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13 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

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

perhaps more so than in any other industry, as the right answer to improve performance. Owners look to their team managers (coaches) to be game changers and bring back success to the organization, especially when the manager is hired in a... View Details

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

18 Dec 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Grooming Next-Generation Leaders

use the right approach at the right time and change as the situation demands is going to be tough. Not everybody can do it. That's going to distinguish the true leaders from people who are capable but not... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

18 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?

environment is one in which we have a lot of potential to do that. We still don’t know what the long-run, successful business models and infrastructure solutions are going to look like. We don’t know if they’re the things we have right... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Financial Services; Technology

2024
Working Paper

The Fading Light of Democratic Capitalism: How Pervasive Cronyism and Restricted Suffrage Are Destroying Democratic Capitalism as a National Ideal…and What to Do about It

By: Malcolm S. Salter

What are we to do about declining public trust and confidence in democratic capitalism, which many citizens consider a cornerstone of our national ideology and identity? While the answer is not entirely clear, I argue in this essay that any effort aimed at restoring... View Details

Keywords: Government Administration; Economic Systems; Trust; United States

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14 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2022

the civil rights movie on the 1st date, judge all you want. I wanted to see it!). So 1/17/15 I walk into Texas Roadhouse and our lives changed forever. Brian Ventura (MBA 2022) & Christofer Rodelo (Harvard GSAS 2022) Christofer and I... View Details

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Capital IQ: Introduction, Help, Etc.

IQ to access more C ude: Coursework and Analysis Applications Capital IQ help (help link is in the upper right corner of the screen.) Some of the ways in which you can benefit from Capital IQ include: Detailed information on public... View Details

10 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Taking Advantage of Life’s (Few and Far Between) Inflection Points

boost of career momentum." He paused, then gave me a wink as he thought of just the right way to illustrate his point. "You're too young to remember this," he began, "but in the early 1970s the Apollo 13 spacecraft was midway between... View Details

Keywords: Re: Howard H. Stevenson

03 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First

Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Oct 2001
News

Guy de Chazal: Changing Focus

accent and direct, engaging manner, he comes across immediately as the kind of person who is accustomed both to doing things right and to doing the right thing. Over a late afternoon cup of tea in a... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

07 Feb 2019
Book

How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption

other mistake companies make with innovative culture is presenting it as something that is going to be really fun." And, sometimes responding is not even the right response. As I write in the book with the example of digital... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

29 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)

In what could be considered the first business how-to book, an Italian merchant from the 1400s advises leaders to be charitable, ethical, and treat people fairly; be modest; look for the right qualities in a wife; be selective in deals;... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

19 Apr 2024
News

Alumni Host Energy CEO Summit in Houston; Austin Club Co-Hosts SXSW Reception

Clubs News Clubs News Houston Alumni Host Annual Energy CEO Summit The HBS Club of Houston presented its fourth annual Energy CEO Summit on April 3, which featured four of the industry’s top CEOs discussing trends and challenges around the theme of “Energy Security and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

30 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

is doing, but “sideways” is rarely the right direction. For example, in early 2016, leaders of the package delivery venture Shyp were refining the company’s business model and dialing back earlier expansion moves in search of profit.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Jun 2024
News

Firm Foundation

Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009) has been playing the long game as long as she can remember. The former Berkshire Hathaway executive grew up in a family business: Her father was a third-generation farmer in Manhattan,... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; private equity; Warren Buffett; career path; investment strategy; family business; Finance

05 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Is JC Penney’s Makeover the Future of Retailing?

challenge, Lal says. Pricing It Right Retail pricing is a high art, and Johnson is starting from scratch at Penney, replacing frequent sales—the company had 590 of them in 2011—with "Fair and Square everyday pricing." When outlining the... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Retail

06 Sep 2022
Blog Post

To Go-Go: A Foodtech Startup Serves Up Scale in Latin America

business capable of identifying the next big food trend and propagating it across a vast network of cloud kitchens. “We only have 80 kitchens right now,” Azuero says. “We believe we can easily fit 1,000 into the region.” This article was... View Details

01 Jun 2001
News

Monsignor Frederick Dolan Finds a New Calling at HBS Club of Montreal

his return in September 1980, Dolan was touched by a higher calling and decided to move to Rome. There, he studied philosophy and theology and in 1983 was ordained a Catholic priest. “The Spirit told me it was the right thing to do at the... View Details

Keywords: Elena N. Berg; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

22 Feb 2021
Book

Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

modern-day sales management. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity: Kristen Senz: What shifts in sales should managers and executives be aware of right now? Frank Cespedes: Prospects are now online and offline throughout... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

03 Jul 2013
What Do You Think?

What Are the Limits of Transparency?

enthusiasm you may have for the word itself. Now the topic has been thrust into our everyday lives with disclosures, or leaks, of alleged US secret intelligence information by Edward Snowdon. Increasingly, we are asking ourselves "How much transparency is the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures

2030 deadline to halve emissions. It’s important to note that the problem continues to compound until we get to net-zero or, better yet, net-negative emissions which we don’t expect to occur until around 2050.” These days, Hilton is asking himself a big climate... View Details

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