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- 10 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal
coauthored an essay to help students think through the complicated decision about where to go to college. Previous research has produced mixed results when it comes to the ripple effect of scandals. The Woods imbroglio may have hurt Brand... View Details
- 29 Feb 2016
- HBS Case
Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can
administrative support, all available via subscription through the cloud. A Chicago citizen enjoys the benefits of a Bigbelly trash compactor. Source: Kevin Zolkiewicz Getting to SaaS is complicated enough as a strategy... View Details
- 08 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?
positions of the various players in the smart grid market—infrastructure builders, software suppliers, network providers, utilities, system operators—in an effort to figure out who might benefit. "It's interesting to get some type of understanding about a View Details
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The New CEO’s Wrong Message
the description? So are CEOs who are new to the role. Just when an executive feels he has reached the pinnacle of his career, capturing the coveted goal for which he has so long been striving, he begins to realize that the CEO's job is different and more View Details
- 10 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures
partners have a narrower view. For instance, decisions on where to source materials become more complicated if the multinational is trying to balance and manage a worldwide production process. Second, the multinational wants to leverage... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 22 Jul 2021
- News
Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women
quarter ever. She sits on several boards, including at MOUSE, a nonprofit bringing STEM programs to underserved youth, and she sponsors an annual scholarship for high school seniors. Ghiya co-founded FemHealth after experiencing life-threatening View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Well Matched
separation. This company has created a medically and scientifically proven approach to help repair the condition, which can cause issues with internal organs and other complications for years. Does the Black Lives Matter movement have the... View Details
- 02 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?
complicated than we typically think,” she says. Huang arrived at that conclusion after interviews and observations of more than 100 angel investors over the course of the past decade. She also conducted dozens of interviews with the... View Details
- 05 Sep 2008
- What Do You Think?
Is Case Method Instruction Due for an Overhaul?
beauty ... is that it is not about learning to solve today's problems, but rather about developing the skills and discipline(s) which are timeless." Clinton Gerst suggested some limits of the method in commenting that "The case method is well suited to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
September 2008, just one of its ten non-executive directors had any recent banking experience. He had joined the board five months before Lehman went bust. The backgrounds of Lehman’s independent directors were hardly suited to overseeing a View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
opportunity to democratize what was in his youth the "black art" of photography. When he got interested in cameras in 1877, they were expensive (costing about $50), extraordinarily complicated contraptions requiring considerable... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morell, host of Skydeck. In 2023, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in 67% of two-parent families with children, both parents worked, which was up from 59% in 2013.... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
demands of increasingly sophisticated Chinese consumers is a more complicated challenge. One approach Chinese manufacturers are using is to acquire companies around the world in order to get fast access to the technologies they need to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 02 Oct 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Grade Would You Give Walmart CEO Doug McMillon?
discussion of other performance criteria, but the shareholder value standard remained dominant. Nevertheless, these companies managed to perform well against competitors. Now the Business Roundtable has announced a set of criteria that appears to View Details
- 26 Jun 2015
- Blog Post
7 Things International Applicants Should Know About HBS
they thought you should know. 1. Sorting out a visa isn’t as tough as you might think Ibraheem: Getting a student visa is not complicated anymore. Most U.S. embassies publish the procedure for getting a visa and provide assistance for... View Details
- 03 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
HiHome Sweet HiHome
out in their user interviews was the complicated spreadsheets compiled by potential buyers. On these spreadsheets, buyers listed every home they were considering, along with relevant data such as price, square footage, number of rooms and... View Details
- 15 Feb 2022
- News
Charlotte Club Hosts Webinar to Mark 100 Years of the Case Method
MBA student. “On my first day, in the first-year marketing class, we had a complicated 70-page case on a silverware company, and we couldn’t make heads or tails of it,” he said. In class the next day, McFarlan watched the professor cold... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
complicated life so much better.” Will the health care sector embrace artificial intelligence? I think it could be a powerful tool for routinizing the practice of medicine. Artificial intelligence digs through mounds and mounds of data... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
financial sector," he declared. Acknowledging that experience in other countries has shown that reform of the financial sector can be an arduous and complicated process, Sugisaki stressed, nonetheless, that Asia's problems in this area... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
of dollars to one of the employees. There were also suggestions of a coverup: Easterbrook had allegedly deleted material from his phone. The board made the complicated decision to try to claw back Easterbrook’s severance, resulting in a... View Details