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- 01 Dec 2003
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making boards smaller, ensuring their independence, maintaining three core committees, and providing leadership that reinforces the board’s independence and effectiveness. Within this general framework, they suggest numerous ways that... View Details
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
the team’s poor play, was that McCarthy had not followed the rest of the league in using modern, imaginative offensive plays to sow confusion and gain advantages over opposing defenses. Highly effective managers also have the ability to adjust View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Future of Foreign Aid
Eric Werker You spent much of 2009 to 2011 in Liberia advising President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf while on leave from HBS. What did you learn from that experience? Good ideas and great strategies are cheap and easy; what's expensive and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Untold Story of the US Auto Bailout
(both MBA 1992) have written, produced, and directed Live Another Day, a documentary in the spirit of Inside Job that delves into the government bailout of General Motors and the Chrysler-Fiat merger through extensive research and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Health Care a Top Priority at HBS
a topic of great interest to our faculty, students, and alumni.” She notes that some 20 percent of HBS professors are interested in health care, pursuing research in four general areas: management best practices; lab-to-marketplace... View Details
- 26 Mar 2014
- News
The Power of Education
Attendance at Harvard reunions requires a little extra time from Robert Howard and his wife, Dr. Brenda Pagán-Durán. “This year, our 20th Reunion at Harvard College happened a week before my 15th at HBS,” says Howard, head of Equity View Details
- 01 May 2000
- What Do You Think?
Can You Hard-Wire Performance?
viable alternative. Original Article Several months ago, the General Electric Company announced that it had closed a deal with Boeing that specified that only GE aircraft engines would be installed on the newest version of 777 aircraft... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Jan 2001
- What Do You Think?
Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?
Summing Up "What we are looking at is a fundamental challenge to our assumptions about which corporate structures work," commented Daniel Hayes in response to the recent piece on the future bounds of the organization. Raman Julka was just as dramatic:... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
do big ones. That would be putting the cart before the horse. Does Blackstone have a strategy that distinguishes it from its chief competitors? First, we do a lot of corporate partnerships that are joint investments with corporations to... View Details
- Career Coach
Pamela Harder
architect behind the Amazon HQ2 $1.1B tech talent investment program. Prior to that, Pam ran Strategy & Business Operations at Clever, a K12 edtech startup in San Francisco. Under her leadership, she helped the company explore new... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Project Aims to Boost US Competitiveness
significance,” notes Dean Nitin Nohria. “Our goal is not simply to study US competitiveness,” explains Porter. “We intend to mobilize our alumni, the business community, and other stakeholders to take actions that boost America’s contribution to the global economy.” A... View Details
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the ‘Flutie Effect’ on College Marketing
so—intercollegiate sporting events generated an estimated $2 billion in revenue and $1 billion in profit in 2010. Winning programs prosper in diverse ways including ticket and product sales, alumni donations, and TV contracts. Chung is... View Details
- Web
Creating and Sustaining Competitive Advantage - Course Catalog
competitive advantage and how that affects the general manager's role in formulating and executing strategy. Course Content The course starts by exploring the structure of competitive advantage and how the key drivers of advantage... View Details
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
meaningfully to strategy development. Making It Safe To Be Critical Chief among the responsibilities of a corporate board member is to develop and share an honest assessment of the company's performance, including the performance of the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
today's managers are trying to implement third-generation strategies through second-generation organizations with first-generation management. In an earlier study we analyzed the evolution of CEO Jack Welch's thinking at View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
itself from a competitive perspective to continue its growth and stand out from the other industry players?" The Answers: "I would suggest looking at the business model and trying to extend the brand by extending the offering. Cellphones were a great start to establish... View Details
- 07 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing
Millennials are disruptive bunch. The first generation to grow up with the internet, consumers born after 1980 are used to relying on technology and engineering to do almost everything—including shopping (Amazon), listening to music... View Details
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
examine how the quantity of information generated about firm prospects can be improved by splitting a firm's cash flow into a "safe" claim (debt) and a "risky" claim (equity). The former, being relatively insensitive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
information to provide." “Focusing on a single revenue source is the most profitable strategy when firms compete for consumer information” It's clear from their research that the marketplace has plenty of room for two types of Internet... View Details
- 09 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm
administration in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School, “whether that means talking to customers about where the pain points are or talking to clients about new opportunities.” Good entrepreneurs use these kinds of conversations... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding