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  • 04 Apr 2011
  • HBS Case

Reinventing the National Geographic Society

behaviors, and values of a legacy organization, changing a business model from paper to digital, capitalizing on huge brand awareness and international presence, and promoting cross-functional and cross-divisional collaboration.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing
  • 01 Aug 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Has the Twitter Age Left the Case Method Behind?

How Will the Case Method Have to Evolve to Meet Future Needs? Like any good case discussion, this month’s column generated thoughtful comments centered around several issues concerning whether or not the case method has become outmoded.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
  • November 2010
  • Article

Beyond the Deal: Wage a 'Negotiation Campaign'

By: James K. Sebenius
While negotiation scholars primarily take the individual transaction as the "unit of analysis," this article characterizes the (new) concept of a "negotiation campaign" in which a number of individual deals must be put together, often on multiple "fronts," to realize a... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation Deal; Management Practices and Processes; Value; Problems and Challenges; Business Startups; Sales; Partners and Partnerships; Venture Capital
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  • Profile

Katy Lankester

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I came to business school to strengthen my judgement, because I believe as a leader I will be required to make important decisions with imperfect information. The big decisions will be... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
  • 08 Nov 2016
  • Blog Post

Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring: Phil Strazzulla

stories. Here's the quick elevator pitch: The average job seeker spends 2 hours researching a company before applying, and for most businesses that means they find a generic job description, career page with... View Details
Keywords: Technology
  • 20 Mar 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs

Fialkow, managing director of General Catalyst Partners, he would first employ the "earnest young man routine" to get an interview with an old guy in business who could explain the ins and outs of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2020
  • Op-Ed

Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

don’t also have great talent vertically, at the owner, general manager and coaching positions, you will not achieve the results you want. In the NFL, 68.2 percent of the variance in team performance can be attributed to leadership.... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Abbott , Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Reversing the Null: Regulation, Deregulation, and the Power of Ideas

By: David Moss
It has been said that deregulation was an important source of the recent financial crisis. It may be more accurate, however, to say that a deregulatory mindset was an important source of the crisis—a mindset that, to a very significant extent, grew out of profound... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Financial Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government and Politics; Failure; Business and Government Relations; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • 14 Jan 2019
  • Op-Ed

These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership

experience and perspective, these leaders will influence business and society for decades to come. Now global leaders such as General Motors’s Mary Barra, Merck’s Ken Frazier, BlackRock’s Larry Fink, and... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George; Health; Banking; Food & Beverage; Consumer Products
  • 15 Aug 2022
  • Book

University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed

Today the United States is considered the world leader in higher education. Yet the country could risk losing that top spot, particularly with China opening some of the most innovative educational centers across the globe in recent years, says Harvard View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education
  • 14 Aug 2006
  • HBS Case

On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”

"Is it better to be loved or feared?" Machiavelli asked. At Harvard Business School, Professor Scott Snook uses this classic quote to help students become more effective leaders. Using two of the most successful college... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports
  • 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
  • Career Coach

Tim Butler

Dr. Timothy Butler is a Senior Fellow on the HBS faculty and is the faculty advisor to HBS Career and Professional Development. He is an expert in the area of business career decision-making and the author of many books, psychological... View Details
  • May 2011
  • Article

Consequences and Institutional Determinants of Unregulated Corporate Financial Statements: Evidence from Embedded Value Reporting

By: George Serafeim
I analyze Embedded Value (EV) reporting by firms with life insurance operations to assess the impact of unregulated financial reporting on transparency and to examine the institutional characteristics that promote unregulated reporting. Under EV accounting the present... View Details
Keywords: Financial Statements; Mergers and Acquisitions; Financial Reporting; Cash Flow; Contracts; Equity; Profit; Value; Corporate Disclosure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business Earnings
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  • 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
  • 03 May 2016
  • First Look

First Look, May 3, 2016

professional domains, readers gain insight into why teaming across fields is so challenging, and what leaders can do to help. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50682 May 2016 Harvard Business Review Learn to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2011 (Revised July 2012)
  • Case

Building Watson: Not So Elementary, My Dear!

By: Willy Shih
This case is set inside IBM Research's efforts to build a computer that can successfully take on human challengers playing the game show Jeopardy! It opens with the machine named Watson offering the incorrect answer "Toronto" to a seemingly simple question during the... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Standards; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mathematical Methods; Research and Development; Information Technology
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  • 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
  • Web

Terms of Use - Alumni

Help Terms of Use 14ms Harvard Business School has provided a suite of alumni services through its Alumni Website for the benefit of the HBS community. Services exclusive to the HBS community are protected by HBS Login and require a... View Details
  • 08 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Four Questions Fundraisers Must be Prepared to Answer

Stevenson has concluded that public recognition is not the major reason why people make significant gifts. Instead, they want to make a positive impact on the world, says Stevenson, Harvard Business School’s Sarofim-Rock Professor of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna