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- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
relatively early on in your career. How did your time at Google and then Apple sharpen your thesis? Kim: It took me a long time to make sense of that experience and to make sense of it in a way that other people could also make sense of... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
track that thing. Morrell: Do you remember what some of that early stuff was that you decided to pare back? Grana: I think some of it was a mix of both personal and professional. So things like exactly how many books am I going to read.... View Details
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
though he likes the limelight on his terms, he's been enigmatic as a leader. Let's remind people Facebook has only been around, I think they launched in 2006 to the public. So it's still a relatively young... View Details
- 05 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?
rarely featured in business research, but they were the ideal study subject for MacKay and Remer. “One reason for using retail gasoline was that if we can show that consumer inertia is important for a relatively simple product like retail... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
platters in counts of 30 each. “But for me to have 100 original pieces to offer a catering company, that’s a relatively big investment for a small and young business,” she says. Rentals accounted for a third of Clay’s revenue in the first... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report
reunions, and online products and services. Deborah Farrington (MBA ’76) supervised the programming subcommittee, which recommended that the School offer an MBA “renewal” program to deliver the latest thinking in five critical areas of a... View Details
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
portion of their award winning investor relations program, and had previously been used only to enhance communications. The case allows a discussion of the relative merit of more formally including this information in BP's planning and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
Nanda cites Airbnb. “You might think it was not going to work to put money into a firm that rents out mattress space on the floor. But then it turns out it actually does, and Airbnb becomes a super-valuable company,” he says. “Airbnb... View Details
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
performance. Your students effectively prepare for leadership roles and truly think like managers as they master and address the many integrated facets involved in answering the key question: How are leaders successfully managing... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
Harvard Business School Dean Kim B. Clark made these remarks to the National Press Club on February 26.What I'd like to do is talk about a topic that I think touches the very heart of our society: the issue of corporate misconduct and the... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light
own this land, and you are planting on it,' the intellectual property space is relatively amorphous. It can be hard to tell whether you are infringing on my intellectual property or not." Congress has found it hard to act on the... View Details
- 02 Jul 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?
Kavuma commented that, "I think that there is a place for both kinds of leaders and/or their schools of thought in the modern high tech and versatile business environment." David Wittenberg said that an "effective leader... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses
GeoMatch software application. The team built algorithms that predicted places where refugees were most likely to find work, which they considered one of the best indicators of a family’s success in assimilating. Their second goal: To make sure that those assignments... View Details
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
Mexican economy registered growth during this tumultuous period. "You'd think the economy would come to a crashing halt," Maurer says. "Except that when you look around the world, it turns out there are a number of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
on his career at HBS and what he sees for the School’s future. Looking back over your forty-year career at HBS, what stands out? I guess what impresses me most is how the School continually adapts to the changing world of business, but at the same time, it remains true... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
relatively little relevance for practice — I actually think that’s a valid concern,” Light says in an interview. “But I don’t think that’s the issue for us.” Why? Because the... View Details
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
doing these manual negotiations, why not just use online auctions? Glenn Meakhem HBS MBA '91 founder and CEO, FreeMarkets That was a pretty radical notion in June 1994, but it worked. What I learned very quickly was that it wasn't just a question of technology—it was... View Details
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
thinkers formed an impression unbiased by the stereotype, suggesting a bottom-up strategy, whereas conscious thinkers relied on the stereotype, suggesting a top-down strategy. That is, when thinking consciously, participants relied more... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
it's easiest to consider this question: Why do we tax? Different people give different answers, and most of us tend to think of a number of answers ourselves. Economists who study taxation, however, have assumed—with few exceptions—a... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
made from 1990 to 1995 picking up the pieces of the crash," says Fidelity's Sandwen. "Prices adjusted and real estate became more attractive. And we got back to relative equilibrium through the tech bust in 2001. After the bust,... View Details