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- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
follow his dream and become an entrepreneur? Or should he acquiesce to the other forces in his life and take the "safer" consulting job? This is a companion case to "Career at a Crossroad: Akhil Patel," HBS No.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why a Failed Startup Might Be Good for Your Career After All
Measuring success from 5 million resumes The researchers focused on entrepreneurs backed by venture capitalists, but they faced a challenge right off the bat. How do you measure success for job holders in different roles in industries as... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
the force of popular antagonism, that they keep outside competition within bounds and that yet they earn an adequate return on the securities in the hands of investors.” 5 Elbert H. Gary, president and... View Details
- 03 Oct 2023
- Research Event
Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips
world. You better use it wisely. And the best thing that you can do is to lift people up and bring them together in bonds of happiness and love. And when we met each other and realized that we thought, wow, if we could join up forces... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
- 06 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Truth About Authentic Leaders
Critiques of authenticity But recently three leading scholars at Insead, Stanford, and Wharton challenged the concept of authentic leadership. Like all movements—Harvard University Professor Michael Porter’s famous five forces of strategy... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 07 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success
lean—conditions that make it hard for leaders and their employees to take the risks required for innovation. Unfortunately, according to our survey, only 5 percent of executives consider the employee experience one of their top two... View Details
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Unilever—A Case Study
investors in the United States. In 1981, a ranking by sales revenues in Forbes put it in twelfth place. 5 Unilever's longevity as an inward investor provides an opportunity to explore in depth a puzzle about inward FDI in the United... View Details
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
acquiring and engaging talent. These challenges are especially concerning as they attempt to define the future of work. The pandemic of 2020 forced executives to confront the challenges head-on. But years before the pandemic, in 2015,... View Details
- 14 Mar 2023
- In Practice
What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?
not been hedged. "SVB was forced to issue a large amount of equity, which brought a lot of attention to their situation." Banks are highly levered, which magnifies the asset risk exposures for the equity. Suppose that bank assets resemble... View Details
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
progress and enhance inner work life every day. The book shows how to remove obstacles to progress, including meaningless tasks and toxic relationships. It also explains how to activate two forces that enable progress: 1) catalysts—events... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Elevator Pitch: Block by Block
is modern-era apartments built at significant cost reduction. The Why: There is a shortage of 5 million apartments in the United States alone. Cloud Apartments aims to address that shortfall and bring modular housing into the mainstream... View Details
- 28 Nov 2023
- Book
Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?
interviews, and several original datasets to first elaborate two ideal typical models of state-business relations under authoritarianism, and second, explains why relations appear closer to one pattern or another. “Business elites can hold a 'disruptive' power over... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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The Railroads: The First Big Business - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
of 1866 noted, “So considerable is the existing commerce, and so rapidly on the increase that competent railway authority expresses the belief that within less than the five years from the opening a single track will be inadequate to the business flowing to it.” View Details
- 09 Nov 2023
- News
From the Brink
was a kind of a bankruptcy,” Weiss says, “one that would allow the government to continue to use the funds that the island had to pay for essential services, put debt payments for the most part on pause, and force a restructuring of all... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
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HBR Classics - Alumni
Emotional Intelligence of Groups , Vanessa Urch Druskat and Steven B. Wolff Virtuoso Teams , Bill Fischer and Andy Boynton When Teams Cant Decide , Bob Frisch Assessing the Competitive Landscape Assessing the Competitive Landscape The Five Competitive View Details
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
"The development of modern sales management is an uniquely American story." Why do you think this is? Walter Friedman: In the early nineteenth century, many nations, certainly all the European ones, had traveling peddlers and peddling networks. But no nation... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Activity-Based Costing
excessive delays, poor quality, overtime, or stressed employees. Whichever approach you prefer, it's important not to be overly sensitive to small errors. The objective is to be approximately right, say within 5 percent to 10 percent of... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
affects each of Porter's Five Forces as well as the resources and capabilities of the firm. The availability of patents may be key to deciding what barriers to entry exist. The enforceability of covenants... View Details
- 24 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?
decisions. In Seattle alone, Yelp, which launched in 2005, had accumulated 60,000 reviews by 2009, rating 70 percent of the city's restaurants. By contrast, The Seattle Times had reviewed roughly 5 percent. Luca chose to investigate Yelp... View Details
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
be aware of the range of powerful, dynamic, and often conflicting forces shaping the emerging competitive environment. The globalization of markets, the increasing homogeneity of customer needs worldwide, the impact of the digital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne