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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Closing the 'Network Gap'
first semester, 10 percent of the Class of 2022—70 people from a wide array of backgrounds—volunteered their own networks and knowledge to help. This outpouring of support, however, was still not enough to match the number of requests... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
which means that all employees are “really focused on efficiency,” Wallace says. They developed a multilayered interview process to match the right person for each job, as the wrong hire can be extremely costly. It culminates with a two-... View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
Minnesota Orchestral Association as vice president of marketing. Her passion for the music matched her enthusiasm for the job, and she enjoyed applying all the lessons she’d learned in business school to the arts world. “Hardly a month... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 13 Jun 2014
- News
The Art of Effecting Change
boards of several Boston organizations, including The Windsor School, MATCH Education, the Telluride Foundation, and the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), which she describes as "all incredible, impact-oriented nonprofit organizations... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- News
A Capital Idea for Small Business
knowing each other for so long, we have an inherent level of trust." They also have trust in their concept. "Right now we're in business, but we don't generate revenue," says McGee. "That will change when we can begin matching businesses... View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- News
Climbing to New Heights
Everest ascent, he committed to raising £10,000, 20 percent of the cost of the planned shelter. To date, Petzel has raised £6,000; he hopes matching funds from Goldman Sachs will allow him to go over the top. "The work the porters do is... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Hüsnü Özyeğin, MBA 1969
and then returned to Turkey, where his enormous impact in business is matched by his commitment to improving access to quality education. One of Turkey's most successful business leaders, Özyeğin is a self-made man. After earning his MBA... View Details
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
successful promoter? A: I am not sure there is a secret ingredient. I think it is more about the entire "recipe" being right. Companies try to find athletes with brand attributes that match those of the products the athlete is... View Details
- 04 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS
them to alleviate poverty and mitigate climate change, and saw strategic investing as the ideal match for influencing change at scale. However, it would not be a simple career switch; they each needed to clearly identify why their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
(PhDBE 2009) and HBS assistant professor George Serafeim, the trio studied data from a matched sample of 180 companies over 18 years. Organizations that had adopted environmental and social policies by 1993 (described as... View Details
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
respond with matching regulatory focus. This distinction in the regulatory focus of investor questions and entrepreneur responses results in divergent funding outcomes for entrepreneurs whereby those asked promotion-focused questions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
organizational action."3 By the 1960s, classroom discussions in the business policy course focused on matching a company's "strengths" and "weaknesses"—its distinctive competence—with the "opportunities"... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
sample of M&A deals from 2003 to 2015 to identify four such areas of evolution in current transactional practice: (1) termination fee "creep," which was pervasive in the 1980s and 1990s, seems to have gone away by the 2000s; (2) View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Leadership That Defines you – Reflecting on my Time at HBS
just give you the playbook to business. I think it's one thing to know that going in, and quite another to experience it firsthand. 2. "Make sure your actual strategy matches your intended strategy." I took a class called... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
AI Enhances Diagnostic Care
full of potential and is truly underserved. I believe that it’s of paramount importance for HBS to assist alums willing to endeavor to make a difference here. The potential this support can unlock has no limits.” MORE STORIES ABOUT IMPACT: The Digital Transformation of... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 28 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Brick-and-Mortar Stores Are Making a Comeback
"Clicks and Mortar." [Image: iStock] Related Reading How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon Should Retailers Match Their Own Prices Online and in Stores? Research Paper Where Should We Build a Mall? The Formation of... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- HBS Case
How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?
case exhibit. "We looked at the diameters, and then we actually measured the size of four pictures, and we noticed that the relative sizes of the pictures don’t match the relative size of the watches,” Thomke remembers them saying.... View Details
- 11 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet
sports and new sports, as well as old media and new media," he says. "The most exciting stuff seems to be about new sports and new media, but there are also new configurations of old sports." For example, some leagues now play "short form... View Details
- 04 Feb 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?
globe which match (this) School of Management and produce high quality talent." Winfried Hermann Schoepf expressed concerns about whether we will be admiring Google's approach to management in the future. "I have some doubt... View Details
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter
candidates for leadership. The process will tend to prevent people with unique personalities from gaining leadership positions, or the state's governing political ideology will ensure that only a certain type of person can come to power, or the process of choosing a... View Details