Filter Results:
(1,040)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,040)
- News (172)
- Research (689)
- Events (1)
- Multimedia (6)
- Faculty Publications (388)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,040)
- News (172)
- Research (689)
- Events (1)
- Multimedia (6)
- Faculty Publications (388)
- Web
Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog
Economics Matthew Weinzierl Spring 2026 Q3 1.5 Understanding Africa: Business, Entrepreneurship, Political Economy and the Complexities of a Continent (also listed under General Management) Hakeem I. Belo-Osagie Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0... View Details
- November 2017
- Teaching Note
Amazon.com, 2016
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Teaching Note for HBS No. 716-402.
On January 28, 2016, Amazon announced record 2015 operating profits of $2.2 billion on $107 billion of sales, and the markets responded with cautious optimism. For years, founder and CEO Jeffrey Bezos had prioritized growth and... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Analysis; Retail; E-commerce; Amazon; Amazon.com; AmazonFresh; Jeff Bezos; Cloud Computing; Marketplaces; Streaming; E-reader Market; Digital Media; Mobile App; Online Retail; Shipping; Database; Tablet; Kindle; Kindle Fire; Smartphone; Delivery; Market Platforms; Two-Sided Platforms; Competition; Internet; Corporate Strategy; Online Advertising; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Profit; Revenue; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Taxation; Business History; Human Resources; Resignation and Termination; Books; Human Capital; Working Conditions; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Practices and Processes; Industry Growth; Industry Structures; Media; Distribution; Distribution Channels; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Infrastructure; Logistics; Product Development; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Organizational Culture; Public Ownership; Work-Life Balance; Problems and Challenges; Labor and Management Relations; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Integration; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Hardware; Information Technology; Mobile Technology; Online Technology; Technology Networks; Technology Platform; Web; Web Sites; Price; Software; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Working Capital; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Value and Value Chain; Retail Industry; Advertising Industry; Distribution Industry; Electronics Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Information Technology Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Music Industry; Publishing Industry; Shipping Industry; Technology Industry; Video Game Industry; Web Services Industry; United States; Washington (state, US); Seattle
- 2011
- Book
Detour: My Unexpected, Amazing, Life Changing Journey With OnStar
By: Chet Huber
Detour is the story behind the launch of OnStar’s now well known blue button, as told through the eyes of its founder and CEO of over fourteen years, Chet Huber. It’s a personal narrative that describes the events that led up to General Motors’ unexpected choice... View Details
Keywords: General Motors; OnStar; Technological Innovation; Business Startups; Transportation; Safety; Personal Development and Career; Creativity; Success; Business History; Auto Industry
Huber, Chet. Detour: My Unexpected, Amazing, Life Changing Journey With OnStar. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011.
- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
example, key government officials can serve as mega-influencers by promoting their willingness to be immunized through traditional and digital media. Throughout the history of vaccines efforts, presidents, prime ministers, and leading... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
biggest question we all need to ask ourselves today is what side of history do we want to be on? We’re inspired by businesses willing to engage in activism. Here are five practices worth tracking: Truth-telling. The system is broken. We... View Details
- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
I mostly smiled and thanked them for their compliment. I politely corrected people whenever they presumed that Singapore was part of China. In trying to learn about and adapt to American culture, I unintentionally swept away my own... View Details
- Web
2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Srikant Datar + More Info - Video Recording – Less Info - Video Recording Dean Srikant Datar kicks off Reunion Weekend by sharing his key priorities, which will strengthen and accelerate the School’s impact in the world. 10:00-11:15 a.m. EDT Navigating Uncertain Times:... View Details
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
legal, and political history of financial globalization. This article is part of the larger project. My book, Capital Rules: The Construction of Global Finance, is going to be published by Harvard University... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
two dilapidated row houses that had been vacant since 1978. She intends to replace them with affordable rental apartments—the opening salvo in an ambitious plan to redevelop West Baltimore Street, whose boarded-up windows and abandoned storefronts belie its View Details
- 07 Jul 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Historical Roots of Globalization
Globalization creates convergence that threatens what is distinctive about national societies. Living with institutional convergence pressures casts doubt on the legitimacy of globalization. China is no island: Its history is one of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions
widespread skepticism for the possibility of fair regulation. The power of big business is limited by the need to work with a range of powerful but diffuse societal groups. In his new book, Strength in Numbers: The Political Power of Weak... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
provided me with a unique opportunity, because all the changes that were made to the text survived as archaeological layers for me to excavate. The ever-expanding Essay became my way of making sense of the larger question I was facing—namely, how a rigorous View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power
discusses common assumptions about pre-revolutionary China, from both an economic and a political perspective. (Footnotes have been deleted.) Economics At mid-century, Chinese revolutionaries and many foreign scholars believed that China... View Details
Keywords: by William C. Kirby
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
crusade in her working paper The U.S. Experiment with Fair Trade Laws: State Police Powers, Federal Antitrust, and the Politics of “Fairness,” 1890–1938, forthcoming in the Business History Review. Gleason,... View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
Creative destruction of a different kind occurred during the political transition in Turkey in 1980, after the military coup. Previous political and social connections lost their value over night. 450 new... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
firms in the United States to sell equipment enabling the Chinese government to censor the Web and identify political opponents. As the economist William Baumol has argued, entrepreneurship can be productive, unproductive, or destructive,... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
their work. Joining the discussion was Professor Debora Spar, a political scientist who recently traced the historical development of several pioneering technologies. Leading Research: Let's begin by talking about what led to the writing... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable
like to think of themselves as truly indispensable—impact makers, history movers, culture changers—few reach the bar set by Steve Jobs, Napoleon, or Martin Luther King Jr., Mukunda says. (Even some people you might think would be shoo-ins... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
enterprises, where directors' private interests diverged from the interest of the firms they managed. "In the past, managers of SOEs were sometimes selected according to political interests, and there was no transparency," says Musacchio.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Can China Lead?’
come from the mistakenly named "bottom" up, from faculty at the top of their fields. Having an institutional structure to support this is rare anywhere, and in Chinese universities today it is rarer still. Can world-class universities exist in a View Details