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Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015) - Recruiting

her HBS section as a key support network, as well as the HBS alumni she has connected with in Nigeria. Nneka’s experience is proof that building a network is a long-term strategy for success, as she met the founders of CrossBoundary (also... View Details

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

their ecosystem. They rapidly adapt and sometimes shift their value proposition to reflect ever-evolving demand conditions and discover new growth opportunities. They adapt their approach toward HR management to preserve business... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Growing on the Job - Alumni

growth needs, you have important choices to make regarding your goals. Typically, these are: Improved performance in specific skill areas; General expansion of skills, including the development of new ones, which can contribute to your... View Details

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Studies for his paper with Adi Sunderam, “The Growth and Limits of Arbitrage: Evidence from Short Interest.” Victoria Ivashina : Winner of the 2014 Rising Star in Finance Award presented at the Rising Stars Conference, Gabelli School of... View Details

11 Oct 2006
What Do You Think?

How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?

trends, and economic growth rates. But in business, it is also influenced strongly by the cost of retirees, which in turn is determined in large part by the outcomes of negotiations between management and labor. Harvard economists David... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

the lower end of the seven peer schools tracked by HBS and amounted to 14 percent of the School's total revenues. Harvard Business Publishing Four of HBP's five market-facing groups—Harvard Business Review, Higher Education, Advertising, and Press—delivered... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success

wildest dreams. Going forward, I'm cautious but fundamentally bullish. I would be shocked if, in the next five years, we didn't have an adjustment of some significance. But I think the underlying fundamentals continue to be good, and the View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

20 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: Survival’s Secret Sauce

The secret sauce of long-term business success can't be captured in numbers. As the operations manager of a leading and fast-growing Brazilian business recently explained to a reporter, "There's a secret sauce in this business [but] it's... View Details

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

current preoccupation in the media and politics with what is wrong, rather than how to fix problems at scale. Confronting Climate Change Professor Daniel Schrag + More Info – Less Info The last 200 years have seen a remarkable explosion in the use of energy, allowing... View Details

2009
Other Unpublished Work

Singapore Competitiveness Report

By: Christian H.M. Ketels, Ashish Lall and Boon Siong Neo

The 2009 Singapore Competitiveness Report, the first in this new series of regular assessments by the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, provides data and analysis to inform the discussions on the impact of the crisis... View Details

Keywords: Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Microeconomics; Policy; Competitive Strategy; Singapore

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Leading Successful Digital Transformation

may be disrupted in the future is not the best recipe for long-term success. Experimentation: Companies often run hackathons and innovation days that inspire employees to start many new digital projects. Senior management encourages these... View Details

01 May 2019
What Do You Think?

What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?

ground and long-term viewership. As realJoannLyles put it, “YouTube t-h-i-n-k-s it has a suppression problem. Instead, YouTube has a moral problem ” David Wittenberg added, “There's no ‘right answer’ here. No matter what YouTube does or... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

29 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

entitled, but also obligated to do that. Not so fast, say Henderson and Ramanna. They argue managers have another interest, not just to serve as agents for their shareholders, but also to serve as agents for the system as a whole. It is not in the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

06 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

The Innovator’s Battle Plan

replacement to silver halide film in our core market?" By seeking to create high-priced, performance-competitive digital products, Kodak missed much of the disruptive growth driven by inexpensive digital imaging. Kodak eventually... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony & Erik A. Roth

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Mireya Iglesias Ayala

Coming to HBS is like... Delving into a captivating novel, where each chapter, from the invigorating classroom debates prompted by the cold call method to the enduring traditions like Flag Day, propels the narrative of our growth forward.... View Details

17 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

compensation structure, and corporate governance approach, leading up to August 2008. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709449 The Cleveland Clinic: Growth Strategy 2008... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Apr 2024
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Mission Control

founder and CEO of Spire, a global provider of space-based data, analytics, and space services.Making good on those long-term goals, Platzer says, was the result of building a very specific mission for himself while he was at HBS: "To... View Details

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

revenues, including current use gifts and distribution from the endowment. In fiscal 2023, the School’s total revenues increased by $101 million, or 11 percent, to $1.1 billion from $966 million in the prior year, primarily reflecting the View Details

12 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research

shrinking human services than the long-term benefits of research spending, whose outcomes might be years away. “Voters don’t get as angered about such cuts.” The research can’t predict what would happen if the US government slashed... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

February 2019 (Revised August 2019)
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KangaTech

By: Karim R. Lakhani, Patrick J. Ferguson, Sarah Fleischer, Jin Hyun Paik and Steven Randazzo

On a warm January afternoon in 2019, Steve Saunders, Dave Scerri, Carl Dilena, and Nick Haslam (see Exhibit 1 for biographies), co-founders of KangaTech, wrapped up the latest round of discussions about the future direction of their sports-technology start-up. Focused... View Details