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- 12 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Break the Rules of How Business is Done
Taking a risk by breaking with standard operating procedure can make your company more innovative. Credit: maxsattana In addition to creating a new company that is disrupting the status quo, many founders are also challenging the old... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
- 15 Mar 2010
- HBS Case
Developing Asia’s Largest Slum
built housing, overcrowding, and insecure residential status (i.e., most people hold no legal title to their property). Despite these difficult conditions, Dharavi's residents occupy a centrally located parcel of land in a rapidly growing... View Details
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Businessmen and Land Ownership in the Late Nineteenth Century
By: Tom Nicholas
This article analyses the proportions of personal to real estate wealth for a group of 295 businessmen profiled in the Dictionary of business biography. It shows that businessmen who owned land on a large scale in the late nineteenth century were a comparatively small... View Details
Keywords: Ownership; Personal Finance; Property; Biography; History; Acquisition; Wealth; Power and Influence; Status and Position; Integration; Transformation; Market Transactions
Nicholas, Tom. "Businessmen and Land Ownership in the Late Nineteenth Century." Economic History Review 52, no. 1 (February 1999): 27–44.
- 25 Feb 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Starting a Business
office address that is legitimate in the minds of stakeholders. Firms have to work at maintaining their status in the hierarchy, while legitimacy is a critical issue only in the early stages of firms' lives. For new firms in established... View Details
- Profile
Joe Stenger
would often reflect on my childhood, and I realized how fortunate I was, not only to have had a dream but also the belief that I could obtain it. Few Afghans are afforded such assurances. Circumstances are especially dire for widows who struggled to overcome their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
any type is a thorny problem at every stage — innovation, funding, product development, and distribution. “Big companies are not particularly good at innovating, and incumbents are very good at protecting the status quo,” said Dave Prend... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
club operations, development of continuing education, and the marketing of programs and services to alumni. Three committees have been formed to focus on these issues, and they are presently hard at work assessing the current status of... View Details
- 18 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
HBS Students and Alumni Fostering a Supportive Community
comfortable sharing that they don’t have much disposable income.” Fetter adds, “Socioeconomic status is such a salient and stressful part of many people’s lives, although there’s not a lot of open conversation about the topic. There is an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Crucible: Relocation
hot-yoga classes could calm my mind. Soon, even my once-existential fear of losing my US visa status couldn’t stop me from doing the unthinkable. At age 31, I not only left that job but also decided to retire from a corporate career... View Details
Keywords: Zhang, Qian
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Shanghai. As we look forward to those upcoming events with anticipation, let me give you a quick status report on the important, ongoing work that our Alumni Board committees are undertaking this year. The Communications Committee,... View Details
- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
crisis as a disrupter to the status quo and look for areas of pain. In fact, cost cutting and restructuring are simply the first steps in repositioning and leading your company and industry through the crisis and in defining how business... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 31 Oct 2006
- HBS Case
Governing Sumida Corporation
traditional governance system and the U.S.-inspired committee system. Believing that Sumida's future was limited if it followed the status quo, Yawata presses ahead with his decision to adopt the U.S. model. The case details the... View Details
- Web
1.14 Academic Review / Academic Withdrawal | MBA
Academic Review are notified of their status and informed of the next steps in the process, including petitioning the APC for permission to graduate or continue in the MBA Program. After careful deliberation, the APC may require a student... View Details
- 25 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Planning for Surprises
illusions and overcommitment, as well as the tendency to stick with the status quo and to discount the future. Organizational vulnerabilities arise because of structural barriers to the effective collection, processing, and dissemination... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Turning Point: Coming to Cambodia
face to face with a statue carved in gray stone—a woman, slim, narrow-waisted, wearing just a simple pleated skirt that almost floated down to the floor. The elegance and simplicity captivated me. It could have been a contemporary piece,... View Details
- Web
Entrepreneurial Sales 102: Building the First Sales Team - Course Catalog
success factor is exactly how a firm goes to market – with its sales force. But the rules have changed – innovations like ‘product-led-growth’ models and social media are changing the status quo and forcing managers to consider new way to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The US Patent System’s Uncertain Fate
understand that this is a bipartisan issue. JL: But given the gridlock in Washington, you can see the status quo continuing. If that happens—and if the efforts on the part of the Supreme Court to try to reform the system are... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 Jul 2020
- News
Support System
elements that give shea butter its gold status in Africa. “The next time you’re at the grocery store or a beauty store, flip over one of the containers that says ‘shea butter’ on the front,” says Akuete. “A lot of products will have a... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 02 Jan 2014
- News
The Power to Change
technology that will take a long time to develop, the financing challenges that come with that, and a firmly established market status quo. The risks, he says, are worth it. "When people feel like they are part of a grand cause, they stay... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Slum for Sale
slum as defined by the United Nations: inadequate access to safe water and sanitation, poorly built housing, overcrowding, and insecure residential status (i.e., most people hold no legal title to their property). Despite these difficult... View Details