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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
told you at the start of your career? NAINA LAL KIDWAI Naina Lal Kidwai (MBA 1982), country head, HSBC India, director, HSBC Asia-Pacific, New Delhi, India Keep your worst critic close to you. If you care to listen, you will at least be... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
had bonds with. I struggled to grasp the significance of that moment, in which two of the people I cared most about shared what their rishte meant to them. Over time, I realized that the word translates to “relationships.” My... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
to some. “He asked tough questions, even hardware-related stuff,” DU alum Surbhi Sarna told Bloomberg Business last year. “...He was giving us design ideas.” Draper invested in Sarna’s nVision Medical, a medical device company for women’s View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Career Coach
Lauren Murphy
Lauren is the Founder and Principal Coach of Pivotal Executive Coaching, partnering with senior business leaders to accomplish their professional and organization goals. She works with executives in technology, healthcare, real estate, consumer products, and financial... View Details
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- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
supplying superior bottleneck components while outsourcing non-bottleneck components. I show that a firm pursuing this strategy will have a higher return on invested capital (ROIC) than competitors with a less modular design. Over time, the focal firm can drive the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
SIPs in 2021
escalating real estate costs of her hometown and company hub of Austin, Texas, and how developing the first FDA-approved at-home COVID-19 test was not a pivot but a natural extension of EverlyWell’s values and business plan. On the final... View Details
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
close to the firm's headquarters in southern France, on one of the large exchanges in the U.S., or perhaps in Asia, where much of the firm's future growth is expected. The case provides opportunities to discuss the benefits and costs of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
services firm, comprising over 1,000 applications and over 3,000 dependencies between them. Our methods allow us to disentangle the effects of different types and levels of coupling. Our analysis reveals that applications with higher levels of coupling View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
and connected and OPTIMISTIC in appropriate measure while so many have so many competing personal and business and health and family issues right now.” Meanwhile, cost-cutting, uncertainty, and the necessities of social distancing... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
and connected and OPTIMISTIC in appropriate measure while so many have so many competing personal and business and health and family issues right now.” Meanwhile, cost-cutting, uncertainty, and the necessities of social distancing... View Details
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
Michael Beer and Lynda St. ClairHarvard Business School Case 913-521 A new Dallas-based health and beauty spa aims to use a highly distinctive human resource system as the foundation of its competitive strategy. By encouraging employees... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
crucial decision, he saw it through, even when virtually everything around him seemed stacked against such a commitment. This adherence was not the result of stubbornness or self-righteousness. Rather, it came from the care that Lincoln... View Details
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
better access to finance can be attributed to a) reduced agency costs due to enhanced stakeholder engagement and b) reduced informational asymmetry due to increased transparency. Using a large cross-section of firms, we find that firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
Tower” lingers, though it has been covered in green terra-cotta since the end of World War II. The cost to construct the building in 1928 was $10 million, $135 million in today’s dollars. Last June Cummings and his partners—including... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
encouraged to stay in the system. Far from it. Stewardship involves careful construction and management of channel relationships so that the valuable members are suitably rewarded and the less valuable members are weeded out. When a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
of being a successful entrepreneur. There are huge, huge market areas right now that are suffering from great dislocation and transition, and for which technology innovation has an opportunity to create tremendous value. Health care, the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
vertically integrated, local market. In technology, capital flows to the location where products can be produced most quickly and cheaply for the moment; our model focuses on the long-term sustainability that comes from the health of the... View Details
- Career Coach
Jan Pianca
Jan (MSc, International Management, Bocconi University) is the Educational Programs Assistant Director Europe at the HBS Europe Research Center in Paris. He focuses on European employer outreach to develop and manage the School’s relationships with European companies.... View Details
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- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
by story, the reporting is very thoughtful and careful. At this moment in history when we wring our hands about the future of newspapers, readers who care about the importance and contribution of newspapers should look at the book,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
pour Entrepreneurs by Fabrice Cavarretta (MBA 1996) Plon Yes, France is a paradise for entrepreneurs, Cavarretta writes. The country has one of the best opportunity ecosystems in the world and the drawbacks—for instance, the cost of labor... View Details