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13 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding

to the team. For leaders, it is essential to phase the postulated expectations with their own leadership behavior. Leaders should actively value the needs and contributions of team members and ask themselves: “What can I do for others?”... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Sascha L. Schmidt, and Sebastian Flegr; Sports

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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online

Organization Whether you represent a large multinational corporation or a small local business, we have a solution for your learning and development needs. Learn More Our Difference Apply fundamental economic principles to real-world business challenges. Stay View Details

18 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive

activity of the day. Many workers endure much lengthier commutes than the 76-minute roundtrip average; in fact, commutes are getting longer in general. One study found that the distance between employees’ homes and workplaces in the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

08 Feb 2000
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Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad

over-all company, some researchers from other Lilly R&D sites received temporary transfers of up to two years to Kobe, and some locally hired researchers were temporarily transferred to other Lilly sites. It took about 30 months to View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

06 Dec 2017
What Do You Think?

Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?

them down, and that is fascism, not capitalism.” Can a platform-based tech giant be broken up? What do you think? ORIGINAL COLUMN With the United States Justice Department’s objection to the AT&T-Time Warner merger, we are being reminded that antitrust View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology; Web Services

29 Nov 2023
News

A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway

information here. Alumni Breathe New Life into HBS Club of Seattle The HBS Club of Seattle is once again an active and growing alumni club, thanks to the recent efforts of its current co-presidents Shyam Ayengar (MBA 2006) and Jon... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

October 1990
Case

Beauregard Textile Co.

By: Francis Aguilar

The sales manager and controller have to decide on a price for a textile that lost significant market share as a result of a recent price increase. Information on manufacturing costs and on the pricing behavior of Beauregard and its only competitor are available for... View Details

Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Cost Accounting; Cost Management; Price; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Inflation and Deflation; Consumer Behavior; Apparel and Accessories Industry

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30 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

How Technology Adoption Affects Global Economies

technology adoption activity as far back as AD 1500. Comin, William Easterly, and Erick Gong explain these findings in their paper Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 BC? To prepare the paper, the team compiled a series of data... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

26 Oct 2018
Blog Post

Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness

Student Association and am actively working with my team to make HBS a healthy, active, and fun campus. My schedule this semester consists of taking classes that perfectly complement my career goals: the Business of Sports, Entertainment,... View Details

10 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone

activity and put in place collective governance. By contrast, Nagle argues, the Amazon rainforest is subject to control by a gatekeeper—Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro, who must weigh national politics with environmental protections... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

17 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers

Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details

Keywords: by Jose Alvarez and Len Schlesinger; Retail

05 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Connecting with Consumers Using Deep Metaphors

and some linguists argue the only way, to learn about the content of emotions. Knowing the actual content of an emotion is critical. The right type of emotion might be activated but involve the wrong content. For example, when an... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products

04 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted

review employees when promotions are up for grabs. Plus, it’s more difficult for an employee to schmooze with three supervisors than one, they point out. Also, when planning events where employees and managers mingle, companies should make a more conscious effort to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

08 Sep 2008
HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

01 Aug 2001
News

Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)

progressed against the background of a changing financial landscape, Fisher and his colleagues persuaded Morgan Stanley's senior partners that the wholesale culture of the major "bulge bracket" investment banks needed to make way for a deeper position in retail View Details

Keywords: Richard B. Fisher; Warren A. Law; Alumni Achievement Award; Finance; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

20 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms

Like: Where Does CEO Activism Go From Here? What Does Your Business Stand For? Why Building Trust Starts with Purpose Stereotypes and Politics Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image:... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

activate the developer, and a standard fixing agent (hypo). Another set of rollers squeezed the negative-positive sandwich out of the camera, and a dry positive print was peeled away from the negative. Traditional photographic processing... View Details

13 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)

IMPRESSION McDonald focused on the startups’ cultural strategies—rhetorical activities in terms of what they said and how that mapped to what they did, and symbolic activities like using labels or analogies... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Aerospace; Food & Beverage; Retail

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Drug & Alcohol Policy | About

property or as a part of any Harvard activity are violations of HBS policy as well as the law. Possession, use, or distribution of certain non-prescription drugs, including marijuana, amphetamines, heroin, cocaine, and non-prescription... View Details

03 Jul 2013
What Do You Think?

What Are the Limits of Transparency?

evolved in some organizations into policies that gave employees much more information about the activities of the enterprise and more voice in determining what they felt they needed to know. Vineet Nayar, vice chairman and joint managing... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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