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    Judo Strategy: Turning Your Competitors’ Strength to Your Advantage

    Why do some companies succeed in defeating stronger rivals, while others fail? This is a question that, sooner or later, all ambitious competitors must face. Whether you’re a tiny start-up taking on industry giants or a giant moving into markets dominated by... View Details

    • 28 Jan 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees

    sincere handwritten note explaining why the employee deserved the bonus. “If you can find a way to imbue meaning beyond the zeros in the cash reward,” says Whillans, “that same reward will go further.” Reconsider performance incentives Many companies attempt to... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • September 2008 (Revised October 2008)
    • Case

    Marc Abrahams: Annals of an Improbable Entrepreneur

    By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind
    Marc Abrahams was a media entrepreneur who specialized in science humor. In 2008, he sought to boost the scale and monetization potential of his business. That business, called Improbable Research, encompassed a magazine (Annals of Improbable Research), a high-profile... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Selection and Staffing; Human Capital; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Personal Development and Career
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    Podcast - Business & Environment

    and carbon utilization (converting greenhouse gasses into products). In discussing the Carbon XPRIZE and Carbon Removal XPRIZE competitions, Marcius explains how the prize model fosters solutions that address certain climate problems. He... View Details
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    MBA Experience - Business & Environment

    career through networking and recruiting events, mentorship and alumni connections, and more. Entrepreneurial Support Starting your own venture? Learn about local incubators, prize opportunities and advising resources. Harvard... View Details
    • September 2017 (Revised December 2019)
    • Case

    Miami Price: Bidding on an Iconic Transit-Oriented Development Site

    By: Charles F. Wu, Aaron Stolear, Vitali Bourchtein and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
    13th Floor-Adler, a partnership of 13th Floor Investments and Adler Group, was compiling a response to a Miami-Dade County Request for Proposal (RFP). The RFP's prize was the opportunity to develop a 7.5+/- acre parking lot, adjacent to a heavy-rail rapid transit... View Details
    Keywords: Land Valuation; Real Estate Development; Real Estate; Land Markets; Land Investment; Property; Design; Valuation; Real Estate Industry; Miami
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    • 01 Dec 2023
    • News

    The Imposter Among Us

    inadequacy, in my first week on the job Clayton received a letter from the Nobel Prize Committee asking him to recommend someone for the Nobel Prize in Economics. He handed me the letter, asked me to write a... View Details
    Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
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    For MBA Students - Entrepreneurship

    and get quality feedback, mentorship and a chance at $150,000 in prize money for your venture. Rock Summer Fellows Secure funding for a summer well spent between your RC and EC years developing your own new venture or joining an... View Details
    • July 2019
    • Case

    Instabeat—One More Lap?

    By: Shikhar Ghosh, Nicole Tempest Keller and Alpana Thapar
    This case follows Lebanese entrepreneur, Hind Hobeika, an engineer and competitive swimmer who spends seven years trying to launch a wearable heartrate monitor and motion sensor to help swimmers track their performance while swimming. While the Beirut-based... View Details
    Keywords: Startup; Manufacturing; Prototyping; Female Protagonist; Business Startups; Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Design; Organizational Culture; United States; Lebanon
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    • 12 Apr 2022
    • Book

    Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence

    Britain’s 20th century empire was the largest in human history, with a quarter of the world’s land and nearly 700 million people. Yet the empire drew its strength from violence. That’s the conclusion Harvard Business School Professor Caroline Elkins draws in her new... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
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    HBS - The year in Review

    Student Business Track and Student Social Enterprise Track, with runner-up prizes of $25,000; two audience prizes of $5,000; and $15,000 in Tough Technology prizes. The Alumni New Venture Competition engaged... View Details
    • 04 Jan 2017
    • What Do You Think?

    How Much Bureaucracy is a Good Thing in Government and Business?

    Bureaucracy doesn’t seem to have many advocates. But if we can extrapolate from the work of Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman and others on individual human behavior, we may obtain insights into situations in which bureaucratic processes... View Details
    Keywords: by James L. Heskett
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    Leadership Initiative - Leadership

    Bennis Prize for the Harvard Business Review article “Collective Genius,” based on the book. Hill is also the co-author of Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives of Becoming a Great Leader and author of Becoming a Manager: How New Managers... View Details
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    Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    David A. Wells Prize in Economics from Harvard, and the Academy of Management’s highest award for scholarly contributions to management. He is also an unprecedented seven-time winner of the McKinsey Award for the best Harvard Business... View Details
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    HBS - The year in Review

    Chair, India Sanitation Coalition Robert L. Ryan MBA 1970 Retired Senior VP and CFO, Medtronic Inc. Robert B. Wilson MBA 1961, DBA 1963 Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Emeritus, Stanford University; 2020 Sveriges Riksbank View Details
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    Competitions & Challenges - Health Care

    leaders. Students have the unique opportunity to meet other graduate students from across the country, and win prizes up to $10,000. Lemelson-MIT Student Prize The Lemelson-MIT Student View Details
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    Clubs - Business & Environment

    transition to a sustainable system. MIT Student Clubs MIT student clubs host some events that are open to HBS students, such as cross-school mixers and public events like the MIT Sustainability Summit , MIT Climate & Energy Prize , MIT... View Details
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    Skydeck - Alumni

    transformational pursuit of purpose Bidding Up 2022 Alumni Achievement Award recipient Bob Wilson (MBA 1961, DBA 1963) on his journey from Depression-era Nebraska to a 2020 Nobel Prize Leading to Salvation 2022 Alumni Achievement Award... View Details
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    New Venture Competition | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    Solara Sacerdote Grand Prize Winner, Social Enterprise Track, 2024 New Venture Competition 1_rwoq7e70 Trans Health HQ Sacerdote Runner-Up Prize Winner, Social Enterprise Track, 2024 New Venture Competition... View Details
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    Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

    Jensen Prize for the best corporate finance paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics for “How Much Should We Trust Staggered Difference-In-Differences Estimates?” (May 2022) with Andrew Baker and David F. Larcker. 2022... View Details