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  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Eight Among Many: Peter G. Harf

only for building an international beauty empire but also for the ginger-lily shower gel he is using these days. As head of the New Yorkbased firm that makes popular scents such as Jovan and Stetson as well... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 28 Jan 2016
  • Blog Post

Why Get an MBA?

has done an admirable job seamlessly integrating this kind of content into the curriculum.  I’m a firm believer that sessions like this today will pay great dividends in the future as my classmates and I navigate this growingly complex... View Details
  • 06 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors

How "sleepy" or "awake" are you when it comes to your stock portfolio? If you're like most people, you probably don't spend a great deal of time monitoring your investments. So when another company uses stock to acquire a View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 15 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 15, 2016

approaches. And it is well understood that creating a new business and optimizing an already existing one are two fundamentally different management challenges. The real problem for leaders is doing both, simultaneously. How do you meet... View Details
  • 18 Jul 2022
  • Research & Ideas

After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?

platforms and crypto products. In the early days of the internet, a lot of the platforms and business models didn’t survive. What I’m really interested to see is which crypto projects come out of this “bear” market phase much stronger. Gazette: The flurry of bad View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Financial Services; Technology
  • July 2012
  • Case

Johannes Linden: Managing the Global Executive Committee

By: Linda A. Hill and Mark Rennella
Johannes Linden is the Director of the Washer and Dryer division of Fluss, a large Swiss appliance manufacturer. Soon after the company completes its revenue projections and bonus targets for the upcoming year, Linden shares some good news with his leadership team, the... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Style; Groups and Teams; Organizational Culture; Management Style; Motivation and Incentives; Power and Influence; Multinational Firms and Management; Manufacturing Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Switzerland
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  • 05 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 5, 2006

significantly more on upfront marketing than non-pioneers. Contrary to expectations, however, firms in markets that exhibited increasing returns did not spend more on their early customer acquisition efforts than other sample companies.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 23, 2016

February 2016 Review of Financial Studies Industry Window Dressing By: Chen, Huaizhi, Lauren Cohen, and Dong Lou Abstract— We explore a new mechanism by which investors take correlated shortcuts and present evidence that managers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral... View Details
  • 13 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)

only player, but it should try to become the first player that comes to mind when customers, analysts, or the media think about the new market category. McDonald points to recent examples such as SpaceX in commercial space flight and... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Aerospace; Food & Beverage; Retail
  • 30 Jun 2022
  • News

Scaling Hope

Photos by Benjamin Norman In 2014, Stephen D’Antonio (MBA 1986) was living the life he had always envisioned. He’d been a partner at Morgan Stanley for nearly two decades. He sat on the Firm Management Committee and was the COO of the... View Details
  • 14 Jan 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors

Citizens, industrial polluters, and scholars do not usually see eye to eye—but that may change with a new Web site that monitors corporate environmental performance in the United States. According to the university professors who created... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing; Chemical
  • Web

Modern Capitalism: Mergers and Syndicates - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

in favor of the railroads and firms having interests in each other. “[The railroads] sought to influence the people who could regulate and control the bottlenecks and choke points of legislation and administration,” Richard White... View Details
  • 26 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

How to Build a Resume That Stands Above the Competition

their resume? HBS alumni have a variety of resources available to help in the process of writing or updating a resume. Ms. Huggett recommends working with a professional, such as an HBS Career Coach or a specialized firm like hers.... View Details
  • 11 Apr 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy

painfully." “Lean startups don't try to scale up the business until they have product market fit, a magical event-more easily recognized in retrospect than in the moment-when they finally have a solution that matches the problem.” Eisenmann has developed a View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Computer
  • 10 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces

Knitting together a workforce with diverse backgrounds, cultures, and other demographic differences is challenging even for experienced managers, who must socialize those employees into the organization and also help them form new work... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 25 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

management should understand about IT is its associated economics. Driven by Moore's Law, those evolving economics have enabled every industry's transaction costs to decrease continually, resulting in new economics for the View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
  • June 2012
  • Case

GlaxoSmithKline in Brazil: Public-Private Vaccine Partnerships

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich and Ian McKown Cornell
Three years into a major public-private partnership between GlaxoSmithKline and Fiocuz, Brazil's principal health institute, the company assesses technology transfer and joint research under the agreement. GSK was selling its Synflorix vaccine (against pediatric... View Details
Keywords: Public-Private Partnerships; Business and Government Relations; Foreign Direct Investment; Health Care and Treatment; Globalized Firms and Management; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Brazil
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  • December 2007 (Revised February 2012)
  • Case

John and Andrea Rice: Entrepreneurship and Life

By: Howard H. Stevenson, Janet Kraus and Shirley Spence
The case follows the professional and personal lives of John and Andrea Rice, illustrating the challenge of "juggling" the multiple aspects of life (career, family, community, self) in the pursuit of a personal vision of success. Particular attention is paid to the... View Details
Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Entrepreneurship; Work-Life Balance; Family and Family Relationships; Nonprofit Organizations
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  • 13 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 13

of the most successful and insightful leaders of our time, the CEOs from companies as diverse as Standard Chartered Bank, Infosys, Nokia, Cummins, IKEA, Tata, and Campbell's Soup. The authors reveal how these leaders from around the world are converging on a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne