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16 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense

How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities Are Employers Ready for a Flood of 'New' Talent Seeking Work? Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: iStockphoto View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

other area is it more important to have a sense of what you don't know than it is in IT management. The most dangerous advice to CEOs has come from people who either had no idea of what they did not know, or from those who pretended to... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

01 Jun 2022
News

The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips

biggest inflation in four decades. Throw supply-chain problems on top of that, and you get real pressure to jack up prices. It can be easier to pass along a price increase via shrinkflation because people tend to have a pretty clear idea... View Details

Keywords: Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

10 Apr 2023
News

Leading the Way

Be A Leader helps them connect to college tutoring services, provides internship and career planning, and offers monthly check-ins with a college success coordinator all the way to graduation. "The kids we work with are similar to me," says Trujillo. "Growing up poor,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

30 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Finding Pride

positive change. —Javier Bordes-Posadas (MBA 2004) I came out between college and grad school, so I wasn’t part of a PRIDE equivalent in undergrad, but I was intrigued with the idea of being involved at HBS. When I got to campus, I... View Details

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

investment. As a consequence, that same year Kauffman ranked Miami at 36 among major cities for growth entrepreneurship due in part to the city’s low rate of startup expansion. Some women struggled to sell their ideas in a place... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

01 Sep 2006
News

Marketing Giant Ted Levitt Remembered

it is a standard piece of the litany of management practice,” HBS professor emeritus Stephen A. Greyser told the Boston Globe. “He wanted to be lively, he wanted to be provocative, but most of all, he wanted the power of the ideas to come... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

24 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

capital to the best ideas, weeding out the bad ones. Investors have the challenge of sorting through the overwhelming number of ideas to discern the good ones, a process compared to finding a needle in a haystack. They often lack the... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu

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08 Oct 2021
Blog Post

8 Stories from PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

help to quiet that voice in someone else's head that questions who they are.” David Robertson (he/him), Class of 2023 “One of my favorite aspects of the LBGTQ+ community is the concept of chosen family, which is the idea that people can... View Details

06 Jun 2008
What Do You Think?

Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?

behaviors. As a result, for example, four in five product introductions perform below expectations. The Zaltmans expand on ideas they have been studying for some years, namely that strategies of all kinds can be based on insights gained... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

12 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research

suggests that government-funded patents are more important, reinforcing the idea of government-funded innovation as a driver for the economy,” Yao says. Who benefits from government funding? Companies, which filed the vast majority of the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

14 Jun 2023
News

Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in East Asia

good for humankind," said the Dean. "If you look at the billions of people lifted out of poverty, the standard of living we have created, the kinds of jobs we've created it all came from the enormous force for good that is business." This powerful View Details

07 Sep 2006
Working Paper Summaries

Optimal Value and Growth Tilts in Long-Horizon Portfolios

Keywords: by Jakub W. Jurek & Luis M. Viceira

25 Aug 2014
News

Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983

colleagues to invest in a regional cellular company. “I knew it was a good investment, but I had no idea mobile would reach 100 percent market penetration,” he says. Interested in building media companies with like-minded partners, Nelson... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

07 Nov 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United

putting the finishing touches on my first book, which will be released in the fall of 2013. The book is about the entertainment industry—the idea is to explain how it works, why it works that way, and how the industry may change in the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

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

identify critical real-world problems as the basis for new research.” “I can’t help people if they don’t know about my work” Interacting with business practitioners is especially helpful in garnering new ideas for behavioral scientists... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Globalization: The Strategy of Differences

Ten years ago, globalization seemed unstoppable. Today, the picture looks very different. Even Coca-Cola, widely seen as a standard-bearer of global business, has had its doubts about an idea it once took for granted. It was a Coke CEO,... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

18 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams

there." At the same time, she has observed, by hogging the discussion, these leaders not only limited their own learning but also made the class less productive as a whole. Gino wondered if the same dynamic could be occurring in business, with dominating leaders... View Details