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- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
saw potential in sports endorsements in the television age. McCormack informed Palmer that he was planning to start up a business revolving around personal business managers or "agents" handling professional golfers' affairs.... View Details
- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
independent developers to build new features. The cell phone has become a lucrative platform for more than handset makers—also in on the party are makers of digital cameras, music services, and organizer software. Not only are existing... View Details
- 22 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #7: Turning Waste Heat to Power
in the office and the rest of the week at home. Janice explained, “We’ve seen tremendous benefit from the in person time, where our people have built stronger relationships with each other. We’re also seeing more serendipitous creativity... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
football team his first year at Dartmouth, before moving over to rugby, a sport he played with bone-breaking gusto throughout college and into HBS. That intensity has been channeled by mentors throughout Keen's life. One such person is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
in Asia but in the Middle East that really got Kondo excited about social media. After a stint as a World Fellow at Yale (where he developed Table for Two, a nonprofit he cofounded to fight both hunger and obesity internationally), he... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
dots of these disparate actors. Architect of Prosperity: Sir John Cowperthwaite and the Making of Hong Kong by Neil Monnery (MBA 1987) London Publishing Partnership In the fifty years from the end of the Second World War to its handover to China in 1997, Hong Kong... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
people’s lives for the better.” Photos Courtesy Toby Johnson A standout high-school student-athlete who turned down Ivy League schools to attend West Point (its education of the total person beyond academics appealed to her), Toby Johnson... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
Publications August 2013 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Religion, Politician Identity and Development Outcomes: Evidence from India By: Bhalotra, Sonia, Guilhem Cassan, Irma Clots-Figueras, and Lakshmi Iyer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
practices are broadly familiar, their application within cross-industry teams calls for unique leadership approaches that combine flexibility, open-mindedness, humility, and fierce resolve. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51140 2016... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
emerged. Some (relatively rich) emerging countries now exploit the economic advantage of relatively low labor costs to move quickly into the manufacture of high-tech products, such as wireless phones, microprocessors, personal computers,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
will travel to this part of the country which I'm most passionate about and develop a trip around this region. And the theme of it is something very, very dear to my heart. It's eating, cooking with ham. April White: The leg of ham in the... View Details
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
Michael Beer and his coauthors at the Center for Higher Ambition Leadership, the executives underscored the importance of higher-ambition goals, including engaging with and developing employee and customer commitment, contributing to the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
implemented theoretical flat taxes. Q: Slovakia introduced a flat tax in 2004 with a 19 percent rate on personal income, corporate income, and value added tax. What are some of the complexities of the Slovak situation that made you decide... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
structured things. COURTNEY HUGHES, 26 Needham, Massachusetts BS, Information Systems; BS Biochemistry/Biophysics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Started a nonprofit initiative, Balanced Attack, to promote the development of... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
doctors at least two weeks to sift through these mutations, searching for the ones that were diagnostically significant. But Watson was able to highlight within moments which mutated genes had likely developed into cancer. Based on... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 09 May 2021
- Blog Post
Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year
becoming a mother, I did not appreciate how fast children grow. Watching my child's brain develop has been fascinating. With each passing week, I'm stunned at her exploding vocabulary, ability to take in the world around her, connect the... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
employees were overwhelmingly white.) Then there are the stories. Although few women working in the field will offer details of personal encounters with sexism and sexual harassment, they hear them frequently. In the past year, they’ve... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
partners in accomplishing go-to-market goals, two important aspects of channel management—assessing performance and setting goals—are only weakly developed and enforced. Misunderstandings of partner roles and responsibilities are common.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
that plane who boarded on time," she says. "But then there is this person who really cannot read. And she is a customer. And we want her on our plane. But how do we teach her how to fly?" The first-time flyer market in Brazil has risen... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Faculty Books Published in 2020
business models, or developing new products, even the most experienced managers often get it wrong. They discover that intuition, experience and big data alone don’t work. What does work? Running disciplined business experiments. And what... View Details
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