Potential - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

How Your Employees and Customers Drive a New Value Profit Chain

today's job market don't want to hear—that companies should create fewer, more significant jobs. This strategy seems to have the potential to damage employee morale. How can companies use work-force reduction to successfully reengineer an... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Mahoney

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

A: Historically careful analysis of corporate information on a large number of companies has required an investor (or at least the investor's organization) to master a difficult and arcane set of data-handling tools. XBRL has the View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Privatization and the New European Economy

"the average amount of global privatization was valued at between US$70 to $80 billion. Experts predict that the potential for privatization in Europe in the decade ahead will have a value of between US$250 and 450 billion. This... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Air Transportation; Transportation

05 Oct 2016
Blog Post

4 Things You Should Know about Entrepreneurship at HBS

because we had that baseline, we should feel confident in taking risks, remembering that “risk” isn’t just downside--its volatility that goes both ways. The more risk we take, the greater upside potential we have, while our downside is... View Details

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Sustainable Investing - Course Catalog

and even the potential to create social good. Covering both public and private markets, the course will present the unprecedented opportunities that have arisen due to energy transition and other trends through rigorous approaches to... View Details

01 Jun 2012
News

They Call Him Mr. China

visiting 100 factories before presciently fixing his sights on the growth potential in auto parts. In the early 1990s, China manufactured only about 600,000 vehicles a year, mostly trucks, and parts makers remained small and regional.... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Manufacturing; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

10 Mar 2021
News

Vision: A Unicorn Evolves

company. “There’s a large, addressable market for sales engagement software that modernizes the workflow of customer-facing reps,” she says. “And with intelligent data in our solution, you have the potential for a winner-takes-all... View Details

Keywords: April White; entrepreneurship; technology; startups; leadership

14 Oct 2020
News

Sewn with Love

could one company or brand do?” she wondered. Photos courtesy VPL Photos courtesy VPL Hanazawa also understood the fashion-industry network is powerful and has the potential for wider impact. In 2011, she tapped fellow industry leaders... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

27 Aug 2019
News

A Shot at Success

Athletes launched in Dallas, serving 40 basketball stars from 31 high schools across 29 zip codes in the region. Incoming sophomores and juniors are nominated for the program by teachers or administrators. These students have what Feickert calls “the ingredients”—the... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2017
News

The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability

solve the problem, but because if every company did that, there would be a lot of money going into building a carbon-free energy system, and that would make a real difference at scale. So I think there is a way in which these individual actions could View Details

24 May 2017
News

John H. McArthur, MBA 1959, DBA 1963

Natty. The pair grew up in Burnaby, British Columbia, where the proprietor of a local forest products company spotted McArthur’s potential and helped fund his college education. Upon earning his MBA, McArthur entered the DBA program and... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Mar 2016
News

Ink

Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges, Cuddy highlights her personal experience to introduce the concept of “presence,” the ability to generate an inner calm, authority, and confidence during times of potential... View Details

07 Nov 2014
News

The First Five Years: Tiffany Pham (MBA 2012)

potential to create a lasting impact on women, worldwide. As the lead developer at MOGUL, I coded the first version myself, using Ruby on Rails. It has been an incredible journey, to achieve significant user traction upon launch and... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Jun 2014
News

The Digital Deck

and—eventually—an Introduction to Innovation and Entrepreneurship led by Bill Sahlman and Joe Lassiter. These products will also leverage the HBX online learning platform with the added potential for incorporating in-person classroom... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jan 2011
News

Peter Harf, MBA 1974

donor. Eventually, she received a transplant, after Harf and his friends had started to frantically recruit potential bone marrow donors all over Germany. On her deathbed, Mechtild demanded that Harf stay committed to the fight against... View Details

12 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

identify the conditions under which the well-being benefits of prosociality are most likely to emerge. Finally, we briefly highlight several levers that can be used to increase prosocial behavior, thereby potentially increasing... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

09 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit

are large potential employers in fields where jobs are accessible to currently underemployed citizens. Sound government policy can build on these by investing in job training on needed skills, streamlining regulations that will enhance... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

05 Nov 2014
What Do You Think?

Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?

businesses." The predominant view was that the practice at present has many limitations. Ann Romaine-Adelstein commented, "I doubt we can predict with validity from a scan yet who will work hard, be innovative or exercise great influence View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

13 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists

Those wearing a heavy backpack were more likely to choose healthy snacks over potentially guilt-inducing fattening ones. For a detailed account of the experiment, see "The Burden of Guilt: Heavy Backpacks, Light Snacks, and Enhanced... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

19 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?

"I don't present these approaches as cure-alls, saying if you just run a contest or a corporate venture program everything's going to be wonderful," Lerner says. "But there's a lot of promise and potential in this tool... View Details