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- 23 Aug 2023
HBS Perspectives from Taiwan
Join a panel of local alumni and current students from Taiwan who will share their backgrounds and how they have cultivated their personal and professional interests while at HBS. This in-person event will be a great opportunity for... View Details
- 24 Feb 2022
- Op-Ed
Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC
attempts to avoid bed shortages by sharing capacity have generally failed, in part, because of the persistence of an independent hospital culture. As COVID-19 surged in 2020, capacity varied widely even among hospitals in the same city,... View Details
- 08 Feb 2017
- Blog Post
How I Chose My HBS Recommenders
questions closely and decide who can help you put your best foot forward. I would advise prospective students to reach out to current students, alums, and the Admissions team to discuss their interest in the program. HBS is a welcoming community, and people here are... View Details
- 18 Dec 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Grooming Next-Generation Leaders
use the right approach at the right time and change as the situation demands is going to be tough. Not everybody can do it. That's going to distinguish the true leaders from people who are capable but not leaders." Targeting Talent Employees in large and small... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
How to Avoid a Price Increase
quantity. As a result, one manufacturer was able to reduce its package sizing by 10 percent to 20 percent over the course of three years with little to no negative consumer response. Q: Can you share some product-downsizing success... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
outcry from users, legislators, and the general public, to force the company to do a better job of protecting private information. In an initial response, Facebook informed its blog readers that it had suspended the consultancy from the site and suspended such data... View Details
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions
Competing arguments become difficult to judge, since advocates will suggest using those measures (net income, return on capital, market presence, share of mind, and so on) that favor their preferred alternative. Fuzzy thinking and long... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- Web
Ludcke House | About
After his retirement from Putnam in 1965, Ludcke continued his influence in the industry as the widely read author of “The Human Side of Investing,” a syndicated financial column that ran in 17 newspapers across the country. In addition, he and his wife, Eleanor, View Details
- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
hope my book helps managers better understand that responsibility and how to fulfill it. About the Author Kristen Senz is the growth editor of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: Shutterstock/Josep Suria] How is the selling approaching changing at your... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 24 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software
communicate with each other on the large-scale—particularly, the global scale—necessary to share such information.” Security of individual accounts. Of the 10 most-used software packages in the analysis, the CII team found that seven were... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
talking about, Deward?’” “I said, ‘Corn? What are you talking about, Deward?’” One of those gardens is planted on the 38-acre grounds of the Tri-Faith Initiative, a Sacred Seed partner. A joint effort by local Muslim, Jewish, and Christian communities, Tri-Faith... View Details
- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
Related Reading Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate Where will artificial intelligence and machine learning create their biggest impacts in... View Details
Keywords: by Rocio Wu
- 02 May 2022
- What Do You Think?
Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years?
class based on some of its contents, regardless of the material assigned for that day. Some of the columns we’ve shared over the years have been prepared based on newspaper reporting. Last month’s column on the decisions facing Disney’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Monsignor Frederick Dolan Finds a New Calling at HBS Club of Montreal
through e-mail and phone calls, Dolan and other members share an overall feeling of growth and enthusiasm for the Montreal club. “While we’re realistic about what people can and can’t fit into their schedules,” notes Dolan, “we’ve heard a... View Details
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ICHOM - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network ICHOM International Consortium... View Details
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
number of improvisers as well. In order to make this work, the players adhere to a set of shared codes—almost like language—consisting of, among other things, key, tempo, groove, rhythm, song form, tradition, and harmony. Miles Davis was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
End Game
Illustration by James Steinberg In the 1960s and 1970s, as the environmental movement dawned in the United States, a new generation of activist-minded entrepreneurs appeared. Among them were companies like Body Shop, Aveda, Tom’s of Maine, and Whole Foods—all founded... View Details
- 06 Jan 2016
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?
averted pollution laws in many countries over a ten-year period. The second involves Zappos’ sudden initiative to eliminate all but one manager, the CEO. The two examples share at least one thing in common: they both involve changing... View Details
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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online
Learn More about what you earn Syllabus 3 Modules, 20-25 Hours Download full syllabus 8 hrs Module 1 The Business Case for Action Understand the business case for change and how to analyze and assess industry disruptions to develop business models that create View Details
- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
established companies lament the disruption they’re facing at the hand of technologically savvy startups. But Teixeira, the Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration, argues that these newcomers simply spotted and served an emerging customer need... View Details