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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
beloved,” she says. But beloved didn’t pay the bills, and by 2015, after decades of pressure from big chains and the internet, the small, independent store was on the verge of closing. That’s when Brody, a New Yorker who spends her... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset
big and diverse. Today, however, American investors are buying distressed mortgages in Japan, industrial buildings in Mexico, and developing shopping centers in Eastern Europe. Globalization has hit the real estate industry View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
a wide assortment of consumer durables. Two years later, Barford took Beatty into the big time, buying up a larger competitor, General Steel Wares, Inc. (GSW). As head of the new concern, Barford reorganized GSW and developed it into the... View Details
- 26 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What’s the Value of a Win in College Athletics?
school’s piggy bank in his paper, How Much Is a Win Worth? An Application to Intercollegiate Athletics, forthcoming in Management Science. “Some of the top schools make enormous amounts of money—just extraordinary, close to $200 million,” says Chung. “That’s a very... View Details
- Profile
Sebastian Velasco
woman," says Sebastian. "When I was a baby, my mom took me to her office. I have pictures of me there when I was four, five months old." Sebastian spent his after-school hours in her office. "When I got older, she... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 18 Jan 2018
- News
The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast
biggest barrier, quite honestly, was operations. Which is actually one of McDonnell strengths, but running two day parts at the same time through our kitchens was a good challenge-- just the real estate challenge on our grills and being able to have an Egg McMuffin... View Details
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
and basically starve the other businesses of resources and ultimately exit them. So that was the first five years of my administration, and it worked out extraordinarily successfully. So within five years,... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
who regularly seek his advice. But some things are different, he laughs. "I work only five days a week now. No more Saturdays." When he was just 34, Zehnder took a very big risk. In the age of the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
strategy look like? The financing that we were able to assemble for this acquisition is interim financing, which gives us five years to figure that out. Part of the process we’re engaged in now with our partners is to say, What’s the... View Details
- 01 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
weren’t the only things producing engagement. Content such as hate speech and unsupported conspiracy theories were among the most popular viewer “draws” as well. A big step, for example, involved barring Alex Jones’ Infowars site and its... View Details
- 04 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Web Surfing Distracting Your Workers?
of the day—and that means they are spending energy to control themselves. If this theory is correct, it means they should be less productive." That effect could be more critical in jobs where small mistakes could mean a big... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
out the next big thing as they flatten out at the top. Often companies that have become so geared around success from a particular innovation have trouble getting a new S-curve going. Artists do, too. People want to stay with the thing... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
schools seeking to hire new professors. In the stories that follow, the Bulletin presents four members of the next generation of business education leaders, a group as diverse in their backgrounds and interests as they are committed to what one student calls "the... View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
simple: Why? Why do you do this? Why do you do things in this way? Just keep asking “why?”—every subsequent “why?” will go deeper. Asking “why?” five times is a strategy pioneered by Toyota to track down the root cause of mistakes.... View Details
- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
because it was the only work she could find. When I moved over at five years old, I didn’t know what sacrifice meant but I knew that a lot had been given up for us to be there. Only years later did I hear the stories of how my mom rented... View Details
- 04 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms
colleagues used a program that identified gender based on names of VCs and entrepreneurs; for those the program couldn’t determine, they looked up pictures and stories. “If I am in a firm with five white guys who all went to Harvard, it’s... View Details
- Web
Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
: Recipient of the 2022 Outstanding Reviewer Award from Organization Science . Ranjay Gulati : Deep Purpose (Harper Business, 2022) included as one of the Next Big Idea Club’s 2022 Best Management Books. Ranjay Gulati : Deep Purpose... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
adds, big acquisitions and IPOs started happening in the MENA region, catalyzing a virtuous cycle of entrepreneurial activity and investment: Amazon acquired Souq for $580 million in 2017 and Uber purchased Careem for $3.1 billion in... View Details
- Web
2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
and the new forces driving those changes. Five Ways to Make Things Better: Taking Positive Action in a Troubled World Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter 11:45 a.m.–1:00 p.m. EDT + More Info – Less Info Even can-do achievers can feel... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
mistake is mistiming the market. It’s possible to be too early, which is not often the big problem, but it is more problematic to be too late. This is because of the power of network effects and the power of platforms to scale very... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace