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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
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Strategist’s Guide to Digital Change, about the choices they’ve made and the hopes they have for their growing businesses. Bharat Anand: First, can you give a brief description of your business? Snigdha Sur: The Juggernaut is a... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Europe
increasing connectedness and the impact of our actions in one place on the situation in another. "We cannot deal without understanding the connections we're making," said Stevenson. "You may want to look at these four points," he said, "and see... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Women Negotiating in the New Millenium
was potential to "expand the pie," Riley said, "what we found is that men were better at claiming the pie. On the other hand, woman-woman dyads were the best at expanding the pie." "These results were... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
A New Case at Harvard Business School Highlights the Real-World Issues for Latinx Considering an MBA
leaving that position to take on student debt is considerable. “You almost feel guilty about putting that idea in front of your family, who has perhaps been working their whole life to make the income that you're making as a 22-year old,”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
willingness to pay more just so you can download your movies faster,” says HBS professor David Yoffie. “Most people studying this problem would say that if that’s the business model, it’s going to be highly problematic for the carriers.”... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
Given the secrecy surrounding homers, how difficult was it for you to do your research? A: This is the part I loved most about this research. I was, at first, annoyed that some people refused to speak to me. Being somewhat stubborn, I was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
buying from, selling to, and competing with enterprises and customers from around the world. What all four had in common was that they worked to extend the reach of markets, and hence of competition, into places that Schumpeterian... View Details
- 17 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper
industry, which reached global sales of $1.9 trillion in 2019. Even before the pandemic, roughly 28 percent of global apparel transactions were happening online. At the same time, many brands had closed their physical stores in the... View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
consumer products. And by the way, last point on this: I think the cost of creation of a product that reaches 100 million consumers is one 10th or maybe one 50th, the cost that it would take to do so in the United States. It’s a natural... View Details
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
whose millions of customers could be lured by college savings. A classic example of "simultaneity," the work involved what Bussgang called "the dance of a dreamweaver": selling venture capitalists on the potential size... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 11 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time
work remotely during the pandemic, but for a huge swath of the population, working from home was simply not an option. This was especially true for many gig workers and small business owners – it’s tough to work from home when your... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
true in the work I do in Sri Lanka, is that the technical solution is easy,” he reflects. “It’s navigating the human side that’s much harder—that’s what I found in my LEAD cases at HBS. There’s never an A, B, C sequence that you can put into a flow chart. You just have... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
When you think about which countries have produced the greatest management innovations, the United States and Japan are likely to top your list. But it was Germany in the late 1800s and early 1900s that was a cauldron of innovative and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
dangerous place on the planet. It’s pitch-black, trucks are driving around, and there’s the danger of getting sucked into an intake, or blown over the side by a jet blast, or having your cranium squashed by a propeller. But that’s far... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
potential for ecommerce growth in the country which relies (on) a lot of machine learning and AI the growth rate through the new economy prospects is just starting to take off here in Bangladesh.” Jacob Navon added, “Is the New Economy... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter
that leaders matter. Certainly, many leaders (especially the successful ones) make this claim—just have a look at the business section of your local bookstore. But social scientists who systematically study leadership generally agree with... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
needed,” Mendu says. A third component of the initiative pairs mental health clinicians with outreach workers for the homeless to head off potential crises before they happen. “Our model was a program we researched in Houston that’s... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
personally special as we co-wrote a chapter together in a past book, Confidence, focusing on Nelson Mandela’s leadership lessons for organizations and businesses seeking large scale transformation. The Fearless Organization touches on themes of how to unlock the full... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
were seen as the fulcrum for knowledge toward truth and the advancement of understanding. Were they over-optimistic? It depends on your point of view. Like all entrepreneurs, they were trying to change the world and not content with the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
Prescribed” emblazoned on the front. GPP’s director of programs Kaitlin Burkly and community outreach specialist Conner Nettles guide the gathering. Reaching teenagers isn’t easy. Langford knows this. It’s also easier to un-sell... View Details