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Clubs & Consulting | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

bono activities, alumni consulting teams in several cities offer nonprofit organizations business management expertise. Student Clubs The Social Impact Club , the Social Enterprise Conference , and a number of related clubs frequently... View Details
  • 2015
  • Book

Strong Brands, Strong Relationships

By: Susan Fournier, Michael Breazeale and Jill Avery
From the editorial team of the ground-breaking Consumer-Brand Relationships: Theory and Practice comes this new volume. Strong Brands, Strong Relationships is a collection of innovative research and management insights that build upon the foundations of... View Details
Keywords: Brand Building; Brand Management; CRM; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Communications; Advertising; Customer Relationship Management; Customer Focus and Relationships; Advertising Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Consumer Products Industry
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  • 29 Sep 2022
  • Op-Ed

Inclusive Leadership Advice: Get Comfortable With the Uncomfortable

end. The other players may bring up topics that a performer knows nothing about. That’s okay: The goal is to always react purely in the moment. Consider the strategies required in two popular games, chess and ping-pong. When you play chess, you need to think ahead. You... View Details
Keywords: by Francesca Gino
  • 18 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 18

failures to protect citizens. The paper argues that avoiding complicity should be the appropriate focus of managerial responsibility. February 2015 Management Science When to Sell Your Idea: Theory and Evidence from the Movie Industry By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

commercial product, microbe-enhanced cotton seeds, on an accelerated product development timeline. In late 2016, as the company was about to launch its second product, winter wheat, the management team proposed to again accelerate the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2016 (Revised May 2018)
  • Case

Reinventing Best Buy

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
On March 1, 2017, Best Buy Company, Inc., North America’s largest retailer of consumer electronics and appliances, announced a third year of comparable-store sales increases and a 20.8% increase in domestic comparable online sales. These results were in marked contrast... View Details
Keywords: Best Buy; Hubert Joly; Renew Blue; Showrooming; Webrooming; E-commerce; E-Commerce Strategy; Online Retail; Multichannel Retailing; Omnichannel; Marketplaces; Turnaround; Consumer Electronics; Consumer Electronics Accessories; Appliances; Stores-within-stores; Store Experience; Store Size; Store Pickup; Store Management; Delivery; Delivery Models; Amazon; Amazon.com; Pricing Strategy; Business Subsidiaries; Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Theater Entertainment; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Cost; Selection and Staffing; Reports; Technological Innovation; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Human Capital; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers; Media; Distribution; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Distribution Channels; Infrastructure; Product; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Programs; Groups and Teams; Sales; Salesforce Management; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Internet and the Web; Applications and Software; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Resource Allocation; Computer Industry; Electronics Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Video Game Industry; United States; Minnesota; Minneapolis; Saint Paul; St. Paul
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  • 15 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Looking For a Job? Some LinkedIn Connections Matter More Than Others

and anecdotal information, but despite having over 65,000 citations in the last 50 years, there have been no large-scale experimental causal tests of this theory as it relates to employment.” Enlisting a LinkedIn algorithm To put the theory through a rigorous test, the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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For Organizations | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Opportunities Upswell Forum The mission of Upswell is to accelerate the impact of social entrepreneurs moving their organizations from start-up to growth phase, with a focus on organizations serving communities of color. The Forum... View Details
  • Web

New Venture Competition | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Competition 31 Student teams participating in 2024 Social Enterprise Track $75 k. Grand Prize 841 Social Enterprise Track teams since 2001 Resources & Benefits Workshops A series of workshops and office... View Details
  • Web

Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Emerson Collective - Recruiting

Insights & Advice 26 Jan 2024 Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Emerson Collective Becca Carnahan Author HBS Team tag All Locations Company Perspectives Nonprofit / Government Summer Internships Why We Recruit Emerson... View Details
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Past Issues - Alumni

with a single-minded focus on the customer What’s Next As The HBS Campaign kicks off, alumni ask Dean Nohria their most pressing questions about the future of the School. Ready for Takeoff Claudia Sender’s punch list: Manage a merger,... View Details
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Leadership - Health Care

social media. Her efforts focus on promoting the initiative's mission to foster a connected and thriving healthcare community at HBS. Before joining HCI, Lu worked with the International Health Systems Program View Details
  • 28 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 28

features offered by the evolving Zeal product, and how the team begins with a focus on personalized, peer-to-peer learning and, based on feedback, refines the product to add in-class features and create a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2001 (Revised September 2005)
  • Case

Howard Schultz and Starbucks Coffee Company

By: Nancy F. Koehn
Investigates the entrepreneur's strategic initiatives to develop a mass market for specialty coffee in the 1980s and 1990s. These initiatives included the development of premium products, rapid expansion of company-owned stores--each with attractive retail environments... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Groups and Teams; Brands and Branding; Growth Management; Employee Relationship Management; Consumer Behavior; Organizational Design; Leadership Style; Customer Relationship Management; Competitive Advantage; Vertical Integration; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 06 Oct 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

address concerns, and ultimately get everyone back on the same track to achieve team goals. Team leaders should focus their relaunch in four key areas. Revisit your shared... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Alumni - Business & Environment

team can help you through career coaching, the alumni resume database, and board membership. Lifelong Learning As a lifelong member of the HBS community, you have access to insights, training, expertise, and support from faculty and... View Details
  • 22 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading

success—strategies that could be applied in a variety of business departments. 1. Managers must assume a new professional identity. It’s crucial for managers to acknowledge they are shedding one professional identity to take on a new role with more of a View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Jul 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?

in business communications. "You'll burn out, your team will resent you, your reputation will suffer, and the work probably won't all get done anyway." Conversely, if you offer resistance to new duties when the company is down,... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
  • 07 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 7

focus of the case is all the ways in which bad incentive design leads to dysfunctional behavior. In particular, a crucial issue is whether individual incentives are best or whether team incentives are best... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Feb 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Case Against Racial Colorblindness

write. Norton points out that while many companies host "diversity days," these celebrations often focus solely on the cultures of ethnic minority employees. Excluding white employees from celebrating their cultures can breed resentment,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel