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- 06 Dec 2018
- News
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data to find patterns and build an algorithm based on that data. But even with the seeming data dominance, the toddler who’s seen a few dogs has an advantage over the algorithm that has seen millions, says Donna Dubinsky (MBA 1981), CEO of Numenta, a Silicon... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
optimism about the future of McDonald’s that was hard to find two years ago. In January 2015, the company released its worst earnings report in 30 years, with revenue at its more than 36,000 global locations falling by 7 percent from the... View Details
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
today's companies face. I show that organizations thrive, or fail to thrive, based on how well the small groups within those organizations work. In most organizations, the work that produces value for customers is carried out by teams,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
rigor, it is hard to understand the significance of this empirical literature, and quite easy to dismiss it as anecdotal and unscientific. Third, many business historians still work within national frameworks. As a result, much literature... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
start, locate, or invest in a city. As HBS professor Michael Porter has explained in The Competitive Advantage of Nations, political units—whether nations or cities - are in competition with each other and can control their destiny using... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
Congressional Oversight Panel’s report, attempt to address in several ways. First, by identifying firms that pose systemic risks, free and unlimited implicit guarantees become explicit guarantees that the government can, for the first time, define and limit. Second,... View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
hunters with an area in which to hunt wildlife. The government retained a portion of the reserve as the Kruger National Park, which allowed visitors to view wildlife, but banned hunting, in an effort to boost wildlife populations. The KNP... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007
large economies for the 2001 to 2005 period. We investigate reasons why Chinese firms are more diversified than companies elsewhere. Design/methodology/approach—We collect data on the number of business segments in which publicly traded... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Generation: How Successful Family Businesses Develop Their Next Leaders by Allan Cohen (MBA 1961) and Pramodita Sharma (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) Companies owned and run by families need to develop leadership and entrepreneurial skills... View Details
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A Message from Dean Srikant Datar | About
work should go to the many innovators whose work we describe in the book. And then, earlier this year, I was honored to be recognized as the “public company director of the year,” by the National Association... View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
because venture capitalists repeatedly sell their portfolio companies through acquisitions, venture capitalists may be able to certify the quality of the assets that an outside party is buying because they are "staking their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
assistant professor Regina Abrami, who led the breakout session “China in the WTO: Two Years In.” The United States and other developed nations welcomed the required lowering of tariff and nontariff trade barriers, and the gradual opening... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
before the Civil War, came of age in a nation in crisis. Whether using pencil, watercolor, or, most famously, oil, Homer addressed the hopes and fears of his fellow Americans and invited his viewers into stories embedded with universal,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
the revolution has come to health care? While consumers have begun to insist on health care that is as convenient and personalized as nearly every other good or service, most health care provider organizations, physicians, and insurance View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
for example — we are working to influence the environmental choices global companies make in the large-scale production of commodities such as palm oil, pulp, livestock, and soy.” The Power of Serendipity What’s your next career move when... View Details
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
in authority who don’t like that. One joy of these series is that you can become deeply absorbed in the characters and their worlds and keep going for dozens of books—like one big War and Peace in many pieces. (This is almost like an HBS case series on View Details
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
School Supplement 509-067 By 2008, over half of Mary Kay Cosmetics' $2.8 billion sales were from outside the U.S. Sales from China exceeded $500 million in 2008 through over 450,000 beauty consultants. China was Mary Kay Cosmetics' second most important View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
1990s, she recalls, “I had dozens of people walking through the door with business plans for InStyle.com or Time.com that were essentially trying to sell me my own content.” The situation, she reflects, reminded her of the era of consolidations in the late 1970s when... View Details
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
management. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2400618 October 2014 Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational Perspective How Purpose-based Companies Master Change for Sustainability: A Systemic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
intellectual conditions of the times, Khurana explains. Over the past 30 years, historic shifts have taken place in the business arena that set the stage for the curriculum innovations playing out today at HBS and other business schools. View Details