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- 13 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet
how new products or services would perform at various prices or with different characteristics. The machine learning algorithms that might power such a device are, at least for now, incapable of producing such promising results. But what...
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by Kristen Senz
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Corn likes people. It benefits from human contact, when it’s thinned out and hand-pollinated, explains Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997). Corn thrives when sung to and spoken to—something Keen does in the language of his mother’s Omaha Tribe, where he is known as Bison...
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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
key role business leaders have to play in confronting climate change—and the power of HBS alumni to make a positive difference. Jacqueline Adams (MBA 1978) President, J Adams Strategic Communications; co-author of A Blessing: Women of...
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- 19 Mar 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’
their global reach. "If they don't have a language strategy, they'll regret it," she says. "Even American-based companies with operations overseas need a language strategy. One of the most powerful ways to globally compete...
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by Kim Girard
- 04 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted
male employees were earning 13 percent more than male employees who had female managers. In contrast, women progressed in their careers the same way regardless of whether they had a male or female manager. The difference in pay wasn’t tied to how View Details
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer
other countries, we see islands of competitiveness, where companies have managed to succeed in decoupling themselves from the most negative elements of the domestic environment while retaining the positive elements, as they attempt to become competitive."...
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- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
sticking to principles every day, considering all the hard work involved. "He told me he thought it had 'a negative net present value.'" “It's a travesty that somehow our society has gotten to a point where people have the view that...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask
learned--and that many of these skills require executives to rethink their conception of what a superb leader actually does. Developing and practicing these skills requires hard work and may demand that talented executives overcome some...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
environment has very different economics. Local news outlets that once relied on monopoly-pricing power on the print side, and to a certain extent on the circulation side, just don’t have that in the digital media space. With a shift in...
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- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World...
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- 25 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?
could do much better. The unit manager didn’t share that sense of urgency so didn’t organize the senior team around fixing the issues—training for that unit wasn’t going to stick. “The overall argument [we make] is that the system of organizing and managing is so View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making
or what their personal incentives might be for listing it. (Oftentimes by the time scripts are listed, they’ve already been sold to studios, who might want to list their own scripts in order to attract top actors and directors.) “If you had all the View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
party that’s worked so hard to stand up for the tobacco companies; that’s impeded stem cell research; that’s opposed the assault weapons ban (you hunt, but not with a machine gun) and that fights to keep the gun-show loophole open. No,...
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- 12 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association
intention of commissioning. I just wanted to do something challenging and different from the normal path. After my first year, I realized that every single cadet I admired and respected at the school had intentions to serve. I took a hard...
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- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
early in our marriage, we lost our first daughter. She was just eight months old. Her name was Tanya. She was born with an immune disease that had no cure. And that was a very hard thing to comprehend and cope with. And then we had...
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- 08 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
International Women's Day Featured Stories
challenge two things: The current state of healthcare. Just because it has been deemed too hard or too broken to fix doesn’t mean we fold. What others expect of me. It took a while, but I’ve learned to stop asking, “Who will let you?” and...
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- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
retailers that can see this trend coming and react quickly enough, this upheaval is survivable. But those slow to register the tsunami wave on the horizon stand to be swept away. As retailing entered the new century, this slowing was hard...
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- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
his love of a provocative argument and a good discussion, as well as the powerful breadth and depth of his mind. "He always said he didn't mind that people thought he was wrong if they listened long enough to give him a shot,"...
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- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
journals. “Academic research can be helpful, but it tends to be overly complex, hard to digest, and not backed by real quantitative insights from customer populations or engagements,” says Neale-May, executive director of the Chief...
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- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
repeat them. For instance, on the song "Freddie Freeloader" Davis comes in one bar early at one point. The band adjusts to this unexpected entry by the leader in such a seamless way that very few people notice the subtle glitch. This is the View Details