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- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
Marquee Prospect Plays Hardball (A) Harvard Business School Case 908-010 Describes the hardball tactics facing Peter Welz, who seeks to negotiate a make-or-break contract with a vastly larger potential client. Welz's counterpart team is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
As a part of his campaign strategy for the Student Association presidency, Dobron took the unusual step of creating a team of four sectionmates to help him develop a platform based on issues of importance to the student body. Once... View Details
- 13 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Students Reflect on COP28
there’s still a long way to go before we achieve what is necessary to ensure that health through decarbonization is achieved.” Hugh Shirley (center) at COP28 Riad El Soufi, Harvard Graduate School of Design “I think it’s very admirable what the COP View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
Culture carries its guidance to the farthest corners of the organization to places you may never go and people you may never meet. There’s a story about the salvation of FedEx that Michael Basch, one of the company’s founding officers,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
currency. This reduced profitability because Clearwater's costs were in Canadian currency while its sales where largely in other currencies. The case also discusses the challenges of maintaining a sustainable fishery and uses the collapse of the cod fishing industry as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2011
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?
things, a person's comfort affects negotiating behaviors. If you want to drive a hard bargain, sit on a hard chair, while making your counterpart very comfortable. In short, control your surroundings and behaviors. But perhaps most interesting of all, Cuddy's View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Your Balance With Customers
generally found in more mature industries, involves identifying and eliminating unprofitable customers. A consumer bank with significant and stable market share had as an objective to "identify, upgrade, or exit unprofitable... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
SFP raises funds from individuals, foundations, and endowments to achieve its goals. The huge demand for organic goods such as corn, oats, and alfalfa, and the higher prices they command than traditionally grown crops, creates a dramatic increase in financial returns.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
construction. STARTING SMALL: The last step involved planting 9,000 tiny perennials roughly eight inches apart. In blazing summer heat, the daytime temperatures on a conventional asphalt roof can reach 160 degrees or higher compared to the 80s and 90s for a green roof.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
inclusive, merit-based society," she recalls. As a Harvard undergraduate, Thomas- Graham majored in economics and briefly considered entering the Ph.D. program, but realized she was most intrigued by law and business issues. The joint degree program was a perfect fit.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
large should initial innovation teams be? (Just a few people, but include seasoned members.) Should new projects be kept close to the core organization or set up shop on the periphery? (Depends if the innovation builds on core products or... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
not one of Andy’s strengths,” when he said that Operation CRUSH would go on as long as it took to win, the team knew he meant it. Intel found the winning ground: the total bundle of benefits. The technique... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
crushing it. Sprayed with glass, Lhota scrambled from the wrecked vehicle and made his way to a nearby fire command center, a location previously designated as an emergency rendezvous point, where he found the mayor and other city... View Details
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207092 Microsoft Xbox: Changing the Game? Harvard Business School Case 707-501 In September 1999, the Microsoft Xbox team was wondering which strategic choices would give it... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
CEO-doubled during this period, this growth was driven primarily by an increase in functional managers rather than general managers, a phenomenon we term "functional centralization." Using panel data on senior management positions, we show that changes in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
910-409 On July 5, 2004, Pfizer's China team received disappointing news. China's patent review board just invalidated the company's existing patent on one of its most successful drugs, Viagra. Making matters worse, a Guangdong-based... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
breeze about a trendy new third-party tool over a game of Super Smash Bros. in the breakroom. “In most software hackathons, the formal competition aspect is really just a façade to put everyone in a time-bound and high-energy environment. Most View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
obsessed with the terms ‘new’ or ‘improved’. The economy simply changes What we’re witnessing is simply another evolution. Albeit a pretty significant one.” Others found themselves unable to respond without criteria that they could apply.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
questionnaire about how much they liked working in a competitive environment versus working with others as a team. A person who selected "like competition" was teamed with other competitors. Once the results were tabulated,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
to help our customers ‘compete with anyone, anywhere in the world,’ and that’s what we do.” Those customers can be found worldwide and in diverse industries. Examples of the range of metal-component parts CGM produces include air-bag... View Details