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- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
Co-option A Natural Choice Incumbents can't flee when they have no up-market to penetrate. When else are incumbents strongly motivated to respond to disruptive attackers? When an entrant makes money in similar ways or uses similar processes to incumbents. An entrant... View Details
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Published Materials - Creating Emerging Markets
Institutional Voids: A Reputation-Based View of Long Run Survival By: Cheng Gao, Tiona Zuzul , Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna FALL 2017 Article Business History Review The Alternative Business History: Business in Emerging Markets By:... View Details
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Emily Schlichting
participating in the joint degree MBA/MPP program with HBS and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Why the joint degree? "If you're running a health care business, you can't succeed without understanding government policy. If... View Details
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
He recalls this moment in his new book, Around the Corner to Around the World: A Dozen Lessons I Learned Running Dunkin’ Donuts. “Up until that point,” he writes, “the only thing I had managed were a couple of donut shops—replacing... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
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Ellen Mahoney | About
management team at Harvard University, where she contributes as a member of a variety of committees and task forces. Ellen’s previous experience at Harvard University includes running a career and professional development office that... View Details
- 18 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Relocating to Boston with Your Partner
convenience to grocery shopping or going out to dinner. However, it can be easier for partners to join campus talks, activities, and events - and run into HBSers when living on campus. We really enjoyed our time in Soldiers Field Park,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Action Plan: To the Letter
most of his career in travel and in private equity. In 2019, the private equity firm HGGC acquired Monotype for $825 million and recruited Chacko in 2021 to run it. At Monotype, he learned to view type differently—and he also helped the... View Details
- 08 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching
transfer doesn’t quite happen that way, and organizations that practice watch-and-learn vicarious learning run the risk of undertraining their key employees, says Myers. He challenges the theory in a new working paper, Coactive Vicarious... View Details
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Artful Leadership | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
serve the social good. “I was drawn to... Riding the WAVE Misan Rewane 2013 When describing the experience of running WAVE (West Africa Vocational Education), Misan Rewane (MBA 2013) is frank. “It’s been a wild ride. I’ve learned so much,... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
security. But by the end of 2021, TuSimple had completed an 80-mile run from Tucson to Phoenix without a human driver in the truck’s cab. Routes are currently focused on the “middle miles” in the southern United States, with plans to... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Student "Treks" Lead to Jobs and Opportunities
With interest running high in areas such as entrepreneurship, technology, new media, and the Internet, HBS student career "treks" to venues like Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, and London have become all the rage during the holiday break.... View Details
- 04 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Real Cost of Bribery
It's a sad, quantitative fact that bribery runs so rampant in the world that it has become a Darwinian business tool. A July 2013 report from Transparency International finds that more than one in four people paid a bribe in the past... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet
the cell phone,” Amano says. “We don’t know how to model that, and we don’t know how to think about it, but it’s a really important question, because that informs whether you run another ad on the bus.” Here’s where managerial insight and... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 24 Jul 2017
- Blog Post
Transitioning to Product Management at HBS
plethora of tech-focused courses in EC year), to student clubs (the Tech Club is ones of the largest student clubs and does a phenomenal job organizing an annual tech conference and treks to tech companies on both coasts and many in between), to the numerous programs... View Details
- 23 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.
on the review site Yelp shut permanently during the pandemic. Don’t be afraid of bankruptcy protection So, what should consumers and policymakers do now as benefits from the CARES Act are running out and a second federal stimulus package... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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Augustine Heard & Co.: Building a Family Business - A Chronicle of the China Trade
firm had generally become identified with a stem family or families and its . . . dynastic alliances.” 7 While Augustine Heard & Co. had many partners over the years, these close familial relations were critical to the running of the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987
throughout Jacobson's life. At the University of Pennsylvania, Jacobson studied international relations with a specialization in China. After college, she worked in operations at Greenwich Associates and was soon promoted to run the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
Podcast with: Interviewer: Running Time: Alfred D. Chandler Jr., the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar whom many credited with founding the discipline of business history, died at age 88 on May 9, 2007. His work is legendary, but so too was... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Teaching Quantitative Material - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
exposure to quantitative analysis. No one should be exempt from a quant discussion, but you may need to manage students differently, depending on their comfort with the numbers Experts: Class experts may be adept at running a particular... View Details
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Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online
entrepreneurs run structured experiments to validate ideas and refine business strategy. Participants work through real-world challenges faced by entrepreneurs across a variety of industries, and come away with tangible tools and... View Details