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- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
excitement generated by the public source case made Koehn's team even more committed to filling in the gaps with personal feedback from Harpo management and, ideally, from Winfrey herself. Finally, events... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding
P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Sascha L. Schmidt is Professor and Director of the Center for Sports and Management at WHU—Otto Beisheim School of Management.... View Details
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
attributes such shortcomings to a prevailing "sense of entitlement" that's fostered in part by the absence of competitors. "You could make a good case that the very promise of job security is the first step in destroying... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 23 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It
they are—unless they can figure out a way to thwart discrimination. That’s the frustrating takeaway of the new research paper “Equal Opportunity? Gender Gaps in CEO Appointments and Executive Pay,” written by Matti Keloharju, a visiting... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The VC Quandary: Too Much Money
home run" or for U.S. firms that need to penetrate the European market. Mullen spoke as a member of the panel "State of the Venture Capital Industry: Past, Present and Future" at the 11th Annual Venture Capital & Private Equity Conference held on... View Details
- 05 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
A Pathway to Public Service: Brandon Moore (MBA/MPP 2025)
Brandon Moore (MBA/MPP 2025) shares his experience in public service and why he decided on the joint degree program with Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School. The MBA/MPP and MBA/MPA-ID are... View Details
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
you are trying to do is create a sense of loyalty or trust in the firm,” says Tandon Family Professor Francesca Gino, a member of the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets unit at Harvard Business School. “But that can make people so... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 19 Feb 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Amazoned: Is Any Industry Safe?
iPhoto Jeff Bezos, visiting a Harvard Business School classroom 21 years ago, told skeptical students his goal with Amazon.com was to "sell everything to everyone everywhere." Even dog food? students wondered, which would... View Details
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
appointments go wrong Let’s begin by taking a look at three examples of poor leadership at public companies and addressing what went wrong. Then, I will recommend five ways boards can ensure they appoint the right leader as CEO: General... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
Marlous van Waijenburg
Marlous van Waijenburg is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches in the MBA required curriculum.
Professor van Waijenburg’s main... View Details
- 20 Sep 2022
- Cold Call Podcast
Larry Fink at BlackRock: Linking Purpose to Profit
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
Business leaders must respond to growing concerns about pollution, but both the environment and corporate coffers can be green, says Harvard Business School professor Forest Reinhardt. The key to success may depend on how the challenges... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak
from that experience in recent weeks as she helps government officials explore ways to shore up the 30 million small businesses that provide almost half of the country’s jobs. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around View Details
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Cheap, Fast, and In Control: How Tech Aids Innovation
Harvard Business School, discusses how businesses can sidestep the often prohibitive costs and time-consuming trials of experimentation by implementing new technologies. Wendy Guild: We've all heard the old... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
a comprehensive approach to understanding the drivers of firm location choices by modeling not only the impact of location and firm heterogeneity, but also the strategic interaction among firms. August 2013 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
Australia, South Africa, Chile, etc.). Q: What do you see as the major differences between Old World and New World winemakers? A: The Old World market continues to be highly fragmented. The competitive landscape is filled with many small, privately held wineries, owned... View Details
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
between returnee auditors and factory managers or a desire by the returnee auditor to show improvement over time, the coauthors contend that the result is more likely due to there being more “fresh eyes” on... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding