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- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
was another issue to be addressed. Up to now, Facebook had little control over the information gathered by app designers, which they could in turn sell to third-party organizations largely unknown to the company. Facebook had, indeed,... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
products. Wood, Tilden’s COO, is a lifelong teetotaler who grew up in Las Vegas, in a family where drinking was not part of the custom. Later, as a management consultant, she found that many work events centered View Details
- 17 Jun 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Excellence Comes From Saying No
We all know people who seem able to perform at a higher level than those around them; and we've all had moments ourselves where we are firing on all cylinders and everything just seems to work. But how do you achieve that kind of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses
Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection is supposed to allow companies to shed debt and get a fresh start. Ideally, creditors recover most of what they’re owed as the restructured firm begins turning a profit. Yet, more companies are liquidated... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
integral component of management control systems and play a significant role in achieving desirable performance outcomes. We focus on a key environmental performance objective—reduction of carbon emissions—as a setting in which to examine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
first of 15 Jr. NBA programs focused on youth development; in 2017, it opened NBA Academy Africa, one of four NBA Academy programs around the world that features elite training for high school-age prospects, in Senegal. Yet fulfilling the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 10 Dec 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
State Owned Entity Reform in Absence of Privatization: Reforming Indian National Laboratories and Role of Leadership
Keywords: by Prithwiraj Choudhury & Tarun Khanna
- 04 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Real Cost of Bribery
understanding of the benefits of bribery—facilitating entry into a market, for starters," says Serafeim, an assistant professor in the Accounting and Management unit. "But we still have a much more limited understanding about... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Kumar Mahadeva
Cognizant provides application outsourcing services and 24/7 software project management for a small but intensely loyal client base of large U.S. and European companies. Widely praised in the business press for its innovation and growth,... View Details
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Rights of First Refusal Are a Bad Deal
that he has such a last mover advantage may discourage third parties from investing in trying to purchase the asset. But all that is turned upside down by the before and after rights we studied, since in those, the right holder has to... View Details
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
In a hypercompetitive global economy, creativity has never been more important for success . But how do you create a company that unleashes and capitalizes on innovation? For answers, writers at the HBS Alumni Bulletin turned to five HBS... View Details
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A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations While Mizuho Kanai (MBA 2018) was fulfilling her summer internship at NPR, her manager recommended that she read an HBS case study about how the Sesame Workshop CEO, Jeff Dunn (MBA 1981), was changing the... View Details
- 07 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation
people confined in their homes across the world. A key question many managers face now is how much and in what form to invest in risk-mitigating technologies and corresponding changes in products and services. This, to a great extent,... View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
1981, its managers faced a major turning point when they made a decision to operate without giving in to the petty corruption rife in the Indian economy. Within just a few years, that decision had truly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
program, reporting directly to Myron C. Taylor, chairman of the board and chief executive officer. Public relations thus assumed a commanding presence at the company’s top management tier. Over the next two decades, U.S. Steel created a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
to HBS came with the caveat that he add another year of work experience to the two already listed on his résumé and complete some of the quantitative courses his transcript lacked. He spent the year in Omaha, working as a project manager... View Details
- 24 Jan 2011
- HBS Case
Terror at the Taj
world's collective conscience. “Not even the senior managers could explain the behavior of these employees.” A new multimedia case by HBS professor Rohit Deshpandé offers a flip side to the nightmarish scenes that unfolded in real time on... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
requires a spirit of inquiry and openness, patience, and a tolerance for ambiguity. However, most managers admire and are rewarded for decisiveness, efficiency, and action rather than for deep reflection and painstaking analysis. Third,... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 07 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Improving Brand Recognition in TV Ads
searching for valuable information that is relevant to them. They also want to be entertained, and the 'hard sell' that turns them off can be at the level of simply presenting the brand's logo for more than a few seconds." Mystery... View Details
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Joiner - Entrepreneurship
Fellowship program Build entrepreneurship and tech skills: The Entrepreneurial Manager (TEM) Attend “Entering StartUpLand” presentation with Jeff Bussgang SUMMER Work at a startup and serve as a Rock Summer Fellow Apply for a Student... View Details