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- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
major design firm in Europe. Business school students, I think, have a tendency to say that a firm's employees should be more "customer-oriented." Our design case was about the designers not wanting to show an idea to clients... View Details
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
still a junior faculty member, focused on making tenure and writing a second book. That’s the year she got a call from the law firm Leigh Day, which was looking to sue the British government for reparations on behalf of the Kikuyu... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
with markets and investment. In addition, he worked half-time with a Boston-based management consulting firm on the strategy problems of several important corporate clients. He soon decided to focus his full attention on HBS. As the first... View Details
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
assets, including customer relationships; innovative products and services; high-quality and responsive operating processes; skills and knowledge of the workforce; the information technology that supports the workforce and links the firm... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
non-profit organizations, and for-profit firms including financial institutions. They embody a number of different assumptions about incentives, drawing from economics, psychology, and sociology. We describe examples of each program and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
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Financial Management of Small Firms (FMFS) in the fall semester. Students often take VCSME together with the field course Entrepreneurship through Acquisition (EtA). Career Focus: This course is geared towards students interested in... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
consulting firm after HBS. But my startup dream is still alive. In my spare time, I love sports, traveling, and experiencing things that I never tried before, like skydiving, bungee jumping, and campervanning. How has your Asian... View Details
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
Measuring Social Impact Historically, economists and firms alike have banked on the theory that workers are motivated by earning financial incentives and boosting revenues. And in designing development projects for developing countries,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
commission rates. Strategic planning was the newest and the best management tool. A young HBS professor named Michael Porter was giving fascinating lectures on competitiveness. In those days before the kinder and gentler CEO came into fashion, the command-and-control... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
hours to “like” the prospect; if both opt-in, the couple is connected. There’s no browsing or searching for matches with Coffee Meets Bagel, an important differentiator for CEO Arum Kang, who describes her customer as a busy, professional... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
and decided to continue in this field. I came to HBS because I wanted to get insights about American business practices and experience a practice-oriented approach during my MBA studies." Baeza approached his job search systematically,... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
value than e-commerce, such as immediacy, curated selection, or allowing touch and feel of non-digital experiential goods. Thinking of online shopping as a compliment and an opportunity, rather than as a substitute and a threat to offline shopping, and View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
family-friendly. Here’s the sequence: Large firm consulting. An interesting professional experience which gave me exposure to a wide range of industries; however, the demands of the clients, and the firm... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
book excerpt Leading Innovation From Collective Genius: The Art of Practice of Leading Innovation By Linda A. Hill, Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove and Kent Linebeck Though each of our leaders and their firms differed in key ways, all... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Making Strategy Work Using the Balanced Scorecard by Sanjiv Anand (AMP 163, 2002) (Wiley) This is a hands-on guidebook for making strategy work with effective Balanced Scorecard design, deployment, and maintenance. It outlines the ways in which View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
of experience that you gain by working for a reputable firm and getting training, mentoring that will lower your risk of failure later on. Everyone wants to be Bill Gates and Zuckerberg, but those are the outliers. That's not the norm.... View Details
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
and an inspiration for the next generation of strategy scholars. Its direct impact on practice could be seen subsequently in the work of The Boston Consulting Group and other firms that employed what became known as the SWOT analysis... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
and other firms that employed what became known as the SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) in addressing the challenges of client organizations. In 1987, the Academy of Management recognized Christensen’s... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
Oregon, when she was six years old, and her parents’ anxious search for a home in the best possible school district, which led to a full-tuition scholarship at the University of Oregon. Noting that the option to choose one’s neighborhood... View Details