Meaning - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Nov 2017
Video

Honoring our Military on Veterans Day

Blog

Faculty Reflections on International Women's Day

support of IWD, we collected thoughtful reflections from faculty sharing their view about what this year's theme means to them and why it is so important in forging the way for women’s equality. Read on to hear insights from our faculty.... View Details

03 May 2023
Blog Post

Five Ways to Build Community at HBS

When I was admitted to HBS on December 9, 2021, I was so excited that I flew to Boston the next day to spend the weekend exploring the city, and visualizing what this next chapter in my life could mean for me. By January, I decided not to... View Details

10 Dec 2012
News

How Nonprofits Can Use Data to Solve the World’s Problems

The Emergence of Charismatic Business Leadership

The Emergence of Charismatic Business Leadership is an examination of how the role of the business leader in the U.S. has changed from World War II to the present. A small number of high-profile individuals have transformed the face of modern-day... View Details

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Adrian Gore

Adrian Gore, founder and Group Chief Executive of Discovery Limited, emphasizes the importance of supporting entrepreneurship as a means of solving socio-economic issues in South Africa. View Details

April 2003 (Revised December 2003)
Background Note

Winning the Influence Game: Corporate Diplomacy and Business Strategy

Provides a framework for influencing key outside players--businesses, governments, and NGOs--in support of business strategy. This could mean negotiating contracts with major customers and suppliers, concluding acquisitions and alliances, and securing financing from... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation; Business Strategy; Power and Influence

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Educators

Purchase

12 Feb 2015
Video

When Girl Meets Oil

19 Jun 2015
Blog Post

What is the HBS Show?

bring it to life on the stage. It means we have taken every moment over the last two years to stop and look around and truly see HBS. Yes, it was in our job description but it has been an enormous gift to us. View Details

11 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes

Historians.) Hisano’s paper looks at how industry players and regulators collectively decided what any given food is supposed to look like—and redefined the marketing meaning of “natural.” The quest for summery butter and orange oranges... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

19 May 2003
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts

Harvard Business School MBA '03 students Raj De Datta, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Meghna Modi recently won the Social Enterprise track of the annual HBS Business Plan contest with their plan for brokering microfinance loans to families in the service of keeping... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler; Financial Services

12 Apr 2010
News

Inside Best Buy's Customer-Centric Strategy

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute

can win. This means hiring the proper consultants and legal advisors, particularly those who are well versed in the workings of the WTO. The last piece of advice is not really an action plan, rather an issue to recognize and keep in one's... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

02 Jul 2015
News

Greece Referendum Offers Two Bad Choices

12 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs have an incredible backstop of management experience and wisdom available to them that, too often, they ignore. Why don’t startup founders make more use of their investors? Many entrepreneurs are hesitant to ask advice from funders. Would doing so, they... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

Video

Badreddine Ouali

Badreddine Ouali, Founder and Co-CEO of Vermeg, expresses his views on the importance of finding meaning and a chance to effect positive change in one's line of work. View Details

02 Dec 2015
What Do You Think?

What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?

Are Investors the Ultimate Antidote to Gender Inequality in Leadership? Once respondents came to terms with my use of “gender equality” in the title of this month’s column they described several ways in which it might be achieved in our discussion of gender inequality... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

May 2003
Background Note

How to Induce Retailers to Reduce Stockouts?

By: V.G. Narayanan

Describes how the lack of incentive alignment between retailers and their vendors can lead to stockouts. Also describes various means to reduce incentive misalignment and hence stockouts. View Details

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Supply Chain Management; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Distribution; Alignment; Business Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Retail Industry