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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Turning Point: Tell Me More
in our country. Walking in another person’s shoes is a critical first step that can change the trajectory of our country in the twenty-first century. Diane Hessan is the author of Our Common Ground: Insights from Four Years of Listening... View Details
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
they are saving existing positions or slowing the process of shrinking them. The process does turn into kind of a second-best solution for creating new jobs." “We try to put the students back into CEO Wendelin Wiedeking's shoes at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Fine Print: Alumni Recommend Their Best Reads
Machiavelli: A Portrait and Robert Olmstead’s fantastic story collection, River Dogs, which I may have bought while I was at B-School. —Richard Benedict (MBA 1988) Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike, by Phil Knight The book reveals... View Details
- 21 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
MBA/MPA-ID: The Intersection of Policy and Business
entrepreneur should think about holistically? HBS truly exceeded my expectations, and this is when the parent child reference became well suited. I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed the case method; putting oneself in a protagonist’s View Details
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Middle East & North Africa - Global Activities 2021
III Faculty Fellow, guides students through some of the most challenging dilemmas in the business world. In the spring of 2021, all 720 members of the first-year MBA Program’s Required Curriculum class—some attending in person, some virtually—stepped into the View Details
- 13 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
Hiding Products From Customers May Ultimately Boost Sales
consumer is likely to purchase one product at most, the value of concealment is typically negative, so it’s better to show them all at the same time.” In other words, if you’re looking to sell products like shoes or sweatshirts, it’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
allow it to offer better (higher) prices to consumers on its buy side and so on in a virtuous cycle." —Associate Professor Andrei Hagiu "[I suggest] a modified TOMS Shoes model. From the customer/end-user side: When they want to sell... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report
because of them. Thank you, Ed, for all you’ve done on behalf of HBS and its alumni. Kudos, too, to Susan Luick Good (MBA ’71), whose term as president is up and who leaves very large shoes to fill. Susan stays on as past president for... View Details
- 15 Feb 2022
- News
Charlotte Club Hosts Webinar to Mark 100 Years of the Case Method
The first written case, a one-page narrative about management challenges at General Shoe Company, was taught in 1921 and marks the beginning of a century of case teaching. “Over time, as we would develop a series of cases in a field, we... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 08 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Catching the Entrepreneurship Bug at HBS
me. Slowly but surely though, at HBS I started to get the entrepreneurship bug. I’d be sitting in class thinking about the decisions I would make in the case protagonist’s shoes and realize with total shock that I would want to be in that... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
Gamble's leadership training programs. There's nothing like having to step into a decision maker's shoes to learn about leadership." ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "If you can find work that both stretches you and plays to your strengths,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
business? Sarah Ford (MBA 2007)’s experience with Amazon highlights its allure and drawbacks. In 2012, Ford founded Ranch Road Boots, a high-end shoe company inspired by her roots in West Texas and her experience as a Marine Corps... View Details
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action
(Illustration: Dave Cutler) After a decade of extraordinary growth, Nike faced slowing sales in the early 1980s because the normally market-wise company had missed a major turn in the road. Reebok had introduced softer and more comfortable athletic View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- Blog
Evolving Executive Education: Five Lessons from the Senior Associate Dean
case method, exercises, simulations, and other aspects of our proven learning approach into our virtual programs. I am particularly excited to see the case method—which puts participants in the shoes of decision makers and forces them to... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Value of Difficult Conversations
residents were killed and homes and businesses along 35 square blocks of the city were destroyed at the hands of a white mob over the course of 18 hours. Unfounded accusations that a young Black shoe shiner had assaulted a white woman... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
of their shoes inside the doorway. Each takes a seat on either side of the bed. As the nurse unfolds a laptop, Dr. Umeda closes his hand around the patient’s and leans in, all tenderness and warmth. “You’re looking better, Sato-san. It’s... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- Profile
James Reinhart
brands across countless clothing, shoes and accessory categories. In 2014, thredUP sold nearly 2 million items and up-cycled over one million pounds of clothing. By the end of 2014, thredUP had become a $25 million business. Sellers can... View Details
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
advantage. Purchase the exercise: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=408076 Innovation at Timberland: Thinking Outside the Shoe Box Harvard Business School Case 306-064 Innovation was linked to Timberland's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers Value Global Brands
never thought about the [American] brand of clothes or shoes I wore!" "We aren't concerned with how America governs itself," an Indian said. "What we look for is quality in their products." Since people's concerns... View Details
- 21 May 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals
As a Harvard Business School professor for 20 years, V.G. Narayanan has significant experience using the School's pioneering case method to teach business concepts—introducing a real-world management problem, and then using the Socratic method to help students put... View Details