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20 Feb 2023
News

AI Is Starting to Pick Who Gets Laid Off

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

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

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

16 May 2015
Blog Post

Using an MBA to Reimagine the Music Industry

tools are there to reimagine an entire industry? I felt like I could better serve the music industry and fellow artists by coming back with this critical knowledge. What surprised you the most about coming... 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

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

01 Sep 2007
News

Alumni Board Goes Global to Pick New President

countries will be filled by HBS graduates.” Looking back on his experience at HBS, Shirazi says that a commitment to service is one of the enduring lessons imparted by Dean John McArthur. “He would have... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

19 Aug 2021
News

A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues

were rare. The Better Chance program that offered students in poor neighborhoods a chance to attend public schools in more wealthy suburbs. There were real financial investments in these programs that were required View Details

14 Apr 2022
News

You Only Need to Go to the Office One or Two Days a Week, Says New Harvard Business School Study

October 2022
Case

Volt Lines: Leading a B2B Service Provider through a Crisis (A)

By: Navid Mojir and Gamze Yucaoglu

Volt Lines was a next-generation transportation service in Istanbul, Turkey. The company was trying to disrupt the traditional corporate transportation market by developing software that allowed it to offer subscription-based transportation. Under the subscription... View Details

Keywords: Business To Business Marketing; B2B Marketing; B2B Pricing; Subscription Model; Crisis Marketing; Startup; Service Management; Information Technology; Transportation; COVID-19 Pandemic; Disruptive Innovation; Digital Platforms; Business Model; Price; Crisis Management; Opportunities; Transportation Industry; Technology Industry; Turkey

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07 Oct 2024
Blog Post

Four Ways to Make The Most of Your Company Events

12twenty Try sharing videos of your office space or the surrounding local area to help students better understand what it might be like to work in your office Consider asking a... View Details

Teaching Interest

Short Intensive Program (SIP): Agile at Scale: From OKR's and Agile to Execution Excellence

What do you want to get out of your remaining time at HBS, your career and life-plan to make an impact, starting from Day 1 post-HBS? By developing tools to drive your personal success and strategy at HBS, in this interactive immersion, we will dive into how the... View Details

14 Mar 2018
Blog Post

The 2+2 Program: Finding the Freedom to Take Risks

graduation, Jevta worked as an interim executive director for a small education non-profit followed by joining L’oreal Canada. From Jevta’s senior year in college he knew that he wanted to pursue a master’s... View Details

12 PM – 1 PM EST, 05 Mar 2019
Webinars: Career

Starting a New Position? How to Ensure You're Successful

About to begin a new role at a new company or one within your existing organization? Inflection Point Partners' Matt Spielman (MBA 1999) shares the five-step process that he has put into practice with executives across the globe to help ensure success in those first... View Details

07 Jul 2016
News

Rescuing Fresh Food to End Hunger in Australia

Ian Carson (OPM 42, 2012) and his wife, Simone, founded SecondBite, a nonprofit that feeds surplus food from growers and markets to more than a million needy Australians every month. “The role of the food is not just feeding people. It... View Details

18 Feb 2021
Blog Post

Use Baker Library to Build a Target List

companies by a variety of filters, including location, industry, and size and then export it as a spreadsheet. Use published lists The abundance of ranking articles that you stumble upon on the Web is overwhelming. Whether it’s the “Best Companies View Details

05 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change

Green initiatives are ubiquitous these days, implemented with zeal at companies like Dupont, IBM, Walmart, and Walt Disney. The programs being rolled out—lighting retrofits, zero-waste factories, and carpool incentives—save money and provide a green glow. Most large... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler

05 Mar 2019
Blog Post

"It is Possible to Walk Away from Situations that Make You Unhappy": Cauvery Patel, MBA 2016

transforming rapidly. The work was sure to be interesting." But Cauvery wasn't satisfied with the work. "With 400,000 people, it was just too big. It took too long to... View Details

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer

problems are Embraer's partnerships trying to overcome?" As a company, conference participants said, Embraer had made a number of smart moves. Its human resources strategy was rejuvenated for flexibility, so people were motivated... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing

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