(General) Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Sep 2016
News

Competing Against Luck

has really become a part of the modern business canon. And he has a new book coming out next month, Competing Against Luck, which argues that understanding customers' motivations, what quote unquote, "role" consumers are buying a product to fill, can help View Details

21 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset

And—oh, yes—Rovell was just a kid in his teens. Nevertheless, he launched a business-of-sports talk show on Northwestern University's student radio station, WNUR. His "producer" (actually, a roommate) aggressively pursued big-name players, View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

17 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper

companies. Namely, do they yield more product returns, which are notoriously higher online than in the physical world? What about product returns? Product returns are too common in online channels. They are often attributed to the inability to inspect items before... View Details

Keywords: by Ayelet Israeli, Eva Ascarza, and Laura Castrillo; Retail

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part One]

former HBS professor who is now dean at the new Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy at Tokyo's Hitotsubashi University; and Sakakibara, a former Ministry of Trade and Industry (MITI) official with a doctorate from Harvard who is now an assistant... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

01 Dec 2012
News

Rival Visions

import-export firm in his native St. Croix. Sent to America for college in 1772 by local leaders who saw his potential, he soon joined the revolutionary army and was tapped for service on General George Washington's staff. Among... View Details

30 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 30

proportional to dividend yields. Portfolio strategies differ in the pace of capital gains realization. We use the federal tax codes from 1926 through 2007 to construct the after-tax returns that individual investors, corporations, and broker-dealers would have View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Web

A Message from Dean Srikant Datar | About

individuals like Ken Frazier, the CEO of Merck, Ken Chenault, the former CEO of American Express and currently at General Catalyst, Doug McMillon, the current CEO of Walmart, Brian Moynihan, the current CEO of Bank of America, Lisa Skeete... View Details

22 Jan 2020
News

What It Takes

Middle East, running a huge sovereign wealth fund, took it over. He was a royal family member. And I had never met him before, so I was going to be the first person who managed money for this giant institution. To meet him, it was going... View Details

Career Coach

Carole Carlson

Carole (HBS '98) has a wide ranging business background, with particular expertise coaching MBAs and executives. She has a passion for helping individuals develop their career vision and implement it via practical job search skills, including strategy development,... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Education; Entrepreneurship; Government; Health Care; Hospitality; Real Estate; Social Enterprise

01 Sep 2020
News

The Devil You Don’t Know

similar: “Our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply.” Remarkably, Keynes says much the same... View Details

16 Dec 2016
News

An Environmental Epiphany

who came to look at Bulgaria as a potential destination for their investments. And we generally felt that we were part of shaping a liberal market economy in a way that very few people have a chance to do. Morrell: You've mentioned that,... View Details

01 Feb 1998
News

Running Up the Score

possibilities, to be developed under the aegis of Fox and its parent, News Corporation. Going, Going, Gone In the quest to boost revenues, stadiums and arenas have become increasingly important as revenue producers. "The significance of stadium/arena revenues -... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

19 May 2022
News

Leading to Salvation

to apply to HBS, launching a career that would include executive roles at McKinsey, Citibank, and Union Texas Petroleum, as well as board service for General Mills, Hewlett-Packard, Stanley Black & Decker, and UnitedHealth. From 1993... View Details

12 May 2022
News

Onboarding

terms of time. But you know, the recruitment and selection process has changed quite a bit. Back in the early 90s, late 80s, it was generally just a question of the chairman and CEO and the other board members looking at their... View Details

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