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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
insurgent's clear mission and purpose, an unambiguous owner mindset, and a relentless obsession with the front line) can resolve the predictable crises of growth. Scalability Rules: Principles for Scaling Web Sites by Martin L. Abbott... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
from China’s central government amounted to almost $8,500 per vehicle, with provincial governments often matching them. The Chinese further promote EVs through additional incentives such as exemptions from... View Details
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
profit. How do these chefs express the full extent of their culinary innovativeness while at the same time as creating a return for investors? Two recent Harvard Business School case studies explore this tension through the experience of two high-profile chefs who came... View Details
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
"And I would take our group of twenty-two here and match them up against anybody in the industry." Employees' Award-winning Ideas At Aetna, the Hartford, CT-based insurer, Rich Schlichting, a customer reporting and business... View Details
Keywords: by Theodore Kinni
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
Black students in our community have spent the last few weeks grappling with the weight of a devastating truth: that our country and society has undeniably and systemically failed Black communities – and the false narrative that being... View Details
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808040 Dove: Evolution of a Brand Harvard Business School Case 508-047 Examines the evolution of Dove from functional brand to a brand with a point of view after Unilever... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
search costs to locate discounted items. Our results show that increasing search frictions can be used as a self-selecting price discrimination tool to match high discounts with price-sensitive consumers and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
806-148 Describes the sixth and final module of the Harvard Business School MBA second-year elective course Legal Aspects of Management. This module deals with the way firms should approach business risks in order to avoid legal liability... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
Working PapersThe "Fees Savings" Link, or Purchasing Fifty Pounds of Pasta Authors:Michael I. Norton and Leonard Lee Abstract Many consumers have had the experience of entering discount membership clubs to make a few purchases, only to leave View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
confident he could arrange another round of private financing, which should suffice to carry the company through to profitability in 2002. New market opportunities were arising, such as providing dry cleaning through grocery-store chains and View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
non-local investments suggests that policy makers in regions without local venture capitalists might want to mitigate costs associated with established venture capitalists investing in their geographies rather than encouraging the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
established firm," explains Teixeira, who details the phenomenon in a recent paper, The Decoupling Effect of Digital Disruptors, coauthored with HBS Research Associate Peter Jamieson (HBS MBA'14). The companies spearheading the trend look... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
only black student in the classroom was something I encountered in high school and all the way through my time as an undergraduate at USC. I cannot tell you the number of students at HBS who would come up, after they got comfortable with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
did, launching a general contracting business after upgrading his carpentry and masonry skills through a historical conservation workshop that Marietta hosted at the school. At that point, Falce—a native of the region View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
Similarly, in the case of an energy company like Enron, this model would call on directors to be concerned not just with shareholder value when deciding whether to manipulate the trading of natural gas View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
Skilled improvisational musicians practice alone and with others for hours every day, year after year—notes, scales, chords, and progressions. After all of this practice comes a performance, and an improvisation begins. For musicians and... View Details
Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
Committee, where he raised more money than any other member, Weinberg launched a long series of relationships with occupants of the White House that would continue for more than thirty-five years. Almost everybody on Wall Street voted... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
"Talent and Time" program, which was designed to match employee interests and talents with community needs. And many other Cleveland-headquartered firms have a similar commitment to employee... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
have founded schools, and have gotten their companies involved in tutoring and other in-school activities in their local communities. Scores of alumni serve on their local school boards or work with education-related organizations and... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
It was there that she developed what became her new nonprofit, Principals Connect, which matches high school principals in Kansas City with retired professionals who serve as leadership and management... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley