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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
Engagement Opportunities The "Case for HBS" ebook NN: We have been giving both of these questions a lot of thought, particularly since the launch of the edX/HarvardX platform more than a year ago. We've approached this at HBS not as an either-or proposition but with an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Developing Insight that Has Power in Practice
The commitment to research that influences pedagogy, theory, and practice is inherent to HBS’s identity. The first field study, conducted in 1911 under the School’s Bureau of Business Research, comprised a comparative examination of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Faculty Books
practical guidance. The conditions they have always faced—intense competition, scarce resources, and unforgiving markets—are true now for everyone. Preventing Regulatory Capture: Special Interest Influence and How to Limit It edited by... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
established markets - is sounding a wake-up call for corporate strategists. How did you first become interested in these disruptive technologies? It was the sudden demise of Digital Equipment Corporation that first drew my attention. How... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right
complex emotionally, cognitively, and socially for people. I first encountered PWYW at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Then I discovered that Radiohead had released its In Rainbows album using a PWYW model. Now it’s used by digital... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Action Plan: Whole Sale
online platforms such as YouTube or, more recently, TikTok, to discover new products, but digital sales in the category were not on par with other consumer goods. The explanation: “Beauty is a fun purchase for consumers,” observes... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Up to the Highest Heights
reveals: “My style says I’m super-versatile. I’ll do everything.” “The wind isn’t always blowing”: Off the water, Tai is focused on harnessing the resources and influence of the ACTAI nonprofit to support ocean conservation, among other... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
The True Value of a Tweet
friends, and I end up buying the same music later on, is it because you influenced me, or is it because we are friends with similar preferences? Going back to what Leslie said, we end up counting things that are easy to count, then we... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 22 Jul 2024
- News
Viral Marketing’s Early Muse
Illustration by John Weber In 2008, Canadian musician Dave Carroll saw United Airlines employees manhandling his $3,500 Taylor guitar on the tarmac in Chicago. When he arrived at his destination, the guitar was in pieces. Carroll contacted United customer service... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
with Digital Equipment Corp., for instance-was a way to make it big in this business," explains Elfers, who was in charge of the first investment portfolio. "But I felt that if Greylock were to be successful in the long run, we should be... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
gained influence. Influence transcended power, and power politics contrasted with quiet service. Canadian Women in the Sky: 100 Years of Flight by Elizabeth Gillan Muir (HRPBA 1958) (Dundurn Press) This is the story of how women in... View Details
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
Farzad: You have to imagine—we talk about gross margins and profit margins. And in a business, you're happy to clear double digit margins. If you had a connection in Colombia or Peru or Bolivia and you could get your mitts on a hook up of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Carving a Niche
says, “but there’s something about today’s 40- and 50-something moms and dads that’s different: Often their number one style influencer is their teenage kid.” Or maybe it’s a Faction athlete like legendary freestyle skier Candide Thovex,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
of how the historic merger between the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and CBOT almost didn’t happen. She details the reasons behind the derivatives market’s spectacular growth and explains how derivatives affect the lives of average consumers worldwide by View Details
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
is a little bit unique to the work that I’ve been doing over the past 20-plus years, 25 years, that has shaped me in ways that I didn’t necessarily expect is that, I’ll try to capture it here. That challenge is about getting folks who are leading organizations and who... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Rob Ristagno (MBA 2005) Independently published Ristagno guides you step-by-step through the five forces of dramatic online revenue growth and shows why it is vital to identify your very best customers and focus relentlessly on their wants and needs. View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
fees, brand globalization, the rise of holding companies, client obsessions with shareholder value, the digital and Internet revolutions—and outlines the steps senior agency executives need to take to restore health to their organizations... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
marketplace status quo. Demanding a voice and sometimes a hand in the products they buy, these digitally empowered consumers― “Me’s”―have inverted the traditional power dynamics of retail into metail. To put it simply, your customers are... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
is conducted at the School. The labs will drive foundational and applied research in six topical areas that address key business and societal challenges of the new digital world. Faculty members from across Harvard, serving as principal... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
Digital Officer, says the first step is to craft language for request responses that makes residents feel valued, but does not provide false hope their particular request will be accommodated. “We appreciate their (residents’) role; they... View Details