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Career Coach

Nathan Lasche

be successful as a Product Manager without having a technical background. While Nathan is happy to give students advice on a wide array of topics he no longer conducts practice / mock interviews. All View Details

01 Dec 2000
News

Books

new competitive era." Breaking the Code of Change Edited by Michael Beer and Nitin Nohria (Harvard Business School Press) With the restructuring and upheaval that has characterized life in the corporate... View Details

Keywords: Rogelio Fussa; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2010
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting

describe, simply and clearly, management's view of the relationships between financial and nonfinancial metrics. Companies like Philips, Novo Nordisk, Natura, and United Technologies are leaders in View Details

Keywords: by Staff

29 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It

industry like taxicabs. It can fight hard to get the rules changed,” says Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and chair and director View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation

28 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Celebrates Social Enterprise Initiative

When Harvard Business School launched its Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) in 1993-1994, few academic institutions were conducting serious research and teaching about how to create social value through the nonprofit, private, and public... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

01 Sep 2013
News

Case Study: A Place at the Table

inclusive culture? And how should HBS change over the next 10 years to accelerate the advancement of women leaders who make a difference in the world?" The authors conducted some 60 interviews for the case,... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

02 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 2

Evidence from a Field Experiment Authors: Kevin Boudreau, Tom Brady, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva Guinan, Karim Lakhani, and Tony Hollenberg Abstract We present the results of a field experiment conducted... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill

economist, Ashraf developed the idea of altruistic capital while conducting experimental field research for various global nonprofit organizations. But she believes that her findings on the subject will... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

21 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 21, 2008

the Army conducting this process in an ideal manner? The case examines the Special Forces training in light of the types of missions soldiers are expected to execute and asks... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Mar 2021
Blog Post

Intensive Bootcamp Kicked my Entrepreneurship Goals Into Gear

wanted to create going into Bootcamp. Our advisors, however, really pushed us to dive deep into customer discovery, surveys and experiments to truly understand the problem we were trying to solve. In talking with potential customers and View Details

13 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Shouldn't Delay Software Updates—Even After CrowdStrike's Flaw

The CrowdStrike tech security outage in July revealed the true interdependence—and fragility—of global computer systems. Following several high-profile data breaches, policymakers are calling on businesses to do more to fix code... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Technology; Information Technology; Computer; Web Services

22 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

for FY2019. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/718041-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 718-433 Note on Blockchain and Bitcoin, 2017 Blockchain was a self-sustaining, peer-to-peer ledger technology with an integrated set View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

09 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’

fortune telling. In a typical prosecution dating from 1918, a woman was arrested in New York and charged under the state Code of Criminal Procedure (section 899-3); she was found to be a "disorderly person"... View Details

Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman

07 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing

Marshall Fisher of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Ananth Raman of HBS and their colleague Anna Sheen McClelland recently completed a survey View Details

Keywords: by Marshall L. Fisher, Ananth Raman & Anna Sheen McClelland; Retail

15 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

Course MaterialsPerforming Industry Research to Inform Investment Decisions Harvard Business School Note 207-069 Conducting thorough research about an industry is often an important component of investment... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Nov 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Moral Leader

challenges business leaders face is The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, which is about an English butler, Stevens, and the decisions he makes while in service to his master, Lord Darlington, between the First and the Second World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education

01 Mar 2007
News

Courting the Poor

employees and customers alike,” Frei says. “I couldn’t think of a service business that fit that description in the United States. We’ve been unable to crack that code of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; department stores; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

09 Dec 2015
Research Event

How Do You Predict Demand and Set Prices For Products Never Sold Before?

predict demand with prescriptive analytics to make tactical decisions?” she said to a packed audience of executives, data scientists, and scholars. “I believe the answer lies in data.” Ferreira presented field work she and colleagues... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Apparel & Accessories

26 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Why the US-China Tariff Standoff Hurts American Companies More

China has been lowering other countries' export tariffs to help Chinese importers find the goods they need from non-American suppliers. Cavallo, the Edgerley Family Associate Professor of Business Administration, View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail; Manufacturing; Steel

26 Nov 2019
News

Predicting Financial Market Bubbles and Crises in Real-time

creation of the Behavioral and Financial Stability Project. Researchers have conducted groundbreaking research on bank capital and liquidity management, the nature of bank runs... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

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