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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks | About
and brought vital services and products to markets and people in ways that have enhanced their lives. Capitalism remains a system that—at its best—serves the best interests of society and spurs innovation.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
kitchen) “They were self-taught, and they were amazing. It really showed me the promise of the people of eastern Kentucky,” says Marietta, who later drew on the same talent pool to launch Mountain Tech Media, a digital marketing firm that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
speed limits (rather than by prohibiting cars or leaving the risk entirely to the market to resolve), we need to do much the same in managing the risk posed by the largest financial institutions. Above all, we must limit their leverage,... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
28 U.S. cities. In its early decades, City Year provided a variety of services to a variety of organizations in need. Over its most recent decade, City Year had pivoted to having all corps members serve in low-income public schools to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
Press) The authors outline a method to discover and revitalize the exceptional business that exists inside an organization. The method relies on the well-established 80/20 rule to direct focus and attention; anchors analysis in the fundamental elements of any... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
also call it an audaciously big bet on an unproven format in an ever-crowded market of streaming content. With an April 6, 2020, launch, Whitman and Katzenberg have 20 months and $1 billion to build the whole thing from scratch—from a... View Details
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
controls, employment at target establishments declines 3% over two years post buyout and 6% over five years. The job losses are concentrated among public-to-private buyouts and transactions involving firms in the service and retail... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
value" by issuing perpetual preferred stock, dubbed iPrefs. Henry Blodget, CEO of The Business Insider, disagrees saying, "You can't just wave your magic wand and make something of nothing." This short case is designed to support a discussion of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
turbulent times. Ernest Shackleton Hire for Attitude, Train for Skill Today’s entrepreneurs would find the tasks involved in organizing and leading an Antarctic expedition in the early 20th century somewhat familiar. Koehn notes that the Irish-born explorer Ernest... View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), allowing businesses to cite religious freedom as a defensible reason to deny service to a customer. Critics, who included a number of high-profile CEOs, argued that the law granted... View Details
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Rethinking the MBA
were a time for institutions to reconsider their goals and direction, it is now. There is, for example, a growing social perception that the MBA degree needs to do more around the roles and responsibilities of business and business leaders. We need to teach students... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
support have loosened." Through her research into how businesses and communities interact, Kanter is finding ways for the two to join forces as companies move into the global economy. In fact, she says, what's good for towns and cities is good for business and vice... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
sometimes intense cyclicality that can result in turmoil and hardship for many. And we interfere with that cyclicality at our peril, as pent up economic forces will eventually be unleashed with far greater ferocity. Still, under capitalism, View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
research. Their apprenticeship under Curzon was very interesting, not least musically. Curzon insisted on proper English manners, including torturous English tea service and proper "breaking of the scone." What does breaking a... View Details
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
having a guaranteed job for life.’ I’d always been intrigued by finance, so I applied to HBS.” Leaps and bounds: “It’s not the only measure to consider, but Medtronic had tremendous growth from 1993 to 2006. The market cap went from about... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
Boston's Faneuil Hall Marketplace. When he and his siblings sold it in 2006, Macomber started teaching at HBS, where he began some revelatory research into the Indian real estate market and its regulatory and environmental issues. “It... View Details
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
Marketing: What Works? Purchase decisions are influenced differently in social networks than in the brick-and-mortar world, says Harvard Business School professor Sunil Gupta. The key: Marketers should tap into the networking aspect of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
producers and a lot more executives. And now the studio makes a lot less movies, maybe almost a third less movies. And as a result, there are fewer producers and fewer executives to service those movies. So that's a big change as well.... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
major HBS report to Harvard's Board of Overseers outlining the School's plan to "enlarge its activities so as to be of still more service to the country" by expanding instruction in public aspects of business. Articles during World War II... View Details