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- 08 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
You Won't Make It If You Fake It
selling venture capitalists on her idea and raising $400 million. She assembled a celebrity board, convinced Safeway to spend $350 million to build clinics in its supermarkets, and signed partnerships with Cleveland Clinic and Walgreens.... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 06 Mar 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Glass Ceiling Been Broken (or at Least Cracked)?
On Friday, we will celebrate International Women's Day 2019, an annual event to promote the advancement of gender equality and gauge our progress across many domains. In business, researchers tell us, progress is happening but is still... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Say Again? Uncommon Advice for Common Business Problems
iStock Much has been accomplished by business leaders who turned left when told to turn right, who reached for the door instead of for the stars, who hired A when the search committee unanimously recommended B. The following research View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono
celebrities including Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, and Oprah Winfrey, was drawn to Bono's commitment to conscious capitalism and to the question of what made Bono, well, Bono. "It so clicked for me," she says. "I hadn't listened to U2 in 10... View Details
- 29 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Global Change in the Built Environment
Date: May 5-7, 2008 Faculty Chair: Arthur Segel Faculty Summary Report: Colloquium: Global Change in the Built Environment What were the overall goals of the colloquium? The goals of the colloquium were to celebrate Harvard Business... View Details
- 26 Aug 2009
- Op-Ed
Where Cash for Clunkers Ran Off the Road
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. Today, let us celebrate the end of an... View Details
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
On August 31, 2016, many investors celebrated the 40th birthday of one of the world’s most successful financial instruments: the mutual index fund, created by Vanguard founder John C. Bogle. Index funds, which automatically track an index... View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
- Op-Ed
A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?
place to live than the linchpin of an investment strategy. Economists praised homeownership as "forced savings": People might eventually pay off their 30-year fixed-rate mortgages, celebrating with neighbors at mortgage-burning... View Details
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria
or #2 or else fix, sell, or close. Yet, they reinforced a strong bond between the company and its employees as in the H-P Way or GE as the "boundaryless company." They celebrated and promoted innovation—encouraging employees... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
the world about the problems they thought might constitute material threats to the sustainability of market capitalism. As part of Harvard Business School's centennial celebration a few years ago, we convened groups of business leaders in... View Details
- 30 May 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride
members is celebrated rather than derided. For instance, the lowest level of entrepreneurship in the developed world is in Japan, where they say, "the tall poppy is cut off." The message is, don't rise above the group. On the... View Details
Keywords: by William Mahoney
- 01 Oct 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?
and communities as well as shareholders. Some saw it as a tipping point for corporate governance. Others saw it as a public relations move. Lest proponents of stakeholder capitalism celebrate too soon, a new study of recent corporate... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 26
116-017 IKEA in Saudi Arabia (C) Supplements the (A) Case. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/116017-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 216-026 The Vanguard Group, Inc. in 2015: Celebrating 40 No abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Who Sets Your Benchmarks?
watched a lot of television and read popular magazines. I was influenced by the media, which regularly celebrated "winners." Just as they are today, the winners were usually described as those who had made a lot of money and... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Facebook’s Future
recently celebrated its tenth anniversary, and for much of that time, Facebook's stunning growth—more than 1.2 billion users worldwide—has been the story. That said, the core Facebook functionalities have remained essentially unchanged... View Details
Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Europe
others. The flip side of that, he said, is joy in the success of others, where "immediately, where one succeeds, the other members of the community celebrate because they believe that means they, too, can be on the road to... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 21 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
HBS Research Focuses on Gender Issues and Fixes
In 1963, the first women were admitted to Harvard Business School's two-year MBA program. The 50th anniversary is being celebrated this year at HBS with new faculty research, case studies, and a series of on-campus events and programs... View Details
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
iPod. As I finished writing Speed Trap, the music industry was celebrating the shutdown of Napster, and the major labels were busy organizing their own download services. A few months later, like a bolt out of the blue, Apple launched the... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad
Super Bowl Sunday is sure to bring the usual barrage of clever soda, beer, and car ads featuring everyone from Vegas showgirls selling Coca-Cola to pop celebrity Psy charming us to buy pistachios Gangnam-style. But at a whopping $3.7... View Details
- 01 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens
"We are opening up communication. This Center will be the beginning of something that will grow and become a beacon of light. "Knowledge is the factor that produces change and freedom." The opening of the Center, located on Cerrito Street in downtown... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace