Professor Charles Williams - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Race Does Matter in Mentoring

multibillion-dollar electronics corporation. On his first day in the lab there, he encountered a large banner that read, "George Wallace for President." That proclamation for the pro-segregationist former governor of Alabama was an omen of the uphill battle... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

16 Apr 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom

'71, PhDBE '73), now the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard and an internationally renowned authority on competitive strategy, has vivid memories of his days as a student in... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education

19 Nov 2014
HBS Case

Marketing Marijuana

available shortly, Marketing Marijuana in Colorado, Harvard Business School marketing professor John A. Quelch and coauthor David Lane look at lessons from the first few months of legalization to see what they may tell us about eventual... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

21 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Racial Diversity Pays Off

Increase the diversity of employees in your organization—for example, on the basis of race, gender, religion, nationality, and sexual orientation—and you'll automatically have a better company. Right? That's the prevailing belief anyway. But according to HBS View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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About the Project - Managing the Future of Work

1955 Professor of Business Administration Joseph B. Fuller Professor of Management Practice Raffaella Sadun Charles Edward Wilson Professor of... View Details

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Founders & Investors - Entrepreneurship

Jurvetson MBA 1984 William S. Eckert Motion Computing MBA 1995 Andrew Eisner Movable Media MBA 2002 William Elfers Greylock Partners MBA 1974 Charles D. Ellis Greenwich... View Details

07 Jan 2020
News

Can Capitalism Be Fixed by Making Companies More Just?

12 Aug 2019
News

World in Motion

08 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

Alidina, Natalie J. Henrich, Lisa R. Hirschhorn, William R. Berry, Atul A. Gawande, Doris Peter, Rory McDonald, Donna L. Caldwell, Janet H. Muri, Debra Bingham, Aaron B. Caughey, Eugene R. Declercq, and Neel T. Shah Abstract—Objective: To... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Be an Angel Investor

the Harvard framework (Figure 11.1), which was developed by William Sahlman 1 and Howard Stevenson 2 is described in Chapter 12. Good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from making bad judgments. So it is with evaluating... View Details

Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson

06 Jul 2009
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?

obsolete, and (3) it makes suspect much of what we do as managers. Consider two examples that came to my attention this past week. One is a book by Charles Jacobs titled Management Rewired, which concludes that many conventional beliefs... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Podcast - Business & Environment

Serafeim, Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School For transcripts and other resources, visit climaterising.org. How Green Hydrogen can... View Details

16 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist

help you become a better judo strategist. Rule One: Maintain A Deep Focus On Your Core Business Whether we are talking about Palm Computing, Intuit, or even big companies such as Charles Schwab, the most successful judo strategists have... View Details

Keywords: by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak

30 Jan 2024
Research & Ideas

‘Intrinsic Joy’ Sparks Ideas Better than Cash

fun. He wants to help others,” Roche recalls. The paper’s co-authors include Annamaria Conti, an associate professor at IE Business School; Vansh Gupta, an analyst at Charles River Associates who... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology

29 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Building a Powerful Prestige Brand

carried a number of established brands, such as Charles of the Ritz. When Estée told the buyer that Saks shoppers wanted her line, he responded that he and store salespeople had seen no evidence of this. "In the absence of that... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn; Beauty & Cosmetics; Consumer Products; Retail

07 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat

year, the system has been slow to respond. Other highlights of the conference included a dinner talk by William W. George (MBA '66), CEO of Medtronic, on "The Future of 21st-Century Health: The Right Care" and a lively session... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

17 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

book, Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth, coauthored with HBS professor William Kirby and Regina Abrami of the Wharton School. In addition to teaching in several HBS Executive Education... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

12 Mar 2024
HBS Case

How Used Products Can Unlock New Markets: Lessons from Apple's Refurbished iPhones

Some of Apple’s most loyal customers think nothing of upgrading to the latest iPhone every time one comes out. But what about consumers who can’t splurge on a $1,000 iPhone 15 Pro? And what about the electronic waste that would accrue if people threw away functional... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Electronics; Information Technology

11 Apr 2023
Op-Ed

The First 90 Hours: What New CEOs Should—and Shouldn't—Do to Set the Right Tone

Quelch is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard Business School. He is also Leonard M. Miller University Professor and former dean... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

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Faculty & Research | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Serafeim Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration Debora L. Spar Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business... View Details

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