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- 29 Aug 2024
- News
A Kick Start for Latin American Startups
When Monica Saggioro Leal (MBA 2018) and her business partner, Lara Lemann, started MAYA Capital, a tech-focused, Brazilian VC firm launched in 2018, they wanted to take a hands-on approach with their startup investments in their first 12 months. They wanted to support... View Details
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
what does the term "big data" actually entail, and how will the insights it yields differ from what managers might generate from traditional analytics? Does Power Corrupt or Enable: Moral Identity, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
Recap of the 4th Annual Women in Investing Summit
Accountancy from the University of Illinois. Roughly 200 attendees joined the Fourth Annual Women in Investing Summit on November 29th. It was powerful to be surrounded by a diverse group of women and men who were so passionate about... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Stephen Covey's Successful Habits
businesses in this country. Without listening, the organization (and its stakeholders) can't properly adapt to customers or the marketplace. How do you motivate business leaders who are not good listeners to become so? Force of... View Details
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
But there's a growing consensus that ads don't work on mobile devices; consumers just don't like them. Instead of creating tiny banner ads, smart marketers will turn to apps to reach customers and engage them. Effective apps will do one... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Peeling Back the Global Brand
same brand is offered in different countries with a different product formulation. Depending on the country, people usually wash clothes with hot or cold water, so the product formulation needs to be adapted, he said. Idiosyncratic View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
Internet-based companies like Google record every click and keystroke of every customer, analyzing the data to continuously improve their products and marketing. Customers are courted and supply chains are managed via websites, social... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Dean Srikant Datar’s 2022 Commencement Remarks | About
Harvard, and the Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society. Their purpose is to accelerate what Harvard Business School does best: develop new management ideas with power in practice by connecting with leading organizations so... View Details
- 09 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)
trying to solve. If your way of thinking about potential customers doesn’t uncover information about who buys and why in each segment, all you have is a power point, not an actionable basis for product,... View Details
- Profile
James Reinhart
resulting in a willing and grateful marketplace. The concept took off. Understanding that a trip to the Post Office is one step too many for busy parents that need to get rid of clothes, thredUP provides a prepaid “Clean Out Bag” for View Details
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
April 2018 Management Science Offline Showrooms in Omni-channel Retail: Demand and Operational Benefits By: Bell, David R., Santiago Gallino, and Antonio Moreno Abstract—Omnichannel environments where customers shop online and offline at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase
cheese, at least for now. It’s equally important for firms to understand their most loyal and profitable customers—who they are, what they buy, and how to engage them. Beyond their purchasing power, loyal customers can become a company’s... View Details
- 04 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success
potential payoffs of e-commerce investments. Measuring returns on e-commerce projects can be a daunting challenge. Predicting customer behavior is difficult, because using the Web to do business is still relatively new to many businesses... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
- Profile
Shana Hoffman
loved ones access to customized care plans and provides them with education and resources on how to provide better care with less burden and lower cost. Even in its nascent stages, CareSolver has attracted favorable interest. The i-lab... View Details
- 04 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
Leadership with Purpose: Redefining Success and Impact with Satpal Singh (SELP—India 4, 2019)
more strategic and holistic lens. My career has continued to evolve since SELP—India. As Country Head of Supply Chain during the pandemic, I navigated operational complexities that taught me invaluable lessons in resilience and Later as CEO at Numeric I learned the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Ink: Bringing Purpose to Life
purpose into their core operations, generating powerful win-win decisions that benefit everyone, with little compromise—if any—required on any side. A manufacturing company might change wasteful processes, for instance, using less energy... View Details
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The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears
Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)
From Denial: Why Business... View Details
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
more specialists are needed to stay up to date with functional best practices. The problem that this influx of specialists creates, Cespedes says, is that fewer senior executives are responsible for integrating activities across the multiple activities that determine... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 09 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm
moment that launches a powerful idea or brilliant product. Managers can use these insights to form teams that create better ideas. “Much of innovation is premised on the idea that you should talk to other people to generate ideas,” says... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
of inter-organizational relationships. In contrast, we build on research emphasizing potential drawbacks to examine how competitive exposure, enabled by powerful intermediaries, can inhibit innovation. We develop the concept of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel