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Case

Unleashing Human Magic at Best Buy

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger, Sunil Gupta and Amram Migdal

The case examines the transformation of Best Buy under CEO Hubert Joly's leadership from 2012. Facing significant business challenges, including competition from online and physical retailers, Joly implemented the "Renew Blue" turnaround strategy, which focused on... View Details

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26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

Profile

Brittani Rettig

best state around? "Having been born and raised there, I'm a Texas girl to the max. Five reasons that make my home state great are: We're big and proud—Don't mess with Texas! We're business friendly. We're family and community... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Services; Health Care

06 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?

measures. The Global Reporting Initiative captures ESG information from over 80 percent of the world’s largest corporations. Every company wants to be known as a good global citizen, and ESG reporting helps by demonstrating transparency... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

21 Mar 2016
HBS Case

Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'

the case about the trustworthiness of online reviews. It’s remarkable that 85 percent or so of people would make a purchase after reading online reviews. A: Yes. It turns out that if you think about it from a consumer standpoint: what are the available options of View Details

Keywords: by Brian Kenny; Advertising; Travel

24 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

get a call from a consultant who knows all about your impending bid and offers to help. The clear message is you are not going to win unless you use me." “The thing that struck me is how little information there is on corruption because... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital

which specializes in technology, life science, and information technology, also chose the global route in the mid-'80s so that it could help its client entrepreneurs compete successfully in the world economy. Forget about the traditional... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Financial Services

20 Feb 2020
Blog Post

Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Technology

communication – how that happens is up to you.” At HBS, our recruiting options are purposely flexible allowing you to use our scheduling tools for informal conversations and interviews around student class... View Details

Keywords: Technology

03 Jul 2024
News

Surviving the Iditarod

Athabaskan communities and small native villages, and then you get to the coast. And the coast is a really big deal because the final roughly 200 miles or so, 250 miles, of the Iditarod trail, run along the shore off the Bering Strait,... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

patients with chronic and sometimes terminal illness and have the opportunity to witness the bravery and courage that facing these circumstances requires. For this collection, the editors chose to emphasize the personal struggles associated with illness and the... View Details

22 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 22, 2008

non-profit organizations, and for-profit firms including financial institutions. They embody a number of different assumptions about incentives, drawing from economics, psychology, and sociology. We describe examples of each program and provide some View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2009
News

Alumni Books

CIOs Create and Communicate Value by Richard Hunter and George Westerman (DBA ’03) (Harvard Business Press) The authors recommend that to combat the IT-as-cost mindset, CIOs use IT to create three kinds of value — value for the money (the... View Details

23 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

effectiveness. A thorough understanding of gatekeepers and their roles can thus illuminate academics, the financial community and regulators on how such gatekeepers can be the most effective and generate the greatest benefits for capital... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

07 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 7

focus of the case is all the ways in which bad incentive design leads to dysfunctional behavior. In particular, a crucial issue is whether individual incentives are best or whether team incentives are best and why. In the (B) and (C) cases, the case rolls out in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Web

Online AI Course | HBS Online

the course. More detailed information on course requirements will be communicated at the start of the course. No grades are assigned for AI Essentials for Business. Participants will either be evaluated as... View Details

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Loan Assistance Programs - Alumni

you: Are a second-year MBA student graduating in May in good academic and community standing (see Policies & Student Conduct ). NOTE: ECs who complete the MBA Program in December with a March graduation date are eligible to apply in... View Details

18 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Identify Emerging Market Opportunities

linguistic groups in emerging markets also affects foreign investors. In Malaysia, for instance, foreign companies should enter into joint ventures only after checking if their potential partners belong to the majority Malay community or... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu & Jayant Sinha

08 Mar 2016
First Look

March 8, 2016

global information and communication technology company. The case ends with the location decision between Tokyo, Japan, downtown San Francisco or Sunnyvale, California, regarding establishing a small unit... View Details