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- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
Côme Laguë by Robert S. Benchley Côme Laguë (MBA 1993) has no respect for firms he calls "patent trolls"—holding companies that buy up and bank the intellectual property of closed businesses solely for the purpose of generating income... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 22 Jul 2024
- News
Viral Marketing’s Early Muse
how consumers, and companies, viewed the power of social media. HBS professor emeritus John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld published a case, “United Breaks Guitars”, to delve into the incident’s takeaways for future business leaders. “Until... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
A New Platform for Alumni Engagement
Kenneth Salas (MBA 2015), pictured In January, 50 HBS MBA students and 200 alumni and other business leaders gathered to discuss the business of artificial intelligence (AI). Over the course of four days,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
a freelance basis. Are the declining numbers of movie-goers a concern? No, action films loaded with special effects will continue to be popular because people want to see them on the big screen. No matter how home theater systems evolve,... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- News
The Right Thing to Do
Playing by the Rules, Ethics at Work, a new series of video case studies of business ethics, aims to teach people that there’s a direct link between morality and the bottom line. Joe Badaracco, the John Shad Professor of View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
larger chains seem to be adopting some of the distinctive, personal touches that characterize boutique hotels like Kimpton. Yes, what was once a fairly small niche has become a legitimate segment of the industry. The big chains are adding... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
kids on vacation with tobacco company money, you know? And so yeah, I do feel, I do feel good about that. DM: So Richard, we've been speaking a lot about what business leaders, what firm leaders can do. They see this View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Research Brief: The Real Cost of Countering China
chain trends, with a focus on the events of 2017 to 2022. They found that trade has rebounded from the pandemic shock, but that aggregate measures—such as American goods imports—mask big changes in the origins of those goods. The research... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
skills for our students. We’re fully convinced this is going to be fundamental mainstream investing in 20 years. Vikram Gandhi: One key driver is investor demand.If you look at the big pools of capital—family offices, pension plans,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
last five years, the world has moved faster outside the business than inside,” CEO Easterbrook said in a video address about the turnaround in 2015. And the push permeates the organization. CMO Morgan Flatley offers the example of a View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
think an interesting question here is: At what point is an entrepreneur—particularly someone who doesn’t have experience in business, per se—supposed to grow up and design those systems? When you start a business in your garage, we don’t... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Faculty Books
policymakers and the public on how capture can be mitigated and the public interest protected. Blockbusters: Hit-Making, Risk-Taking, and the Big Business of Entertainment by Anita Elberse (Henry Holt)... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Cup Runneth Over
For marketers, how big is the World Cup? Its power can't be overstated. Some 3 billion people will watch the tournament, and marketers will spend hundreds of millions of dollars to engage their attention. FIFA, the governing body of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
is conducted at the School. The labs will drive foundational and applied research in six topical areas that address key business and societal challenges of the new digital world. Faculty members from across Harvard, serving as principal... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Beantown as a Beacon
30-year low, stagnating middle-class wages, and a political system seemingly incapable of agreement. "So what happened—and what are we going to do about it?" asked Porter. These questions were the impetus behind HBS's US Competitiveness Project, launched in March 2012... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
domestic hub, a woman who looked to be in her 80s saw Sender's name badge and approached her. "Oh, daughter, can you help me?" Carrying a bag nearly as big as she was, she handed Sender her boarding pass and told her she was taking the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Research Brief: Bargaining for Better
Nava Ashraf, Natalie Bau, and Corinne Low. “It is not really a big intervention, but what we saw were true life changes,” McGinn says. The study found that negotiation skills can reduce a teenage girl’s risk of dropping out of school by... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Righting the Ship
have big parts to play. That can be positive. It will be difficult and it will involve lots of complicated trade-offs and wrenching decisions, but nonetheless, we need a lot more than hunkering down and hoping we get through. Nancy Koehn... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Slam Dunk
video, including games from some of the country's best playground leagues. "We want to be the No. 1 online basketball destination," said O'Neil, who cut his teeth in the sports business working in sales for the Philadelphia Eagles and the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
wanted to know how some companies could grow so big so fast. “The answers we got were unsatisfying,” Yeh says. People cited the Valley’s concentration of smarts or its access to venture capital—which is useful for growing companies, “but... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint