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Career Coach

Vincent Dessain

Vincent (HBS MBA’87) draws on more than 25 years of experience as a higher education senior executive at HBS and INSEAD and in the corporate world both in the US and in Europe to counsel students and alumni as they evaluate, prepare for and pursue their career options.... View Details

01 Jun 2020
News

Inside Out

construction: notably, how to get trillions of dollars of private capital off the sideline to make high-impact investments in water, sanitation, roads, power, and mass transit that will impact the lives of hundreds of millions of people,”... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

01 Dec 2022
News

December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Westminster, Bingham juggled vaccine suppliers, Whitehall, the media circus—and her daughter’s exams. Political maneuvering, miscommunications, and administrative meddling nearly jeopardized the project, but perseverance paid off.... View Details

28 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

them in turn. At the most simplistic level, you focus on addressing strategic questions such as: Why will this new technology meet customer needs, even if those needs aren't obvious right now? Why will it form the basis of new business... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

16 Aug 2024
In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

credit analysts exhibit a sizable partisan gap in their economic outlook, with roughly two-thirds the size of the gap observed among households. This bias affects analysts’ decision to upgrade or downgrade corporate credit ratings, directly affecting the cost of View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

16 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

a familiarity and a sense of being right there with the subject that accompanies such grace and intimacy. We see a similar intimacy in stories up until the 1960s, when we then begin to see a higher, thicker wall develop between the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News

Web

Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

United States in 1938 and came to work at Polaroid, had received a patent for an "Apparatus Employing Polarizing Light for the Production of Stereoscopic Images." The Vectograph consisted of an image for the left eye and another image for the View Details

01 Dec 2009
News

Robert Goodwin

just that currently the market drives more resources toward treating male pattern baldness than toward malaria prevention. We’re way behind on achieving the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. In my opinion, a major reason is that we haven’t effectively found the View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Sep 2016
News

Code name: Miesiąc

in a safe place. Right after entering the room, he asked [Janek] what had happened during the whole time [when he was gone]. [Janek] told him that he had been interrogated at the police station at Wilcza Street and that he said nothing.”... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Piotr Malecki

30 Jan 2018
First Look

January 30, 2018

inventory-intensive retail model required significant infusions of capital that, in the face of a deteriorating economy and the company’s inability to show a profit, was becoming increasingly difficult to obtain. Considering all this and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2014
News

The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

friend. Masha had just graduated from HBS and was working at a medical-device company in Massachusetts. Okoloko's call came at the right time. Professionally, Masha was eager to join a start-up; personally, he'd resolved to move closer to... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

16 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

in their competition against p2p. Other differences are related to the "packaging" of content. Digital rights management (DRM) technologies, for example, are used to limit the playback of music purchased on iTunes, while music... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

25 Jul 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

three factors that predict neighborhood improvement. First, neighborhoods that are densely populated by college-educated adults are more likely to experience physical improvements—an observation that is compatible with the economic literature linking human View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

06 Dec 2021
News

New Wave

islands.) But the delays and costs involved nearly killed the company, which survived only with support from the WPTO. Capital expenditures for sources of marine energy are another stumbling block. The equipment that is required to... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen

16 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

people we might hire, I see three kinds. I have people I know are going to steal me blind no matter what I do. I definitely try not to hire those people. Then I have people who I know will always do the right thing, no matter what. And... View Details

Keywords: by Kim B. Clark

November 2017
Teaching Note

Reinventing Best Buy

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

Teaching Note for HBS No. 716-455. On March 1, 2017, Best Buy Company, Inc., North America’s largest retailer of consumer electronics and appliances, announced a third year of comparable-store sales increases and a 20.8% increase in domestic comparable online sales.... View Details

Keywords: Best Buy; Hubert Joly; Renew Blue; Showrooming; Webrooming; E-commerce; E-Commerce Strategy; Online Retail; Multichannel Retailing; Omnichannel; Marketplaces; Turnaround; Consumer Electronics; Consumer Electronics Accessories; Appliances; Stores-within-stores; Store Experience; Store Size; Store Pickup; Store Management; Delivery; Delivery Models; Amazon; Amazon.com; Pricing Strategy; Business Subsidiaries; Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Theater Entertainment; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Cost; Selection and Staffing; Reports; Technological Innovation; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Human Capital; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers; Media; Distribution; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Distribution Channels; Infrastructure; Product; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Programs; Groups and Teams; Sales; Salesforce Management; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Technology; Hardware; Information Technology; Internet; Mobile Technology; Online Technology; Search Technology; Software; Web; Web Sites; Wireless Technology; Resource Allocation; Computer Industry; Electronics Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Video Game Industry; United States; Minnesota; Minneapolis; Saint Paul; St. Paul

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Purchase

16 May 2017
News

Facing the Board

The risk would be giving up their competitive advantage, but Goedertier said, if BlackRock doesn’t do it, a software company would come up with a similar product, so they should capitalize on it now. On the issue of the 64 million share... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; photos by Susan Young; Blackrock; The Boardroom

01 Feb 2000
News

No Place Like Home

Illustration by Mercedes McDonald. Orchard Gardens photo by Ed Quinn/Saba In many parts of the country, housing costs and shortages have begun to show signs of adversely affecting corporations, workers, and local economies. Affordable housing - such as Boston's Orchard... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

08 Sep 2016
News

How We Make It Work

delivery app Dolly, and Peter is creative and brand director at PitchBook, which he likens to a “Bloomberg for the private capital markets.” Peter Escher reads to Josh while Diane Escher tackles toothbrushing duty as part of the bedtime... View Details

31 Jul 2019
News

Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens

scrolling through Instagram and that, "Oh, must be nice to be in Havana right now," or all these sorts of things. But talk about its applications to business decisions, to being an investor. How does that manifest itself? Patrick... View Details

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