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01 Dec 2017
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A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup

trenches. “The creative work is always challenging and fun, but I had become frustrated by how onerous, expensive, and slow it was to do a good job of checking the availability of new names and brands,” she says. “The whole process needed... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Oct 1998
News

A Marketable Skill

talented, artistically, but I was good at managing creative types." After sharpening those management skills at HBS, Gehrke held a succession of marketing jobs with big companies but never stayed in one place too long. "I need to run... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

January 2023
Case

Natura: Weathering the Pandemic at Brazil's Cosmetic Giant

By: Brian Trelstad, Pedro Levindo and Carla Larangeira

Brazil's Natura, a multi-brand cosmetics group, has taken several measures to safeguard the livelihoods of its thousands of employees and millions of sales representatives during the COVID-19 health and economic crisis. The company has also made strides in its efforts... View Details

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08 Dec 2015
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December 8, 2015

1970s–1990s era such as Hanson and BTR were also quite financially successful forms of business enterprise. The demise of many of them appears to owe at least as much to management fads as to serious View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Year in Review | Annual Report 2024

1970 Founder & Chairman, Onex Corporation Gwill E. York, MBA 1984 Founding Managing Director, Lighthouse Capital Partners 100 Years of Doctoral Programs Since admitting the first students in 1924, HBS Doctoral Programs have challenged... View Details

01 Mar 2012
News

Get Creative

Issue Focus: Innovation In a hypercompetitive global economy, creativity has never been more important for success . But how do you create a company that unleashes and capitalizes on innovation? For answers, we turned to five HBS faculty... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

13 Mar 2018
News

Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission

tell them that they couldn't land, and that in fact, they had to fly far away from the site to the closest US base. There were just too many unknowns, he says, to risk further lives. And then he needed to figure out what to do next, and... View Details

12 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions

widespread skepticism for the possibility of fair regulation. The power of big business is limited by the need to work with a range of powerful but diffuse societal groups. In his new book, Strength in Numbers: The Political Power of Weak... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

01 Dec 2003
News

An Authentic Leader

my generation. It’s not about passing more laws. We need to have new leadership of our companies and the boards that govern them. I describe the kind of person we ought to have as an authentic leader who is genuine and trustworthy. What... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jan 2003
News

Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969

train and go home," she recalls. One day during their first year, Lambert and four black classmates started talking about the need to increase the number of blacks at the School. They decided to start the HBS African-American Student... View Details

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Online AI Course | HBS Online

will enable you to build leading, responsible AI-powered organizations. You’ll explore AI-based business and operational models and how to implement them ethically to capitalize on new market opportunities and deliver a competitive... View Details

13 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 13, 2009

world-class business. Following modern management practices, keeping sharp attention to cost control and capital operations, making aggressive entries into international markets, and maintaining a special corporate culture, Chairman Chen... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2011
News

The Rankings Game

school in one ranking fail to make the top five in others? The answer lies in the methods the publications use to evaluate schools. The big five — Bloomberg Businessweek, U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, the Financial Times, and the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; rankings; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

the board take into account? Bagley: The Business Roundtable is to be commended for its clear stand on the importance of selecting an ethical CEO. Anyone who ever wondered whether ethics matters need only look at the outflow of funds from... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

16 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 16, 2015

senior executives emphasize in their communications. We find that our measure of disclosure time horizon is associated with capital market pressures and executives' short-term monetary incentives. Consistent with the language emphasized... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Feb 2019
News

Protecting the Power Grid

infrastructure protection. “In BGIE, we saw the corrosive societal impacts of self-dealing, within industries and within government bodies,” Popik observes. The Resilient Societies mission statement states that the profit incentive alone, as expressed through normal... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; terrorism; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

06 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

How Small Wins Unleash Creativity

"People need to know what goal they're trying to reach, but they have to have autonomy in order to get there," Amabile says. "It's a delicate balance. You do want to make sure that people understand what their mission is,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

20 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 20

built brands that shaped perceptions of beauty and the business organizations needed to market them. They democratized access to beauty products, once the privilege of elites, but they also defined the gender and ethnic borders of beauty,... View Details