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18 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

The Cost of Leaning In

negotiation situation, it doesn’t necessarily mean that all women will do well in that situation,” says Exley, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, who co-wrote the paper with Muriel Niederle, an economics professor at... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

December 2014 (Revised May 2015)
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Growth Hacking at Bazaart (A)

By: Jeffrey Bussgang and Matthew G. Preble

The four founding members of Bazaart—a young Israeli company whose sole product was its eponymous mobile application (app) which allowed users to create collages from photographs and other images—face an important strategic decision in June 2014. Since its founding... View Details

Keywords: Growth Hacking; Customer Acquisition; Startup Marketing; Startup; Startup Nation; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Customers; Marketing; Social Marketing; Fashion Industry; Technology Industry; Israel

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Regional Winners - Alumni

Lama Mansour, MBA 2006, Co-Founder & CMO Region: Western U.S. Krida Krida, is empowering Business Bankers by automating application data intake, insights, and document generation — so that bankers can focus... View Details

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Shad Hall | About

daughter Leslie and son Rees at Hall dedication Shad Hall is named for the Honorable John S.R. Shad (1923-1994), an extraordinarily active and generous supporter of HBS, a respected investment banker, former chairman of the Securities and... View Details

06 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness

in the United States, but US companies gave it all up.” HBS Professor of Management Practice Willy C. Shih served as president of Kodak's Digital & Applied Imaging business through the turn of the 21st century. Shortly after starting... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing

15 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive

results of surveys of global business leaders and the general public, says the US is “failing the test of competitiveness.” Overall prosperity may be growing slowly—but only for a small slice of the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

18 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

example, the trading commissions that remain are largely driven by big institutional investors who have brokerages execute their trades. Sell-side analysts have incentives to hype stocks to generate trading View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

15 Sep 2003
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act

no statement of the decision reached by the businessman...and generally business cases admit of more than one solution...[they] include both relevant and irrelevant material, in order that the student may... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin

Feb 23 2017
Testimonial

Leading, Learning, and Growing—Together

25 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation

Hroe Large American companies are less racially integrated today than a generation ago—in fact, businesses have returned to the bleaker segregation levels of the 1970s, new research shows. This racial... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

06 Apr 2007
What Do You Think?

Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?

Summing Up Debate on this month's questions occurred on at least three levels. Is global warming occurring? Do humans (primarily through CO2 emissions) have much to do with it? Should we rely on market forces to provide appropriate responses, or will this require... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

18 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs

of applicants for 2006, 63.2 percent proposed business models based entirely on donations, 33 percent offered models based on a mix of donations and generated revenue, and 3.9 percent proposed models meant... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Reconceiving Products & Markets - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

needs and new markets open up opportunities to differentiate , innovate , and grow . A new generation of social entrepreneurs is capturing these opportunities, and mainstream businesses must keep up to stay... View Details

12 May 2003
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How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?

information" issued until that moment, from the Encyclopedia Britannica to audio and video. "I think it will be a radical change toward much, much more information and user empowerment. I believe that business models will emerge... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne & Martha Lagace; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

26 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 26, 2006

AIDS, Fighting Poverty: Customer Centric Marketing in the Generic Antiretroviral Business Authors:Rohit Deshpandé and Zoe Chance Publication:In Business Solutions for the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.

competing in current or new markets (i.e., new customers and/or new geographies). [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/ugHI2ETiABnZVxAuNYu9][/div] First Quadrant: Firms stay in the status quo or pre-COVID situation. As discussed earlier, times have changed, and View Details

Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim; Retail; Service

05 Jul 2006
What Do You Think?

How Important Is “Executive Intelligence” for Leaders?

about issues from a systems-oriented, conceptual perspective It's not one or the other." The issue of recognizing the trait arose as well. Le Anh Tuan commented, "The reality is that people are so busy that they usually fail to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating

those facts and find a solution, a team of Boston researchers reports. "When it comes to solving problems, connectedness is a double-edged sword," says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Ethan Bernstein, co-author of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Video Game; Web Services

01 Mar 2024
News

Vital Signs

to focus on listening to the patient and the invaluable human interactions. The National Health Service (NHS) hospitals and practices that have adopted the tool are reporting 20 percent productivity gains (between senior physicians requiring less input and View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

30 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

In a recent Harvard Business Review article, professor Robert Simons wrote about how organizations can design jobs for maximum performance. In this excerpt, Simons discusses what he terms the four basic "spans" of a job—control,... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

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