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26 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

higher prices," says Frank V. Cespedes, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, who spent 12 years running a professional services firm. That's right. Higher prices, not lower. “Competing on price is ultimately a bet on your cost position.” Cespedes View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Consumer Products

18 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

often inadequate for scaling. SG&A (selling, general, and administrative) costs then rise faster than revenues, and resource-constrained ventures are forced to raise a dilutive round of capital, operate in small niches, or go out of business. Our research and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2003
News

Hoop Dreams

Boston entrepreneur Steve Belkin (MBA 1971) first tried to buy an NBA team — the Boston Celtics — twenty years ago. That attempt ended in failure for the founder and chairman of Trans National Group, a marketing and investment company. As... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

07 Nov 2006
First Look

First Look: November 7, 2006

weight of published management advice, recommends that management teams engage task conflict but avoid relationship conflict. Implicit in this advice is the premise that it is indeed possible to separate the task and relationship aspects... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Filter Results: (220) Submit Author Types Alumni HBS Staff SE Practitioners SEI Faculty SEI Team Students Topics Alumni for Impact Alumni Programs Arts Business for Social Impact Business School Executive Education Faculty Research Future... View Details

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Avoiding Startup Failure - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Avoiding Startup Failure Course Number 1740 Senior Lecturer Lindsay Hyde Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 27 Sessions Exam Formerly Entrepreneurial Failure Career Focus Avoiding Startup Failure will be of interest to students... View Details

12 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career

organizations much like many others, subject to the errors that are common elsewhere. But their successes and failures are highly visible and amplified by the fact that they perform in a zero-sum world. In order for one team to win,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Sports

14 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Embracing Activism for Social Change

available to assist when calls come in,” Mendu says about the first priority of the initiative. “Feedback was overwhelmingly positive.” The second part was creating a crisis intervention team to partner with police patrols in... View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

Monaco's Digital Transformation

country’s own digital security agency handles all encryption. Genta, who brings to his role a background in business leadership at Google, Amazon, and Orange, also worked with his team to develop the Monaco ID card, a secure way for a... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

26 May 2016
News

W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975

learned how to be a team player on the ice or off of it is hard to say, but it is a winning formula that has led to exemplary leadership in three Fortune 100 companies. At the helm of Boeing for the last decade before stepping down... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Mar 2004
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors

School over the course of 2004. I am pleased to share our plans and our progress to date. Let me begin by reporting that the Global Leadership Forum Committee, with direction from its new chairman, Jean-Marc Daillance (MBA 1984), is continuing to View Details

Keywords: Ted Fischer; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Multimedia Development | Information Technology

Multimedia Development Blending technology, storytelling, and the HBS case method Pairing Technology with Storytelling to Reimagine Learning As part of case study development at the Harvard Business School, the IT Multimedia Development View Details

24 Jul 2018
News

How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft

to the failing performance and then encouraging everyone to focus on making hard decisions quickly," says Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith, whose office shares a small hallway with Hood’s. So what was the plan to... View Details

July – August 2011
Article

Deliberate Learning to Improve Performance in Dynamic Service Settings: Evidence from Hospital Intensive Care Units

By: I. M. Nembhard and A. L. Tucker

Dynamic service settings-characterized by workers who interact with customers to deliver services in a rapidly changing, uncertain, and complex environment (e.g., hospitals)-play an important role in the economy. Organizational learning studies in these settings have... View Details

Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Customer Focus and Relationships; Learning; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Performance Improvement; Quality; Groups and Teams; Cooperation; Health Industry

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18 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs

have built national or global organizations that have achieved social impact. This focus on success stories has led to a skewed view of social entrepreneurship as nothing more or less than a field of huge, realized dreams. “A big weakness... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

12 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager

other functional managers, in hopes that they'll work as a team and discover effective ways to cooperate better. "By narrowing their focus in terms of their business portfolio, companies increase the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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IT Strategy: Building a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Strategy for HBS IT | Information Technology

their DEI journey. This ensures a steady focus and stream of content for the team to engage with. Focus for the current year is on engaging the organization in the DEI space... View Details

16 Jul 2021
Op-Ed

For Entrepreneurs, the Benefits of Slowing Down

race. "Make the effort to meet up face to face, spend unscheduled long stretches of time, and (gasp) just hang out." Here are a few of the benefits of slowing down, and where entrepreneurs may want to focus their energies this summer: 1.... View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang

26 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

codes in the treatment and control regions; these procedures have been developed by scholars in other fields to approximate datasets that would have resulted from random experimentation. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-043.pdf View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Sep 2015
First Look

September 29, 2015

patients; however, organizations have struggled to obtain outcomes data from electronic health record (EHR) systems. This study describes how Texas Children’s Hospital customized a commercial EHR system and assembled a cross-functional View Details