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  • 03 Nov 2023
  • News

Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum

Clubs News Clubs News Global Networking Night 2023 Another successful Global Networking Night (GNN) is in the books, after alumni around the world held nearly 60 separate events on October 25. The annual GNN features alumni gatherings—some in person, some... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • March 2020 (Revised June 2023)
  • Case

EyeControl: Inspiring Communication

By: Paul A. Gompers and Danielle Golan
Eye-controlled communication device startup EyeControl was founded in Tel Aviv, Israel in 2016 by cofounders with a shared personal connection to locked-in syndrome—a neurological disorder that left sufferers cognitively sound, yet paralyzed, with the exception of eye... View Details
Keywords: Health Disorders; Communication Technology; Business Startups; Expansion; Finance; Decision Making; Social Enterprise; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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  • Web

2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey 2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey 1. Survey Background In October of 2018, Harvard Business School hosted The Global Financial Crisis: What We Learned, Where We're Headed, a conference... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2021
  • Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate

This year the theme of Climate Week is highlighting what businesses and governments can do to meet their climate targets. In that spirit, we have reached out to recent alums working in the climate space and asked them the following, “What... View Details
  • 06 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

decision strategic and what makes strategy valuable, the paper considers the effect of commitment, reliability, and irreversibility of a decision; the presence of uncertainty (and the type of uncertainty); the number and strength of its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Nov 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Who Really Determines CEO Salary Packages?

It stands to reason that every major company has a unique set of strategic goals. Consequently, it stands to reason that the chief executive’s compensation package should be uniquely designed to align to those goals, while addressing the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consulting
  • 20 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 20

that corporate insiders' excess control rights aggravate the potential risks of insider expropriation of outside investors and thereby increase firms' external finance constraints. Cases & Course Materials Woolf Farming and Processing David E. Bell, Laura Winig,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

Arla Foods: How Sustainable Can A Dairy Company Be?

essays posted on the HBS Business and Environment Initiative’s Blog that highlights their reflections. Learn more about this IFC course on Decarbonization and Sustainable Production by watching this five minute video summary. Visit Date:... View Details
  • 16 Mar 2022
  • Blog Post

Taking Your Shot in the Sports Industry with Adam Laitsas (MBA 2016), SVP, Head of Marketing for Madison Square Garden Sports

an inflection point. Laitsas found that he had learned a great deal from investment banking but didn’t see himself in the industry long-term. As a way to hit the reset button on his career path, Laitsas turned his attention towards obtaining his MBA at Harvard View Details
  • 01 Jan 2004
  • News

D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954

helping the nonprofit sector, he served as Harvard's treasurer from 1989 until last June, advising three presidents and watching over the University's resources. "It was one of the great privileges of my life," he says. In a commencement address last spring at Brandeis... View Details
  • 09 Aug 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!

that Bezos has shown in his leadership at Amazon, including constant commitment to the customer and a long-term approach to innovation, are good news for DC's paper of record. Three Ingredients For Success By: Bharat Anand Henry R. Byers Professor of View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Journalism & News; Publishing
  • 27 Oct 2015
  • News

Sweet Success

responsible for overall investment, strategic planning, and asset management. Looking for the perfect location for a family vacation retreat in 2009, Turner and his wife, Lydia, found and purchased 400 acres of pristine land in Dover... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 28 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It

capacity, shelf life, and customer demand. Such risks aren't new. In fact, "the underpinnings of problems today started two decades ago," says Craig Holmes, director of business continuity planning for Aon Risk Consultants,... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
  • 22 Dec 2022
  • Blog Post

TOP 10 MBA VOICES BLOGS OF 2022

vehicles is going to be more than an engineering challenge, and would require a lot of business development and strategic planning. Read More>>> HOW I SPENT MY HBS 2+2 DEFERRAL: NIKKI PHILIP The HBS... View Details
  • 22 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies

across the organization. In short, most people tended to communicate with others in their own group or with peers. Among the exceptions: women. "We were surprised by how little interaction occurs across three major boundaries: the View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

Generation Next

Nisa Godrej Illustration by Anita Kunz In the summer of 2007, Mark Kahn (MBA 2006) received an unusual call from Mumbai. A former HBS classmate had a problem. She wanted him to look over strategic and financial documents for a diversified... View Details
Keywords: Mark Bergen; Godrej Group; Management
  • June 1991 (Revised October 1991)
  • Case

General Electric: Reg Jones and Jack Welch

By: Francis Aguilar and Christopher A. Bartlett
When GE's retiring Reginald Jones turned the job of CEO over to Jack Welch on April 1, 1981, the Wall Street Journal reported that GE had "decided to replace a legend with a live wire." Some wondered if the young dynamo could fill the elder statesman's very large... View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Business or Company Management; Change Management; Leading Change; Restructuring; Investment; Strategic Planning; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Management Succession
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  • 04 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

unit at BT, the strategic value of the unit, and its operating model. As the business environment becomes increasingly dynamic and firms are pressured to achieve faster innovation rates, there may be... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online

manage your company. Launching Tech Ventures focuses specifically on technology companies and the early strategic decisions that founders, joiners and VCs must make to find a viable business model that has... View Details
  • 02 Feb 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Is There Too Little “Know Why” In Business?

Summing Up The central debate among respondents to this month's column was joined early when the first respondent, Aaron Tice, commented, "Without the execution of business objectives in the pursuit of that purpose, the purpose will... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett