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- 01 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?
there are two reasons why CEOs should be cautious about overdoing the percentage of time interfacing with customers. First, marketing and selling should be a prime task of the CEO's direct reports, the individual business unit leaders. The CEO should not have View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 06 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
8 Ways to Make Olympic Stadiums Useful After the Games End
Stadium (with 85,600 seats) was reconfigured into Turner Field, capacity 50,000, over a period of seven months and a cost of $200 million. The retrofit worked well for 20 years, when the site served as home View Details
- 02 Jun 2015
- News
Pointing the Way to a Better World
the equation—the people and organizations working on the solutions. The couple spent a year reporting on the ground, from around the world, and then compiled their conclusions for A Path Appears. The result, says WuDunn, is a hopeful... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 18 Mar 2021
Industry Spotlight Series: From Retail to HBS
Please join us for a virtual panel discussion highlighting Harvard Business School students formerly working in the Retail Industry. Hear what a day in the life of an HBS student is like, how they plan to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Anjali Raina to Lead India Research Center
located in regions that play a vital role in the world economy, including Asia- Pacific, Europe, Japan, Latin America, and California’s Silicon Valley. Raina will focus on building and maintaining relationships with senior business leaders in the region View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
John Walson launched the first commercial cable television system in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, an Appalachian town eighty-six miles from Philadelphia. 1,2 Walson worked as a lineman for Pennsylvania Power & Light and also owned a... View Details
- 04 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Right Way to Restructure Conglomerates in Emerging Markets
longer-term development of markets and to work at cross-purposes with the government. But the government should focus on forcing only those reforms that are vitally necessary View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna & Krishna Palepu
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
related story). The Institute is currently focused on two key questions: how to respond to climate change and how to build a more inclusive economy. “BiGS was created View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Take 2: From Ad Copy to Cuneiform
doing some very mundane things like digging up postholes and then trying to figure out how the posts were placed and what kind of roof they supported.” While she now holds a Ph.D. in the field, Rothberg’s passion for archaeology began as... View Details
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
McDonald and others in academia call a cognitive referent. Simply put, a cognitive referent is the king of its category. More importantly, it enjoys all kinds of benefits over competitors further down the brand-recognition chain. The smartest people want View Details
- 11 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits
of material concerns as an organization doesn’t crowd out the goal of contributing to the broader welfare,” Ramarajan says. You’ll likely get better results, too. One journalist told the authors that, “You’re not going View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 21 Aug 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively
to reshape their companies, and explored how they can put data to work for them in ways that create value for their own businesses. The data advantage in sports Big data is... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Apr 2019
- News
Ray Dalio: Why and How Capitalism Needs to Be Reformed
die,” says Dalio. “This is now true for capitalism. In this report, I show why I believe that capitalism is now not working for the majority of Americans, I diagnose why it is producing these inadequate results, and I offer some... View Details
Keywords: capitalism
- 23 Feb 2018
- Blog Post
How to thrive as an Introvert at HBS
resources to work on a business idea, and stay on top of my mental and physical health amidst all of the craziness. Through the process of pursuing those goals, I knew I’d connect with awesome people, so I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
India Research Center: Connecting HBS to South Asia
working with HBS faculty to lay the groundwork for cases and new course development. Now, staff members also help the MBA Admissions team meet with prospective students and View Details