Filter Results:
(454)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(454)
- News (149)
- Research (184)
- Events (11)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (87)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(454)
- News (149)
- Research (184)
- Events (11)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (87)
- Web
Curriculum - Business & Environment
initiatives to stay relevant. But which initiatives, executed where, when and how, would enable IKEA to achieve its goals in a way that was profitable while creating an IKEA they would want to pass on to the next generation of co-workers and customers? Technology and... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
to get resistance. And that's what leadership is about. Leadership is about moving companies to places where their normal operating leaders would not take them. And as it relates to this issue in terms of the development advancement of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
- Web
Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Steve Allen Show in 1954, where television hosts revealed through one new medium the wonders of another. 71 Polaroid excelled at customer service. Camera owners received letters of welcome and inviting instructional booklets illustrating... View Details
- Web
Terrill L. Drake | About
inclusive excellence throughout the HBS community of faculty, staff, and students, as well as with alumni and other constituents across HBS and beyond. He works closely with the School’s leadership on strategic planning, programming,... View Details
- Web
Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Finance Section of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) for "Patent Trolls: Evidence from Targeted Firms” (December 2019) with Umit Gurun and Scott Duke Kominers. Benjamin C. Esty : Recognized as one... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Mark Schwartz
1999. Schwartz’s enthusiasm for having a role in the global marketplace is palpable. When he started at Goldman in 1979, he says, “I had no notion that I was joining a global firm,” but as the company expanded, Schwartz was given many opportunities, including growing... View Details
- 27 Sep 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
The Impact of Conformance and Experiential Quality on Healthcare Cost and Clinical Performance
- 16 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World
languages and possess unique cultural norms around meeting styles would benefit from in-person meetings, whereas people who speak the same language and operate meetings similarly won’t realize the same benefit. Choudhury hopes business... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
Acquisitions department and presided over some of the largest deals transacted during the merger-crazed 1980s. He joined Morgan Stanley in 1988 as a managing director and later served as cohead of Mergers and Acquisitions, becoming a member of Morgan's View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- Web
Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni
is not guaranteed that a fellowship recipient with a $50,000 salary will receive a $50,000 award. * For startups, preference is to fund operational businesses across all sectors. Consulting, research, and/or brokerage services, as well as... View Details
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
2009, the cofounders of Rent the Runway (RTR), a website that rented designer dresses, are debating whether to grow their startup at a measured pace and focus on improving operational effectiveness or raise a new round of venture capital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
education's Oscars," in 2016. Sunil Gupta : Winner of the 2016 Case Centre Award in the Marketing category for “The New York Times Paywall” with Vineet Kumar, Bharat Anand, and Felix Oberholzer-Gee (HBS Case 512-077). Sunil Gupta : Finalist for the 2016 Long Term... View Details
- 26 Jan 2022
- News
Making Peace with Anger
that this was a problem? WW: I recognized that my anger was a problem the day that my wife turned to me and said that we were getting separated and that she wanted to get divorced. Prior to that moment, I always thought that my intensity and somewhat unrelenting... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
This was my favorite case in my favorite class, Entrepreneurial Management, taught by Professor Howard Stevenson. The protagonist learned the hard way that she had to plan to manage growth and, unfortunately, her operations infrastructure... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Home Base
Dowling launched Workparent, a coaching and consulting firm that supports organizations and individuals by providing practical tips and techniques that help workers excel at home and on the job. To date, the company has advised parents on... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Edward D. Bullard: The Personal Touch
airy plant; all employees are on salary and receive excellent benefits. Training programs -- for both new and current employees -- are extensive, and employee suggestions, with responses, are posted prominently on the production floor.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs
their agreements with the current employer and their knowledge of trade secrets. The law is clear that if someone is currently working for a company, particularly if her or she is a key employee, they cannot operate a competing business.... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- Web
Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Goldfaden Land, who studied physics, and Harry Land, who ran a scrap metal and real estate business in Connecticut. In high school at the Norwich Free Academy, Land excelled in physics and became enthralled with the classic Physical... View Details
- 14 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Dating at HBS
discussion group, I came to respect him greatly. We always ended up on the same side of the arguments, and whereas I could teach him Finance he excelled in Technology and Operations Management, so we... View Details