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- 04 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Scrap the Big New Year's Resolutions. Make 6 Simple Changes Instead.
Ambitious New Year’s resolutions often end in disappointment. So instead of setting unrealistic goals in 2022, business leaders should consider making smaller, simpler changes—and they just might see better results, says Harvard View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Hands-on Learning About Global Markets
A certificate of appreciation was presented to Ellie Care representatives Francisco Garcia Zavaleta (COO) and Gervasio Videla Dorna (cofounder and CEO), at left, and to Patricio Alba (cofounder and CIO), far right, by HBS students Maxwell Nii Laryea, third from left,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making
along" seem crude and outdated workplace mantras when contrasted with the sophistication of modern business, yet they are still considered sound advice. Compensating Candor HBS professor Max Bazerman of the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
Science. The paper was authored by Stefan Dimitriadis, a doctoral student in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School; Matthew Lee, an assistant professor of strategy at INSEAD; Lakshmi... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders
getting the feedback they need, and they’re happy in the firm so they’re less likely to quit,” says Rembrand Koning, an assistant professor in Harvard Business School’s Strategy Unit who was a coauthor of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
Chearavanonts enter the company, how has Chairman Dhanin created a business culture that maintains the closeness of a family business with the strategic vision, innovations, and transparency of a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
treatment;... 01 Jan 2021 Integrated Practice Units: A Playbook for Health Care Leaders by Michael E. Porter, PhD, MBA, Thomas H. Lee, MD, MSc The playbook for assembling and integrating a successful Integrated Practice Unit (IPU)... View Details
- 12 May 2023
- News
Alabama's Yella Fella
while Rane could have relocated the business to Atlanta or Houston for a gentler tax bill, he maintained Great Southern's headquarters in his hometown of Abbeville—population 2,000. The company did acquire several plants throughout the... View Details
- 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 division among companies was a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS
wonderfully ambitious course that introduces students to the history and practice of business in four leading economies: Great Britain, Germany, the United States, and Japan. Teaching it was indeed a very... View Details
- 13 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face
that fund young businesses are owned by Black or Hispanic founders and partners, traditionally the most likely source of capital for minority business ventures, says Josh Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff... View Details
- 06 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Cut Salaries or Cut People? The Best Way to Survive a Downturn
Reduction, co-authored by Harvard Business School’s Christopher T. Stanton, along with Jason Sandvik and Nathan Seegert of the University of Utah; and Richard Saouma of Michigan State University. “Managers changed the mix of commissions,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
Democracy
To all who declare that American democracy is broken—riven by partisanship, undermined by extremism, and corrupted by wealth—history offers hope. In nearly every generation since the nation’s founding, critics have made similar declarations, and yet the nation is... View Details
- 18 Nov 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying
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Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online
Business School. "Financial Accounting puts you in the shoes of an equity research analyst, yoga studio owner, and leader of one of the largest nonprofits in the United States. You’ll wrestle with the same... View Details
- January 2002 (Revised July 2007)
- Case
Publishing Group of America (A)
By: Jay O. Light, Michael J. Roberts and Taslim Pirmohamed
A small start-up in the publishing business compares three possible alternatives for its new round of equity financing. View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Venture Capital; Equity; Financing and Loans; Information Publishing; United States
Light, Jay O., Michael J. Roberts, and Taslim Pirmohamed. "Publishing Group of America (A)." Harvard Business School Case 202-036, January 2002. (Revised July 2007.)
- 2009
- Book
The Story of American Business: From the Pages of The New York Times
By: Nancy F. Koehn
This book sketches some of the most important people and moments in the last 150 years of U.S. business history. View Details
Koehn, Nancy F. The Story of American Business: From the Pages of The New York Times. Boston: Harvard Business Press, 2009.
- January 2005 (Revised April 2006)
- Case
Stonewall Kitchen
By: Myra M. Hart, Victoria Winston, Kristin Lieb, Kenna Wyllie Baudin, Alison Bell and Leslie Simmons
Jonathan King and Jim Stott, the founders of Stonewall Kitchen, started out in 1992 with a simple business selling jams and jellies at local farmers' markets. By 2004, they had grown the company into a $25 million organization with 250 employees. They expanded their... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Planning; Food; Expansion; Business Growth and Maturation; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
Hart, Myra M., Victoria Winston, Kristin Lieb, Kenna Wyllie Baudin, Alison Bell, and Leslie Simmons. "Stonewall Kitchen." Harvard Business School Case 805-006, January 2005. (Revised April 2006.)
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Seminars & Conferences - Faculty & Research
Dube, University of Chicago Marketing Unit Seminar - JP Dube Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Location: Baker Library | Bloomberg Center 103 Organizers: Marketing Unit Faculty and doctoral students only Mar 25 25... View Details
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Request the Data - Leadership
Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century Request Data in Excel Spreadsheet Before we release the Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century database to you, we must receive this form. The... View Details