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  • August 2019
  • Case

Volkswagen and Suzuki (A): A Match Made in Heaven?

By: Ranjay Gulati and Saloni Chaturvedi
The alliance between Volkswagen and Suzuki in 2009 was expected to help Volkswagen become the world’s largest carmaker and Suzuki gain expertise in fuel-efficient technologies. In addition, each promised to help the other in the two largest emerging markets. While... View Details
Keywords: Alliances; Problems and Challenges; Auto Industry
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  • 17 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Are Companies Getting Away with 'Cheap Talk' on Climate Goals?

Companies regularly set ambitious climate goals, but these plans often end up like many people’s New Year’s resolutions: unmet aspirations that quietly fizzle out. While companies often gain positive media attention by trumpeting plans for reducing greenhouse gas... View Details
Keywords: by Tim Gray
  • 05 May 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Reflecting on Work Improves Job Performance

starting the second round of brain teasers, they were asked to indicate the extent to which they felt "capable, competent, able to make good judgments, and able to solve difficult problems if they tried hard... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Feb 2023
  • Research & Ideas

When a Vacation Isn’t Enough, a Sabbatical Can Recharge Your Life—and Your Career

A few years ago, DJ DiDonna seemed to have everything going for him. He had started a successful venture called the Entrepreneurial Finance Lab, which used psychometric factors to help banks issuing microloans in the developing world... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 20 Dec 2011
  • First Look

First Look: December 20

how to enter the industry. A small group of managers have to decide on a business model, how to meet hiring and funding needs, and what types of ratings to start with: municipal, corporate, or structured. Where are the needs for new... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Courses - Entrepreneurship

how executives should approach making critical decisions during the different phases of an entrepreneurial company's life. Starting from the vantage point of the individual , we will put ourselves in the shoes of decision makers ranging... View Details
  • 02 Apr 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Employees Out Sick? Inside One Company's Creative Approach to Staying Productive

workers each, running on tight schedules with little room for error. Yet the average daily worker absenteeism rate was 11 percent, and for any particular production line, the absence rate was 20 percent or higher at least one out of 11 days. “You need to solve the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Fashion
  • Web

Popular - HBS Working Knowledge

Popular Editors' Picks Recommendations from our editors 26 Jul 2023 Research & Ideas STEM Needs More Women. Recruiters Often Keep Them Out by Rachel Layne 13 Jun 2022 Research & Ideas Extroverts, Your Colleagues Wish You Would Just Shut Up and Listen by Pamela Reynolds... View Details
  • May 2024
  • Supplement

DRSi (A)

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
In March of 2019, Jen Ransom Fuller purchased DRSi. DRSi, located in Bellevue, Washington, printed and reproduced architectural plans and drawings. Fuller planned to use her first year of ownership to learn the business and to run it in much the same way as the seller.... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Small Business; Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Business Education; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Problems and Challenges; Health Pandemics; Selection and Staffing; Employee Relationship Management; Production; Logistics; Safety; United States; Washington (state, US)
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  • September 2011 (Revised September 2015)
  • Case

Hassina Sherjan

By: Robert G. Eccles, George Serafeim and Pippa Eccles
Hassina Sherjan was born in Afghanistan but grew up and was educated in the United States. A trip to Afghanistan when she was an adult inspired her to move back to her home country with two missions. The first was to educate young women through a non-profit... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Accounting; Non-Governmental Organizations; Nonprofit Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Innovation Leadership; Development Economics; Growth and Development; Problems and Challenges; Retail Industry; Afghanistan; United States
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  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

The Imposter Among Us

Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Peter Arkle It was their rst day at Harvard and like the rest of his cohort, Edgar Wallner (PMD 22, 1971) will never forget meeting Robert Gaines-Cooper. Frankly, it would have been difficult to miss the Englishman, who... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 17 Jan 2024
  • HBS Case

Psychological Pricing Tactics to Fight the Inflation Blues

use it, Ofek says. “It's not delivering a major benefit at this point,” he says. “However, it's kind of like a negative differentiator. If you don't do it, you start standing out, and then that creates a separate View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Consumer Products; Retail
  • Web

Mid-US - Global

deep regional knowledge and strong relationships, the MRC helps HBS engage more fully with the evolving landscape of American business. Location Mid-US Research Center midus@hbs.edu News & Highlights MARCH 2025 HBR COLD CALL Football... View Details
  • 07 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

and that this difference is associated with significant performance differentials. We propose three possible reasons for the managerial gap of founder CEO firms: a) informational problems preventing a clear understanding of the weakness... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Are You a Strategist?

Leader Your Business Needs, Montgomery discusses when that disconnect happened, why it's a problem today, and how leaders can turn themselves back into strategists. (Read an excerpt from The Strategist.) According to Montgomery, the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research

personal and organizational effectiveness. Although specific research interests span a wide range of subjects, the faculty share a problem driven, interdisciplinary, multi method approach that has led to significant impact on theory and... View Details
  • 26 Aug 2024
  • Blog Post

HBS Lingo 101

nonprofits, and government organizations—complete with the constraints and incomplete information found in real business issues—and places the student in the role of the decision maker. Students will read 500 cases during their two years at HBS. View Details
  • 10 Sep 2007
  • Research & Ideas

High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

have to live and fulfill certain obligations to others, but they're also intense experience junkies. When members started to drift off to work on these piecework deals, they stopped having the kind of preparation experiences that they... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music
  • 22 Feb 2024
  • Blog Post

It’s Time to Build: Why the MS/MBA Is Right for You!

something tangible. Second, I cannot emphasize the power of the community enough! The first-year curriculum ensures you have some academic experiences unique to the MS/MBA cohort: starting classes a month early for Design Theory and... View Details
  • 12 May 2021
  • Book

The Hard Truth About Being a CEO

said he knew two things with certainty when he came onto a battleship: He was never going to get handed a cold cup of coffee, and he was never going to hear the whole truth. "You have to be open and candid and say, 'Look, tell me what you... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding