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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Venturing Forth
Illustration by Adam McCauley Venture capital is a heady industry: Big bets mean big checks when the deals hit right. And for most of the last decade, those taking part in the funds were riding high: Capital was abundant, valuations were soaring, and the stock market... View Details
- 21 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
You Don’t Have to Quit Your Job to Find More Meaning in Life
US, people really want to live their best lives—right now. “I believe that the pandemic caused people to re-evaluate whether their work is meaningful,” says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Julian De Freitas. “Some compared... View Details
Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
- 08 Sep 2022
- Book
Gen Xers and Millennials, It’s Time To Lead. Are You Ready?
from decades of teaching students from the Gen X, Millennial, and Gen Z eras. George and coauthor Zach Clayton, CEO of the digital marketing firm Three Ships, urge young leaders to usher in a new way of doing business—one based on... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
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Curriculum - Business & Environment
markets across Europe. The Covid-19 pandemic caused huge increases in the cost of shipping, so Sian launched experiments to ship roses by ocean using refrigerated containers. Chris Kulei, the Executive... View Details
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HBR Classics - Alumni
Landscape Cause Your Firms Decline CSR or Share Holder Value How to Uncover Hidden Shareholder Value , Brian Hagen, Raymond L. Manganelli Shareholder Value Must Top CEOs Agenda , Gregory T. Carrott, Stuart E. Jackson Ten Ways to Create... View Details
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The Evolution of Corporate Structure, Internal Governance, and Leadership
My research documents the evolution of the internal governance of senior management in large US firms over a 20-year period and explores, via multiple methods, the causes and consequences of these changes. My findings suggest that... View Details
- 23 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Strategy-Focused Organization
illustrate how major organizations have used the Scorecard to create an entirely new performance management framework that puts strategy at the center of a company's key management processes and systems. Mobil North America Marketing and... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 16 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers Be Saved From Their Misguided Decisions?
choice exists, or think about it the wrong way, like Advil buyers. In a friction analysis, researchers theorize people are overwhelmed, and don’t take the time to investigate before making a decision. Too many things going on in a person’s life View Details
- 09 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
The No. 1 Character Trait You Will Need to Succeed in Business
of FrameBridge. You need to decide whether to expand into a market your business knows almost nothing about or stick with providing a service that you know will eventually become obsolete. This choice echoes the challenges tackled by John... View Details
- 25 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Collaborating Across Cultures
a "snake." The story illustrates a common challenge to Hollywood filmmakers as they attempt to break into China's more than $2 billion-a-year film market—and to businesspeople in all industries as foreign markets become increasingly... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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About - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
stability, pioneered by researchers at Harvard, is that financial instability often follows periods when financial institutions, like investors and policy makers, have underestimated risks. These errors in beliefs were an important cause... View Details
- 12 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
Customers at the Back of the Line Are Anxious—Can You Keep Them from Leaving?
operational standpoint when customers are waiting for a service they find valuable and then decide to quit. “Showing customers the work that’s being done to serve them can cause them to mind waiting less and value the service more”... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- HBS Case
Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right?
and telecom corporations. The shocking revelations caused many consumers, businesses, and governments to take their business away from US tech companies; A New America analysis estimated the loss to US cloud computing over the Snowden... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
consider all options, both near term and long term. This is because gathering information in this environment can cause us to become “so focused on the immediate situation that we overlook the broader possibilities.” Rather than focus on... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 04 Jan 2022
- What Do You Think?
Firing McDonald’s Easterbrook: What Could the Board Have Done Differently?
cause or not. Each situation is different. It may depend on the nature of the CEO’s shortcomings and the terms of their contract. Was the problem merely poor company performance (rarely regarded as “cause”), poor judgment (a borderline... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?
COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of... View Details
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
Are the world's poor, who individually have less than $5 a day in disposable income, a viable market for new goods and services? Consider the fact that there are four billion people around the globe that fit this description and you have... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
Michael Schwarz Abstract We consider market rules for the transfer of IP addresses, numeric identifiers required by all computers connected to the Internet. Excessive fragmentation of IP address blocks View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=41031 Causes and Consequences of Linguistic Complexity in Non-U.S. Firm Conference Calls Authors: Francois Brochet, Patricia Naranjo, and Gwen Yu Abstract We examine the determinants and capital View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
forthcoming Journal of Marketing Research Does 'Liking' Lead to Loving? The Impact of Joining a Brand’s Social Network on Marketing Outcomes By: John, Leslie K., Oliver Emrich, Sunil Gupta, and Michael I.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne