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- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
and chips chain, figuring that if I could grow earnings of 50 percent compounded with a donut shop chain, just imagine what I could do with several other franchise businesses. Bad idea. It did not work and earnings stagnated. Stock price... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
- 25 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures
apart old electronics to learn what makes them tick. Green technologies - solar, batteries, motors - captured his imagination early on. “I’d spend weekends and summers sifting through old toys and electronics in the house to find the... View Details
- 05 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software
by contributing on smaller firms and startups. “One could imagine that the effects might be potentially bigger for smaller companies,” he says, “especially in the tech sector or for other companies that rely on tech in their DNA.” Nagle... View Details
- 01 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Exploring Career Passions through Short Intensive Programs – Moving Beyond Direct to Consumer
status very quickly (such as Allbirds, Casper, Warby Parke and Glossier). Then reality hit. What we discovered was that these businesses were relatively easy to imagine and start up but very difficult to grow and scale. Our 2020 version... View Details
- 18 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Relocating to Boston with Your Partner
time together and embrace the experiences that force you out of your comfort zone. Megan and I had the time of our lives at HBS and made many lifelong friends in the process. We never would have imagined what a life changing experience it... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
opportunities will be an alpha generator, likely the ultimate alpha generator, in the years to come. Sarah Keohane Williamson (MBA 1989) Chief Executive Officer, FCLTGlobal Climate is the New Digital BIO A digital strategy today is a core element of any business. View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer
this is the positive of globalization—the ability to try and transcend the difficulties of your domestic context in order to improve your competitiveness," Ghemawat said, "then one of the downsides, or at least one of the managerial challenges, is that it's... View Details
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences
economies will remain with us for the foreseeable future. That spells opportunity for those companies that have the imagination to see the full range of possibilities. View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A World of Difference
someone else’s shoes. He shows across 25 studies with more than 2,800 people that imagining the world through someone else’s eyes leads us to inaccurate judgments. What helps us to be more accurate is what he calls “perspective getting,”... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
are sometimes a liability - I was often torn between the Asian values of my parents and the American ones I saw outside – but bridges are also remarkable – helping people travel to and imagine new places, drawing their strength from both... View Details
- 12 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association
calling — to come to HBS in pursuit of the same opportunities for impact and service that had called me to the Army. I look back on my time in the Army with a feeling of deep thankfulness. That time developed me in ways that I never could have View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
interest — on this mostly Republican $10 trillion debt, up from slightly less than $1 trillion when Reagan took office, is equivalent to about 40 percent of all the personal income taxes Americans pay each year. Imagine what would happen... View Details
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
what you're actually trying to accomplish. Kenny: What do you think about the strategy of leaking them out? I could imagine that you want to build up suspense, you want to have that “a-ha” moment when the ad comes on [for the first time].... View Details
- 30 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides
further and highlighting their products’ shortcomings, companies might save consumers that step and help them buy with confidence. And, with time, hiding a product’s downsides might eventually become its own operating risk. “If transparency becomes more of a norm in... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
Saenz and O’Keeffe claim, “Bold leadership teams are beginning to imagine this [post-pandemic] new world now and already adjusting their strategies and operating models. At this moment, teams want to hear four messages: our people are... View Details
- 04 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors
potential investors. To the extent that founders tend to be very confident in their startup's prospects, they may even be more inclined to take money from friends and family, happily imagining those close to them sharing in the startup's... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
- 04 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?
“There are important implications for the quality of accounting information in corporations and in capital markets” "We could imagine that as the audit industry becomes more concentrated, the big auditors would become increasingly... View Details
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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
balancing basic and applied research while demonstrating accountability to the company's stockholders: Our scientists get half of their time for themselves, to be free scientists, to think, to dream, to imagine . . . But the other half of... View Details