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- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
organizational characteristics affect the stringency of monitoring through reputation, customer loyalty, differential impacts of government sanctions, and the standardization and internal monitoring of operations. We test our theory in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
key role business leaders have to play in confronting climate change—and the power of HBS alumni to make a positive difference. Jacqueline Adams (MBA 1978) President, J Adams Strategic Communications; co-author of A Blessing: Women of... View Details
- 30 Nov 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?
question in my mind of whether it is too simplistic to think of leaders seeking to manage up to a line between pride and arrogance. Surely it matters how leaders wield organization power and handle successes when they are achieved.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
Music, a retailer based in the Midwest. “Its biggest profit drivers were rap and hip-hop,” he remarks. “I remember thinking that there was a real opportunity to cater more directly to that customer base.” To learn more about the business,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Graduate's Gift Honors HBS Friend
words, "a glorious and amazing friendship." "Our class at Harvard was very special," emphasized Anderson, who retired in 1993 as chairman of the board of Custom Molders, Inc., of Durham, North Carolina. "At HBS we spent more time caring... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Marketing Giant Ted Levitt Remembered
simple question: “What business are you in?” As an example of marketing myopia he cited railroads that “let others take customers away from them because they assumed themselves to be in the railroad business instead of the transportation... View Details
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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog
Brooks Spring 2025 Q3 1.5 Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job (MDD) (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management and Technology & Operations Management) Amy Edmondson Tiona Zuzul Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 The Moral Leader Joseph Badaracco Fall 2024 Q1Q2... View Details
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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
- 04 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping
competitive advantage while doing the right thing, rather than an imposition or a burden. According to Maersk leadership, the two keys to their decarbonization strategy are: Strong relationships with customers to get them on board with... View Details
- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
later: "What business are you really in?" "An industry begins with the customer and his or her needs, not with a patent, a raw material, or a selling skill," wrote Levitt, citing the railroads as one example of a... View Details
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Scaling Work - Research Computing Services
necessary, as you control all the resources on that machine. However, on a compute cluster, you only control the resources that the scheduler has given you, and it has given you only the resources that you've requested, whether this is done explicitly via a View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
Abstract In many service industries, companies compete with each other on the basis of the waiting time their customers experience, along with other strategic instruments such as the price they charge for their service. The objective of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
power of states. But the world is not flat, argues HBS professor Pankaj Ghemawat. Think of it as partly globalized, or "semiglobalized." "Strategies that presume complete global integration tend to place far too much... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2010
- HBS Case
Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China
rights in China? A: Not yet. Today Google is still self-censoring content exactly the same way as they were on January the eleventh. So Google has shot itself in the foot without gaining the moral high ground. How can you impress your View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
easy journey, but you're right. Soon thereafter, I felt okay. I knew what needed to be done. And we were powering ahead. And then you're hit by the pandemic, Bang! March comes and within three days, our sales completely collapsed—50... View Details
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Harvard Business School
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). He allegedly turned down the highest-paying job offer made to any member of the Class of 1971 to return to community development work. He is the retired chair of the board of Custom Molders, Inc., of... View Details
- 04 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Learning from the Entrepreneurs-in-Residence as a Harvard MS/MBA Student
there are an infinite number of ways to spend your time learning – each equally compelling but vastly unique and tailored to various learning styles. One of the most powerful ways of learning is through reflection, including through... View Details
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit
government, and NGOs, sharing insights on a range of issues including health care, national talent, food security, and sustainability. They also talked about the role of the private sector in meeting goals of Vision 2030, the impact of soft View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 03 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2010
2011. Enjoy, and have a great new year! TOP 10 MOST POPULAR ARTICLES OF 2010 Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It Nervous about an upcoming presentation or job interview? Holding one's body in "high-power" poses for short time periods... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on whiteboards, clusters of people... View Details