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25 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business

solutions for myriad tasks that previously were performed in traditional, non-tech ways. In this way, they have improved the productivity of many traditional industries (just look at all the industries that use PCs today) and created View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

01 Sep 2010
News

Leslie Gold

weeknights on www.shovio.com, with podcasts at www.radiochick.com. Tell us about life before RadioChick. I grew up in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where my dad ran a construction-related business, which is probably how I got business in my blood. I went to Syracuse... View Details

Keywords: Talk Radio; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Jun 2022
News

June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

CMO tasked with returning a key consumer brand to relevance. Fin Tales is also the rare book about leading business turnarounds not from the top, where most leaders control all the levers of change, but from the middle, where thoughtful... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

14 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 14

pricing structure. InterfaceRAISE needed to decide how to accelerate its growth while better achieving its three objectives: improving its clients' sustainability performance, enhancing its parent company's brand image and sales, and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 22, 2008

minds—the deep metaphors that reveal people's true feelings about products. The solution: Find ways to generate positive emotional associations, as GSK has done with its weight-loss product. Alex Lee, president of household-products maker OXO International, says... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207020 Li Ning-Anything Is Possible Harvard Business School Case 507-024 A leading sporting goods company in China competes aggressively against global brands Nike and Adidas,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2025
News

Keeping the Faith

It has been said that the note of a Tibetan singing bowl is the sound of inner peace. That’s not something you might expect to hear in the MBA classroom. But it rings through Hawes Hall at the beginning of each session of The Spiritual Lives of Leaders, a second-year... View Details

Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace; Illustrations by Victo ngai

23 May 2019
Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

packages, and distributes branded food products sourced from subsistence farmers. “Our vision is to be the preferred provider of food to West Africans,” they said. In 2010, the Nwunelis founded Sahel Capital, which includes a consulting... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology

01 Mar 2010
News

Sole Mates

position. The job has taken me to some forty countries around the world, usually accompanying the prime minister on official visits while presenting the investment opportunities in the country, or meeting directly with potential investors. Invest Macedonia’s role... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government

04 Aug 2020
News

How Business Can Advance Racial Equity

impact coming from? Lisa Lewin: First, I think what we have seen from consumers has been incredible. Their increasing commitment to spending money on companies and brands aligned with their values has been an incredible, catalyzing force... View Details

01 Dec 1999
News

A Class Act

both. William D. Washburn (MBA '34) February 1961 Heard from Pete Foster, who continues to operate very successfully as a brand man for Procter & Gamble's Germasetic Dreft Soap - which is especially for diapers. His wife reports adequate... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Jun 2017
News

Supercharged

who intends to focus on the Chinese market at first, has every intention of eventually coming to the United States. Chinese penetration of foreign markets could take a variety of forms. But Ford’s Jeff Jones (MBA 2007), who oversees the Lincoln View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Tavis Coburn

01 Mar 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

not photoshopped to perfection but are flawed, vulnerable, and in-your-face. This total transparency generates a level of authenticity and intimacy with audiences that traditional marketing tactics cannot match. He also discusses the people, products, and View Details

19 Mar 2015
News

Walter Salmon Remembered

for, back into sole stewardship of a brand new 2nd year MBA course in Channels of Distribution at HBS, heavily over-subscribed (DANGER, DANGER) while consulting for Coca Cola and finishing my PhD thesis on the side. It should perhaps be... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

Career Coach

Kristin Brennan

Kristin (Duke ’03) applies her background as a management consultant, nonprofit Chief Talent Officer and negotiation strategist to her work helping students and alumni chart a course for their career and take the practical steps to achieve it. She looks forward to... View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise

May 2022
Supplement

Maestro Pizza (B): The Competition Awakens

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Fares Khrais

Maestro pizza opened its first store in 2013 after its founder, Khalid Al Omran, recognized an opportunity in Saudi Arabia to offer high quality pizza at affordable prices. The business grew rapidly and under the radar at first, but soon enough caught the attention of... View Details

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Career Coach

Meredith Hamilton

Meredith [she/her] has served as a mentor and coach to innumerable mid-career staff as well as several CEOs in the social sector. She is committed to creating a safe space for students and alumni to explore questions of professional identity and career progression... View Details

Keywords: Education; Entrepreneurship; Impact Investing; Financial Services (All); Government; Real Estate; Social Enterprise

23 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Are Great Teams Less Productive?

relative performance, or closing a performance gap. Second, learning occurs in reaction to changes in the world that require brand new responses. So, the second way learning promotes performance is by discovering and inventing new ways to... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

30 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

expected to achieve. You might conclude, therefore, that the two spans should be equally wide or narrow. As the adage goes, authority should match responsibility. But in high-performing organizations, many people are held to broad performance measures such as View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

18 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.

in safety many employees experience could result from: Not knowing all the answers is easy at first, but over time feels uncomfortable. When employees are brand new, they may feel quite comfortable asking questions, figuring they are not... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

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