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- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
stay-at-home orders will likely make brick-and-mortar stores and shopping malls less appealing to consumers, and will likely fuel online shopping. On a more positive side, consumers are likely to continue to indulge in little luxuries that make staying at View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- Research Event
The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy
and those with the most up-votes rose to the top of a list next to the moderators. Among the most popular questions, which drew a laugh from both the panelists and the audience: How do you compete in a winner-take-all market when you’re...
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- 26 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
When Other Companies Compete Like Crazy, Dare to Be Different
Sarah Jane Gilbert: What led you to write Different? Youngme Moon: I wrote this book because in business today there is a huge disconnect between the way we talk about the concept of differentiation and the way it actually plays out in...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 02 Dec 2019
- What Do You Think?
How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?
dominant cultural traits and prevailing operating climate.” Anna Johnson recommended: “We need to flip the switch on dissent, delay, and accountability by enabling leadership to take a long view. Want to do better? Try asking your people to tell View Details
- 10 Nov 2008
- Research Event
Social Media Leads the Future of Technology
capital firm Accel Partners; Susan L. Decker (HBS MBA '86), president of Yahoo! Inc.; and Eric Kim (HBS MBA '81), senior vice president and general manager of Intel Corporation's Digital Home Group. The first computer, the ENIAC, cleared...
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by Martha Lagace
- 14 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees
households to their companies,” Neeley says. “The least you can do is care about how they are.” While people may have hesitated to talk about their responsibilities at home prior to the pandemic for fear...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
just-in-time course materials, such as the Obama administration’s home foreclosure proposals, so we could look at very current issues. We are enthused about teaching it again this year, and we’re working on new materials. Where do View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
increase medical business skills and raise clinical performance. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53281 Tournament Incentive Plans Incorporating Objective and Subjective Criteria: Implications for a...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
Going back to the leadership discussion, I believe that if you grow the people in the company, the company will take care of itself. What really turns people on is not so much pay, not so much that they’re working on the 777, although...
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
executive education participants, we have seen that online programs offer distinct advantages, particularly for women and international participants for whom leaving home or work is more difficult. Think about a three-day program where...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Feedback
“the sound of dog food glopping out of a can.” (Buy a of copy of his book, MouthSounds, if you want to know more.) I’ve long enjoyed Fred’s creative ability to make me smile. I put him in a special category of entertaining HBSers,...
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- 20 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Chasing a Dream: My Summer Internship at Chelsea Football Club
Johann Farhat (MBA 2025) holds a Civil Engineering degree from the American University of Beirut. After graduating, he spent three years in management consulting at Strategy& in Dubai before moving to Madrid to work at Amazon for another three years. At Harvard...
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
celebratory fireworks. "We've always thought of OPM as a family, so it's wonderful to see all the families here tonight," he noted. "The friendships and relationships that are reinforced by class reunions are always fruitful, and we hope that this reunion will provide...
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- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Getting New Ideas off the Ground
company called Firefly, and we pioneered personalization on the internet. We were responsible for inventing something called collaborative filtering. If you go to Amazon and it recommends books, or if you go...
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- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
employees, a long-view strategy, and keeping the family businesses home. For Bauerly, owning and growing Minnesota businesses made perfect sense. If you compare states across the country on a scatter plot, View Details
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Maureen Harmon
- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
When the pandemic forced employees to flee offices and work from home in droves last year, many business leaders worried that productivity might take a dive. Would remote workers be too tempted by the lures of Netflix or too distracted by...
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by Michael Blanding
- 16 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Seeing Everyday as a New Adventure: Reflections for Father's Day
walkways. I remember my kids opening the windows and yelling out to greet me when I came home after class. As a family we invited someone different over for dinner one night a week over those two years. We had a world map on the wall next...
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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Working World
How did you become interested in the impact of high-skill immigrant labor? In the 1990s I helped develop a wireless data technology for a Korean company. The inventor was a Korean scientist living in Silicon Valley, so I spent a lot of...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
Baer: From boyhood fan to leader of the franchise. One of Larry Baer’s (MBA 1985) fondest summer memories is of playing in the yard of his boyhood home in San Francisco on Friday afternoons, waiting for his dad to return from work. “I’d...
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- 27 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Podcast: Revisiting Rental Housing
continuing, it appears as if the situation will only worsen as former home owners now seek shelter in the rental market. In the new book Revisiting Rental Housing: Policies, Programs, and Priorities, editors Nicolas Retsinas and Eric...
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