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- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
had established a reputation as a provider of some of the district's best-prepared new teachers. Yet Solomon wondered if their approach so far was optimal going forward. Carol Johnson, the new superintendent for BPS, was developing a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
we made previously far longer than we should, hoping that the world will return back to “normal.” With the far-reaching impact of COVID becoming more clear by the day, nonprofit leaders need to be clear about their core mission, fearless... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
of culture, race, gender, and religion in historical developments. Economic historians, often in recent decades trained in economics, have done pioneering work in quantifying historical trends in the integration of world markets. However these scholars have been View Details
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
showing attack strategies in action. It then provides several specific counterstrategies for each basic category the authors have defined—including the following: Death-by-delay: Your enemies push discussion of your idea so far into the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
was a producer of floor and carpet washing machines for industrial and commercial markets. Over time, it became clear that the technology had applications far beyond Tennant's core markets. In mid-2009, the company set up a new venture to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
its effects on employee outcomes such as employment, earnings, and health and safety. We analyzed a matched sample of nearly 1,000 companies in California. ISO 9001 adopters subsequently had far lower organizational death rates than a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
shared, and where do the boundaries of cooperation end and competition begin. IBM and its partners have managed to stay competitive at, for example, the 45nm mode, at a far lower cost than firms that "go it alone," and there is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
lack of data about the actual returns of a specific set of companies in this early-stage category has resulted in an ongoing philosophical debate that to date has been based largely on anecdotal investor experience. As far as we could... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 19 Dec 2024
- News
The Musts of 2024
Breakfast Show. Everyone should listen to it because so far it's just my mum. The best concert this year: OPM 60 organized a reunion in Rio. Exceptional hosts, and they organized for us to be at the Copacabana Palace, and we watched the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
ineluctable advance . In a speech from late in the 1990s, George Stalk Jr. MBA ’78, arguably BCG’s leading thinker on strategy over the prior fifteen years — and certainly the firm’s most prolific — neatly summed up the main themes of the era, in the process making... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
what we have done thus far and think about, ‘How do you make this a truly transformative experience if we need to continue with online learning in the fall?’” says Kim, who teaches the second-year MBA course Transforming Education through... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Cold Call Horror Stories
no!” Because I’d given the stupidest answer possible and I still tell my students today when I’m teaching them, I say, okay, if you think you’ve come up with a bad answer or a stupid answer, don’t worry about it because I’ve done worse than you and I’ve done View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
sure the objectives you are expected to meet, the criteria under which you are evaluated, and the resources available to meet these objectives are consistent at all times. Do not overinvest in your work; to keep a balance between work and family, highlight View Details
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
of this and other questions will no doubt generate further investigations regarding the role creativity plays in organizations and how managers can best cultivate and deploy it in the workplace. "In business, people can go only so View Details
- 14 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021
travel policies. Though few and far in between, moments together are magical, made all the more special by their rarity.So love, for me, is definitely here at HBS, but it is also thousands of miles away at a studio apartment in the heart... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
CEOs and business leaders who will walk the talk on environmental harmony and social responsibility. What do you think about the future relationship between India and China? There is a grudging acknowledgment on both sides that we stand to lose View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
west to Dakota Territory. She remembered trying to count the telegraph poles outside her window. But the poles and farmhouses and fields “went so fast that she could not really look at them before they were gone. In one hour that train would go twenty miles — as View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
Iraq, Edwards isn’t far behind. Pulling out now, he explains, “would be an absolute guarantee of chaos and anarchy.” Faced with a choice between a political novice vet and an incumbent hawk, the local Veterans of Foreign Wars’ political... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
far from the remote peninsula on Chappaquiddick Island where he grew up. Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death by Amy Chu (MBA 1999) (DC Comics) In this installment of the Poison Ivy story, Dr. Pamela Isley, Poison Ivy’s real name, is now a... View Details
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
design, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution. Consequent mishaps slow down the performance of MISHA, and after five years of the product being in the market and four financing rounds, numbers are far behind what they were in the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman