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03 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2010

The challenge for nonprofit leadership and management is to prioritize among many competing accountability demands. This involves deciding both to whom and for what they owe... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Oct 1999
News

Eight Among Many: Peter G. Harf

The room lights up when Peter Harf talks about perfume. His enthusiasm is contagious as he discusses a new cosmetics collection. The chairman and CEO of Coty Inc., one of the world's leading fragrance and... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

Research Summary

The Panama Canal

The Big Ditch is the first quantitative economic history of the Panama Canal and its effect on Panama, the United States, and the world economy. It makes three general arguments. First, that the Panama Canal was very important to... View Details

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Leading Successful Digital Transformation

growth. For example, digital banking allowed DBS bank of Singapore to expand into India with a fully digital bank—a market it could not compete in previously. Similarly, J.P. Morgan used blockchain technology to introduce Onyx, a new... View Details

Profile

Meagan Hill

few times in life you can be surrounded by such diversity," Meagan says. A comparable kind of diversity, in interests and knowledge, proved crucial to her FIELD 3 entrepreneurial work. "Our skills... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

10 Sep 2001
What Do You Think?

Do MBAs Need More Street Smarts?

Summing Up Summing up the unusually large number of responses to the piece on street smarts, the consensus is that they represent skills taught by experience, role models, and experiential learning... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

24 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention

algorithms compete against those that do and mimic the faster changes. The second change Cavallo points to is the existence of more uniform pricing within individual chains across locations. While it’s not... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail

01 Feb 2002
News

It's academic. (Not!)

If your idea of a Ph.D. in business conjures up visions of spectacled scholars toiling in solitude in the library's darkest, dustiest corners, think again. At HBS, students in the School's Doctoral Programs are doing much more than theorizing View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

11 Mar 2024
News

In Harmony

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park

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Newsletter - Managing the Future of Work

Subscribe to Managing the Future of Work Newsletter Subscribe to Managing the Future of Work Newsletter Many forces are redefining the nature of work: automation and AI, the gig economy, the care economy, the View Details

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

south seems to provide alternative export opportunities (Canuto et al., 2010). On the supply side, the almost unlimited labor supply at low wage levels (Lewis, 1954) in China and countries like Vietnam might make it hard for other... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

20 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh

dislikes. It’s hard for computers to compete with that." Where did that computer recommendation come from? Besides, product recommendations that seem to pop up out of nowhere in a social media feed or email may come across as confusing... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

11 May 2020
Op-Ed

Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness

It is no secret that immigration has reshaped American innovation. Immigrants are the backbone of America’s most innovative industries, provide a quarter of our patent applications, and are numerous among our science and engineering superstars. Taken from World... View Details

Keywords: by William R. Kerr

20 Apr 2021
Book

A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success

frameworks are complicated. The processes that companies install to develop their strategy are highly complex, hundreds of slides, dozens of analyses, many competing frameworks and considerations. I meet... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

22 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees

and if given the tools, empowerment, and support, they will not only perform for you—they will thrive,” Neeley says. “We need to trust ourselves, trust our people, and increase... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

Edmondson: Leadership will engage people to work together creatively I hope we will come to learn that hiding bad news is never a good idea. That will mean recommitting ourselves to mastering the leadership skills to tell the truth... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

03 May 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating the First HBS African-American Mother-Daughter Duo

of the hardest in her life in a white-male dominated institution, the struggle was worth it. Growing up, I noticed the value of the Harvard MBA experience, especially as a Black woman. It gave her the skill sets, credibility, View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Full Court Press

offer popcorn as well as bowls of spicy beef over French fries. During timeouts, the nearly 10,000 fans—one of them painted head to toe in green, yellow, and red, and another wearing an impossibly detailed... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

cautious about accepting jobs in highly politicized environments where only those who are very skillful at handling difficult work relationships can prosper. Those early in their careers can glean important self-insight through careful... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

16 Aug 2018
News

Working with a Giver’s Spirit

that we call the ‘high-impact entrepreneur.’” There are three things that define high-impact to Endeavor. First is having the commercial skills to create something that’s large and successful, creating a lot... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

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