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- 05 Nov 2024
- Book
Building the Road to 'Small Business Utopia' with AI and Fintech
great sense of their cash flow, the sales they might make, when customers will pay, or what cash needs they could have based on the season or a new contract. Small businesses have low cash buffers, and a miscalculation, late payment, or... View Details
- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
the pandemic’s suddenness caught many without sufficient ready cash. A real estate CEO noted: “We had ongoing construction and needed to pay our contractors but were not sure that we would receive payments as planned from our customers... View Details
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
companies to look at products the way customers do: as a way to get a job done. Are You a Level-Six Leader? (23,834) http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6752.html Published: July 6, 2011 Asking the question, whom do you serve? is a powerful vector... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- Profile
John Speer
something new. “The B-2 is an amazing aircraft, and I love flying,” John says, “but what I really enjoyed was being engaged in a large organization.” In his role as Wing Executive Officer, he was the “right-hand man” of a one-star general... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Business
improve customer targeting, streamline supply chains, and develop new products and services are addressed in the 70 cases published by HBS faculty. The School’s Digital Initiative serves as a hub for this research, which is being... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
supplier capabilities and hence about future supplier performance. This paper presents a multi-period model of service level competition among suppliers selling substitutable products to a customer that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2013
- Op-Ed
Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again
commercial R&D efforts by pharmaceutical, biotechnology, diagnostics, and agricultural companies. The latter was a very specific commercial bet. Placing these commercial bets requires a depth of understanding of markets and customers... View Details
- 10 Jul 2024
- News
Next Level
Gina Joseph (GMP 29, 2020), chief strategy officer for the technology media company VentureBeat, was recently honored by the San Francisco Business Times in their “40 Under 40” issue. Joseph is thriving in the media, tech, and gaming world—all industries traditionally... View Details
Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
experience and allow them to dream about and complete bigger projects. Lal: There is the potential to use the Internet to make your store more valuable, like Home Depot does in letting you plan a project online and then coming into the store to discuss it with someone.... View Details
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
Martha Lagace: What is missing in leadership models today? Michael Beer: Most formal leadership models do not incorporate institution-building in their definition of leadership. Leadership is thought of as a means for activating change, employee View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 13, 2016
misbehavior, yet failed to notice it. To explain such inaction, management scholars have been developing the area of behavioral ethics and the more specific topic of bounded ethicality—the systematic and predictable ways in which even good people View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Corporate Strategy
more powerful than 1,000 words (or even twenty-five ad hoc performance measures). The financial and customer objectives describe the outcomes the organization wants to achieve; objectives in the internal and learning and growth... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
Leadership with purpose: Redefining success and impact with Satpal Singh (SELP—India 4, 2019)
individual journeys, challenges, and aspirations. These moments gave me a greater appreciation for my own strengths and a renewed sense of purpose. Engaging with the individuals featured in case studies further enriched the experience.... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
controversial issues like civil rights and climate change? Two, in terms of consumer response, does CEO activism affect customer perceptions about the company? (They recently discussed the paper in the New York Times.) “What prompted this... View Details
- Profile
Shana Hoffman
i-lab) and its connections to the Cambridge health-care hub, it was deeply engaged in entrepreneurship. The Boston community is ideal – when you add HBS’ business perspective you get the best of all worlds.” A launch pad of contacts,... View Details
- 04 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
Leadership with Purpose: Redefining Success & Impact with Satpal Singh (SELP—India 4, 2019)
Our group sessions were not just about discussing case studies; they were about understanding our individual journeys, challenges, and aspirations. These moments gave me a greater appreciation for my own strengths and a renewed sense of purpose. View Details
- 01 Jul 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?
with the results of their study of companies capable of achieving success over long periods. These visionary companies, when compared with their comparison counterparts, employed BHAGS (“Big Hairy Audacious Goals”). As they put it, “Like the moon mission A BHAG View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
30 percent of the bad apples in the study were repeat offenders, with an advisor with a past record of misconduct five times more likely to engage in misconduct again in any given year. Advisors were particularly apt to prey on View Details
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
Inc.—Engineered Products Division Harvard Business School Case 709-434 Curled Metal Incorporated has declining sales but has developed a new product (curled metal pile driver pads) that, in field tests, deliver customer benefits that are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2000
- What Do You Think?
What’s Happening to Our Patience?
expectations. Matt Lynch observes that seconds can drag by on some tasks, namely those associated with high tech applications, while "an hour can pass by barely noticed" on other tasks. In order to cope, we multi-task or engage... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett