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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
an estimated 36.7 million US practitioners purchasing classes, gear, and accessories—an increase of 80 percent in four years. It has also spawned a number of lucrative business models: Vancouver-based apparel company Lululemon Athletica... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
past that are relevant for today’s discussion about which direction we want to take the country.” Titan operated only in Greece for its first 90 years, says Papalexopoulos. Both his grandfather and his great-grandfather, who founded the View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
companies in a variety of industries. Each worker kept a daily diary during the course of a project, answering open-ended questions such as, "Briefly describe one event from today that stands out in your mind." Each diary lasted... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
those one-out-of-ten firms grow into successful, sustained enterprises? Assistant professor Mukti Khaire believes that small companies can grow by developing intangible social resources such as legitimacy, status, and reputation. In an... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
intranet. Clark outlined what he sees as the four aspects of leadership: strong values and high standards, a global perspective, an entrepreneurial spirit, and literacy in information technology. "We teach with the express purpose of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
largest Brazilian beauty company and one of the world's top twenty beauty companies, to explore how the logic of globalization is changing for corporations from emerging countries as growth opportunities in those countries outpace those... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
times,” Datar notes, “it is our community that provides us comfort and our values that give us strength.” Note: Please see this page for guidance on contacting others in the HBS alumni network. HARVARD RESOURCES Scholars at Risk (SAR)... View Details
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Commencement 2019 Address | About
don’t make it a habit. Lapses of character are far more costly. It is tempting to think that you can get away with the half-truth, the occasional straying over the line, the zigs and zags away from your own espoused values or those of... View Details
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
colleague of Christensen's at this time, once observed that this tendency "led to much closer study of company situations. The strong appeal of [his] cases and of his writing about them is embodied and reflected in his own... View Details
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
as when a U.S. auto company builds a parts plant in Mexico, has come into prominence only in the past few decades. Cutting costs is fair enough, unless it is done by paying less-than-living wages, creating unsafe working conditions, or... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
for example — we are working to influence the environmental choices global companies make in the large-scale production of commodities such as palm oil, pulp, livestock, and soy.” The Power of Serendipity What’s your next career move when... View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
his insights to set the stage. Senior Lecturer Clayton S. Rose, who for 20 years worked at JP Morgan & Company and headed global investment banking and global equity there, discussed the implications of change in commercial and... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
communication technology that works with the same cellular spectrums that telecommunications companies use. Since that first experiment four years ago, Project Loon has improved balloon steerability, connectivity, and stamina—the balloons... View Details
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
Until the close of the last decade, health consumers received much of their knowledge and advice about prescription drugs from their physicians or other health care professionals. Today, pharmaceutical companies are spending several... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
It's a common problem: A work team tackles a high-pressure project for a client, but along the way something goes wrong with team dynamics and the client ends up feeling shortchanged. Even though team members initially recognize and value... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
percent. Consistent with theory, we show that entry led to a redistribution of surgeries from lower- to higher-quality surgeons. The value of the improved outcomes due to this redistribution was roughly equal to the additional fixed costs... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
addition, a growing literature has begun to highlight the potential importance of overconfidence in driving entrepreneurial outcomes. Such a mechanism may appear at face value to work like a lower level of risk aversion, but there are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
need more competent CEOs of major companies who will invest wisely to create new valued products and services. Private action can overcome partisan haggling and incompetence. America is a great country,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
scientific experts, such as virologists, to inform decision-making. Additionally, women are more concerned about health and hygiene issues, as research on disgust-sensitivity shows, and this may also apply to leaders. Finally, and as indicated in the COVID-19 working... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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The Route of the Exhibition - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
company R. R. Donnelley & Sons. The Lakeside Press rotating exhibitions were considered equal to those at the preeminent cultural institutions in the city, such as the Art Institute of Chicago. The Art Institute sponsored the Chicago... View Details