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the Big Idea? Five current research efforts are adding to HBS’s history of game-changing impact on business practice Ideas in Action New ideas from HBS faculty have immediate application in the workplace or... View Details
- Profile
Anna King
together in any obvious way, but for Anna, that's perfectly acceptable. "I have a big passion for experiences and for the ways business interacts with government," Anna says. "What's important to me is that the work I do is... View Details
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
dollar-shipping revenue stream. And most well known of all, in 2007, when the company—then the largest e-retailer of printed books—introduced the Kindle and a $9.99 e-book, it again risked taking a big bite out of its revenues. Most... View Details
- 06 Apr 2007
- What Do You Think?
Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?
power with the goal of producing 2,000 megawatts of generating capacity in ten years. The goal was achieved in five years. So Texas has renewed the incentives and raised the goal to 5,000 megawatts. I wouldn't bet against that goal being... View Details
- 12 Sep 2019
- News
Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse
Rich Alton, section E class of 2009. So I work out of a home office, and I have five kids and so there's lots of noise around. So I do my best thinking whenever I put on my noise-canceling headphones, and my trick to doing good thinking... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
guaranteeing long-term debt from the market against government contractual obligations. "A big lesson I took away from the course," Shapiro says, "is the importance of gaining internal acceptance for specific change, even when almost... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
plans that our team could use to execute different projects; then I was able to choose a couple to pursue for my own interest,” recalls Naidoo, who also cites the need to immediately shed any sense of MBA “specialness.” “At Oxfam, there was no place for egos — only... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Paul’s Sabbatical Story: Hypothesis-Testing by Sabbaticals
Taking extended leave wasn’t a new idea for Paul Luning (MBA 2011), it was more of a family tradition: his parents credit their extended honeymoon as a defining moment in their lives. Paul took time off when he could, by studying abroad, or extending start dates to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Check In
load their family into the car, versus loading them onto an airplane. Then business travelers will start to come back, with those who travel on airplanes coming back more slowly than those who drive. And finally, the big conventions. It... View Details
- 11 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet
three hours rather than all day, or even five days for a Test match. "Five days doesn't work on TV, but two hours and ten minutes does. As a result, the Indian Premier League (IPL) is a big success in a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Carl M. Plochman III: A Savory Success
facility the company built five years ago that pumps out millions of mustard bottles a year, and a zippy Web site that invites visitors to join the Mustard Lover's Club. His decision to attend HBS, Plochman notes, was "a fairly radical... View Details
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Viktor Puzakov
where the business makes money,” Viktor says. “If you really want to understand the industry, you have to know what it’s like to live and work on a platform three to five weeks at a time.” Even in his personal interests, Viktor likes to... View Details
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Brendan Mosher
sufficient to end his military career. Making new plans "That was a very tough time," Brendan says, "a real shock to the next five to ten years I had planned out." As Brendan considered his options, he launched a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Research Is the Foundation
high-tech giant Rakuten’s globalization process for five straight years following an English mandate for thousands of its Japanese employees. “We traveled to eight countries with tremendous assistance from the HBS global research... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
challenges in every corner of the world. Gerdeman: Were there any big surprises from your research? Stevenson: I first arrived at Soldiers Field as an MBA student in 1963, stayed to do my doctoral work, and spent 40 years as an HBS... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
of big money in the world of sports seems to have aggravated public disenchantment with many aspects of the professional game, from high ticket prices to athletes' personal behavior. That does not bode well long term for an industry that... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
with them regularly-originally eleven times a year-to make sure there were no surprises, either good or bad." In a matter of months, Elfers brought five prominent families into the fold, including inventor and financier Sherman Fairchild... View Details
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Lessons from History - Creating Emerging Markets
management schools. His course, HitchHikers Guide to Business and Economies across Five Centuries , now attracts nearly a third of each graduating class. Student interest, at both the MBA and PhD level, he explained, will play a View Details
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
Africa was going to knock off 54 countries. So I decided right from the get go, I'm going to see all of them in one big trip. I figured, OK, I need about three weeks per country. And I think that should be enough. But in the end, I needed... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
irony Edwards savors with a smile: “At several public meetings at the White House, President Bush has referred to me as ‘my congressman.’” But not for much longer if the Republican Party has its way. The GOP painted a big target on... View Details