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14 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots

Technology and Operations Management. The case was rolled out to the entire first year of the MBA program comprising close to one thousand MBA students. “It was probably one of the most passionate case discussions that we’ve had,” Iansiti... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports

25 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 25

systems that perform the same function. These differences appear to be associated with different models of development-open, distributed organizations develop systems with smaller Cores, while closed collocated organizations develop... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

01 May 2009
What Do You Think?

Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?

continued "focus on execution doing more of the same when they stalled," not size. Many reasons were put forth to explain why there is a perceived relationship between size and stalls due to general lack of innovation. Jeff... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

15 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Health Is Wealth | The Path To Creating A Venture

initially. Through her relationship with Austin, Rachel connected with Alex Iskold, Coach and VC in Resident at the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at HBS and Managing Partner at 2048 Ventures [formerly Managing Partner of... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Health Care

08 Jan 2020
Blog Post

Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Private Equity

Director and Career Coach Katja Frey – Recruiting Relations Manager Together, Jonathan and Katja make up the Career & Professional Development team that manages relationships with Private Equity firms and coaches HBS students... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

01 Jun 1999
News

Q & A: Pat Russo - Focused on the Future at Lucent Technologies

and improved customer relationship management opportunities. We're really talking about fundamental changes in how people communicate, get information, and conduct business. Wired for Success Pat Russo worked for eight years in sales and... View Details

08 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Who Rises to Power in American Business?

level, more access and more opportunity. At the elite graduate institutions, there may be less access—in essence, a closing of the funnel. Q: In what areas do paths to power still appear to be closed today?... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

29 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation

Valentine's Day. For the first time, FedEx closed due to the storm and would not be able to deliver our flowers. In the flower business, you are given credit for making a marriage work, and you're also blamed for destroying a... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

04 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success

e-commerce initiatives, the payoffs of e-commerce investments must be calculated and integrated into management decision-making systems. Developing Appropriate Metrics To closely monitor the cause and effect View Details

Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein

12 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 12, 2006

chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley as a result of poor performance and cultural problems, as well as his relationship to the board of directors. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=405105... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors

definitions of a small world. In layman's terms, the best way to think about a small-world network is that there are local clusters, much like caves. Within these caves you have a small clan of people tightly connected together, with strong View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Publishing

Web

Board Diversity Network: 2024 Fall Events Recap - Blog: RGE Report

—including ideal skills for aspiring directors, the importance of relationships in seeking leadership opportunities, and, lastly, navigating current and future board challenges . Read on for recaps of each event. In September, 100+ alums... View Details

20 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How an Order Views Your Company

changed with the times, what improvements, if any, have they experienced in customer satisfaction and financial performance? Shapiro: Unfortunately, we did not formally maintain relationships with the many companies that we used as field... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

12 Jan 2004
What Do You Think?

How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?

Of course, these relationships hold only as long as an economy is closed and self-contained with no exportation or importation of jobs. Those days are long gone. What is the situation we face in the U.S.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

George C. Lodge

team that wrote hundreds of cases for the new school, now flourishing in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. At the same time, Lodge undertook a three-year research project in the remote province of Veraguas in Panama to study the process of change in a developing country at... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

22 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

measuring investmentperformance, and maintaining a long-term relationship — that would benefitboth foundations and nonprofits. The article helped catalyze the thinking of many in the nonprofit field and illuminated and encouraged an... View Details

Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh

08 Nov 2023
Blog Post

Zone Defense: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to

relationship with commercial startups was already beginning to change. That same year, the US Department of Defense established the Defense Innovation Unit in Silicon Valley to encourage early-stage companies in the sector. Tseng... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Entrepreneurship

28 May 2019
News

The Physical Campus in a Virtual World

winner of this contest, and it closely resembles the buildings that went into construction in 1925. I keep these drawings on display as a reminder that the institution we inhabit today is the result of a discrete series of choices made... View Details

Keywords: Nitin Nohria

31 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies

amount of anxiety for people," says Lakshmi Ramarajan, an assistant professor of organizational behavior at Harvard Business School. "A lot of times the context of the conversation is around diversity as a problem—isolation, prejudice, conflict—that seems to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

18 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Identify Emerging Market Opportunities

hard for multinationals to figure out the value of South African companies and affects their assessments of potential partners. Executives would do well to identify a country's power centers and figure out if there are checks and balances in place. The thorny View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu & Jayant Sinha

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