Happy End Problem - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Jul 2017
HBS Case

It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family

Transitioning to next-generation leadership in a family-run restaurant business is a tricky recipe. Credit: ansonmiao Harvard Business School case studies are often set in large corporations, where the wide range of problems encountered... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage

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Judges - Alumni

Culture, B2B, B2C, Go-to-Market Strategy, Market Research, Marketing, Brand Building, Remote Work, Strategic Partnerships, Social Impact, Scaling, Product Roadmap, Pitch Feedback Advice Focus most of your energy on clearly articulating the View Details

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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online

approach to various planning-related problems I tackle each day. My ability to identify details related to business efficiency and performance that I may have missed in the past was fine-tuned in the program, and my understanding of the... View Details

11 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI

generalized toolkits to business users or get bogged down in custom software consulting engagements that solve nonrepeatable use cases. There are more opportunities today for entrepreneurs to focus on solving vertical problems than... View Details

Keywords: by Rocio Wu

02 Apr 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Making the Move to General Manager

when they have to recreate themselves as generalists. In this new generalist role, they end up knowing less and less about more and more. This is an extremely difficult and potentially very risky transition, and it can easily derail a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

Continued: The Business Model What Does the Research Say? Show Hide Details Concepts Infectious Change Public Goods Problems Cooperation in the Real Economy Expanding on Purpose Featured Exercises Public good simulation game Prisoner’s... View Details

31 Aug 2021
Book

Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

School Professor Julie Battilana. The crux of the problem is that CEOs and other leaders often get such a power trip that they lack empathy and humility, which inhibits their ability to understand and respect what their employees value.... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

04 Feb 2010
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?

crowds' breeds convenient conformity and creativity is often lost in the process." At the other end of the intuition-analysis spectrum, R. C. Saxena opined, "I believe intuition ought not to play any part . Sincere effort to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

30 Nov 2018
Blog Post

8 Reasons the Section Experience is the Best Part About HBS

would face colossal failure if she did what my section-mate suggested. The professor smiles after my comment. I knew I crushed it. At the end of the case, we learn the protagonist followed exactly what I had said. My classmate next to me... View Details

28 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 28

of developing its third set of 10‐year goals, with the aim of producing a plan that will ensure the viability of the company 50 years from now. With this end in mind, Dow's leaders understand their obligation to continue investing in the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2022
News

The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips

to pass on those price increases to the end consumer, and there’s a dilemma about how best to do it. I think if you ask consumers if they would prefer to pay the same price and get a little less product, or pay more for the same quantity,... View Details

Keywords: Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

11 Mar 2021
News

Leading with Heart

share with everybody that at the end of the eight-week marathon, I would typically ask a couple of students to tell their story about their company or about themselves. And in my class, I remember your sharing that journey of yours. By... View Details

27 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 27

simplifies the retirement savings plan participation decision. Individuals received an opportunity to enroll in a retirement savings plan at a pre-selected contribution rate and asset allocation, allowing them to collapse a multidimensional View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Feb 2021
News

How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World

about what to do and whether or not my ideas and hunches that I had in business school might well in fact apply, decided that the problem with the business really lay with strategic decisions being made at the top of the business. And I... View Details

Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

21 May 2012
Research & Ideas

OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?

inspectors find safety problems is not surprising," says Michael W. Toffel, an associate professor and the Marvin Bower Fellow at Harvard Business School. At the same time, when problems are resolved,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

Profile

Bryan Stromer

which path and career seems most exciting to me. What is your most memorable classroom moment? This semester I am taking Business, Government, & the International Economy (BGIE), where each class session focuses on the economic and political environments of a different... View Details

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

You,” in which Nicholas Kristof wrote, “Some of the smartest thinkers on problems at home and around the world are university professors, but most of them just don’t matter in today’s great debates.” Or the 2015 Chronicle of Higher... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

30 Aug 2018
Blog Post

My Difficult Decision to Leave Google for HBS

Second, I learned when to not trust my answer. For the entire first year, Harvard places new students in a section—a deliberately diverse group of 90 students. In each class, we’d come prepared, having read and analyzed a “case,” a business narrative always View Details

12 May 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team

Preserving times in the work schedule for virtual lunches, coffee breaks, or happy hours with team members are crucial to establish during the relaunch. Other relaunch tips and techniques Schedule regular relaunches as things change.The... View Details

Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley

18 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing

into the social space for fear of how customers will react, but Gupta questions whether that’s a sign these companies really have a more general image problem that needs to be addressed. “A health care company might say we wouldn’t have a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising; Technology

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