Domain Name System - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20

innovation in open systems is an important trend in the modern global economy. In general, distributed innovation is made possible by the modularity of the underlying product or process. But despite the documented technical benefits of... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Published CSV Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

retail drugstores and 215,000 employees operating in 47 states in 2015. Since 2006, the company had been expanding its role in health care, moving beyond traditional drugstore alone. In 2014, reflecting its new approach, the company changed its View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

The War Within

When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar

30 Apr 2020
Book

Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy

12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case

acquisition-led growth? What will be the impact of increased competition from private equity players? For how long can its strategy of “continuous improvement” continue? “I’m the chief human resources officer of a Fortune 500 company, and the Danaher case helps me... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

job."1 It was remarkable that the corporate image of a company whose brands were so well known, and whose operations were so widespread, was so indistinct. There were times between the 1960s and 1990 when Unilever appeared amorphous. It was not merely that the... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

performance of ads. When surfers are visiting DART-enabled sites, DART tracks 26 criteria—from keywords in searches, to purchases, to time-of-day surfing, to domain name—in order to develop a user profile. DoubleClick then uses this data... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Elective Curriculum: Course Descriptions Last Updated: 01 Aug 2025 By Unit View by Unit | View by Course Title | View by Faculty | Print View Accounting & Management Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits The Anatomy of Fraud... View Details

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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

Execution equips you with the tools, skills, and frameworks to allocate resources, measure performance, manage risk, and successfully implement strategy. You’ll explore common challenges that prevent or derail execution and learn how to design View Details

17 Feb 2022
Book

When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

employees first, and then everything else will fall into place.” Book Excerpt Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies Ranjay Gulati Chapter 6: Be Yourself, Be Candid, Be Kind Generations of scholars have seen culture as a powerful control View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8

a large-scale transformation of the iconic department store. Having previously converted the many department stores owned by Macy's to the Macy's names (except Bloomingdale's), Lundgren and his team set out to create a more efficient,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 Jan 2024
News

The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Speed has gotten a pretty bad rap, says Anne Morriss (MBA 2004). The Silicon Valley mantra of moving fast and breaking things has led to waves of high-profile... View Details

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Connell House | About

Connell House William F. Connell (MBA 1963) Connell House (formerly Fowler House) is named for distinguished business leader and generous HBS benefactor William F. Connell (MBA 1963). The three-story, 5,600-square-foot Georgian... View Details

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Poor’s Manual: The Rise of Business Analysts - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Railroads Finance Management Business Analysts Mass Distribution Mergers & Syndicates Research Links Poor’s Manual: The Rise of Business Analysts New systems of accounting facilitated the oversight of complex financial transactions and... View Details

12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12

assured. The global financial meltdown of 2008 nearly triggered another Great Depression, economies in Europe are still teetering, and powerful forces-income inequality, resource depletion, and mass migrations from poor to rich countries, to View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

2021. Isamar Troncoso : Finalist in the 2021 American Statistical Association Best Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Competition (Marketing Section). Shunyuan Zhang : Nominated with Magie Cheng for the 2021 Workshop on Information Systems... View Details

06 Aug 2021
Book

Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO

In the 1950s, most Americans probably couldn’t name the CEOs of the largest companies in the United States, including General Motors, United States Steel, and Standard Oil. But these days, some of the most successful businesses have... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

16 May 2024
News

On the Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. We all have early memories of on-the-job learnings—those moments that had a lasting impact on how we see the world of work and our place in it. This... View Details

Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade

01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1

often cited as a success story of public disclosure. Hygiene grades influence customer decisions and serve as an accountability system for restaurants. However, cities (which are responsible for inspections) have limited resources to... View Details