Economic Transformation Program - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2010
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Lords of Strategy

has served as the host of business programs on radio and television. The Players Hendersen Photo courtesy BCG Bruce Henderson When one-time Bible salesman Bruce Henderson died in 1992, the Financial Times declared that “few people have... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

06 Dec 2021
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What's the Word?

reshored factories, or requiring a certain percentage of demand to be available from US or USMCA sources. Those would admittedly be bold moves, notes Fuller, but it’s the kind of thinking needed to have reshoring make real economic sense:... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Martha Rich; Manufacturing; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

July 2024
Case

Jacqueline Cook at Vendasta: Debating an IPO

By: Reza Satchu, Tom Quinn and Andrew Kosc

In May 2021, after a surge in demand for digital services that prompted high valuations for startups across the Canadian tech sector, Saskatchewan-based Vendasta entered the final stages of the initial public offering (IPO) process. COO Jacqueline Cook had invested her... View Details

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21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

2018 Boston: Harvard Business Review Press Driving Digital Strategy: A Guide to Reimagining Your Business By: Gupta, Sunil Abstract—Disruption and transformation get a lot of hype and for good reason. Digital technologies have disrupted... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

struggled during the economic crisis from 2001 to 2002, it was well positioned to grow as the economy began to recover in 2003, in part due to government policies that helped stabilize the media industry. Now in October 2007, Grupo Clarín... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2016
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Vive la Madeleine!

radiates a benign intensity. “There were jobs to be created and families hoping for a solution. The second was that it could be a model for other companies in a similar situation. The economic climate in France was difficult, with... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Natalya Balnova

12 Apr 2023
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Step Change

company Fawry's IPO was oversubscribed by 30 times, generating $100 million. Significantly, a cultural shift occurred after the 2011 revolution when, suddenly, anything seemed possible. [music] Amal Enan (MBA 2014) witnessed these View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

01 Dec 2001
News

September 11: A Community Reflects

develop new case materials or to tailor existing materials, teaching plans, or class discussions to address the tragedy and its aftermath; HBS-sponsored panel discussions on topics such as the economic impact of the tragedy,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet

which is the ability of computer systems to learn from a language as it is spoken, in all its idioms, colloquialisms, and technical-ese, and without having to be explicitly programmed to learn these things. The IBM computers answered... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

06 Dec 2018
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Source Code

says. The recruiter eventually relented, and so began Dubinsky’s career of transforming the tech world. Dubinsky and Hawkins—shown here with Numenta cofounder Dileep George in 2005—first paired up at Palm, where Dubinsky was the founding... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg

03 Sep 2018
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Moving Pictures

33-year-old Oscar-winning director Damien Chazelle (Whiplash, La La Land) is making his name on: It presents Armstrong, typically portrayed as a postage-stamp hero, as a complex man who staked a nation’s place on the moon—and in history—at enormous personal cost. “The... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Christina Gandolfo; Arts, Entertainment

01 Sep 2024
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Next Level

In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details

Keywords: Maggie Mertens; photos by Cameron Karsten; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

09 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

fell in love with the product and forgot about the customer. Something else very important happened to the company from 1990 on—the Intel Inside program had reached directly out to the consumer. So Andy, who grew up as an engineer,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

Stevenson. "Our entrepreneurially oriented executive programs, the Owner/President Management Program (OPM) and the Presidents' Seminar, which work with presidents of entrepreneurially oriented firms, rely on a broad mix of faculty drawn... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons

08 Jun 2018
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My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses

investment banking division for Goldman Sachs. And it was kind of an interesting experience I thought I'd share quickly. We started the training program in about September of 1987, then in October of 1987 there was a big stock market... View Details

01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand

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