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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Michelle Ross (MBA 2011)
German-based transmission manufacturer—I implemented a big project where we were essentially moving around pieces of equipment to create a more optimized workflow. It seemed to make so much sense to me, but some people were really not in... View Details
- 02 Nov 2021
- News
Row On
Hamlin (MBA 1978), who died in May of Alzheimer’s Disease at the age of 74. Hamlin, who represented the United States in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics and at the World Rowing Championships in 1969 and 1970, continued to compete internationally after View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Dot Vertigo
In Dot Vertigo: Doing Business in a Permeable World, HBS professor Richard Nolan shows how the next shift in Internet technology - the I-Net - is helping both bricks-and-mortar and first-generation Web companies stave off the competition... View Details
- 24 Feb 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Palm Beach
based on the experiences of the pandemic, he said, "we need to deliver an on-campus experience that is central to leadership development, while also leveraging synchronous learning and hybrid technology to ensure that our two-year program is a View Details
- 21 Sep 2018
- News
HBS Association of Southern California Boosts Support for Startups
Clubs News Clubs News In an effort to bolster entrepreneurial activity and increase participation in the HBS New Venture Competition (NVC) among alumni in the region, the HBS Association of Southern California has launched a series of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
politicians in the years after its publication. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50916 Creativity Under Fire: The Effects of Competition on Creative Production By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Though... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
policy debate. Positive aggregate productivity gains are often attributed to within-firm productivity improvement; however, an alternative, less emphasized explanation is between-firm selection and market reallocation, whereby competition... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
When the COVID-19 virus spread worldwide and normal life ground to a halt last year, we thought voluntary employee turnover would drop as well. But the opposite happened in one area: Lift outs—a group of workers who defect together—increased, with more teams View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
of the highly educated, Wallace says the move has boosted the company’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts and turned into a competitive advantage. Ovia is among a handful of companies that are... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Charged Up
it can take over part of the battery’s production, which could result in a gradual loss of technology. “That’s been China’s strategy across the board,” Vietor remarks. “Businesses want to be there because the market is so big, but that View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?
problem. In a number of major, competitive markets, whether it’s San Francisco or LA or New York or even Boston, during the pandemic many people did leave. Boise, Idaho, had the strongest appreciation of any housing market in the United... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
unclear whether there is a business model that can turn Wi-Fi into profit. A panel of telecommunications industry pioneers came together to talk about the larger issue of the competitive landscape in broadband wireless, but most of the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
The first HBS New Venture Competition was held in 1997, in the era of PalmPilot and RealPlayer. And while the tech landscape has changed dramatically since then, many of the core lessons of the entrepreneurial experience—scaling, funding,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
Boulder, Colorado. The building next door to our Long Beach plant is our call center. We shut that down and transferred that function to third-party centers in Phoenix and Denver. We also did a planned shutdown at the plant and moved... View Details
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
approach thus runs counter to the idea that globalization is a homogeneity-producing process and the view that society is moving from particularism to universalism. With globalization, not only has the local remained important, but in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
Leading in the 21st Century is an HBS Executive Education program being held in January 2000. Professors Gary Hamel and John Kotter talk about the course and the new realities of leadership and competitive success. Q: What led the two of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 24 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Internship In Action
recommended approach to move forward. We redesigned the entire process for an important group of sellers that contribute around 30% of GFG’s Net Merchandise Value, assessed the features and resources required, and developed the roll-out... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 17 Jun 2025
- Blog Post
Balancing Career Stability with Creative Pursuits with Jeff Roslund (MBA 2013)
roles within large organizations. My goal was to move beyond the task-oriented nature of my previous work and embrace opportunities that required navigating ambiguity, making decisions, and leading teams. HBS delivered in ways I hadn’t... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
growing—with HBS Research Assistant Shirley Sun. Here, Simons discusses three leaders whose service left a powerful mark, leading to their own success. Business leaders might learn some important lessons from their experiences, he says. Dwight Eisenhower: Welcome input... View Details
- 05 Jul 2011
- News
The Business of Champions
triumph since 1972 hold lessons for other kinds of organizations and companies? Sports and games serve as a handy source of metaphors for business. Performance metrics abound, and success and failure are on the scoreboard for all to see. But whether athletic View Details