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04 May 2021
Blog Post

Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS

And I continue to be grateful to be part of such a dynamic, complex, colorful community. Aaron Gan – Class of 2021 I grew up in Singapore in a multi-racial and cosmopolitan society where everyone in my generation is bilingual. I did not... View Details

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

becomes, which lowers the likelihood of a winner-take-all outcome. Lastly, the truly successful firms in a platform world tend to have meaningful supply-side scale economies. Markets with large economies of scale generally have higher... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Jun 2016
Blog Post

Applying to the JD/MBA Program

application in the months leading up to the Round 2 deadline. On the other hand, HLS has one application deadline with rolling admissions. Law schools generally prioritize the LSAT and GPA, so focus on maximizing those scores, but don't... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

A Sustainable Solution for Fashion

emissions are produced by the industry, and the amount of textile waste generated each year could fill 20,000 football stadiums, Theuerkauf explains, adding that, “even in 2022, excess inventory is still put in landfills and burned.” To... View Details

Keywords: April White

26 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food

‘bloom,’ which consumers generally considered as a sign of good, fresh meat. But this ‘fresh’ red color did not actually indicate that the meat was the ‘freshest’ in terms of the time it was exposed to the air. Since meats were perishable... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Retail; Advertising

14 Jan 2022
News

Nohria’s Next Move

continue to play the role of teacher and mentor that is so meaningful to me.” (See the company’s announcement.) Nohria will remain engaged at Harvard University as the chair of the board of the Harvard Allston Land Company and teaching in some Executive Education short... View Details

Portrait Project

Haley Brown

will carry on this legacy. I will use my privilege to create opportunity for the next generations of my family. I will ensure that they can access the excellent education that my family allowed me to attain. I will teach them to live and... View Details

05 Jul 2021
What Do You Think?

Do Companies Really Need Chief Experience Officers to Know Their Customers?

(Image credit: iStockphoto/skynesher) I will always remember November 11, 1977 as the day I drove a Ford Pinto into the employee parking lot of the General Motors Technical Center in Detroit. My vehicle was the only Ford product in a sea... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Globalization: The Strategy of Differences

markets. This two-track approach turned out to be problematic. The branded business grew to significant volumes but continued to generate losses because the competitive environment was particularly tough for a late mover. Meanwhile,... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

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Frist Faculty Commons | About

replacing the Faculty Club formerly located in Kresge Hall. The space was named in honor of the Thomas F. Frist Jr. family, who have been generous supporters of financial aid at HBS. About the Name After serving as a flight surgeon in the... View Details

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Selected Digital Historical Resources – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Photograph Album, 1925. Full text available as a networked resource This album contains 81 black and white photographs documenting the operations of the Western Electric Company’s Hawthorne Works in 1925. The images depict general views... View Details

12 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

In a Landscape of 'Me Too' Drug Development, What Spurs Radical Innovation?

than 10 percent chance of approval. Me toos have greater than 20 percent chance of reaching the market, and generally require lower investment. For patients, of course, it’s the novel blockbusters that can be the most life-changing.... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health; Pharmaceutical

04 Aug 2011
What Do You Think?

How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?

Tharian, for example, said "common sense is quite often related to wisdom (from accumulated experience vs. the knowledge that the younger generation acquires so rapidly through social networks)." Noting that Webster's Dictionary... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online

concept of elasticity. Highlights The Price is Right Price Setting and the Concept of Elasticity Elasticity as a General Concept Show Hide Details Concepts Willingness to Pay A Different Visual Representation of WTP Elasticity Featured... View Details

24 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?

professor. They surveyed 1,770 members of Alignable, an online platform for small-business leaders. To supplement that small-business data, a second survey was completed by 70 business economists belonging to the National Association for Business Economics (NABE).... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

28 Oct 2022
Blog Post

Latina Women in Leadership: Shirley Verónica Cardona (MBA 2012)

scale. HBS played a critical role in equipping me with a general management skill set. The case method, specifically, prepared me to confidently take on work across new industries from consumer goods to travel & tourism to EdTech as... View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions - Creating Emerging Markets

Frequently Asked Questions Who is selected for interviews? We select leaders who have built organizations of lasting value. For the most part, these are founders of businesses, though they also include numerous significant not-for-profit organizations. What is key is... View Details

02 Mar 2012
HBS Seminar

Joe Lassiter/Gordon Jones, Harvard Business School/Harvard University

23 Aug 2006
Op-Ed

The Real Wal-Mart Effect

the form of lower prices. There is general agreement that Wal-Mart prices are significantly lower than its competitors. Assuming that the company's prices are 8 percent lower—at the low end of the estimates from various studies summarized... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Ken A. Mark; Retail

18 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Learning in Action

Bean, the U.S. Army's Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL), AT&T's Bell Laboratories, the Timken Companies and General Electric's Change Acceleration Process (CAP). L.L. Bean has long relied on inquiry as a source of learning to... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin

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