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- 30 Jan 2017
- News
HBS Deans' Message on White House Travel Ban
concerned that our executive programs — which comprise two-thirds international participants — could see declines in enrollment. Whatever the intention of the order, its implementation has led to disruption and fear, and it undercuts the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
and board directors I worked with at Outward Bound,” he explained. However, during a “fascinating, intellectually engaging, intense, and ultimately life-changing” two years at HBS, Pearson unexpectedly “fell in love” with the economics of deregulation, a passion that... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
impact, Huebner and friends created Minds Matter in 1991. In the first year, the friends tutored a half-dozen students and subsequently sent two to preparatory schools on fully paid scholarships. Convinced of what was possible, Huebner View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
then his HBS colleague, was already working on a concept he called “predictable surprises,” the collaboration that led to their widely read book by the same title was launched. A distinguished expert on managerial decision-making,... View Details
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The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears
Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)
From Denial: Why Business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Life Is a Marathon
has led “a life heartily lived,” the Times reported. “You’ve got to have goals in life or you wither away,” Mendes said. “It’s no disgrace to fail, only not to try.” Before his career in investment banking, Mendes was a Marine Corps pilot... View Details
- Career Coach
Ryan Kim
independent sponsor private equity firm and completed a self-funded search to buy a regional automotive installation services business which he operated as President. Prior to that, Ryan worked in large and mid cap private equity, led... View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
Litigation Strategy in EMC Corporation v. Donatelli (B) Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/318027-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-020 Actera Group: Investing in Mars Cinema Group (A) In summer of 2010, Murat Çavuşoğlu... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
process that has led to many successful product launches, but are there areas of customer need that are undervalued by the traditional process? A novel online customer analysis approach suggests untapped opportunities for innovation, but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
http://hbr.org/search/113094-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 613-031 Microsoft Server & Tools In 2011, Microsoft's Server & Tools Business (STB) was large, fast growing, and highly profitable on the strength of traditional packaged product lines View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
taxing our companies on foreign income, which has led to dozens of companies moving their corporate headquarters offshore and American companies holding more than a trillion dollars of cash abroad rather than repatriate it. Almost all... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
bonds to relatively wealthy investors—became integrated in a quite novel way in the course of the 1960s. The rise of the so-called 'Eurobond' market was a major breakthrough in the history of European integration, but it was a largely spontaneous result of innovation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
slipped behind its Indian competitors and multinational companies. Details the first phase of the transformation Nayar led in hopes of rejuvenating the industry pioneer. The tagline for this phase was "Employee First, Customer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
maxed-out credit cards, Orbital Sciences Corporation launched in April 1982, the first corporate entrant at the prime contractor level in nearly three decades. (Today, the company—now Orbital ATK—is a $4.5 billion enterprise.) For NASA, the funding nadir View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
president and COO. Thain labeled as “nonsense” the frequently heard claim in Washington that executive pay plans, particularly lavish bonuses, spurred the excessive risk-taking that ultimately led to the financial meltdown. He advocates... View Details
- 31 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies
how recent increases in competition among raters led to "friendlier," poorer-quality ratings. As Becker explains, "The related theory goes back to the early 1980s (especially to an influential paper by economists Benjamin... View Details
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
trespassing onto the mine’s waste dumps in search of gold. Subsequent investigations identified significant evidence to support the allegations, and the revelations led to broad ranging change at both Porgera and at Barrick more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
may have not ” Joined in class by the Chief Information Office (CIO) of the United States, Vivek Kundra, who oversees Data.gov, Lakhani led the case discussion for 50 technology executives in a weeklong HBS executive education course,... View Details