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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
definitions of success than they did when you first came to HBS? Carliss Baldwin Yes, interestingly, today's women MBA students are both more ambitious and more realistic about the world, especially career/life/family trade-offs. Women in... View Details
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
forced to do so under external pressure. The Bank should develop two sets of mandatory process-based participation standards. A fixed administrative procedure for developing and revising Bank operational policies and strategies (i.e.,... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
covers all aspects of the energy business. "One idea that I believe will be discredited is the mega-merger theory — that Texaco was too small to be relevant." "Fortunately, there are still strategies that allow a smaller operator to be... View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
top PC game League of Legends, considers its growth strategy as it moves into a new campus in Los Angeles. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/416016-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 315-098 Terrapin... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
literature on the notion of institutional entrepreneurship introduced by Paul DiMaggio in 1988, we propose a model of the process of institutional entrepreneurship. We first present theoretical and definitional issues associated with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
Case 708-479 This case on the globalization of East Asian pop music is useful for teaching concepts of regional business strategy and also of cultural arbitrage. Music companies in the case must examine why certain markets are clearly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
were definitely slow-lane. So when the firm chose not one but two routes to recovery, Porsche caught industry watchers and Porsche enthusiasts by surprise. In addition to launching a new two-seater, the Boxster, in 1996, it decided to... View Details
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
clients. “But there is a hidden cost,” says Viceira. “Index funds by definition don’t look at what is happening in the corporations they own.” That is less important when index funds are a minority of a company’s ownership—investors can... View Details
- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
definition of profit by changing accounting rules. On one level, this corporate behavior embodies the capitalist spirit articulated by Milton Friedman: "The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits." But the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?
qualified borrowers. Small business owners feel that despite being creditworthy today, banks remain either wary or entirely unwilling to lend to them. There is no data that definitively measures either the credit gap for small business or... View Details
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
demonstrates the mutual interconnectivity among the three key facets of management: strategic positioning, organizational design, and individual leadership. The authors highlight both the manner in which strategy informs leadership and... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 14 Dec 2015
- News
A Leader’s Call to Action
and professionally,” she recalls. “It was a deep dive into the key aspects of accounting and finance, strategy and organizational performance, and—most of all— leadership. We got this larger worldview from colleagues who were business... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Clarity and Concision By Soo Ping Lim (AMP 160, 2001) Write Editions Highly readable and succinct, Clearly Write provides direct, definitive and practical guidance on how to write with clarity and concision. The book is distilled from... View Details
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
has to be implemented across a large, distributed organization. "Large firms definitely had some work to do to adopt," says McElheran. "But it seems that the best firms had practices in place to deal with the complexity. The real... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
working with the team, recruiting talent, or building partnerships/infrastructure to help us grow in the right direction.” What’s been the best part of the Flatiron School journey? What’s been the most challenging? “The best part is View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
Hicks. CP+B is known for work that challenges the definition of traditional advertising (such as its 2004 Subservient Chicken Web site, created for Burger King). The agency has also garnered its share of attention through numerous... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
establishing the existence of equilibria and other useful properties in diverse settings such as matching, auctions, and exchange economies with indivisible goods. We extend earlier models’ definitions of substitutability to settings in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
“lottery tickets,” as one alum puts it. (A producer working for one of the big studios has a more stable existence, receiving an up-front fee and offer of net profits, although these are rarely realized.) Diane Nabatoff (MBA 1982) has her own View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
advice, insight, and perspective, and facilitating a new understanding of things." That definition neatly sums up a profession that's been shaped and populated by HBS alumni since the emerging notion of View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
intuits a developing bottleneck in the assembly line and creates a fix before a problem occurs. It's also the CEO who draws on years of experience to solve a strategy imbroglio that has paralyzed top staff. It's the venture capitalist—who... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap