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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
of countries around the world. Writing from Athens, Greece, Charalambos A. Vlachoutsicos (MBA '54) expressed condolences and added words of encouragement: "We are confident that America's collective resolve and ability will prevail." From... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 10 Apr 2019
- HBS Case
How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold
know exactly what they need from a mentor. That process is really hard to write a contract for.” “You have to go out and make your own network happen.” Instead, entrepreneurs must rely on trust and mutual understanding, putting effort... View Details
- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
willing to collaborate and drive progress. Giusti is a senior fellow at Harvrd Business School. “We bring together the most disruptive and thoughtful leaders in this area and engage them to identify the greatest challenges and solve for them,” she says. “As we do that,... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)
risk preferences, corrosion of organizational culture, and reduced intrinsic motivation,” write Lisa D. Ordóñez, Maurice E. Schweitzer, Adam D. Galinsky, and Max H. Bazerman. “Rather than dispensing goal setting as a benign,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy
and some of my other writings have described those. Companies like IBM have dedicated people working on their language strategy, and part of the reason is that they have 420,000 employees, representing 184 languages and 96 nationalities... View Details
Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley
- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
organization itself become more productive as its individual employees march down the learning curve? "Though the increased use of outsourcing has led to a rise in the number of customer-supplier interactions, the learning benefits of customer experience remain largely... View Details
- 04 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon
program to reduce health care costs by focusing on providing better care to that 5 percent—often those patients who rack up exorbitant costs with repeat emergency room visits. In a New Yorker article, Gawande writes that for an initial... View Details
- 04 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands
(Editor's note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.) Recent news coverage of the cosmetic name change... View Details
- 05 Mar 2008
- What Do You Think?
Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?
foresees. He quoted Thomas Malone's writing that "We are in the early stages of an increase of human freedom in business that may, in the long run, be as important a change for businesses as the change to democracy was for... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Rapid Response: Inside the Retailing Revolution
advance of a selling season," write Hammond and her coauthors. "Now firms receive periodic ongoing orders based on actual consumer expenditures. Lean retailing allows department stores, mass merchandisers, and other retail outlets to... View Details
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action
by using or wearing them in the field, noting comfort, fit, functionality, and limitations. Back at L.L. Bean's corporate offices, staff members then evaluate these observations, writing significant phrases on Post-its and using this... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 06 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
WHY WE STARTED THE HBS BLACK INVESTMENT CLUB
decades.* Despite increased attention in recent years, the fact remains that Black founders receive a mere 1% of VC funding. For Black women, the numbers are even worse. One reason for this is that general partners at venture capital firms, those who hold the power to... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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Related Resources - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
contains business records, product samples and promotional material, biographical files and personal papers, historical writings and oral histories, artifacts, and documentary photographs. One series notably relevant to the 1934 NAAI... View Details
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Advanced Negotiation: Great Dealmakers, Diplomats, and Deals - Course Catalog
constructive participation in class and faithfully preparing for and carrying out negotiation exercises, most students will opt for a self-scheduled written exam. Instead of taking a final exam, some students may prefer to write a paper... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Value of Difficult Conversations
of the many lessons Desai hoped the case would impart: the importance of having difficult conversations and approaching them with empathy. Desai, the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance, was inspired to write about the Tulsa... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
self-assessments. They can measure their accounting, quantitative reasoning, and writing skills to determine their strengths and weaknesses in order to better prepare themselves for the Program. In addition, for the first time we are... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Patrick Moreton
discrimination and product bundling. After graduating from HBS as a Baker Scholar, he worked as a Charles M. Williams Research Fellow at the School from 1991 to 1993, writing more than a dozen cases on finance, business ethics, and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
spaces. The drive and attention to detail that characterize Hansjörg Wyss can be misleading. While these are qualities that colleagues would probably use to describe him, it would not be accurate to assume Wyss is also a meticulous planner. "I never really make... View Details
- 15 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Be Unapologetically Yourself: Interview with Singer-Songwriter and Banking Strategist Andrea Mendoza
date and found herself drawn back to making her own music. “I had never done it though, so I turned to my brother for help coaching me through the process of writing my own songs,” she said. While working remotely for BCG by day, Mendoza... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
and moving to the cloud to better financing options, benefits needs, and leadership issues. Many of the solutions have come from experts (from companies like HP, Staples, GoDaddy, and Intuit) who have appeared in SBD’s publications, who were asked to View Details