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  • 04 Nov 2010
  • What Do You Think?

Why Do We Chase Stars?

said that "Management performance is 75% portable (but) today's tough environment has forced upper management to adopt a 'welcome to the team, good luck, here is the deep end of the pool, hope you survive'" approach. Guy Higgins... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • January 2008 (Revised November 2009)
  • Case

Linear Air: Creating the Air Taxi Industry

Linear Air is an air taxi start-up established to take advantage of the emergence of Very Light Jets, which incorporate new technology that cuts jet operating costs by about 40%. Air taxis could make use of the 5400 smaller regional airports throughout the US,... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Disruptive Innovation; Product Launch; Industry Structures; Competition; Air Transportation Industry
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  • 13 Nov 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores

Source: iStock If you’re stressed out because it feels like there are never enough hours in the day, here’s a solution: hire a housecleaner, order takeout, and pay the kid next door to mow the lawn. In other words, buy yourself more free time. View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

Full Court Press

Dakar, Senegal, and Giza, Egypt, and observing the impact inside and outside the stadiums. “Just this season, we have engaged more than a hundred local vendors, entrepreneurs, and freelancers,” covering everything from uniform production... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • 30 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers

achieve its success—and to identify how those practices could be codified and adopted elsewhere. "Health care started out with largely independent practitioners and a limited body of knowledge," says Adler-Milstein. "Given the changes... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health
  • Web

John H. McArthur | About

the world, McArthur was not one to rest on laurels. The initiatives he launched during his deanship sought to maintain the School’s preeminence, while steering the institution toward a new century. Developing the Faculty McArthur built an... View Details
  • Article

U.S. Multinationals in British Manufacturing before 1962

By: G. Jones and Frances Bostock
This article presents a new database on U.S. multinationals active in British manufacturing between 1907 and 1962. Britain was the largest European host economy for U.S. direct investment in manufacturing and the second largest host worldwide. This article identifies... View Details
Keywords: Production; Trade; Foreign Direct Investment; Research and Development; Business Subsidiaries; Policy; Investment; Manufacturing Industry; United States; Great Britain
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  • 27 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 27

firms' propensities to adopt new administrative and governance practices (Davis and Greve, 1997; Westphal et al., 1997). Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Visualizing and Measuring Enterprise Application Architecture: An Exploratory Telecom Case

By: Robert Lagerstrom, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack and Stephan Aier
We test a method for visualizing and measuring enterprise application architectures. The method was designed and previously used to reveal the hidden internal architectural structure of software applications. The focus of this paper is to test if it can also uncover... View Details
Keywords: Communication Technology; Complexity; Applications and Software; Product Design; Telecommunications Industry
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  • 25 Oct 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Is Baseball Ready to Compete for the Next Generation of Fans?

New York Yankee slugger Aaron Judge, would surpass the $10.7 billion it reported in 2019—the last full season before pandemic interruptions. The league also signed new TV contracts with ESPN and TBS before... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Media & Broadcasting; Sports
  • 31 Aug 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

have an edge in their markets. These firms are “more innovative—stronger at anticipating shifts in consumer needs and consumption patterns that make new products and services possible, potentially generating... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Profile

Ahmed Alimi

better communicator and a better on-the-spot thinker." "HBS teaches new skills, inspires confidence, and opens your mind. If you immerse yourself in the experience, you will discover new... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Financial Services
  • 05 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

Cohen and Breno Schmidt Abstract We explore a new channel for attracting inflows using a unique dataset of corporate 401(k) retirement plans and their mutual fund family trustees. Families secure substantial inflows by being named trustee... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Globalization: The Strategy of Differences

independently from the way it chooses to compete in product markets. Some companies have gone further. Consider the case of GE Medical Systems (GEMS), the division that Jeffrey Immelt built up between 1997 and 2000 before he was tapped to... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 01 Jan 2013
  • News

Thai Lee, MBA 1985

grown into a top-ranked provider of IT products and services. With an industry-high of 99 percent in customer retention, SHI is one of the largest privately held firms in its field. The company employs more than 2,300 people at its... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 13 Apr 2021
  • Blog Post

2021 48th Annual H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference Honors Black Women Leaders

virtual event that included the Black New Venture Competition and Black Tech Masters Series. Lambert went on to recall Fitzhugh’s mentorship during her undergraduate years at Howard University; he encouraged her to apply, attend, and... View Details
  • 14 Jan 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors

Citizens, industrial polluters, and scholars do not usually see eye to eye—but that may change with a new Web site that monitors corporate environmental performance in the United States. According to the university professors who created... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing; Chemical
  • Web

HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

13,101 in fiscal 2021, a 20 percent increase over the prior year. The group also delivered virtual custom programs in a range of industries, piloting new delivery models that accommodated the needs of clients to reach large-scale... View Details
  • 13 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 13

Abstract This paper empirically investigates how market leadership influences firm propensity to adopt new business process innovations. Using a unique data set spanning roughly 35,000 plants in 86 U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

From Big Pharma to Startup

extracurricular learning opportunity while he pursued his MBA studies until the team entered the HBS New Venture Competition in 2021. They won the Tough Technology Prize, an award that came with $10,000 and, more importantly for Goble, a... View Details
Keywords: April White