IT Strategy - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2010
News

How to Survive Past Start-up

Art by Craig Frazier Related Links Alumni New Venture Contest Opens Webinar series (ongoing) Entrepreneurship at HBS (video) Harvard Launches Innovation Incubator Why is it that even when smart, educated, well-networked people launch new... View Details

Keywords: Bill Murphy Jr.; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

13 Jun 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants

overview of the bond ratings industry, including its history, its major players, who uses ratings, and how they are used. The case concerns the strategic options facing a new entrant hoping to exploit the... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Banking; Financial Services

08 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Women Negotiating in the New Millenium

men are more interested in group identity. "Women hold back on what they want to claim," she said, adding that, "this may be a more functional strategy for women. Strong personal relationships may be more important to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA

MS/MBA program as an opportunity to make a career change. Adam felt it would supply the necessary venue to inform and test his specific career hypothesis. He explained, “I wanted to understand why we have climate change and what I can do... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

07 Mar 2019
News

Smart Marketing Brings Rapid Growth to Latino Brands

to provide them properly in the United States.” Reflecting on the Owner/President Management program that he attended at HBS, Benitez said: “One of the things that probably any OPMer in the world is going to be able to share with you is that View Details

19 May 2003
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts

to the problem of education. Our hope is to pioneer this strategy and, if it is successful, to foster a replication of this model throughout the developing world. Q: What was the most surprising thing you... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler; Financial Services

13 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

Sharing News That Might Be Bad

This scenario, inspired by a Harvard Business School case, may ring familiar. It raises an increasingly prevalent, and difficult, management issue: how much information to share and when to share it. You look up to find the concerned face... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

12 Aug 2002
Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

governments that caused their misery in the first place. In such mismanaged countries—which number close to seventy—a way must be found to change the basic system. Globalization—seen by many today as a sort of cure-all—will certainly not eradicate poverty on View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge

29 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 29

Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton and the hard-bargaining style of Herb Cohen's You Can Negotiate Anything. Now Michael Wheeler provides a dynamic alternative to one-size-fits-all strategies that don't match... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 May 2018
News

Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area

Clubs News Clubs News Since its launch in 1986, the HBS Association of Northern California’s Community Partners (HBSCP) program has deployed the expertise of more than 1,000 alumni volunteers to enhance the impacts of hundreds of Bay Area... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

31 May 2018
News

Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders

or finding freedom is 80% mindset and 20% strategy. And I was focused on the strategy for those seven years in trying different tools and different avenues. And it wasn't until I adopted a new set of beliefs... View Details

01 Dec 2016
News

How DC is Taxing the Country

startup formation has been on the decline since the early 1980s; and real median household income is well below its peak in 1999. Most economic gains have gone instead to the wealthy and big businesses. Today’s 5.1 percent unemployment... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

07 Sep 2021
News

Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity

Since its earliest days, HBS has committed to educating students with the highest potential for leadership, regardless of their financial circumstances. As a result, the School is able to attract and enroll exceptional women and men from... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 1

Fútbol By: Elberse, Anita Abstract—Markets for soccer players are winner-take-all markets in which a select few top players earn extremely high rewards. The search for effective talent strategies in these conditions has led clubs to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

07 Aug 2018
News

DreamBox Learning Breaks New Ground

the team to really win. In the beginning, some people didn’t like it when I used that phrase because they felt that friction is a negative thing, and they didn’t want to have any friction with their colleagues. I would explain that if you... View Details

06 Mar 2018
News

A Voice for Diversity and Impact at Scale

With a father in the US Air Force, Vivian Hunt (MBA 1995) moved often as a young girl, living in places as far flung as Montana, Alabama, and Japan. That experience was difficult at times, but it developed her ability to engage across... View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

untapped power of smallholders—increasing their yields, rebuilding supply chains, and opening access to economies of scale—Masha believes he is on the way to helping more than a million Nigerian farmers climb out of poverty. Ibrahim Mustapha's farm tripled View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

26 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

The Power of the Noncompete Clause

injunction based on the Nuance engineers' noncompetes. The flip side of the coin is that employers can exploit these differences by locating in areas such as Silicon Valley where noncompetes do not block one's ability to recruit talent. For example, one legal scholar... View Details