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- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
How to Avoid a Price Increase
we have to define "success." If we define success from the perspective of the manufacturer, then there have been success stories. For instance, I think coffee is a product category that has successfully used downsizing. For the longest...
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by Manda Salls
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
critical dimensions to organizations that want to work toward parity, not for cosmetic reasons, but to improve performance and value: Attraction and recruitment. Actively seek candidates outside managers’ networks, and assess the language View Details
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by Kristen Senz
- 22 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Working With Organizations That Recruit at HBS: An Interview with Mary-Kate Johnson
with a live person on the other end of the line, it makes that next step a lot more inviting. Tell us a fun fact about yourself. I spent four months living and studying in Amman, Jordan my junior year of college. Reflecting back on my...
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Consumer Products / Retail
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
revenues, including current use gifts and distribution from the endowment. In fiscal 2023, the School’s total revenues increased by $101 million, or 11 percent, to $1.1 billion from $966 million in the prior year, primarily reflecting the...
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- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
Illustrations by Edmon DeHaro “Cheers!” As her father’s wedding toast comes to a close, Vanessa Royle (MBA 2022) raises her champagne flute into the evening air to clink glasses with the groom, Andy. She tilts her glass to take a sip and, with the flavors of the drink...
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HBS - The year in Review
allowed HBS to thrive at a time when many other schools were hunkering down. Racial Equity Plan ANNOUNCED In September 2020, HBS unveiled its action plan for racial equity, with ambitious goals for advancing racial equity within and...
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- 30 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Corporate Governance?
stakeholder councils" comprising employees, lead customers, suppliers, and others offers a useful solution to the governance vacuum that exists in many large corporations today. Not so fast, says Gopi Vaddi. While agreeing that...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Big Influence of Small Countries in the United Nations Secretariat
tell us a lot about which countries are actually calling the shots in world affairs. "Even if you think the UN is merely reflecting the world order instead of creating it, you should still know who is running it," says Werker....
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by Michael Blanding
- 22 May 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders
Pauline Brown joined the HBS faculty following a tenure as Chairman of North America at the French luxury goods conglomerate, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton. (Photo credit: Albert Cheung) To future CEOs who want to succeed in the...
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- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
May 2017 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Immigration and the Rise of American Ingenuity By: Akcigit, Ufuk, John Grigsby, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—We build on the analysis in Akcigit, Grigsby, and Nicholas (2017) by using...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?
Mott commented that "Managers who use only common sense to make decisions can fall prey to short-sighted thinking." Ajay Kumar Gupta cautioned that "we tend to forget many things" and "tend to exclude external...
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by James Heskett
- 09 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity
In today's global work environment, it's a given that companies need culturally diverse teams to succeed. Both scientific studies and common sense tell us that having people with different viewpoints onboard increases the creativity that...
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by Michael Blanding
- Profile
Brandon Tieu
HubSpot's impending decision of whether to focus on selling to larger enterprise customers or small-medium businesses. The former CEO came to class and explained their rationale to focus on larger customers. However, what struck me most...
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- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
opportunities to practice their skills in time frames connected to actual buying processes. They can do so by using the same technologies that are “disrupting” their customer-contact activities: videos and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Do You Have Change Fatigue?
its operating companies. Two weeks after the kickoff event—three fabulous days of inspirational talks by inventors, creators, and consultants—each attendee received a big box with the words "Tool Kit" on the front. It was filled with binders, pamphlets,...
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by Nick Morgan
- 17 Jun 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Excellence Comes From Saying No
counter-intuitive such as a focus on individual achievement." The Courage To Be Bad At the core of Frei's philosophy is an appeal that Harvard MBAs are not used to hearing: in order to achieve excellence, you need the courage to be...
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971
by providing loans for large capital expenses. And finally, we have no debt. In a high-risk business like this, where things ranging from bad weather to national security concerns can wreak havoc with the best of plans, that puts us in...
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- 01 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People
"The Devil Wears Prada? Effects of Exposure to Luxury Goods on Cognition and Decision Making" [PDF]. "Will the same business meeting reach different decisions when it is held at a luxury resort as opposed to a modest conference room?" the authors...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 05 May 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Ethical Can We Be?
another environment?" Anyone who has studied business cultures in various parts of the world probably would respond affirmatively. Gerald Nanninga observed that "unethical decisions can often appear to be the 'best' decision when View Details
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by Jim Heskett
- 14 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: SELCO - Last Mile Solar Powered Energy for Rural India
while aligning with the nation's ambitious goals for achieving net-zero emissions by 2070. Poor communities are usually at the receiving end of the worst impacts of climate change, coupled with unreliable energy, lack of timely...
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