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10 Mar 2021
Blog Post

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace

again? Should companies do away with Zoom and return the workplace to its pre-COVID ways? The answer, in a word: No. At least that’s not the future of work envisioned by several members of the Harvard View Details

Keywords: All Industries

11 Jun 2020
In Practice

Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?

pays to be nuanced here. A large portion of the challenges facing businesses are industrywide (and worldwide). For instance, hotels have government-imposed limitations on the services they can offer. These restrictions bind equivalently... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

05 Jul 2023
News

GCC Alumni Celebrate Grand Opening of New Club Center

located at the Park Hyatt Dubai Creek, Golf, and Yacht Club. "It epitomizes the city's modernity and grandeur and captures the essence of Harvard View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

19 Dec 2006
First Look

First Look: December 19, 2006

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-036.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsThe Bollingers: Negotiating with Wal-Mart Harvard Business School Case 907-009 More information and purchase:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’

typical consumers think. That's fine if you only want to keep making incremental improvements to your products, says Jill Avery, senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and a former brand manager at... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

27 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Recovering from the Need to Achieve

his office isn't as big as Jenny's. And he blames others when he screws up. Joe is an HNAP, or a high-need-for-achievement professional, according to Harvard Business School professor Thomas J. DeLong, who... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

12 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 12

Business School Case ###-### Can an online discussion forum supply insight into the evolution of brand meaning? In 2003 Porsche launched a sport utility vehicle, dividing Porsche purists from newcomers to the brand. Vocal members of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Web

Resources - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Resources Case Teaching & Learning Case Writing External Links Please find below links to a variety resources on Case Method teaching resources and student-focused resources on learning by the Case Method. Case Method Teaching Books 2014... View Details

06 Sep 2016
First Look

September 6, 2016

September 2016 Harvard Business Review How to Tackle Your Toughest Decisions By: Badaracco, Joseph L. Abstract—The toughest calls managers have to make come in situations when they have worked hard to gather the facts View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

11 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

strongest—on his relationship to the IT department—and tended to retreat into the IT "basement" in times of conflict with business units and senior management. Barton paid attention to his staff,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 May 2013
Blog Post

Exploring in a Passion Safe Environment

It’s been three months since class first started in late August, and about one month since recruiting “officially” started. And in that time, I’ve been overwhelmed by how much this “transformational... View Details

October 2017 (Revised January 2018)
Case

Bitfury: Blockchain for Government

By: Mitchell Weiss and Elena Corsi

In the Republic of Georgia, legend had it their land was a precious gift from God he had intended to keep for his mother. But over time, the land had been under intermittent threat from without and within. In 2017, the Bitfury Group, which Valery Vavilov had... View Details

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18 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Identify Emerging Market Opportunities

openness and the sociopolitical atmosphere) or some of the market factors, but few pay attention to both. We have developed sets of questions that companies can ask to create a map of each country's context View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu & Jayant Sinha

21 Dec 2015
Op-Ed

Without Immigrants, We Wouldn't Have Google

immigrants who have made innumerable contributions to the technological and economic success of the United States. Outsiders keep our commercial markets vital by offering perspectives that differ from the prevailing view, introducing new... View Details

Keywords: by Shane Greenstein; Information Technology

12 Jun 2023
Blog Post

What Does PRIDE at HBS Mean to You?

continue fostering an environment of love, acceptance, and celebration of diversity within HBS and beyond. Oscar Yuan (MBA 2003) PRIDE at HBS was, for me, a respite and a... View Details

29 Sep 2023
Blog Post

HBS Latino Student Association Spotlight: Reyna Pacheco Rios (MBA 2025)

related to MBA Admissions, alumni engagement, career development, and more to advocate for and empower the Latino community on campus View Details

28 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home

the new competitiveness council created by the White House and would give President Obama an occasion for convening the business community to request specific commitments.... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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PRIMO News Stories - Doctoral

Program for Research in Markets & Organizations PRIMO News Stories 26ms PRIMO 2020: A Summer of Virtual Community and Research PRIMO was launched in 2011 as a representation of one of Dean Nitin Nohria’s... View Details

10 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

High Commitment, High Performance Management

value, though they all understand profit as an essential outcome. HCHP firms are able to show sustained performance because they achieve the following three paradoxical goals: Performance alignment: Managing with their head, leaders develop an organizational design,... View Details