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Michael Maples
grown up working on one of the original IBM PCs and writing video game software in high school. He went to Stanford and became even more involved with computers. His father, Mike Maples, Sr., was a successful IBM executive and a... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
Jacobs (MBA 1979), chairman, Anchor Audio “Thirteen years ago, I felt like I had already experienced a lifetime of learning from successes and even more from failures. After HBS, I had held a variety of roles—in brand management with Fortune 500 leaders as well as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
That experience led him to assign several Bain teams to analyze the viability of setting up a nonprofit consultancy. The need quickly became evident. Bain research turned up “some 3,000 solo practitioners who offered consulting services... View Details
- 03 May 2021
- What Do You Think?
Where Does CEO Activism Go From Here?
or product doing what is, on balance, good for the business? Will their identification with an issue attract more customers than it drives away? Will it attract the kind of employee who shares the values implied by the CEO’s position? Of course, View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
Hiding Products From Customers May Ultimately Boost Sales
copyright 2016 by Kris Johnson Ferreira and Joel Goh Ferreira and Goh launched the research after a conversation with an executive at flash sales boutique Rue La La, with whom Ferreira had conducted previous research on product pricing.... View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
George C. Lodge
team that wrote hundreds of cases for the new school, now flourishing in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. At the same time, Lodge undertook a three-year research project in the remote province of Veraguas in Panama to study the process of change... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity
Not long ago, the senior management of a leading high-tech company was surprised to learn that research showed their R&D groups' creative performance to be in a prolonged slump following a corporate downsizing. The company's View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
distributed, independent partners with the centralized oversight needed to manage growth, ensure risk compliance, and maintain firm cultures. Embrace the return to meritocracy while (re)building internal trust. While firms need to execute... View Details
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509024 Breaking through Action Plan Harvard Business School Exercise 409-059 The "Breaking Through Action Plan" is a developmental tool based on the book, Breaking Through: The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
company-level values and goals, without gaming the BSC metrics for short-term rewards or without focusing exclusively on local, narrow results. This case illustrates how executive teams can develop incentive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
study that married their shared interests in healthcare, technology, and entrepreneurship. Rock Health supported health-tech entrepreneurs with a startup grant of $20,000, office space, and a wide variety of professional support services. Entrepreneurial View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
$100 million a year, and that he wanted a speedy resolution. “Speedy” turned out to be the better part of a decade. For much of the 1970s, McArthur fielded an all-star team (including future Secretary of State Warren Christopher and... View Details
- 11 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business
or vice versa? "We were looking at how the brain prioritizes visual information and social information," Looser says. While participants viewed a variety of images including human faces, doll faces, dog faces, toy dog faces, and clocks, the research View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
conference featured a practitioner panel of executives who have roles in promoting women. HBS Dean Nitin Nohria and keynote speaker Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter also shared their thoughts with participants. Associate Professor and... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 21 Jan 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Market Basket’s Lessons About Buyouts
One of the highlights of my year is in November, when teams of enterprising families meet for the Executive Education program I founded and still lead at Harvard Business School, Families in Business. One of... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Entrepreneurship at HBS
in this area in both our MBA and executive education programs. For a quarter of a century, our Owner/President Management Program has set the standard for educating entrepreneurial managers for leadership positions around the world. The... View Details
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Lou Shipley Spring 2025 Q3 1.5 Entrepreneurial Sales 102: Building, Managing, and Scaling the First Sales Team as a Founder, Investor, or Advisor Entrepreneurial Management Lou Shipley Spring 2025 Q4 1.5 Entrepreneurship Outside the... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52838 July–August 2017 Harvard Business Review Stop the Meeting Madness: How to Free Up Time for Meaningful Work By: Perlow, Leslie, Constance Noonan Hadley, and Eunice Eun Abstract—Many View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 16
Company from 2008 to 2014 as led by CEO and co-founder Howard Schultz. The case offers executives and students an opportunity to examine in depth how Schultz and his team saved Starbucks from near collapse,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 25
decisions about resources, performance measurement, and compensation are made. Cases & Course MaterialsAffinity Plus (A) Harvard Business School Case 209-026 The executive team at Affinity Plus Federal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace