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06 Dec 2021
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Action Plan: Whole Sale

online platforms such as YouTube or, more recently, TikTok, to discover new products, but digital sales in the category were not on par with other consumer goods. The explanation: “Beauty is a fun purchase for consumers,” observes... View Details

Keywords: April White; ecommerce; bricks and mortar; marketing; beauty

01 Oct 2021
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Tulsa Massacre Case Fosters Timely Conversations

approaching them with empathy. “I think it’s necessary for us as business leaders to not only practice talking about these issues . . . [but also] practice having conversations that aren’t easy,” observes Ratajczak. McCray adds, “That’s... View Details

15 Jun 2021
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Action Plan: Come as You Are

Courtesy Josh Basseches Well over a year into the pandemic, many of us are craving opportunities for direct interaction in a lived, physical space. “So many of us have been engaging with colleagues, family, and friends through Zoom and other virtual exchanges since the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; museums; art; cognition; diversity; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment

01 Mar 2008
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Centennial Goes YouTube

$700 in six weeks guessing the weight of fairgoers large and small — earning 25ÃÂ¢ for each correct guess. Seth Klarman (MBA ’82), president of The Baupost Group in Boston, jokingly observes that he was destined for a career in money... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Jun 2000
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Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time

investments in architectural design can facilitate a more flexible innovation process. They observed successful firms creating a modular system that could accommodate the addition of new components without affecting the core... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Jun 2002
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Up to the Challenge: Tony Sanchez - Team Builder

a nurse, took him on visits to local hos-pitals, where he sometimes observed surgeries. After leaving the military in 1997 and before coming to HBS, Sanchez worked as a manager of research and development at Stryker Leibinger, a... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Apr 1997
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HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues

forceful keynote address, Earl G. Graves, president and CEO of Earl G. Graves, Ltd., and publisher and CEO of Black Enterprise magazine, observed that a silver anniversary connotes "the blessings of longevity which include the... View Details

09 Jul 2024
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On Balance

at 22.8 percent. That figure has consistently fallen since 2013 but, “at the current rate of change, we won’t close the gender pay gap for 25 years,” observes Wooldridge. “We need to speed things up.” Likewise, the proportion of women in... View Details

01 Mar 2017
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Bringing Out the Best

relatively young leaders. It’s a huge priority to understand what motivates and concerns them,” she notes. Curry says she values great leadership and agrees with Dean Nitin Nohria’s observations about the global crisis of leadership. “If... View Details

15 Nov 2020
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Fostering Innovation in Social Enterprise Across Harvard

cofounded the Social Enterprise Track when she was a student, observes that the growth in cross-Harvard teams has only strengthened the NVC over the years. “The business plans have benefited tremendously from an increasingly impressive... View Details

19 Sep 2019
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Predicting Human Behaviors

car. The human observer was not surprised by the child in the street. Subtle behavioral cues had told him the boy was planning to cross to his mother. What was surprising was that the self-driving car simulator recognized those cues, too.... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2018
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Excellence At The Intersection Of Disciplines

certain level of excellence on their own, and keeping that tub on its own bottom was an important benefit. “However,” observes Datar, “over time it became clear that very good intellectual activity takes place at the intersection of... View Details

01 Dec 2006
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HBS Honors Four Alumni

saying that he hoped to elicit from the award winners some of their “accumulated knowledge and insight.” Then came his “wisdom” cold call, directed to Sir Ronald Cohen. After noting that he would be wise to avoid answering such a question, Cohen View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 1998
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Mandela in Triumph at Harvard

partnership between those of the North and the South in helping to shape a world order that answers to the shared and common needs of all peoples." Mandela, noting that many of his countrymen have benefited from Harvard and its programs, View Details

01 Jun 2000
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Capturing Human Capital

strategically and organizationally." A longtime observer of multinational corporations, Bartlett is the School's Daewoo Professor of Business Administration. In 1998 he and Sumantra Ghoshal published a second edition of Managing Across... View Details

01 Dec 2013
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Innovation as Antidote

inspiration typically comes from a very human place. DART Therapeutics CEO Gene Williams (MBA 1987) ("Your Own Medicine"), for instance, told us about a revelation he had during a 2002 trip to Rotterdam to observe clinical trials for the... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2012
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Who Owns Yoga?

music; in our minds, connecting to the younger generation,” observed Chopra. “In society, brands that stay relevant succeed.” The Hindu American Foundation has weighed in as well. The organization launched an awareness campaign called... View Details

Keywords: Kim Girard; yoga; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

13 Nov 2020
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Insatiably Curious

and analytics than liberal arts when you don’t speak the language,” observes Ma. Her hard work and focus paid off: She was accepted at MIT and graduated with a degree in electrical engineering. “I believe in what the School is trying to... View Details

25 Feb 2020
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The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation

transfer, but also all the novel recombinations that come from migrants working with locals.” Prithwiraj Choudhury (photo by Susan Young) Prithwiraj Choudhury (photo by Susan Young) But Choudhury also observed the many obstacles that can... View Details