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- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
scientists and with labs and who have a close working relationship with their faculty. Brian: Does that show up in the rankings? Does that somehow make itself apparent? Bill: No, because usually Williams,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
Events: Dancing dragons greeted alumni at the closing gala inside the new Science and Technology Museum. Photos by Philip Chau Standing before nearly 1,000 HBS alumni, faculty, and guests in a packed Shanghai hotel auditorium, HBS... View Details
- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
tasks can cost physicians extra coordination time, plus doctors still need to review and authorize orders in an EHR before they are submitted. The study examined the relationship between physician productivity, the degree of digital... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
industrial and energy services—and was close to defaulting on its financial obligations. Some managers felt the company was also bankrupt in terms of ideas. There was insufficient communication across the company, including few common... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 09 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit
strength than the UK. Don’t finalize the divorce Rather than completely divorce itself from European markets, Britain should aim to achieve a trading agreement with the EU that is as open as possible. The UK also has much to gain from maintaining regulations that are... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
A Conversation with Dean Clark
and opportunities - as it always will - and he was encouraging me to approach them head-on. BULLETIN: And how is the School's relationship with the rest of the University? CLARK: Healthy and productive. [Harvard University President] Neil... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
dependencies. Tradition holds that tightly coupled relationships are by nature more efficient; for example, close collaboration between customers and suppliers is usually favored in existing management... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer DataUse It
With the advent of customer relationship management (CRM) in the late 1990s, companies came to believe that by using technology to tailor their offerings to individual consumers' needs, customer loyalty—and company profits—would... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
percent. The cost of creating this closed ecosystem of top-tier executives is more than the price of CEO compensation and searches. It is also the cost of the failed messiahs who could not deliver the promised results. Industry wisdom,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
Laura, Nick Bloom, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, Patrick Legros, Andrew F. Newman, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Abstract—Little is known theoretically, and even less empirically, about the relationship between firm boundaries... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Student-Profile
Do Yoon Kim
Strategy program shine. The HBS Experience Coming here, I knew my research interests would change, but I don't think I believed they would change this much. There was a lot of letting go and painful realizations as I discussed ideas kept View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Class of 1949 Gift Supports HBS Faculty Development
when competition for outstanding talent has intensified among private industry and other top-tier business schools." The Class of 1949, one of the first post-World War II HBS classes to be awarded MBA degrees, has a long-standing, close... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite
strengthen their relationships with colleagues and supervisors," he says. As a result, people of color typically begin having notable careers when they break into middle management. "Minority managers do, in fact, have to be... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 11 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Venture Capital
Director and Career Coach Katja Frey – Recruiting Relations Manager Together, Jonathan and Katja make up the Career & Professional Development team that manages relationships with venture capital firms and works View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- Web
Expatriate Traders in the Treaty Port Communities - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Westerners appreciated for its European ambiance. 53 “The hills and the Bay with its islands were as beautiful as ever,” John Heard wrote, “and looked like Paradise.” 54 Western traders maintained close View Details
- 25 May 2021
- Blog Post
The Surprising Power of Nostalgia at Work
actually works. When people engage in nostalgia, they’re accessing personally meaningful autobiographical events typically shared with family, friends, and other close connections. It isn’t just a happy trip down memory lane — in fact,... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/119022-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 807-028 Jamnalal Bajaj, Mahatma Gandhi, and the Struggle for Indian Independence Describes the role of a leading Indian business leader in the campaign for independence before 1947 and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
taking a close look at the real world, examining how actual, contemporary businesses fare when they attempt to pursue innovations that lie beyond their current products or markets. Do they succeed in achieving breakthroughs? Do their... View Details
- 15 Feb 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective
IPO in 1990 to a $10-billion company today, with a market value of close to $140 billion! I'm also doing research for a case on Drugstore.com, which is essentially a drug store "built" on the Internet. It's getting ready to... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
solely on the merits of its strategic value to Oasys. He was forced to evaluate the strategic benefit alongside the likelihood of actually closing a deal, the specific terms of each deal, and especially the speed with which a deal could... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel