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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
to American management practices with the increasingly global nature of business. Today, there’s a clear sense that this will be a global century in which economic activity and business innovation will be much more widely distributed... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
the difficult environment of late 2008. One of his first assignments is to review three companies in a partner's portfolio and recommend strategies for managing them. In addition, the partner also has an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
available to its customer-facing employees. In the spring of 2003, Bankinter introduced an Excel-based program called the Mortgage Simulator that helped branch managers calculate the price of a mortgage and estimate the customer lifetime... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
pesticide exposure, diet, or perhaps complex interactions among all those factors and others. “With honey-bee health problems there are multiple possible causes,” says Crespin, who also works on sustainability issues as a senior fellow... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Privatization and the New European Economy
International Senior Management Program) has been in the thick of Europe's airline industry for decades. With more than thirty years' experience at Swissair, he has served as president and CEO of Sabena since 1996. Christoph Brand (HBS... View Details
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Phillip Michael Strazzulla
on careers by productizing the HBS coffee chat model, according to Strazzulla. “If you are at HBS and you had worked at McKinsey for three years but you want to work at a startup in product management because you heard it was cool,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
interest is examining the interactions that occur between and across the various functional and product boundaries of the firm, which is the subject of his popular MBA elective Advanced Competitive Strategy: Integrating the Enterprise.... View Details
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
fulfillment of community needs. (Of course, Friedman's formulation leaves the manager with two problems: the sum of consumer desires does not necessarily equal community need, and many—perhaps most—governments to not define or fulfill... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
Olympic bids in their own cities. Act from Choice: Simple Tools for Managing Your Habits, Your Emotions and Yourself, to Be How You Mean to Be by Robert Goldmann (MBA 1961) (Clarity Publications Inc.) With the goal of training your brain... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma
he said, adding that it "always" takes four to five years for the right business model to emerge. "That's another reason why it's so difficult for established companies to make the transition and become a leader in an... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
drive-through restaurant with low prices that appealed to working-class families. “The company has built its brand around family dining, so that is especially important to its culture,” explains Paine. Despite its ubiquity, McDonald’s View Details
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
decisions and ultimately impact observers' willingness to be influenced by them. Three studies suggest that observing others make more (versus less) thoughtful decisions generates more positive reactions when a choice is difficult but... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The First Five Years: Emmanuel Straschnov (MBA 2012)
learn––users help each other a lot on our forum. Watching these interactions on the forum is one of the most rewarding things ever, and this has helped us to scale our user base with a small team, as a lot of our customer support and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
organization performance in his book Win From Within: Build Organizational Culture for Competitive Advantage. Your feedback to last month’s column: Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”? The general sense of the responses to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Jan 2014
- News
Climbing to New Heights
Petzel. "I was already toying with the idea of an MBA, and I was allowed to sit in on classes at MIT's Sloan School and at HBS. I found the atmosphere at Harvard totally different; I much preferred the interactive style." Petzel wasn't... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
imprint, such as a strong corporate culture, should help individuals better evaluate future employers and recognize the ways in which that first career experience may shape not simply the skills they acquire, but also their assumptions about how to lead and View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
specifically. Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (MBA 1978) (Harvard Business Review Press) Part of a manager’s job is making tough calls, and the hardest... View Details
- 25 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Adjusting the Fit for Government
pointed out. Panelist Dean Donovan, managing partner of Bain & Company in South Africa, said the imperatives for African governments are many, and are all intertwined. The key underpinnings include a health policy that deals with... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
virtually no way to manage the process and the funding required to do it all yourself. Either you’ll end up giving the business away to an investor to help you pay to do everything now, or you’ll likely be so slow to respond that someone... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
them to downsize and slash jobs. “It was a commodity price down cycle across almost all metals. We were obviously expecting a large negative impact,” recalls Chernilovskiy, then an asset manager at Kazakhstani zinc-producer Kazzinc, a... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres