesses. This is especially true in...
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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Business
Karim Lakhani and Marco Iansiti (photos by Susan Young; Getty Images) Karim Lakhani and Marco Iansiti (photos by Susan Young; Getty Images) Artificial intelligence is driving the latest seismic shift in the way companies conduct business. As major tech View Details
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Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
On the Outside at HBS
third are international, and roughly a quarter are ethnic minorities — the School can be a difficult place for these groups to thrive. To its credit, HBS understands that the real value of diversity is not in the statistical percentage of...
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- 15 Nov 2021
- News
Charles P. Waite (MBA 1959)
subsequently joined Doriot’s venture capital firm American Research and Development Corporation (ARD), where he worked for seven years before forming Greylock in 1965 with fellow HBS alumni and ARD colleagues William Elfers (MBA 1943) and...
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- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
create value for shareholders. This month, for example, when Trian Partners, under the leadership of cofounder and CEO Nelson Peltz, wanted to tell investors why GE was an undervalued company, it posted an 81-page analysis online for...
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- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India
About Malls? An audience member asked what advice panelists would give to an entrepreneur launching a retail business in India. "Don't try to copy any Western model," said Biyani. "India might surprise you. Adopt a flexible model that captures the View Details
- 09 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Reflections on Student Conferences in 2020
Building a Sustainable, Resilient, and Nourishing Global Food System "Building a Sustainable, Resilient, and Nourishing Global Food System" was the 2nd annual conference hosted by the Food, Agriculture, and Water Club. The Club invited 22 industry experts from View Details
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
Kominers, and Alexander Westkamp Abstract—We introduce a framework of matching with flexible allotments that can be used to model firms with cross-division hiring restrictions. Our framework also allows us to nest some prior models of...
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Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
PublicationsFinancial Development, Fixed Costs and International Trade Authors:Bo Becker, David Greenberg, and Jinzhu Chen Publication:Review of Corporate Finance Studies (forthcoming) Abstract Exporting firms face significant up-front...
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Carmen Nobel
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Harness Auction Fever
commitment, and what you call "auction fever." How are these phenomena related? A: The phenomena are related in that they lead to a similar outcome: overbidding in auctions. That is, any of these might lead to an auction participant bidding higher than the...
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- 11 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Designing Internship Projects for Greater Impact
interns. “It’s a benefit to students to learn on the ground, and a benefit to us to get quality talent,” she says. “We’re always thinking about where they can add tangible value over a short period of time.” EquaLife’s most recent intern,...
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Entrepreneurship
- 24 Jul 2014
- Blog Post
Create a Content Marketing Strategy for your Talent Acquisitions Team
such as level of experience, job function preferences and desired organizational benefits. Create personas for each segment.Create personas that match each of your target audience segments. For example, Jessica is a recent MBA graduate seeking a technology View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
the truth is that women-led enterprises grow more slowly and remain much smaller than those created by men. In 2000, for instance, American firms owned by women averaged $2.4 million in sales, compared with an average of $12.3 million for...
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- 01 May 2020
- In Practice
COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change
The coronavirus pandemic caught the business world by surprise, but the catastrophe might force companies to face a crisis that has been unfolding in plain sight: climate change. We asked faculty members affiliated with the Business and Environment Initiative at...
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by Danielle Kost
- 18 Mar 2014
- Blog Post
BaubleBar Brought to Life, and Other Tales of Joining a Start-up
hear someone offer to do anything they value focus. Yes, it’s also good to be flexible. Just don’t approach an interview vaguely. “What challenges are next for BaubleBar?” One ongoing task is customer acquisition. How to get that next...
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- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
potential of new ideas could be inimical to operating a real business. All fall, the news had been sobering, as the dot-com bubble deflated, paring billions—ultimately trillions—of dollars of stock-market value from the "idea"...
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by John S. Rosenberg