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- November 2006
- Article
Find Your Sweet Spot
By: Rob Markey, Gerard Du Toit and James Allen
Charged with extending their unit’s product lines and boosting top-line growth over the next three years, product managers at one global consumer goods company wanted to identify the most attractive customer segments to target and how best to reach them. So they turned... View Details
Markey, Rob, Gerard Du Toit, and James Allen. "Find Your Sweet Spot." Harvard Management Update 11, no. 11 (November 2006): 3–6.
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Basics of Consumer Marketing in Asia
consumerswould buy anything on the Internet.— Hiroshi Mikitani of Rakuten Brands also tend to be highly localized. "You may find one brand very popular in Beijing and not be able to find it in Guangzhou at all," he said. Rob... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
“Leadership in Challenging Times” blog series, which highlights the insp... Leadership in Challenging Times Rob Zeaske 03 Mar 2021 This post is the first in our “Leadership in Challenging Times” blog series, which highlights the... New... View Details
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
The HBS Summer Fellows Program enables students to apply their classroom training as th... SEI's Growing Focus on Nonprofit Board Leadership Rob Zeaske 25 Aug 2021 As the Social Enterprise Initiative looks to its next twenty-five years of... View Details
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Hayling Price
For many fans of classic network television, New Rochelle, New York, will forever be the home of Rob (Dick Van Dyke) and Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) Petrie, television's first upwardly mobile suburban sophisticates. But for Hayling Price,... View Details
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Anna King
market under the tutelage of Professor Rob Kaplan, a former vice chairman of Goldman Sachs. Through the Hospitality & Travel Club, she has met one-on-one with "very high-profile, very impressive" CEOs in the industry. To... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Jan Swartz (MBA 1996)
SWARTZ: Captaining a global brand through the high seas (photo by Susan J. Young) SWARTZ: Captaining a global brand through the high seas (photo by Susan J. Young) Growing up in Houston, Jan Swartz (MBA 1996) was one of millions of viewers who regularly tuned into The... View Details
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Summer Fellows Focus on Racial Equity and Justice 23 Jul 2020 The HBS Social Enterprise Initiative aims to educate, support, and inspire leaders to tackle soci... HBS Appoints Rob Zeaske Director of Its Social Enterprise Initiative 17 Jul... View Details
- 2008
- Other Unpublished Work
The Producing Manager: A Double-Barreled Role
By: John J. Gabarro, Thomas J. DeLong and Rob Lees
Keywords: Management
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire
Winston Churchill's observation that "nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." He also had to concern himself with midair refuelings with huge airborne tankers and with battling even the slightest case of vertigo, an affliction that could... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Enterprise Initiative 25th anniversary blog series, which highlig... Bay Area Alumni Discuss the Role of Technology in Social Change, for Good or for Ill Elaine MacDonald 10 Apr 2019 On March 14, 2019, over 20 Bay Area HBS alumni gathered for Northern California’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
Alumni Books Smarter Together: How Communities Are Shaping the Next Revolution in Business By Rob Bernshteyn (MBA 2001) Greenleaf Book Group Press Driving value today requires information. Lots of information. Most of us are becoming good... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Responsibility and the Environment: What is the Right Thing To Do?
School. We asked Vietor to discuss some of the findings in this e-mail interview. Manda Salls: What inspired you and your colleagues to write this book? Richard Vietor: Rob had some financial support for looking at CSR, and we got more... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 02 Apr 2001
- What Do You Think?
Telecommuting: Dangerous to Health?
other…Technology robs us of the close contact we seek, and are reinforced by, in the learning cycle." But respondents who telecommute don't see it that clearly. Alan Carswell points out that: "One main characteristic of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
Harvard and beyond—to offer insights, strategies, and best practices.” — Gary Pisano Harry E. Figgie Jr. Professor of Business Administration Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development Research Highlights How the Pandemic Might Change US Health Care View Details
- 22 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Leading in Tough Times: HBS Faculty member Amy C. Edmondson on Psychological Safety
don't offer ideas. To avoid being branded as negative, we don't criticize the status quo. But every time we withhold our thoughts, we rob ourselves and our colleagues of small moments of learning. This stifles innovation in our teams and... View Details
- 19 Nov 2015
- Blog Post
What to Expect During Your Second Year at HBS
EC’s get to create our own mini-courses, so to speak, called independent projects. You can consult for specific companies or create your own curriculum with the supervision of a faculty advisor. I took on two independent projects in my final year. In my first semester,... View Details
- 14 Sep 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO
them to open up and share their authentic selves, life stories, crucibles, and their hopes and dreams enable them to flourish and grow as leaders by feeling fully accepted. The real danger of labeling people by their external characteristics is that it View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 07 Apr 2011
- What Do You Think?
When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?
might be threatened. Rob Houck reminds us that considerations of potential legal liability often inhibit transparency in such cases. Should the public sector wait for an "invitation" for its intervention? The sentiment here... View Details