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- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
conspicuous successes in online commerce came from companies that already had a pretty good catalog or direct mail business. Staples and Dell migrated successful catalog businesses onto the Web. Merck-Medco had done a terrific job View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
country where women hold only 5 percent of senior leadership roles. Her strategy is radically simple: fix the system by designing for the patient. She’s leading a quiet shift, not a noisy revolution, but in... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
companies and, well, straight men. In the offices of a Cambridge software firm, the Deckingers are discussing their vision for Jess, Meet Ken with a team View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Contrarian and Proud of It
investors. From the fund’s inception in 1985, he has posted annualized returns of 13.4 percent, nearly two percentage points higher than other large-cap value funds. “Invariably, we’re looking at View Details
- 01 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
one company launched daily virtual coffee breaks. For those working while caring for children, leaders must be sensitive to issues of exhaustion and the difficulty of working... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson
- 16 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses
addresses, it's difficult to get started in these businesses. Entry and potential entry are an important part of competition. We need to make sure new firms can easily begin operations so that existing providers can't View Details
- 05 Jul 2011
- News
The Business of Champions
triumph since 1972 hold lessons for other kinds of organizations and companies? Sports and games serve as a handy source of metaphors for... View Details
- Fast Answer
Patent search: A comparative table of databases
What are the major patent databases and which one should I use? Google Patents is a good place to begin. It covers full text patents from major patent offices worldwide and is particularly helpful for a quick identification View Details
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
actually holding my newborn baby in my arms when I got the call, and could see on the phone that it was the breast surgeon calling. And I knew that the fact that she was calling on a Saturday, with the results View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
which physicians convene to discuss significant mistakes or unexpected deaths) as a forum for identifying, discussing, and learning from failures. This analysis can only be effective if people speak up openly about what they know and if View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- Web
A Tradition of Philanthropy - Alumni
1930 The Two Hundred Fifty Associates program of Harvard Business School is established. Members agree to contribute $1,000 annually to support faculty research. This evolves into the current Corporate Associates through which View Details
- 30 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2013
Best Employees Many companies hand out awards such as "employee of the month," but do they work to motivate performance? Not really, says Ian Larkin. In fact, they may turn off your best employees... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 21 May 2018
- HBS Case
How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?
company executives debating how to set the price for its latest innovation, the Richard Lange Jumping Seconds watch. The CEO, head of production, and head of product... View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
Recap of the 4th Annual Women in Investing Summit
peers. At HBS, the case method provides an opportunity to distill work experience and hundreds of cases into one’s own leadership philosophy. HBS also offers distinguished faculty, many of whom have run... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
company and raised $2.25 million for it, and then we shut it down. We certainly made a lot of mistakes in building out the company, but my number one piece of advice for the... View Details
- 11 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS
Search Days. Companies are encouraged to use these days for interviews to avoid the complication of scheduling interviews around class time on other days. K – Klarman Hall.... View Details
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
office employees from their work, surfing the web is arguably the most irresistible time-waster of all. In order to deal with that problem, many companies either prohibit... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
Weights and Hurdles This is the sort of heavy lifting that has occupied A.D. Frazier, Jr. (85th AMP), COO of ACOG, for the last five years. Asked how he's enjoying the workout, the gruff but amiable Frazier... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 18 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers
Minor’s definition of a toxic worker isn’t the employee who is gratingly loud or who leaves her lunch in the office refrigerator until fossilized. He is focusing on employees who damage the View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 29 Apr 2015
- Blog Post
2+2: Challenging Conceptions of Business
I told her that I was pursuing my MBA at HBS, she told me I could start the following week. I was the company’s first full-time employee, and I went from an office assistant to the V.P. of Sales in only a... View Details