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07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

with researchers at PARC. Much of that time was occupied with interviewing prospective customers who had significant problems with document management. For example, a pharmaceutical company that was applying for FDA approval had to manage... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough

02 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Role of Government When All Else Fails

this e-mail interview with Laura Linard.Linard: You write that a reason to study the historical role of government in risk management is to better "understand government and its role in the new economy." How would you... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

01 Jun 2020
News

Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom

dating apps now, maybe five or 10 dates a week. So you really have to be good at making a first impression and standing out. And that's the same in job interviews or pitching your company to investors. You have to really know how to make... View Details

Keywords: Zoom

25 Jun 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

first day talking to the global partner and reviewing objectives. The next day, they take cars and translators to interview potential customers. If all goes well, they'll generate insights like those students had about laptops in China.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

01 Mar 2012
News

Putting Ghosts to Rest

about its agriculture transformation activities was one such way. As I thought about these programs, and as I pressed for more feedback in interviews with various people around Rwanda over the subsequent days, I realized that both the cow... View Details

Keywords: Chris Maloney; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2006
News

Light Years Ahead

the water for sails on the ocean near his Dartmouth, Massachusetts, summer home. “I grew up sailing every day on the Great Lakes, and that experience has stayed with me,” he says. In his first interview since becoming Dean, Light shared... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Jun 2007
News

Profiles from the class of 2007

people’s lives.” — GE Forsan Hussein The Business of Peace Hussein In the summer of 1998, while working as a fellow with an Israeli human-rights organization, Brandeis student Forsan Hussein interviewed a young Palestinian whose West Bank... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice

02 Oct 2015
News

The ‘F’ Word

Alone, broke, and homeless My biggest failure in life was my marriage. My wife filed for divorce, and the judge gave her all the assets and me all the bills. After 23 years of marriage I was alone, broke, and homeless. I needed to understand why this had happened, so I... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

30 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Market Makers Bid for Success

bad person through interviews and so on. And I think I started out at FreeMarkets with too much confidence in that area. So as a result, my team and I have made some mistakes in hiring. We have been humbled and realize that, boy, it's not... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology

10 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution

three-part interview with Harvard Business School Marketing professors Rajiv Lal and José B. Alvarez, they discuss who is winning this revolution and which brands appear to be losing ground. Sean Silverthorne: Among the retailers you have... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

23 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 23

patterns before and after team scaffolds were implemented. Our results show that the team scaffolds improved performance, in part by reducing the number of partners with whom each role occupant coordinated. We then analyze qualitative View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Oct 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The New Deal: Negotiauctions

interview him, and he graciously agreed, spending 90 minutes talking with me about the deal and about dealmaking more generally. I learned a tremendous amount from that conversation, and it certainly fueled my interest in understanding... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

30 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning

Buyers are more apt to use a product right after they purchase it, a fact you need to ponder as you consider how to keep customers coming back for more. In this e-mail interview with HBS Working Knowledge's Manda Mahoney, Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Mahoney

Web

Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online

video interviews from prominent business leaders About the Professor Feng Zhu Winning with Digital Platforms MBA Class of 1958 Professor of Business Administration “Some of the largest, most valued companies today are platforms, and you... View Details

01 Apr 1999
News

An Eye to the East

gathered from interviews with senior executives at about five hundred major companies in China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Deshpandé and his team discovered that many of the "strategic levers" essential to high... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

01 Dec 2001
News

September 11: A Community Reflects

confidence in the business community. Pulling Together In an interview in the September 24 edition of the Harbus, Dean Clark was asked if he believed the mood on campus would be "somber" for the rest of the year. "I don't think somber is... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 2016
News

Alumni Books of 2016

young British Muslims, frank interviews with intelligence and police officers, and frontline reports from across the Middle East to offer answers to one of the biggest challenges of our time. Dragons: 10 Entrepreneurs Who Built Britain by... View Details

07 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 7

India’s recent enactment of universal primary education. Given the clientelistic features of Indian democracy, this programmatic policy change presents a puzzle. Drawing on interviews and official documents, I find that committed state... View Details