Power Tools Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Cheap, Fast, and In Control: How Tech Aids Innovation

customers? A: The final chapter of my book explores how this can be done. Essentially, I show how some companies have abandoned their efforts to understand exactly what products their customers want and have instead equipped them with View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild

01 Sep 2018
News

From Das’s Desk

cycle: Early-career alumni are going through a period of discovery while establishing themselves in their industry or field. Mid-career alumni are in the process of investing in and expanding their careers, their professional selves, and... View Details

Keywords: Das Narayandas

01 Apr 1997
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HBS Duo Offers Personalized Career Assessment

success. An unusual feature of the book is the inclusion of a diskette containing the Business Career Interest Inventory (BCII), a self-scoring psychometric tool developed by the authors, who are also psychologists and principals in a... View Details

Keywords: Bob Binstock

January 2010 (Revised March 2011)
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Ben Bernanke: Person of the Year?

By: Lakshmi Iyer and Matthew C. Weinzierl

In response to the economic and financial crisis of 2008–2009, the Federal Reserve greatly expanded the scale and scope of its activities. Though lauded by many experts for its actions, the Fed and its chairman, Ben Bernanke, faced harsh criticism from some public... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Central Banking; Governance Controls; Policy; Crisis Management; Power and Influence; Public Administration Industry; United States

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Leadership with purpose: Redefining success and impact with Satpal Singh (SELP—India 4, 2019) - Recruiting

Insights & Advice 05 Feb 2025 Leadership with purpose: Redefining success and impact with Satpal Singh (SELP—India 4, 2019) Satpal Singh Author Alumni tag All Industries Alumni Career Journeys India Student & Alumni Stories When I joined... View Details

01 Jun 2012
News

Good as Our Word

uses ratings, and how they are used. The case concerns the strategic options facing a new entrant hoping to exploit the potential crack in the dominance of Moody’s, Fitch, and S&P. Becker was spurred to write it when he realized the bond ratings View Details

Keywords: Maggie Starvish; Bond rating; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Dec 2005
News

Buy the Book

retailers (such as Wal-Mart and Costco) that only stock twenty or so bestsellers yet are responsible for 34 percent of book sales in the United States. “Something hits as a success and dominates the market,” Deighton comments. “It’s similar to what has happened in... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

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Doing Business with China 2035: Navigating Uncertainty - Course Catalog

many of the enterprises we study, in industries such as telecommunications, healthcare, consumer products, agribusiness, semiconductors, education, and automobiles. Course Overview This course prepares Harvard Business School students for... View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

Swimming with the Stream

just a jogging soundtrack. “How can I be the person people think of when they think about power and inspiration? How can I be the go-to destination for music and feminism?” she says. “The best companies are the ones that think, ‘How can I... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

08 May 2019
Blog Post

Top-Notch Talent Begets Top-Notch Talent

grindstone building out Prokanga’s finance practice. “The power of the HBS network when you’re building a business cannot be underestimated,” says Cheney. “It is unbelievable.” The Gig Economy Meets Wall Street Cheney and Finer faced an... View Details

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

modern industrial corporation not only separates decision-making power from the full economic consequences of the corporation's decisions, but it also insulates shareholders from accountability for the... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

06 Jan 2012
Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

frustrating to find the Chamber at odds with us in this effort." Despite taking such a bold measure against the powerful Chamber, Apple ranks far below its industry peers in the Green Rankings produced... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing

12 Dec 2016
HBS Case

Business Lessons from Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson

his wallet and saw he only had seven dollars left. That stuck with him, and it has fueled him ever since. “The power in the entertainment industry is shifting to the superstars, and the smartest among those... View Details

Keywords: Re: Anita Elberse; Motion Pictures & Video; Entertainment & Recreation

22 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 22

management, specialization of financial intermediation, and marketing methods. The contributors—leaders in business, government, academia, and the nonprofit sector—discuss new research and ideas about the future of credit markets, including how improvements might be... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Identify Emerging Market Opportunities

hard for multinationals to figure out the value of South African companies and affects their assessments of potential partners. Executives would do well to identify a country's power centers and figure out if there are checks and balances... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu & Jayant Sinha

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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

The Courage of our Convictions The Courage of our Convictions 04–05 APR 2019 Home Speakers Videos Agenda Apr 04 Thursday, April 04, 2019 Keynote Soraya Chemaly , Women’s Media Center Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger Panel:... View Details

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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks | About

digital tools to help you in ways we cannot imagine today. But as much as the world is now focused on generative AI as a technology that holds promise to revolutionize the way we work, let’s never forget the role that leaders will... View Details

03 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Making Money Making Movies

the summer issue of Marketing Science. Elberse discusses her research on the entertainment industry in this e-mail interview. Salls: Briefly describe the state of the motion picture industry today. Elberse:... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Entertainment & Recreation; Motion Pictures & Video

01 Mar 2009
News

The Myth of Laissez-Faire

“myth of laissez-faire” that has been promoted by wrong-headed economists (Milton Friedman), opportunistic politicians (including Bill Clinton), and poor readings of history (even antigovernment presidents, including Jefferson, used government View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

06 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 6

influential, and industry less influential, than we commonly assume. How Early Adoption Has Increased Wealth—Until Now Authors:Diego Comin and Bart Hobijn Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012) Abstract Societies that... View Details