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- April 2022
- Teaching Note
Banorte Móvil: Data-Driven Mobile Growth
By: Ayelet Israeli and Carla Larangeira
In mid-2019, Carlos Hank was deliberating over the results for Banorte Móvil—the mobile application for Banorte, Mexico’s most profitable and second-largest financial institution. Hank, who had been appointed as Banorte´s Chairman of the Board in January 2015, had... View Details
- 5 Sep 2013
- Conference Presentation
The Color of Taste: Selling Food in Clear Packages in the Early-Twentieth-Century United States
By: Ai Hisano
This paper examines the role of color in the marketing and retailing of food products by focusing on the increasingly popular presentation of food in clear packages in the early-twentieth-century United States. In the 1910s, a candy company began using cellophane to... View Details
Hisano, Ai. "The Color of Taste: Selling Food in Clear Packages in the Early-Twentieth-Century United States." Paper presented at the CHORD Conference, Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution (CHORD), Leeds, UK, September 5, 2013.
- 19 Mar 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’
improve. Future research, Neeley says, includes exploring the role of language as the mechanism by which companies transform from a domestic to a global player-the fulcrum of language. When teaching the Rakuten case at HBS, where 35... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
didn’t exist before.” Growing basketball on the continent entails addressing the logistics and marketing challenges inherent in trying to scale any operation across 54 countries. It also poses a deep cultural challenge—the kind where the View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
Photography by Craig Hall Like many people who work for change in struggling urban neighborhoods, John Majors (MBA 2000) believes that high-quality education for all children is a vital link to future success. He’s also convinced that education alone can’t View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Do You Have Change Fatigue?
information—and it sat on managers' shelves. No follow-up ever took place. You're probably laughing—or wincing—in recognition of what has become a familiar tale of corporate change efforts. Indeed, with all the transformation efforts... View Details
Keywords: by Nick Morgan
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
oversubscribed by 30 times, generating $100 million. Significantly, a cultural shift occurred after the 2011 revolution when, suddenly, anything seemed possible. Amal Enan (MBA 2014) witnessed these transformations firsthand, from roles... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Internet's Next Frontier
While the Crypto, Fintech, and Web3 Lab—one of 13 labs contained within Harvard’s Digital Data Design Institute—might not have the Bunsen burners and test tubes found in science and engineering labs, it does share a philosophical construct: it is a sandbox—an... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
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The de Gaspé Beaubien Reading Room | About
the future without learning from the past.” About the Name A member of one of the oldest merchant families in Quebec, Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien, after graduating from HBS, transformed Telemedia Communications, Inc., into a major media... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
figure out transformative projects on the edges of where it makes financial sense.” Dlodlo certainly fit that description; but the fact that she didn’t have a fat bankroll or a portfolio of successful projects still made her a risk—one... View Details
The Money of Invention: How Venture Capital Creates New Wealth
When the economy was booming and dot-coms were flying high, venture capitalists were admired as impresarios of innovation. Then the market tanked, start-ups fizzled, and those same deal-makers were rebuked as predators out for a quick score. So... View Details
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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online
an understanding of common leadership styles, and explore how you can unleash the potential in yourself and others. Access Your Free E-Book Upskill Your Team, Transform Your Organization Whether you represent a large multinational... View Details
- 2008
- Working Paper
The Ontological Foundations of Leadership and Performance: Being a Leader, and the Effective Exercise of Leadership, A New Model
By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron and Kari L. Granger
This paper is the (pre-course) introduction document to an experimental course developed by the authors and taught at the U. of Rochester Simon School of Business. The intention of the course is to leave the participants actually being leaders and being able to... View Details
- 03 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2010
naturally proactive, according to Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino. What Is the Future of MBA Education? Why get an MBA degree? Transformations in business and society make this question increasingly urgent for executives,... View Details
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Helping and harnessing business to address society’s greatest challenges. | Institute for Business in Global Society
& Equity Initiative We catalyze and translate cutting-edge research to transform practice, enable leaders to drive change, and eradicate gender, race, and other forms of inequality in business and society. Social Enterprise Initiative We... View Details
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
consumers; 71 percent of those surveyed promised that brands and companies that placed their profits before people during the crisis would lose their trust forever. How can brands help during a crisis? Educate the public by transforming... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
parts of the world in dealing with the financial damage that the pandemic has wrought. One other takeaway from the 2008-2009 crisis, just as relevant today as then: Hedge funds and private equity investors have dramatically transformed... View Details
- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
brief time 200 clones poured into the market. While few of the clones survived, the U.S.-produced and U.S.-mass-marketed personal computer transformed the computer industry. In no major industry has a single enterprise so shaped its... View Details
- 04 Jun 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are There Conditions Under Which Directors Should Consider Hiring a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior?
such as adding contractual clauses to assure that the manager will not repeat the offenses that led to the earlier firing.” Shadreck Saili observed that getting fired in itself might transform a candidate. MrScott remarked that the issue... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Customer Journey provides the playbook for growing and retaining customers in a landscape transformed by digital. Todd Unger, CXO of the American Medical Association, provides a step-by-step guide based on three decades of consumer... View Details