Potential - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

How Your Employees and Customers Drive a New Value Profit Chain

today's job market don't want to hear—that companies should create fewer, more significant jobs. This strategy seems to have the potential to damage employee morale. How can companies use work-force reduction to successfully reengineer an... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Mahoney

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

A: Historically careful analysis of corporate information on a large number of companies has required an investor (or at least the investor's organization) to master a difficult and arcane set of data-handling tools. XBRL has the View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Privatization and the New European Economy

"the average amount of global privatization was valued at between US$70 to $80 billion. Experts predict that the potential for privatization in Europe in the decade ahead will have a value of between US$250 and 450 billion. This... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Air Transportation; Transportation

05 Oct 2016
Blog Post

4 Things You Should Know about Entrepreneurship at HBS

because we had that baseline, we should feel confident in taking risks, remembering that “risk” isn’t just downside--its volatility that goes both ways. The more risk we take, the greater upside potential we have, while our downside is... View Details

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Sustainable Investing - Course Catalog

representation on boards, and even the potential to create social good. Covering both public and private markets, the course will present the unprecedented opportunities that have arisen due to energy transition and other trends through... View Details

01 Jun 2012
News

They Call Him Mr. China

visiting 100 factories before presciently fixing his sights on the growth potential in auto parts. In the early 1990s, China manufactured only about 600,000 vehicles a year, mostly trucks, and parts makers remained small and regional.... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Manufacturing; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

10 Mar 2021
News

Vision: A Unicorn Evolves

company. “There’s a large, addressable market for sales engagement software that modernizes the workflow of customer-facing reps,” she says. “And with intelligent data in our solution, you have the potential for a winner-takes-all... View Details

Keywords: April White; entrepreneurship; technology; startups; leadership

14 Oct 2020
News

Sewn with Love

could one company or brand do?” she wondered. Photos courtesy VPL Photos courtesy VPL Hanazawa also understood the fashion-industry network is powerful and has the potential for wider impact. In 2011, she tapped fellow industry leaders... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

27 Aug 2019
News

A Shot at Success

Athletes launched in Dallas, serving 40 basketball stars from 31 high schools across 29 zip codes in the region. Incoming sophomores and juniors are nominated for the program by teachers or administrators. These students have what Feickert calls “the ingredients”—the... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2017
News

The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability

solve the problem, but because if every company did that, there would be a lot of money going into building a carbon-free energy system, and that would make a real difference at scale. So I think there is a way in which these individual actions could View Details

24 May 2017
News

John H. McArthur, MBA 1959, DBA 1963

Natty. The pair grew up in Burnaby, British Columbia, where the proprietor of a local forest products company spotted McArthur’s potential and helped fund his college education. Upon earning his MBA, McArthur entered the DBA program and... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Mar 2016
News

Ink

Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges, Cuddy highlights her personal experience to introduce the concept of “presence,” the ability to generate an inner calm, authority, and confidence during times of potential... View Details

07 Nov 2014
News

The First Five Years: Tiffany Pham (MBA 2012)

potential to create a lasting impact on women, worldwide. As the lead developer at MOGUL, I coded the first version myself, using Ruby on Rails. It has been an incredible journey, to achieve significant user traction upon launch and... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Jun 2014
News

The Digital Deck

and—eventually—an Introduction to Innovation and Entrepreneurship led by Bill Sahlman and Joe Lassiter. These products will also leverage the HBX online learning platform with the added potential for incorporating in-person classroom... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jan 2011
News

Peter Harf, MBA 1974

donor. Eventually, she received a transplant, after Harf and his friends had started to frantically recruit potential bone marrow donors all over Germany. On her deathbed, Mechtild demanded that Harf stay committed to the fight against... View Details

05 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?

which determines “horizontal market power,” and consumer inertia, which generates “dynamic market power,” creates a clearer picture of market power dynamics within a given market. This can inform companies in their use of price to attract customers, as well as assist... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Energy

01 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?

We showed it to important business leaders—some HBS alumni, some not—from around the world and asked them for their views on potential problem areas and what role HBS might play in addressing them. The fact is that in many parts of the... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

06 Dec 2004
What Do You Think?

Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?

Summing Up Respondents to the December column produced such a lengthy list of reasons why managers fail to act on their predictions that it is a wonder that organizations are ever able to respond with the foresight needed to avert View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Oct 2004
What Do You Think?

Does Speed Trump Intellectual Property?

represents a capability which is difficult to replicate." Several did suggest potential problems, however, in using speed to preempt the fruits of intellectual property. John Rudd comments, "The practice mentioned by Fox... View Details