Survival - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Jul 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Deconstructing 'Customer Experience'

With the help of LEGO bricks, business executives discover how design principles can serve as building blocks to create a great customer experience. How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.comIndy booksellers have View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Service

19 Jan 2024
News

The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix

we've all kind of picked our heads up and come back to the project of work. We all survived a pandemic and kept the economy going. And we're now taking that experience and investing in this shared project with quite profoundly different... View Details

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A Chronicle of the China Trade. The Papers of Augustine Heard & Co., 1840-1877

records relating to the nineteenth-century China trade, present a look into momentous events concerning Sino-Western relations as well as the day-to-day activities of American traders in the treaty ports. Within the 800 volumes, 272 boxes, and 103 cartons View Details

24 Jul 2017
Research & Ideas

People Have an Irrational Need to Complete 'Sets' of Things

items in order to complete a so-called “Global Survival Kit”—in other words, a pseudo-set. This page had a globe on it, too, but instead of location markers, it featured a line that grew closer to circumnavigating the globe each time an... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

16 Jul 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Selection, Reallocation, and Spillover: Identifying the Sources of Gains from Multinational Production

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Maggie X. Chen

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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

pealed atop the gate tower of the Danilov Monastery and comprise one of a few sets that survived Stalin’s reign. Bells are known as “singing icons” in the Russian Orthodox Church, calling the people to prayer and serving as daily... View Details

01 Oct 1997
News

Donald J. Chiofaro

projects in New York, Chicago, and other major cities. He dismisses predictions that real-estate investment trusts and other industry innovations may spell the end for development entrepreneurs. "I've been an endangered species all my career," he laughs. "I may be a... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

08 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem

trying to improve the ecosystem as a whole, keystones ensure their own survival and prosperity. They don't promote the health of others for altruistic reasons; they do it because it's a great strategy. Keystones, in many ways, are in an... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

01 Oct 1999
News

Eight Among Many: Alfred A. Checchi

already survived a serious auto accident, became convinced he should run for office after Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and a number of executives died in a plane crash in Croatia in 1996, a flight Checchi missed only because of a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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In the News - Creating Emerging Markets

that has researched the evolution of companies and organizations in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Working Knowledge Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets Reputation and resilience are key ingredients that determine... View Details

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

managers should think: How do we survive this time and even get something positive out of this? One of those positives could be the use of all these cool tools that we should be using anyway. As time passes, workers may find that they... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

Person Page

Comments on my health

February 22, 2010

The doctors have been pleasantly surprised that I have responded to therapy better than they would have imagined. I have been greatly blessed through the miracle of medical science. I also attribute doing better to the faith and prayers... View Details

Portrait Project

Edo Bedzra

still by how I entered the world. I was born in a village health center, with no physician, to a mother of advanced maternal age. The odds of my survival were low. It would be five years before I saw a television set and a decade and a... View Details

26 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Leadership Principles for Managing in the Time of Coronavirus

I want to share with you my 7 Cs for coronavirus survival if you’re a manager or a leader. This message is also available on video. Calm. Your folks, your employees, your customers, your suppliers, are going to be looking to you as a... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

13 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?

increased from 8 percent to 15 percent since the launch of the two products, according to the company. Can the Porsche brand survive gender contamination? Is Porsche a stronger or weaker brand going forward because of the incursion of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Auto

25 Aug 2014
News

Ashraf M. Dahod, MBA 1981

support for education and health care—particularly for underserved populations—can be seen in the Boston area as well as in Mumbai, where the couple met as teenagers. Working with Shamim, a medical doctor who has survived two bouts with... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

29 Aug 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?

planning for move of EU manufacturing offshore ” Most respondents suggested that the Company’s survival was more closely associated with product/market issues than the logistics and politics of manufacturing. Roaddoggie said, “The new... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto

20 Jul 2021
Research & Ideas

Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses

which sounds like such a great thing. People get to keep their jobs, the creditors get paid equity, and the customers don't lose this business that they loved,” says Antill, whose article Do the Right Firms Survive Bankruptcy? will appear... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

15 Mar 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business

This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Green Technology

Portrait Project

Aman Kumar

altogether. I don't have the answers. I cannot tell you why I survived and millions of other babies didn't, why speech therapy helped me more than it did others, why the eye surgeries held and left so many others blind. The joy and wonder... View Details

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