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- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
and the Roots of Sustained Competitive Advantage This note focuses on organizational "competencies" or "capabilities" as a potential source of sustained competitive advantage. Research in this area hypothesizes that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
which emphasized a focus on customers. He also instituted a new, simplified performance management system, which rated managers' performance and advancement potential on a four-point scale. The system also included a forced ranking... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
2023TerraTrade is a two-sided marketplace that eliminates consultants & enables corporates to buy power directly from renewable energy projects. TerraTrade aims to harness the potential of corporations to combat climate change by... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
fantastic job raising sponsorship funds. All in all, we will pursue both paths in the future to engage our alumni in-person and virtually.” The club has established a fairly selective process for evaluating potential honorees, according... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
decisions? Pick great people. Who among your potential co-venturers is skilled, flexible, and honorable? How can they help when smart VCs pay more attention to the team than to the initial value proposition. Build the team that will buy... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
expand the reach of the EITC and using that as a lever for achieving redistribution would potentially be more powerful and popular. It's not something that's [happening], at least from what we've got so far. I find that a little... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
conditionally decreases global emissions. Three sources of potential welfare improvement realized through carbon tariffs require both foreign comparative advantage and endogenous technology choice, underscoring the importance of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
passions and fulfilling human potential in my education background. I was like, what do you mean by that? And over the course of the writing of the book, I really understood that dream jobs, perfect jobs, in all dimensions, they do not... View Details
- 03 Jan 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
5 Career-Related New Year’s Resolutions (and 5 Tips for Keeping Them)
web shortly after you post them or share them with friends. Out of sight, out of mind, right? Problem solved, right? Might as well Snapchat that lampshade on your head, right? Wrong. It turns out that if a potential employer ever saw an... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 11
and the growth of shadow banking. While recognizing some of the benefits of professional asset management, we are skeptical about the marginal value of active asset management. We then raise concerns about whether the potential benefits... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2010
- Op-Ed
A Golden Opportunity for Ford and GM
and marketing. He also put himself on the firing line, publicly taking ownership for GM's turnaround and appearing in a series of advertisements challenging consumers to compare GM autos with its competitors. Glimmers of Ford's and GM's View Details
- 31 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Marketing’s Conventional Wisdom
approach and delivery to better fit with other individuals or situations; similarly, there's untapped potential in being able to establish electronic connections with consumers in ways that are not necessarily based on having a huge... View Details
- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Your Employees and Customers Drive a New Value Profit Chain
today's job market don't want to hear—that companies should create fewer, more significant jobs. This strategy seems to have the potential to damage employee morale. How can companies use work-force reduction to successfully reengineer an... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep
A: Historically careful analysis of corporate information on a large number of companies has required an investor (or at least the investor's organization) to master a difficult and arcane set of data-handling tools. XBRL has the View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Privatization and the New European Economy
"the average amount of global privatization was valued at between US$70 to $80 billion. Experts predict that the potential for privatization in Europe in the decade ahead will have a value of between US$250 and 450 billion. This... View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
4 Things You Should Know about Entrepreneurship at HBS
because we had that baseline, we should feel confident in taking risks, remembering that “risk” isn’t just downside--its volatility that goes both ways. The more risk we take, the greater upside potential we have, while our downside is... View Details
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Sustainable Investing - Course Catalog
representation on boards, and even the potential to create social good. Covering both public and private markets, the course will present the unprecedented opportunities that have arisen due to energy transition and other trends through... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
They Call Him Mr. China
visiting 100 factories before presciently fixing his sights on the growth potential in auto parts. In the early 1990s, China manufactured only about 600,000 vehicles a year, mostly trucks, and parts makers remained small and regional.... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
company. “There’s a large, addressable market for sales engagement software that modernizes the workflow of customer-facing reps,” she says. “And with intelligent data in our solution, you have the potential for a winner-takes-all... View Details
- 14 Oct 2020
- News
Sewn with Love
could one company or brand do?” she wondered. Photos courtesy VPL Photos courtesy VPL Hanazawa also understood the fashion-industry network is powerful and has the potential for wider impact. In 2011, she tapped fellow industry leaders... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon