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- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings
Stevenson said the recent technology sector market crash should teach future entrepreneurs to build companies to last rather than to sell, and to think about more than simply selling a product. We're never going to go back to the slow and... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
as CEO and president of Palm Computing and a decade as a marketing and logistics executive at Apple and its spin-off Claris, Dubinsky cofounded Handspring. As the company’s CEO, she oversees development, production, and View Details
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
market leadership position? "We believe that there is still a great deal of confusion and puzzlement on how this competitive battle will develop," say the authors of the academic paper Dynamic View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
the United States.” —Victor Fung (Ph.D. ’71), Group Chairman, Li & Fung Group “Brands need to learn to market with two ears and one mouth.” —David Kenny (MBA ’86), Managing Partner, VivaKi “In the 1980s, we told our companies, ‘Don’t... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Green Dreams: Eco-Friendly Countertops
has a triple bottom line philosophy, “people, planet, profits,” and is organized as a B Corporation, a new business structure that is legally required to consider social and environmental impacts. At the day-lit IceStone plant in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, workers View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
that’s essential for creativity and efficiency. Chopped-up schedules interrupt deep thinking, so people come to work early, stay late, or use weekends for quiet time to concentrate. And dysfunctional meeting behaviors are associated with lower levels of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Duo Offers Personalized Career Assessment
determined largely by individual "interest patterns" that stabilize in early adulthood. Because these patterns are realized through specific work activities, a given job is best analyzed by examining its underlying activity structure. Looking beyond surface... View Details
Keywords: Bob Binstock
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
illustration by Jon Krause In 2006, Palo Alto native Charles Baron (MBA 2013) decided to join a future brother-in-law on his central Nebraska farm for the duration of the year’s corn harvest. It was what farmers would call a mixed... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 08 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 8, 2006
case. This paper, in contrast, reports an experiment designed to meaningfully pose the question: "How good an approximation does a theory provide on average?" Even in the simplest class of two-person constant sum games there is View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
(category demand expansion or market share stealing). To help brand managers make informed marketing mix decisions, it is essential that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
that mixing one full serving of vegetables with chocolate milk could disguise the vegetable taste, creating a creamy chocolate milk shake that could offer parents a sneaky way to deliver vegetable nutrition to their kids. Sneakz Organic... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
HBS's Educational Technology Group. “The idea that you might offshore the reading of radiology films would have been unthinkable 25 years ago.” Each team assessed the potential offshorability of 20 occupations. (The positions of financial analyst and management analyst... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 May 2009
- What Do You Think?
Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?
"boundaries" that form when organizations grow that present the "potential for clashes and struggle." Bob Brown attributed it to "risk aversion combined with lack of vision, drive, and prescience for the market in... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
bankruptcy reorganization on June 1, 2009. What are some of the key issues the company faces? Three Harvard Business School faculty members--Joseph Bower, an authority on general management; Vineet Kumar, a marketing expert; and Dante... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
upon the School to keep alumni up-to-date on its latest initiatives. Given the recent explosion of technological advances, there are many new ways to share this information. This committee will look at the mix of print and electronic... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
Amabile's classroom help him to walk the fine line between guiding his company's creative team down the path recommended by market research and stifling their creativity by giving too much direction. "What Professor Amabile's research... View Details
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
reinforced? In the new normal, managers will have to learn to cope not only with mix uncertaintybut also with aggregate demand uncertainty. In addition, managers will have to redouble their effort to improve product availability and... View Details
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
certifiers opt for a quick turnaround time at the expense of a lower accuracy. Finally, we investigate the opportunity of regulating transparency. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-062.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsThe Carbon View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing the Economic Crisis
managers who conduct layoffs feel a mix of emotions that may catch them by surprise: sympathy, sadness, guilt, shame, anxiety, and perhaps anger. Best practice for managers includes understanding yourself and recognizing your limitations.... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 21 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
Top 10 MBA Voices Blog Posts of 2018
We're wrapping up 2018 with a roundup of our ten most popular MBA Voices blogs this past year: In my second marketing class ever, only two weeks into my first semester of RC year, it happened. I was cold-called. As soon as the professor... View Details