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18 Mar 2021

Industry Spotlight Series: From Retail to HBS

Please join us for a virtual panel discussion highlighting Harvard Business School students formerly working in the Retail Industry. Hear what a day in the life of an HBS student is like, how they plan to... View Details

01 Jun 2008
News

Anjali Raina to Lead India Research Center

located in regions that play a vital role in the world economy, including Asia- Pacific, Europe, Japan, Latin America, and California’s Silicon Valley. Raina will focus on building and maintaining relationships with senior business leaders in the region View Details

Keywords: research; world economy; Management

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation

mending information gap in health care. Majmudar, whose own company is working at the intersection of health data and wearables, pushed future innovators to focus on ideas that will have measurable impacts... View Details

Keywords: Re: Karim R. Lakhani; Health

01 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?

there are two reasons why CEOs should be cautious about overdoing the percentage of time interfacing with customers. First, marketing and selling should be a prime task of the CEO's direct reports, the individual business unit leaders. The CEO should not have View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

23 May 2016
Research & Ideas

A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up

if the ultimate enforcement mechanism seems so far-fetched? “By understanding why people make mistakes, it may help you creatively design an approach to resolve these disputes” Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Hong Luo looks at... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing

01 Mar 2004
News

Take 2: From Ad Copy to Cuneiform

doing some very mundane things like digging up postholes and then trying to figure out how the posts were placed and what kind of roof they supported.” While she now holds a Ph.D. in the field, Rothberg’s passion for archaeology began as... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; archaeology; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment

09 Apr 2019
News

Ray Dalio: Why and How Capitalism Needs to Be Reformed

die,” says Dalio. “This is now true for capitalism. In this report, I show why I believe that capitalism is now not working for the majority of Americans, I diagnose why it is producing these inadequate results, and I offer some... View Details

Keywords: capitalism

19 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Investing in Breakthrough Technologies to Lead the Energy Transition

contributing to this effort by facilitating multi-million-dollar transactions that brings new energy technologies to Shell. During my internship, I have had the opportunity to... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Technology

07 Mar 2019
News

Smart Marketing Brings Rapid Growth to Latino Brands

did, one step at a time, is bring together concepts and brands from Mexico and from Latin America, establish them in the marketplace, and work them hard to visually have an influence at a store level. We... View Details

01 Jun 2002
News

Up to the Challenge: Demola Gbadegesin - In the Right Direction

understand my accent, and I had to readjust to Nigerian culture — relearning Yoruba, making new friends, understanding how things were done.” In 1990, Gbadegesin, then seventeen, came View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; democracy; family; technology; Finance; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities

John Walson launched the first commercial cable television system in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, an Appalachian town eighty-six miles from Philadelphia. 1,2 Walson worked as a lineman for Pennsylvania Power & Light and also owned a... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

05 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

How To Deceive Others With Truthful Statements (It's Called 'Paltering,' And It's Risky)

transmission on a car works great. Lying by omission involves holding back relevant information—for example, by failing to mention any information about a faulty transmission.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

13 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)

McDonald and others in academia call a cognitive referent. Simply put, a cognitive referent is the king of its category. More importantly, it enjoys all kinds of benefits over competitors further down the brand-recognition chain. The smartest people want View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Aerospace; Food & Beverage; Retail

13 Mar 2019
Blog Post

There's No Quick Shortcut to Success: Zorpads Takes Off

shoes, or C) make her shoes tighter due to the inserts," Smith explains. "She came up with the problem for us." Wiegele, who has a background in air and water filtration thanks to his... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products / Retail

Article

Democratizing Work: Redistributing Power in Organizations for a Democratic and Sustainable Future

By: Julie Battilana, Julie Yen, Isabelle Ferreras and Lakshmi Ramarajan

Environmental destruction and social inequalities are increasingly urgent challenges. How can corporations, which have played a key role in creating and reproducing these problems, be part of the solution? In this paper, we advance that a shift to more democratic forms... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Citizenship; Corporate Social Responsibility; CSP; CSR; Domination; Industrial Relations; Power; Resistance; Work; Corporate Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Governance; Power and Influence; Environmental Management; Social Issues

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14 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It

percent penetration) skews to high income, high education households. However, those users don’t spend as much time online as lower educated, lower income households, making the window for catching the attention of the affluent even... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Web Services

27 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?

experience vividly once we were back home. As we went from one tiny, packed store to the next, we noticed that amid the traditional shops lining the souk's enchanted streets were other shops filled with fake... View Details

Keywords: Re: Francesca Gino

Blog

Up Close: A Return to In-Person Executive Education Programs

general emergency preparedness. But that was in January of 2020. Just a few short months later he was working with program directors to cancel, reschedule, and postpone all current and future programs, and... View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS

recommendations? When Dean Srikant Datar asked me back in November 2020 to create a task force, I said I wanted to follow the same model we had used for the virtualization of... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Feb 2000
News

Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care

interests of vulnerable or disenfranchised consumers are protected. Encyclopedic in scope and authoritative in substance, the papers represent the sole major work on the subject to date. Herzlinger, the... View Details

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