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- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
source of competitive advantage. Field's brand was built on the appealing, elegant, retail experience or encounter in a department store defined by quality goods that have Field's name on them.—Nancy F. Koehn How did he do that? He did it operationally; he did it in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
our new fund, is likely to be very similar in its composition. You didn’t use the term Web 2.0 to describe your investment prospects. Why not? It almost never gets mentioned here. We talked a lot about Web 2.0 in 2003 and 2004 as we... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
devised to facilitate factory work in the last century. The term “artful making” was inspired by the collaborative successes that creative artists regularly achieve without plotting a detailed set of objectives in advance. The book... View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
investors. People who owned their homes took advantage of this equity buildup, some becoming what he termed "serial refinancers." "What used to be a goal of people like my parents to someday have no mortgage, all of a... View Details
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Frequently Asked Questions | Employment
Part-Time or Temporary Employment & Term Appointments How can I find out about part-time employment? How can I find out about temporary employment? What is a term appointment? Faculty & Research Positions... View Details
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Preview the Harvard Business School Online Learning Experience
Data & Analytics E-Book Gain an introduction to data literacy that can put you on track to be a data-driven professional. Download for Free Financial Terms Cheat Sheet This cheat sheet defines several foundational financial View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
Green Stuff: Value, Risk, and Environmental Management Environmental issues increasingly influence companies in their approach to fundamental business concerns. How these matters play out in terms of corporate behavior is the subject of a... View Details
- 12 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Mass Shootings Lead to Looser Gun Restrictions
effect holds true regardless of which political party is in control. In terms of laws that are actually enacted, the impact of mass shootings depends on which party is in power. In states with Republican-controlled legislatures, a mass... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jan 2015
- Op-Ed
The Fall of Greece
allocated in competitive markets) is far superior to a centrally planned economy where the means of production are controlled by the political process. And the superiority does not come only in terms of economic growth, but also... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 16 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Report from China: The New Entrepreneurs
regional governments' roles are the most significant in terms of creating the infrastructure to support entrepreneurship—university programs, tax incentives, incubator programs, educational programs, and the like. Q: Your travel group... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Responsibility and the Environment: What is the Right Thing To Do?
Responsibility (CSR) and Corporate Social Performance (CSP)? A: Corporate Social Performance is a term used to describe "strategic" behavior by a firm. When a firm engages in environmental or other social performance that is... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 06 Nov 2000
- What Do You Think?
Succession at GE: What’s Next?
chose Welch, someone who could not have been more unlike Jones in demeanor and background, someone who had made his name in one of GE's lesser ventures, plastics, and yet someone who obviously had the qualities to lead GE through massive change to the top of the world... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
3 Concerns I Had about HBS
relationships too. That’s not only normal, but good practice, and section gives you a chance to be thoughtful about your choices. The fact that I’ve come to terms with many of my initial concerns about coming to HBS doesn’t mean that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Closing the 'Network Gap'
available to entrepreneurs. “We offered them feedback, structure, advice, and guidance so they got momentum on what they were building,” Austin says. “I think we checked every student-entrepreneur box in terms of HBS classes, resources,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
The authors also found that market-leading firms with strong reserves “actively invested in the short term with the sole focus of extending their long-term advantage over less endowed competitors.” View Details
- 25 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
South Africa—are seeing the gap and saying, Why don’t I go improve my skill set and maybe in the long term I could go back.” The desire to improve his own skill set was what motivated Igun to apply to HBS. Before coming to Boston, he had... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Giving Advice
But if you’re looking for a simple, anonymous, flexible giving vehicle with little administrative burden, you’re likely to end up with a donor-advised fund (DAF). Setting up a foundation is a larger and more permanent undertaking—in terms... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
for her innovative research and teaching on the business of health care, Herzlinger has long predicted the unraveling of managed care in the United States, along with the rise of consumer-driven health care and health-care-focused factories, two View Details
- 07 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies
The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details
- 13 Jun 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
That's Classic: Modern-Day Business Lessons from Ancient Rome
six pages long. For example, in Book One he lists all the people who have been important to him, and what he feels he got from them in terms of virtues and advice. It’s astonishing. Frei: The stories from Valerius Maximus’s Memorable... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna