Coupling - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Oct 2022
Blog Post

Latina Women in Leadership: Shirley Verónica Cardona (MBA 2012)

product marketing. Tell us about your involvement with HBSLAA. While I was deeply involved in LASO as a student, it is my experience on the HBS Latino Alumni Association (HBSLAA) Board that I am most proud of. After serving on the board for a View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics

actually behave from an ethical perspective, with an eye toward helping them make better decisions, is a large part of what the behavioral ethics world has been up to over the last couple of decades. And Mike, you’ve studied behavioral... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

The Simple Economics of Open Source

pay-off, no reward? Could it be driven, as some media reports have admiringly suggested, purely by intellectual fervor on the part of programmers, perhaps coupled with a noble desire to share and dispense knowledge to benefit mankind? Not... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology

01 Apr 2020
Blog Post

The Product Design Sprint - 5 Things I Learned in Launch Lab 1

customer but solves it in a way that it becomes indispensable. The best way to accomplish that goal is by really understanding the customer and experiencing what they are feeling. For our product, we conducted user interviews so that we could learn about what the View Details

19 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?

data. But higher costs for materials, manufacturing, shipping and trucking, and COVID safety measures, coupled with unprecedented competition for workers, are testing the endurance of retailers, especially those who rely heavily on cheap... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Retail

26 Jun 2023
Blog Post

ClimateCAP 2023 & ClimateCAP Fellowship

many aspects of our lives. I am looking forward to hearing how their ClimateCAP projects will progress in the next couple of months and support them in whatever way helpful. As we step into the summer, I am looking forward to dedicating... View Details

23 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'

sociologist at Harvard Business School. His parents were an interracial couple who fell in love in the 1960s, when mixed marriages faced scorn and sometimes worse in many parts of the US. Even so, he said, they always believed in the... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

29 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

The History and Influence of Andy Grove

If you look at some of the principles by which he ran that company, you can see that in an upside-down way, he learned them in Hungary. Everything Intel was, Grove's experience in Hungary was not. Here are a couple of examples.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

30 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Are You Supporting Your B Players?

people as A, B, or C players isn't fair. DeLong agreed. But, he added, people categorize others all the time. In his research he has been surprised and frightened at how quickly people in organizations get classified. Even a couple of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: SELCO - Last Mile Solar Powered Energy for Rural India

while aligning with the nation's ambitious goals for achieving net-zero emissions by 2070. Poor communities are usually at the receiving end of the worst impacts of climate change, coupled with unreliable energy, lack of timely... View Details

30 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Finding Pride

trepidation as to how I would navigate that. After a couple of weeks, I decided to come out to my section and was disappointed that some people who’d been friendly with me cooled after that. Others were supportive. Luckily, I ended up... View Details

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MBA Program - Alumni

and other planned gifts enable you to make philanthropy a part of your financial or estate planning. The HBS Fund Investors Society recognizes leadership annual donors. Learn More Donor Stories Kent Thiry & Denise O’Leary (both MBA 1983) The View Details

24 May 2017
News

Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973

for you not be good for us?” asked Berkson. Today the couple lives in Greenwich Village and has built a life together focused on civil rights activism, friends, and their blended family. Photo by Susan Young View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

12 Feb 2021
News

How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World

He recalls this moment in his new book, Around the Corner to Around the World: A Dozen Lessons I Learned Running Dunkin’ Donuts. “Up until that point,” he writes, “the only thing I had managed were a couple of donut shops—replacing... View Details

Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

04 Feb 2010
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?

crowds' breeds convenient conformity and creativity is often lost in the process." At the other end of the intuition-analysis spectrum, R. C. Saxena opined, "I believe intuition ought not to play any part . Sincere effort to harness all the collective wisdom... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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National Markets - The Art of American Advertising

along with the steamship and telegraph, also made possible the national distribution of products through an interconnected network of cities and towns. Singer Sewing Machines manufactured in New Jersey, for example, could now be shipped to California. The growth in... View Details

18 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask

and priorities--they're working 80-hour weeks! In his book, Kaplan discusses techniques for matching available hours with key priorities, so executives can learn to do much more effective work and better manage their time. He recommends that executives track their time... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

11 Mar 2021
News

Leading with Heart

share with everybody that at the end of the eight-week marathon, I would typically ask a couple of students to tell their story about their company or about themselves. And in my class, I remember your sharing that journey of yours. By... View Details

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

exclusion." But there were problems. The racial divide and income disparities in this highly segregated region left many women and people of color with few ways to find resources and support. This was coupled with an outmoded image of... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

22 Feb 2022
News

A World of Difference

inclusive cultures. There’s been a huge awakening in the last couple years around diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace. Is this moment leading to real change, in your view? Frances Frei: I totally agree there’s been an... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

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