Certificate Of Need - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 18

innovative drug candidates for testing in patients. Project teams consisted of Pfizer scientists and academics working side-by-side to reduce the time needed to bring a therapeutic drug from the lab to a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Dec 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Grooming Next-Generation Leaders

true deficiency in finance and quantitative methods, says Sasser. While PLD students learn a variety of business specialties including strategy, finance, marketing, and innovation, the point is that future leaders often View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Marketing Association. Eva Ascarza : Finalist for the 2019 MSI Robert D. Buzzell Award from the Marketing Science Institute for “In Pursuit of Enhanced Customer Retention Management: Review, Key Issues, and Future Directions” ( Customer... View Details

11 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK

sanctions in order to try to help someone who is maybe going through a difficult time." Zlatev, who partnered with Justin Berg, an assistant professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and former Stanford doctoral student Alisa... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

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Getting Started - Alumni

This service is complimentary to HBS Alumni. Unsure of What You're Looking For? You do not need to have a specific career focus to work with a coach. Coaches are very skilled in helping HBS alumni gain... View Details

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It

sufficient regard for the many risks that can create. An appropriate regard for cost is one that doesn't exclusively address cost. Thus, "the idea isn't just reducing inventory to a ridiculous value," Raman says. "Inventory protects against unanticipated... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

10 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

retailers will need to reconfigure as vast spaces become unproductive. The most obvious victims so far of this shift are music, video, and book retailers—these categories are virtually nonexistent outside... View Details

Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail

10 Sep 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Branding Yoga

understanding that you needed legal protection for your branding." The Stiles Approach Tara Stiles, meanwhile, found success in yoga her own way. She had studied ballet before launching a brief modeling career with the Ford Agency.... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

27 Mar 2017
Blog Post

Should Entrepreneurs Get an MBA?

introduced me to a great VC firm where she just started working. The addition of lots of kind and helpful people into an entrepreneur’s life should not be discounted. Classroom: The knock on business school... View Details

21 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Common Strategy Mistakes

need to acquire an airfreight company so they can compete in multiple forms of transportation. Similarly, there has been a tendency to define industries as global when they are national or encompass only... View Details

Keywords: by Joan Magretta

11 Mar 2021
News

Leading with Heart

our respective losses. So turns out that Peter lost the love of his life, his wife, to a blood disorder. She also needed a bone marrow transplant. He couldn't get her a bone marrow transplant. When he shared... View Details

Fast Answer

Bloomberg download limits

What download limits are there for the Bloomberg terminals and what should I know about them? Each Bloomberg terminal has both a daily and a monthly limit to the amount of data that can be... View Details

April 2004 (Revised November 2004)
Background Note

Why Complex Systems Fail

Operationally excellent organizations create competitive opportunities for themselves that are not available to their peers. One view of the manager's competitive dilemma is to pick the right position for his organization, differentiating it, for example, as a... View Details

Keywords: Organizations; Complexity

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12 May 2023
News

Alabama's Yella Fella

wood himself and the company was ‘completely busted.' Back in 1971, in need of a lifeline, he asked the Bank of Abbeville for a $5,000 loan. ‘I walked in there in my coveralls,... View Details

Keywords: Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods; Wholesale Trade

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HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

members) Intimate and confidential discussions by track (i.e. founders separate from builders) addressing unique needs of each cohort Founders - Small Group Discussions: Building Culture at Scale Building... View Details

04 Oct 2007
Working Paper Summaries

Fair (and Not So Fair) Division

Keywords: by John W. Pratt

July – August 2009
Article

Restoring American Competitiveness

By: Gary P. Pisano and Willy C. Shih

For decades, U.S. companies have been outsourcing manufacturing in the belief that it held no competitive advantage. That's been a disaster, maintain Harvard professors Pisano and Shih, because today's low-value manufacturing operations hold the seeds of tomorrow's... View Details

Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Value; Production; Innovation and Invention; Product Development; Government and Politics; Social Issues; Management Practices and Processes; Investment; Research and Development; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Competency and Skills; Service Industry; United States

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09 Sep 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Perspectives from the Boardroom--2009

Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch, Joseph L. Bower, Clayton S. Rose & Suraj Srinivasan

Research Summary

Overview

By: Antonio Moreno

One major theme of Professor Moreno’s research has been retail channel integration and so-called “omnichannel retail.” In omnichannel retail, retailers provide their customers with a shopping experience that may involve different channels in a way that aims to be... View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

Going Public: Margaret M. Crotty

Save the Children and thought that Bryant Gumbel might make a donation," she laughs. The reasoning was classic Crotty: bold, altruistic, and always focused on drawing others into a good cause. Crotty's brush with death came toward the end View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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