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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online

or growth-stage startup in a product management, business development, sales, or marketing role. "As someone who’s worked in a large company for the past 20-plus years, it gave me the foundation and vocabulary to engage more confidently... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Full Court Press

first lady, Jeannette Kagame. Inside Kigali’s three-year-old, $104 million BK Arena (named for the Bank of Kigali), pregame entertainment features a troupe of thunderous, polyrhythmic drummers and dancers.The seats and court are adorned... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

19 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

strategies in product markets. It frames firms’ capability search strategies as choices among different types of capability enhancing investments. The key distinguishing feature of capabilities in this... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense

roadmap. Engineers and product managers love it when they’re “left alone.” Take the time to do deeper customer discovery and requirements gathering. Customers might be more open to participating in beta tests, new View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang

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Industry Information - Alumni

the global personal care and household product market. Recently, it has added features on a variety of subjects, and expanded coverage in fast-growing markets in Asia and Latin America. CPG Matters A... View Details

07 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

quickly to produce and air new advertising creative that tapped into the rapidly changing zeitgeist. The result, the Retail Heroes campaign, featured CEO McMillon Zooming in remotely from home to thank the one million Walmart front line... View Details

Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman

30 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 30

increase the cost of capital, reduce the availability of external finance, and lower firm-level investment. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/15-016_dffd8931-f668-4e0c-80d1-0560cea51e19.pdf How Does Risk Management Influence View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Is Baseball Ready to Compete for the Next Generation of Fans?

While football and basketball are now the most popular and financially successful of the four major professional sports leagues, Major League Baseball appears to be rallying. Last week, MLB said revenue for the 2022 regular season, which View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Media & Broadcasting; Sports

10 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone

behavior. In fact, the code responsible for creating many consumer electronics is widely available and is often used as a springboard for developers to further innovate, sharing ideas and crafting new products for all to use. Everyone... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

20 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle

an aspirational lifestyle. “The new conspicuous consumption is about saying, I am the scarce resource, and therefore I am valuable” The finding suggests a new way for marketers to sell their products and services to consumers by... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster

and they are now featured in Forbes as a go-to resource on decarbonizing concrete factories. And I first spoke with Margaret Wang (HGSE 2020) before she even had an idea for a startup. Now she and David Jaffe (ALI 2021) have created... View Details

01 May 2017
Research & Ideas

Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault

person’s performance be tracked, and what factors will be evaluated to determine success? Evaluation measures could include sales or revenue goals, the number of patents filed or products launched, or customer satisfaction levels. 3. Who... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

1936, a demonstration of how polarizers work featured Wheelwright holding two discs of polarizing material and rotating them to the degree that a portion of his face no longer appeared. The converging discs, with their simple, delicate... View Details

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Women Leaders and Organizational Change

large part to their limited conceptions of gender. The fourth frame offers a conceptual leap from thinking about gender as an individual characteristic to thinking about it as a central organizing feature of social life, influencing not... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online

pricing strategies Benchmark costs compared to competitors through relative cost analysis Apply conjoint analysis to understand what features customers value most Understand the power of network effects to drive demand Identify sources of... View Details

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

When Benchmarks Don’t Work

Benchmarking certainly has its virtues. Comparing production time or the cost of a standard process to that of peer companies can yield important insights about your own efficiencies—and ultimately, competitiveness. But benchmarking also... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service

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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator I n the 1930s, investments were generally targeted for trusts, pensions, and other conservative funds rather than emerging industries. 32 The urgent military needs during World War II had fostered the rapid creation of new View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

features short, highly produced videos of HBS faculty and guest business experts, interactive graphs and exercises, cold calls to keep you engaged, and opportunities to contribute to a vibrant online community. Do I need to come to campus... View Details

11 Apr 2024
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Mission Control

everyone on planet Earth. And at a tiny company of a hundred-plus million in revenue, a few hundred people in the company, we don't have the impact that our technology and our products could have on humanity in tech, climate change, and... View Details

21 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Tipping Point: Investing in the Women of Kenya’s Coffee Farms

the industry run. Each brightly colored bag of Kahawa 1893 features a prominent QR code that allows purchasers to give to the women behind the beans. “People have been very receptive to the idea,” says Nyamumbo. “Customers tip at... View Details

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