Strategic Alliances (Business) - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Jun 2021
News

The Power of Resilience

team, and through that experience had the opportunity to also share my own personal story at health care conferences and public settings, really advocating for the power of genetic information. I was there for nearly two years when they ended up going through a... View Details

01 Jun 1996
News

Class Acts

Burlington, Massachusetts-based, Rochester Shoe Tree Company, the country's leading manufacturer of private-label shoe care products, where he directed all new business ventures and substantially increased the firm's base business. Last... View Details

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Sorting Out the Patent Craze

users out of luck. Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner and his colleagues are studying how SSOs balance the interests of users against the interest of sponsors to gain widespread acceptance of new technologies. Their paper,... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology

01 Sep 2010
News

RX for Change

table, a tray of sandwiches nearby. Two more join via videoconference. The pesky buzz of BlackBerries punctuates the lengthy and sometimes contentious discussion. It’s a familiar scene in the modern business world, but not one normally... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

06 Dec 2021
News

Rescue & Recovery

for Humanity. Before that, she had worked in the public sector (at USAID), philanthropy (at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation), and the business world (with roles at General Electric, American Express, and McKinsey). Mercy Corps saw... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Stephen Voss; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

13 Sep 2019
News

Hollywood Ending

she says. No matter. In breaking new ground, without a map, Whitman is in her comfort zone. Her first step at Quibi was to “put meat on the bones of the business plan,” she says: defining the content and tech strategies and figuring out... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photo by Christina Gandolfo

01 Dec 1996
News

An Entrepreneurial Journey

It has been said that because of the case method, entrepreneurship has always been at the core of a Harvard Business School education. The case method, after all, teaches students to analyze problems, think creatively, and be alert for... View Details

01 Sep 2015
First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

PUBLISHED PAPERS forthcoming Advances in Strategic Management Strategy Beyond Markets By: Figueiredo, John de, Michael Lenox, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, and Rick Vanden Bergh, eds. Abstract—Since the early 1990s, strategy beyond markets has... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

Nation in health care, with a focus on preventing diabetes in indigenous populations. "I quickly realized that business alone was not enough to reverse the dysfunction of some tribal economies," says Keen. Earlier, he'd experienced the... View Details

01 Sep 2018
News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

resilience while changing your relationship to stress, and shares a roadmap for sustainable performance in the face of ongoing change. How to Wash a Chicken: Mastering the Business Presentation by Tim Calkins (MBA 1991) Page Two This is... View Details

13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders

McGinn believe that negotiation skills are crucial to closing the gender gap in leadership. Riley Bowles, who earned her doctoral degree from Harvard Business School, is an assistant professor at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

28 Feb 2025
News

Joy to the World

elevated. But I think they can bring fun and joy to life as well. DM: How then has this focus on community joy impacted how you think about your work at a strategic level? JP: Yeah, I think there's kind of two pieces I think about that.... View Details

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