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Joiner - Entrepreneurship
experience: Entrepreneurial Sales and Marketing Launching Tech Ventures Founders’ Journey Startup Operations Field X (provides funding) Get additional startup experience: Work on a project for a startup for credit through an Independent... View Details
- 07 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty
on-the-ground advocacy—to go get a free eye exam or a blood pressure check-up. Easy. Your basic principles of sales and promotion will carry the day. If your charge is minimizing smoking or drug use, well, your job becomes rather more... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge
“People might be intimidated to approach the sales superstar and reveal that they are having problems because of self-image issues,” Stanton says. “And the best salespeople may want to hold on to their information because it gives them... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
draft FY 2010 plans that together added up to firm-wide revenues of only $53 million, a growth rate of negative 10.2%. The preceding years of rapid growth had been successful but challenging, and a thorough review of the firm's culture, systems, structure, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy
doing that, and waste a lot of money on sales and marketing trying to sell that wrong product," says Tom Eisenmann, a professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School. "It takes a lot of time, time... View Details
- 20 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses
judge to believe there's some business justification, and then they can make this whole sale happen in, like, 30 days.” Restructuring is less costly Rushing the process may be short-sighted for companies and... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About
Cases (WAC) Slot From 1914 to 1993, several incantations of written assignments were required of MBA students. The longest running and most storied of these is the Written Analysis of Cases, or WAC, assignment. It comprised analyses of each case discussed in the... View Details
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
situations that challenge his loyalties, conscience, and sense of duty. The book, which will be made into a movie, took Kim 20 years to write. Kim sees no conflict between the business and literary parts of his life. “I like doing deals because it’s a View Details
- 16 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense
most talented entrepreneurs, I have been thinking more and more about what playing offense looks like in 2022-2023. Here’s the six-part playbook I’m hearing: 1. Acquire talent A few years ago, it was impossible to acquire talent. The best engineers, View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
a fintech unicorn that spans multiple verticals. After another sales record during the 2016 Global Shopping Festival with Alibaba, Ant Financial’s chief strategy officer contemplates the various opportunities and challenges associated... View Details
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
representing 42 percent of the group’s total annual sales in fiscal 2022. Harvard Business Review provided subscribers with timely articles from its flagship magazine, website (hbr.org) and social media presence. In addition, HBR Press... View Details
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The Idea of Instant Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
sales would fall, and Land would have to let go of hundreds of employees. Land's patent attorney Donald Brown explained, "Before the end of the War Dr. Land had decided that the expansion of the company's business could most readily be... View Details
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
Back in the early 1990s, managers of U.S. companies were justifiably proud of the well-oiled machines they'd made of their supply chains. Over the previous fifteen to twenty years, they'd wrung costs from the mechanisms and processes by... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
separated from manufacturing. When modularity is low, product designs can't be clearly specified and design choices affect manufacturing processes in subtle, difficult-to-predict ways (and vice versa). The second is the maturity of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)
investment banking institution had a staff of 110 and annual revenues of about $8 million. Today, the firm has more than 64,000 employees in offices stretching from New York to Beijing. Revenues last year totaled more than $26 billion, the result of a broad position in... View Details
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Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online
have an unfair advantage now knowing what I've learned from this course. It's given me confidence and clarity in my decisions, and I can already see the material impact of applying this model and mindset to our business and culture. Dave Nelson Head of View Details
- 20 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh
the jokes that Michael H. Yeomans used in his study. Take the poll The researchers tested further to see if explaining the machine’s recommendation process would help people accept it more. The team told one group that they would simply... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Learning in Action
Bean, the U.S. Army's Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL), AT&T's Bell Laboratories, the Timken Companies and General Electric's Change Acceleration Process (CAP). L.L. Bean has long relied on inquiry as a source of learning to... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
How to Avoid a Price Increase
seems to support this logic. First, consumers themselves report a greater sensitivity (or awareness) of price than of quantity. Second, in tracking the sale of snack foods we found that consumers reacted greatly to periodic changes in... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls