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substantive, and meaningful relationship with HBS, click on the Volunteer Now button and a staff member will follow up shortly with more details. Volunteer Opportunities: Career & Professional Development Volunteer your time and... View Details
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HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts Value-Based Health Care Value-Based Health Care Cases & Teaching Notes Key Concepts Key Stakeholders Publications Team Work With Us Presentations Team... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
the research results to the actions I should take is not often clear,” he says. “And of course, time is limited so if the research is described in peculiar terms only used in a highly subspecialized academic... View Details
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
How to Avoid a Price Increase
we have to define "success." If we define success from the perspective of the manufacturer, then there have been success stories. For instance, I think coffee is a product category that has successfully used downsizing. For the longest... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 21 Nov 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Stella McCartney Combines High Fashion with Environmental Values
how we shop. So in that sense, if you create a sustainable business within that industry, you’re much more likely to have impact because it’s so influential. Q: Tell us a little bit about the fashion industry. A: Fashion is one of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips
what might lead a brand to try to disguise a price hike.—JMF John, can you give us some historical context to explain this phenomenon? John Gourville: The first instance of shrinkflation that I found was in 1988, when Chock full o’ Nuts... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- Op-Ed
Don't Ignore Your Employees' Misery—TAKE Control
employees’ dismay. If nothing else, the pandemic has taught us that one-size-fits-all approaches can be extremely counterproductive. In fact, numerous surveys and news articles suggest that employees have been just as productive working... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- 30 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Corporate Governance?
stakeholder councils" comprising employees, lead customers, suppliers, and others offers a useful solution to the governance vacuum that exists in many large corporations today. Not so fast, says Gopi Vaddi. While agreeing that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Aug 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?
Mott commented that "Managers who use only common sense to make decisions can fall prey to short-sighted thinking." Ajay Kumar Gupta cautioned that "we tend to forget many things" and "tend to exclude external... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
This Workplace Certification Made Already Safe Companies Even Safer
establishments in the US that they certified to the OHSAS 18001 standard. The researchers used automated and manual techniques to match workplaces across these and other datasets. To estimate the effects of... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 22 May 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders
Pauline Brown joined the HBS faculty following a tenure as Chairman of North America at the French luxury goods conglomerate, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton. (Photo credit: Albert Cheung) To future CEOs who want to succeed in the... View Details
- 15 Mar 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business
This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details
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have served their country in times of war and peace. The granite wall is intended to inspire us to reflect on the enduring contributions of veterans and others who have dedicated their lives to service, and... View Details
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On Campus Logistics - Recruiting
classrooms. We encourage companies to bring the presentation on a flash drive or email it to themselves to utilize the classroom computer and the class remote to advance the slides. If using your laptop, you will need to bring a remote or... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
5,500 square feet, it is a throwback to the 1970s, a time before the superstore. Inside, all the books face outward, as in Black Bird Bookstore, and many have signs offering recommendations not from staffers, as at BookHampton, but from... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 26 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food
Advertisement for DuPont Cellophane from The Saturday Evening Post, 1950. E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Advertising Department records (Accession 1803), Manuscripts and Archives Department, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware Don’t feel bad if you... View Details
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
opportunities to practice their skills in time frames connected to actual buying processes. They can do so by using the same technologies that are “disrupting” their customer-contact activities: videos and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2020
- News
Clayton M. Christensen Dies at 67
and taught for many years the MBA elective curriculum offering, Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise, which uses a general manager's lens to evaluate theories about strategy, innovation, and management to predict which tools,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
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Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987
much I didn't know," she says. Greenwich CEO Charley Ellis (MBA 1963) encouraged her to apply to HBS, and with the company profit-sharing program, she was able to finance her graduate education. "I was hell-bent on making the most of the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 06 Feb 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?
times the average for all. Is this an important answer to the inequality now thought to be burdening economies from the US to India and even China? Or is it an exercise in self-indulgence associated with a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett