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Helping and harnessing business to address society’s greatest challenges. | Institute for Business in Global Society

for Business in Global Society (BiGS) in 2022 to help business leaders understand and respond to these new demands. Building on HBS's strong foundation of work on issues like responding to climate change and building inclusive organizations, BiGS focuses on View Details

01 Jun 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books

takes the seamless integration of marketing, product, commerce and service into a cohesive, friction-free customer experience. That’s something today’s siloed companies are still not set up to do, resulting in a bevy of new C-Suite... View Details

25 Mar 2015
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Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum

in how to integrate Web 2.0 into a brand in a way that both honors and expands the brand into the world. "I hope the big message coming out of this case is strategy before tactics," says Avery. "Being digital does not mean... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

01 Oct 1997
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High Fives

chairman of Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb. In recent years Blackstone has invested in about seventy corporate and real-estate transactions with a total value of more than $20 billion. Most important thing learned at HBS: “The integration of... View Details

18 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

individuals and enable the integration of developing countries into the global economy. It’s an understanding that can be useful in the here and now, too. “This could be a good way for multinational corporations and business practitioners... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness

20 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry

illustration of first-mover advantages. From its beginning in 1914, it created an integrated learning base to commercialize a new data processing punched-card technology. By the 1920s, its initial factory in New York and a new one in... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Consumer Products

13 Dec 2022
HBS Seminar

Christine Beckman, USC Price School of Public Policy

21 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

latter had bosses who drafted them to help clean up the mess. Despite the stress, working closely with one’s boss and colleagues on the response was more containing and informative. It reassured those who did it about the company’s View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

Entrepreneurship Council. “I think universities cater to recent alums and big corporations,” says Paul Davis, cofounder and CEO of Intelligent Integration Systems, a small, Boston-based analytic software company, who sought feedback from... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

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Professor Begenau’s research agenda is directed at better understanding how financial markets work and how they affect the real economy. She uses quantitative analysis to build both prescriptive and descriptive models concerning financial risk in banking, and she also... View Details

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

client-centric approach. It intensified virtual interactions with customers, merged sales and customer service, and boosted integration of all databases, which had been spread across functions, into a single customer resource management... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

February 2019 (Revised August 2019)
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KangaTech

By: Karim R. Lakhani, Patrick J. Ferguson, Sarah Fleischer, Jin Hyun Paik and Steven Randazzo

On a warm January afternoon in 2019, Steve Saunders, Dave Scerri, Carl Dilena, and Nick Haslam (see Exhibit 1 for biographies), co-founders of KangaTech, wrapped up the latest round of discussions about the future direction of their sports-technology start-up. Focused... View Details

Keywords: Startup; Technology Commercialization; Prototype; Business Startups; Technological Innovation; Sports; Health; Commercialization; Research and Development; Decision Making; Growth and Development Strategy; Technology Industry; Sports Industry; Health Industry; Australia

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06 Sep 2019
Blog Post

The Business of Medicine: MD/MBA Students Having an Impact

situations through different lenses and with different tools, she does not consider the approaches to be incompatible. Instead, she insists there is much to gain by integrating the two. For example, as principal investigator on a... View Details

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

session, Professors Matthew Weinzierl and Debora Spar will share their approach on making sense of political shifts and integrating current events into their courses. They will also provide updates on evolving the curriculum through new... View Details

10 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker

But, if you erode the integrity of your price book, you become a price taker, not a price maker. For example, if you set a price, and announce that it is not negotiable, you must not negotiate. Once you begin to negotiate, you can't be a... View Details

Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro

2015
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Competitiveness and Clusters: Implications for a New European Growth Strategy

By: Christian H.M. Ketels

This paper develops policy recommendations on the use of cluster-based economic policies and the adoption of a new concept of competitiveness in the context of the new growth path that WWWforEurope aims to outline.
A first section discusses and derives an... View Details

Keywords: Competitiveness; Clusters; Economic Policy; European Union; Competition; Industry Clusters; Policy; Economic Growth; European Union

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03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

heard was about the value added of an MBA degree. In every interview, deans and executives returned repeatedly to that question, as well as to a large set of unmet needs that they identified in areas such as leadership development, skill at critical, creative, and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

August 2024
Case

Oculii

By: Andy Wu and Lucas Defilippo

It was a bright June day in 2016. Steven Hong, co-founder and COO of Oculii had just signed a letter of intent agreeing to a 51% stake acquisition by Nexteer Automotive, a global steering and driveline supplier company that developed advanced driver assistance systems... View Details

Keywords: Automotive; Autonomous Vehicles; Wireless Communications; Mergers and Acquisitions; Communication Intention and Meaning; Intellectual Property; Growth Management; Negotiation Deal; Supply Chain; Auto Industry; Technology Industry

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November – December 2008
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Chief Risk Officers at Crunch Time: Compliance Champions or Business Partners?

By: Anette Mikes

Risk management departments in financial institutions have been undergoing major transformations. New regulatory requirements have raised the bar on compliance, and expanded the remit of risk management significantly. The compliance imperative requires banks to... View Details

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Managerial Roles; Risk Management; Partners and Partnerships

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