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C. Roland Christensen - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

of South Africa (Pretoria), and the Iran Center for Management (Teheran). In the mid-1950s, he was part of a team of HBS professors whose advice to the top executives of Nestlé S.A. led to the creation of... View Details

02 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top

terms of responding to potential threats, Microsoft consistently plays to its strengths—its overall platform strategy, its existing knowledge base, and its process of componentization. For example, when developing the new Internet... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

04 Apr 2016
HBS Seminar

Shelley Correll, Stanford University

14 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

The Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades

generalists on a team can be even more important. “If you are trying to make incremental improvements on existing technologies, then specialists probably are the most well-suited for that,” Nagle says. “But, if there is at least some... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

June 2020 (Revised April 2022)
Case

AFC Ajax

By: Anita Elberse

In July 2019, AFC Ajax’s chief executive officer Edwin van der Sar finalized one of the biggest transfers in soccer—that of Matthijs de Ligt, only 19 years old but already one of the sports world’s brightest stars—from AFC Ajax to Italian powerhouse Juventus FC for a... View Details

Keywords: Soccer; Talent and Talent Management; Sports; Globalization; Competitive Advantage; Strategy; Sports Industry; Europe

17 Jan 2019
Blog Post

MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)

every aspect of business, and life – from pitching to giving feedback, from brainstorming to making group decisions, from interviewing to firing. Creating Value Through Activist Investing This course will... View Details

10 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Being Your Own Boss Can Pay Off, but Not Always with Big Pay

For generations, American workers have dreamed of striking out on their own, starting their own business, being their own boss—and ideally making a lot of money in the process. That sentiment appears to be alive and well today, amid an... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

06 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Are You a Level-Six Leader?

was sentenced to 24 years and four months in prison. Level Three: Chameleon At the next level sits Chameleons. These are the "leaders" who bend with the wind and strive to please as many people as... View Details

Keywords: by Mitch Maidique

01 Mar 2024
News

The War Within

When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar

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Events - Business History

Confronting Predatory Value Extraction in the US Corporation" May 31 31 May 2022 Workshop Roundtable: Governing Global Capitalism This roundtable discussion brought together a diverse group of experts to examine relations between firms,... View Details

September 1999 (Revised April 2000)
Case

drugstore.com

By: Richard L. Nolan

On a clear day in August 1999 in the new headquarters of drugstore.com, against a backdrop of the Blue Angels flying in formation over Lake Washington practicing for their hydroplane Seafare Cup performance, Peter Neupert was pleased with his company's IPO performance.... View Details

Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Internet and the Web; Problems and Challenges; Business Startups; Retail Industry

July 2006
Article

Bringing History (Back) into International Business

By: G. Jones and Tarun Khanna

We argue that the field of international business should evolve its rhetoric from the relatively uncontroversial idea that 'history matters' to exploring how it matters. We discuss four conceptual channels through which history matters, illustrating each with a major... View Details

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Planned Giving - Alumni

help in crafting language that reflects your wishes and makes a lasting difference at HBS. Who should an executor or an attorney representing an estate in probate contact? Please contact the Trust Administration View Details

August 2011 (Revised October 2011)
Case

PureTech Ventures in 2011

By: Andrei Hagiu, Cesar Castro and Sarah Murphy

In early May 2011, Daphne Zohar, founder and managing partner of PureTech Ventures, a life science venture creation company in Boston, MA, was reviewing a term sheet she had just received from a venture capital (VC) firm for one of PureTech's portfolio companies. The... View Details

Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Investment; Innovation and Invention; Negotiation; Partners and Partnerships; Science-Based Business; Opportunities; Boston

2019
Working Paper

Bank Boards: What Has Changed Since the Financial Crisis?

By: Shiva Rajgopal, Suraj Srinivasan and Forester Wong

Several government-mandated committees investigating the financial crisis highlighted four key deficiencies in the composition of bank boards before the crisis: (i) group think among bank board members; (ii) absence of prior banking experience of board members; (iii)... View Details

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Financial Crisis; Change; Diversity