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- 09 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place
time to enter or exit that location. Reducing your costs might not provide you with a competitive advantage at all." Walmart has been a smart expander since it opened its first store in Rogers, Arkansas, in 1962. Sam Walton slowly branched his growing View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
Projects The Business & Environment Initiative and the Social Enterprise Initiative deepen business leaders’ understanding of today’s environmental challenges and assist them... View Details
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
Dellenbach Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up Reducing unemployment among Palestinian youth and helping small businesses in the West Bank by establishing a cell-phone based job... View Details
- 21 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Common Strategy Mistakes
"Michael Porter didn't get to be a giant in the field of competition and strategy by hunting small game." Joan Magretta begins her new book on Harvard Business School's Michael Porter's work by... View Details
Keywords: by Joan Magretta
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Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online
other companies for investment purposes, and I’ve realized that I can make more informed decisions with my improved knowledge of company financials. Pankaj Prashant Medium Term Planning Engineer at Rio Tinto... View Details
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Health Care - Faculty & Research
in which agents recruited by a public health organization to sell condoms are randomly allocated to four groups. Agents in the control group are hired as volunteers, whereas agents in the three treatment groups receive, respectively, a View Details
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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership
Rationing Influence: Medium-Low 50 1950 s 19 Military spending shifts to nuclear deterrents Small Business Administration created Influence: Medium 60 1960 s 19 Great Society Consumer View Details
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
many small and often family-owned firms whose stories are hard to reconstruct. The industry as a whole is well known to be secretive—after all, its foundations rest heavily on mystique. View Details
- 06 Jul 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?
like transportation, and develop an industry around it, with meaningful careers and a meaningful solution.” So in our small sample we have an answer to one of our questions:... View Details
- 16 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service
women traverse their stores. In addition, Best Buy acquired Geek Squad to broaden its footprint into installation of equipment. The company applied the same concerted effort toward serving other valuable customer segments it had discovered, including View Details
- 16 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
How Being an Introvert Influenced My Business School Experience
Workout classes at the Shad fitness center: A group activity that requires no small talk Attending talks across the river at Harvard Kennedy School and then studying in the Smith Center: Both places where I... View Details
- 31 Jul 2023
- News
Striving for Imperfection
of other things. But they also tried this with quite small sums rather than a hundred million dollar sums for big companies, and they found that at risk-aversion tax still existed. Let me wrap it all... View Details
- 07 Jun 2021
- Book
9 Tips from an Expert Fundraiser: Help Donors 'Invest in Their Passion'
regard, helping to open and secure support. "It is hard work and absolutely vital if the organization is to succeed." McFarlan has spent the past 40 years serving on social View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
or, in other words, to exploit and explore. To achieve your goals, consider leveraging cross-functional teams, employing creative exercises, adjusting expectations and deliverables, supporting an agile View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Home Economics
In a remote village in the Mexican state of Chiapas, 13 women gather in an open-air community space. Each has arrived at their weekly meeting with a small deposit for El Banco—“the bank”—as the women have named the savings club they’ve... View Details
Keywords: April White
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
of the Harvard Project on the Workforce and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He studies issues related to employment and income polarization... View Details
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Situation or Environment (9) Small Business (22) Social Enterprise (137) Social Entrepreneurship (24) Social Issues (75) Social Marketing (34) Social Psychology (589) Social View Details
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
company Excara and switched to selling enterprise software for managing product content. In 2002, he started two nonprofits in response to the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church. He is currently... View Details
- 21 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Tipping Point: Investing in the Women of Kenya’s Coffee Farms
At one end of the global coffee supply chain are the diners who gather for brunch at the sidewalk tables outside Chloe’s Cafe in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood. Regulars there order the fluffy banana-walnut pancakes and steaming... View Details
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Events - Business & Environment
agriculture policies. Food Policy Pathways supports students, early-career professionals, and career shifters pursuing impactful roles at the federal, state, and local levels. Download to Calendar Keywords:... View Details