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- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
doctors at least two weeks to sift through these mutations, searching for the ones that were diagnostically significant. But Watson was able to highlight within moments which mutated genes had likely developed into cancer. Based on... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
sense a man makes of himself as a man, which develops in the course of his interactions with others. A man encounters—and learns to anticipate—others' expectations of him as a man; he responds, others react, and through this... View Details
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
deliver cultural value. They compete for what I call "culture share." The man-of-action hero is back and more than ever he is found in business rather than politics or fiction.— Douglas B. Holt In my forthcoming book (Culture Share; HBS Press), I View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 01 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
as their mental well-being—a forthcoming article in American Psychologist examines current organizational psychology research to help business leaders manage COVID-related fallout in the workplace and develop solutions to ease the stress... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
caregiving, and the hearts of caregivers. The Long Shot: The Inside Story of the Race to Vaccinate Britain By Kate E. Bingham (MBA 1991) and Tim Hames Oneworld Publications As chair of the UK’s task force charged with developing an... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
the conclusion that you can’t do both research and business development at once.” “I think as a small company, I’m coming to the conclusion that you can’t do both research and business development at once.”... View Details
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
Among the most popular elective courses at Harvard Business School is Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (BSSE). Developed by Professor Clayton M. Christensen, the course teaches future leaders how to use well-researched... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
Best B-Schools.” Up to that point, business schools built their reputations largely on the research productivity and scholarly reputations of their faculties. BusinessWeek’s customer-focused look at MBA programs was an instant hit; the... View Details
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
task. And you can't divorce it from that, which is why it's not a purely HR function or shouldn't be a once-a-year kind of evaluation; it really needs to be an ongoing evaluation. SS: Who in a corporation these days should be responsible for View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
has good information about cost and demand functions, product quality, and optimal output mix. Profit centers—defined as business units whose managers have responsibility for overall profits but not the authority to make major capital... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Dean Srikant Datar’s 2024 Commencement Remarks | About
disturbing acts of antisemitism globally in the months since. Some of you have been deeply affected by the war between Israel and Hamas and the humanitarian crisis and death toll in Gaza that has ensued. At a time when our campus could have been badly divided, you... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
Howard, Fitzhugh joined Pepsi in 1965, where he developed the first marketing efforts directed at African Americans. Credited with creating the concept of targeted marketing, he also attracted and mentored black executives and created two... View Details
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
From the dawn of the U.S. transcontinental railroad in 1869 to the widespread embrace of consumer products like cell phones and iPods in our time, the story of American business is in constant motion, never at rest—or at ease. A new... View Details
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
crises like the one that we are experiencing tend to facilitate the development and implementation of changes that break with the existing norms and power hierarchies. We all have the opportunity to participate in the collective effort to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Financial Reporting Goes Global
to write about globalization, accounting standards and, in particular, Indian accounting standards? Gregory Miller: Globalization is the major issue in determining the future of financial reporting. As financial and product markets become... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
able to greatly increase our knowledge of the region and develop a deep understanding of business practices that cut across functional boundaries, from finance to human resource management to strategy," says Sahlman. Plugging HBS In... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
philanthropy, has been very focused on giving back. As far as his management principles Intel developed under Andy Grove a set of principles, a culture, which is extremely strong and remains extremely strong to this day [and was] with him... View Details
- September 2019 (Revised May 2020)
- Case
Keroche (A): Fighting for Share in the Kenyan Alcoholic Drinks Market
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Pippa Tubman Armerding
This case discusses the challenges faced by Kenyan alcoholic drinks producer Keroche Industries Limited in 2003, when the Kenyan government accused the company of manufacturing and selling substandard alcoholic drinks, revoked its liquor licenses, and shut down its... View Details
Keywords: Keroche; Alcohol; Wine; Manufacturing; Informal Market; Regulation; Illicit; Illegal; Shutdown; Factory; Low-income Consumers; Multinational; Local; Government; Allegations; Accusations; Negative Press; EABL; Tusker; Beer; SAB; Chang'aa; Naivasha; Rift Valley; East Africa; Lawsuit; Legal Battle; Business Ventures; Business Exit or Shutdown; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Production; Safety; Quality; Distribution; Small Business; Family Business; Crime and Corruption; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decisions; Income; Demographics; Geographic Scope; Geographic Location; Goods and Commodities; Government Legislation; Growth and Development; Business History; Lawsuits and Litigation; Laws and Statutes; Lawfulness; Goals and Objectives; Consumer Behavior; Market Entry and Exit; Problems and Challenges; Social Issues; Poverty; Strategy; Competition; Entrepreneurship; Manufacturing Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Kenya; Nairobi; Africa
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Pippa Tubman Armerding. "Keroche (A): Fighting for Share in the Kenyan Alcoholic Drinks Market." Harvard Business School Case 720-390, September 2019. (Revised May 2020.)
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
didn’t have a few months prior. One had lost her star software developer to a rival. This, Schultz thought, was the perfect framing: Take all of the historical entrepreneurs he was focusing on for his book and put them in a bar. Let them... View Details