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- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
research on organizational learning, human resource management and operations management are discussed. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-002.pdf Lean Principles, Learning, and Software... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
economy to a market economy. Many foreign investors have expressed renewed interest in Mongolia due to its rich natural resources (e.g., copper, gold, coal, uranium) and its strategic geographic location relative to its neighbors, China... View Details
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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Commerce and the High Level Reflection Group on Health Statistics of the OECD. Jens studied medicine at the Universities of Hannover, Bonn, Athens, Patras, and Kiel and received his doctoral degree from Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel. Jens worked as a postgraduate... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/09/contextual-intelligence/ar/1 September 2014 The Interdisciplinary Science of Consumption Appetite, Consumption, and Choice in the Human Brain By: Knutson, Brian, and Uma R. Karmarkar... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
decades, we have seen a distinct transformation of the C-suite—a term denoting the most important senior executives in an organization—characterized by the proliferation of new Chief X Officer (CXO) roles, in which X stands for a specific domain such as sustainability,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Skooter, his wife of sixty years, as she accompanied him on work-related trips to foreign countries. A Profile of the Performing Arts Industry by David H. Gaylin (MBA 1979) (Business Expert Press) At their best, the performing arts represent the height of View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
India. “Hence ‘Alumni in Action’.... powerful stories of resilience, purpose and giving back. Stories that restore one's faith in Humanity and inspire us to dream of a better tomorrow." MAY 25 Vinay Pasricha (OPM 39, 2010) cofounded an... View Details
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
company should not have entered in the first place. The example we use in the book is Nokia. Consultants from a leading strategy consulting firm had recommended that Nokia should absolutely not be in the cell phone business. (Nokia already had engineers and View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Jun 2012
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Leadership: What We Know
have learned, but equally eager to discover what others have been up to as well. Unfortunately, unlike some of the more well-established academic disciplines, there are few institutional resources available to support this increasingly... View Details
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Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
countries, agriculture still represents a large share of the domestic economy. Small farms and lack of resources often means that agriculture is highly inefficient. Technology can dramatically improve productive capacity of farms and... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
not doing this to increase our sales ... or our profits." Our sample cases have exhibited remarkable correlation between altruistic drives and family companies. From an ethical point of view, it is to be expected that individuals acting out of pure altruism would... View Details
- Career Coach
Matt Spielman
Matt (Columbia ’94, HBS ’99) is the Founder and Managing Partner of Inflection Point Partners, an executive coaching and leadership development firm dedicated to igniting careers and energizing lives. Matt and his team at Inflection Point form meaningful partnerships... View Details
- November 2017
- Teaching Note
Reinventing Best Buy
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Teaching Note for HBS No. 716-455.
On March 1, 2017, Best Buy Company, Inc., North America’s largest retailer of consumer electronics and appliances, announced a third year of comparable-store sales increases and a 20.8% increase in domestic comparable online sales.... View Details
Keywords: Best Buy; Hubert Joly; Renew Blue; Showrooming; Webrooming; E-commerce; E-Commerce Strategy; Online Retail; Multichannel Retailing; Omnichannel; Marketplaces; Turnaround; Consumer Electronics; Consumer Electronics Accessories; Appliances; Stores-within-stores; Store Experience; Store Size; Store Pickup; Store Management; Delivery; Delivery Models; Amazon; Amazon.com; Pricing Strategy; Business Subsidiaries; Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Theater Entertainment; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Cost; Selection and Staffing; Reports; Technological Innovation; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Human Capital; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers; Media; Distribution; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Distribution Channels; Infrastructure; Product; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Programs; Groups and Teams; Sales; Salesforce Management; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Technology; Hardware; Information Technology; Internet; Mobile Technology; Online Technology; Search Technology; Software; Web; Web Sites; Wireless Technology; Resource Allocation; Computer Industry; Electronics Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Video Game Industry; United States; Minnesota; Minneapolis; Saint Paul; St. Paul
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
Well, I think, our life's greatest obstacles present us the most opportunity. What fun would life be if we never faced any adversity? What sense of fulfillment would we have if we never had an obstacle to overcome? What sort of growth would we experience as View Details
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53928 Homesick or Home Run? Distance from Hometown and Employee Performance: A Natural Experiment from India By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Ohchan Kwon Abstract—Companies often assign workers to far-flung locations to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
primarily on substitutes but copied from rivals. Next, they actively tested their assumptions and made major resource commitments to the business model they identified as the most lucrative. Finally, they deliberately maintained a loosely... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- April 2025 (Revised April 2025)
- Case
Techint: Strategic Choices for Community Impact
By: Lauren Cohen, Virak Prum, Kenneth Charman, Pedro Levindo and Mariana Cal
In early 2024 Erika Bienek, Chief Community Relations Officer at Techint, had to decide whether to invest in a new company-owned and operated technical school in Veracruz, Mexico, or invest instead in strengthening the city’s public education system. Techint, a global... View Details
Keywords: Technical Institutes; Community Relations; Social Impact; Argentina; Mexico; Brazil; Conglomerate; Stakeholder Management; Government And Business; Community Impact; Philanthropy; Business Conglomerates; Business Subsidiaries; Business Headquarters; Family Business; Decision Making; Private Sector; Public Sector; Education; Curriculum and Courses; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Teaching; Training; Learning; Energy; Engineering; Construction; Values and Beliefs; Geography; Global Range; Local Range; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Globalized Firms and Management; Government Legislation; Recruitment; Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Knowledge; Resource Allocation; Industry Clusters; Infrastructure; Family Ownership; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Business and Community Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Creativity; Reputation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Poverty; Strategy; Construction Industry; Education Industry; Energy Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Steel Industry; Europe; Italy; Latin America; North and Central America; Mexico; North America; United States; South America; Argentina; Buenos Aires; Brazil
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
human resource functions. Pentagram's second principle was generosity. All partners were equal shareholders in the firm. Pentagram branched out to New York in the early 1980s, and in the late 1980s, Hinrichs... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
globe for a weeklong intensive education in building strategic perspectives. And intensive it is: Participants address everything from establishing methods of fiscal accountability to assessing organizational performance to mobilizing View Details
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
that there is a good local organization, a human rights organization within the countries, monitoring these arrests and these imprisonments. So we spent a lot of time monitoring them, trying to work with them as best we can, and then... View Details