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- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
intimacy, and community offered by direct-to-consumer marketing will have an impact on every industry and intermediary," Deighton predicted. Supermarkets may have "dodged a bullet" for now, but direct-to-consumer marketing is here to stay, Deighton says.... View Details
- 19 Aug 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #8: The Role of Solar and Wind Farming (and Other Tools) in the United States’ Clean Energy Future
changing,” she said in an interview with Climate Stories. She explained that the development process for renewable energy projects includes finding a proper “transmission injection site,” doing environmental impact studies, securing land... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”
"intrapreneurs." In this excerpt, Lerner discusses the pluses and minuses of compensation schemes. Read an interview with the author R&D, Meet VC From The Architecture of Innovation By Josh Lerner The failure to offer... View Details
- 03 May 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Much Is Enough?
to an even higher expectation on the part of those obsessed with "scorekeeping," regardless of their performance. In their new book, Just Enough, Laura Nash and Howard Stevenson of Harvard Business School suggest a definition of success gleaned from View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Aug 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are We Facing an Attitude Shortage?
value-based employee development." Khadija Khan, while agreeing that "...it is hard to identify attitude problems in a short interview process," proposed a response: "One innovative approach that we use is to organize... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries
potential influences. Instead, Stone's lack of foresight caused it to become enmeshed in an adversarial, multiparty process that ultimately failed. When interviewed for a Harvard Business School case, Stone executive Jerry Freeman likened... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 27 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
There Are No HBS People, Just People Who Happen to Go to HBS
(either in college or full-time master’s degree programs) and comprised of at least two years of work experience followed by two years in the regular HBS MBA program. My goal was to get to the interview process, so if I got dinged, I’d at... View Details
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Brooke Carter (MBA 2019)
building revenue models, and interviewing customers. I continue to leverage learnings from this effort to inform ongoing product and growth efforts. What advice do you have for prospects considering the 2+2 program? Regardless of whether... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- News
Living the Legacy
but interviewers commented that they felt “all law students would benefit from such a program.” “I would be lost without the knowledge I gained in CORe,” says Cera. “Because I now have a foundational understanding of how businesses... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Dean Clark Reflects on the School’s Key Initiatives
applicants with the greatest potential for leadership. This past year, for example, we interviewed eighteen hundred candidates, including every admitted student. On all dimensions — including academic, leadership and work experience, and... View Details
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Center Focuses on Europe
start a case and then arranged interviews with top management and a designer. ERC co-wrote the case with Professor Moon and then worked with the company to obtain releases. The case was then taught in November 2003 to 180 MBA students.... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
Reconstruction of Male Identity,” is based on a study she conducted while living among crew members on an offshore oil platform, 130 miles off the coast of southern Louisiana. “I interviewed men involved in all aspects of the platform’s... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
1996 international bestseller, Leading Change. This time around, Kotter and coauthor Dan Cohen of Deloitte Consulting bring to life the principles of successful change with stories culled from hundreds of interviews with people from... View Details
- 27 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery
style has changed as well. "When we interviewed many Japanese CEOs, it was interesting to see how Japanese society doesn't reward people who stick out—worse, they criticize and hammer down the nail that sticks out," Mukae says.... View Details
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?
ways." The researchers used professional research firms to conduct interviews with some 500 large firms in major Asian industrial cities. Deshpandé said the work has been criticized in some quarters. At one conference, Deshpandé was... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
On Purpose
responsibility (CSR) strategy. From interviewing scores of employees and executives, it was clear that storytelling was somewhere at the core of it all, she says. Take, for example, Marvel’s 2018 blockbuster Black Panther. The film was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
and the environment. Interestingly (given that we interviewed them in late 2007 and early 2008), they were very concerned about the volatility and fragility of the financial markets. They thought the financial world had become detached... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
HBS associate professor Robert Kennedy and LARC executive director Gustavo Herrero interview customers of BancoSol at a market in La Paz. The bank specializes in microloans and has the second-largest number of customers of any If you're... View Details
- 11 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
ZONE DEFENSE: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to
defense sector in the mid-2010s. Ryan had been persuaded to join the endeavor after hearing the enthusiasm of the scores of potential users Brandon interviewed prior to launch. But the pair did not initially encounter the same positive... View Details
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
particularly the French, who authored the most important rules promoting the free movement of capital. The United States has been at the center of global finance, but in a very ad hoc way, Abdelal says. In this interview about his... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen