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- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
purchaser, rather than the generator, of roadway data. The early days required a lot of evangelism, but in the past five years, most governments have begun seeing how much more effective we can be.” Turning government agencies into... View Details
- 18 Sep 2008
- News
HBS Olympians
Albertville, France—but I was sure there were more. Who were they? When I saw a list of about 200 Harvard College Olympians, my zeal to compile a list of HBS Olympians was awakened. I turned to the marvelous search engine on the HBS Web... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
Paulson (MBA ’70) announced a plan to inject $250 billion into the nation’s banks, a painfully ironic twist for a free-market Republican administration, signaling a turning point in postwar American economic history. Against this backdrop... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
educating students while they are here and to reach out to our graduates throughout their careers. We now have powerful tools that will help us make the case method more relevant than ever, and as a faculty, we are starting to take the steps to View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
the hub economy will continue to spread across more industries, concentrating more power in the hands of a few. As an example, they take an in-depth look at the auto industry and how Apple and Alphabet/Google are poised to become the main beneficiaries as cars View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=Marketplace_Reseller_HBS%20WP%2001312014.pdf August 2013 Corporations and Citizenship Can For-Profit Corporations Be Good Citizens? Perspectives from Four Business Leaders By: Hsieh, Nien-hê Abstract—This chapter... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
difficult situation in which President George W. Bush finds himself today. In the book we examine the President's missteps that turned tremendous widespread support into overwhelming opposition for his Iraq war. A major failing of current... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Build a Better Board
of investors and employees? It turns out that many of the boards of imploded companies such as Enron were composed of smart, honest, well-meaning, people. So what went wrong? How did these massive failures of corporate governance occur?... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Is That Really Your Best Offer?
gentle settling of kindness. The entire thing takes maybe four seconds." You aren't a passive member of an audience when you negotiate, of course. Being an active participant gives you the chance to influence other people's candor. While you can't magically View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
than eliminate or relax it. The analogy to the keiretsu system has been widely touted in the Internet era. Companies such as CMGI billed themselves as new economy keiretsu. We are seeing a similar outcome as in Japan. The model turned out... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
better and more productively. They help establish a company's good name and reputation, an invaluable asset in the community and among consumers, which in turn can provide an important boost for employee morale. Because IBM and Levi... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
to focus in order to improve this crucial dimension of talent acquisition. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50539 December 15, 2015 Harvard Business Review Don't Turn Your Sales Team Loose Without a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
514-048 YouTube for Brands This case examines the changes employed by YouTube to make the massively popular site more attractive to brands. Building from its base of amateur, user-generated content, YouTube had turned to experimenting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
precisely the benefits that will accrue to a retailer from adopting a new technology: This often leads to retailers being reluctant to invest in the new technology. But by structuring your investment as a "call option," if the technology View Details
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
found just that in Michigan. At the turn of the twentieth century, Detroit in many ways resembled the Silicon Valley of the last few decades. Growth of the nascent auto industry was explosive, with more than 500 firms entering before... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
School Case 806-073 Follows the growth of an entrepreneur from his early startup activities. As the company evolves from 1998 to 2005, looks at key decisions and turning points as AtHoc's strategy adapts in response to changing market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
real estate allocations to between 3 and 5 percent of their portfolios. "Now most of the allocations are going to 5 percent to 7 percent because they perceive the risk has become lower." It's not just institutional investors who have View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
companies, which in turn are linked to the overall performance of the economy. There is an inherent uncertainty about the future prospects of these companies and the economy which does not go away at any investment horizon. Thus stocks... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
give me a recommend basketball player. I didn't think much would amount to it. But as it turned out, by pure luck, my job with Jordache involved going to different countries and interviewing companies that wanted to be their licensees. So... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
satisfy finicky customers. It was a baptism by fire that gave Makarim the confidence to turn to Go-Jek full-time and reimagine the company as an app-based service similar to Uber. Uber, which launched in San Francisco in 2010 but had not... View Details