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- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
The best and brightest executives in the world are common visitors to the MBA classrooms at Harvard Business School, giving students a personal opportunity to talk to the likes of Ann Fudge, Lou Gerstner, Meg Whitman, and Jack Welch. Still, when Professor Nancy Koehn... View Details
- 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8
same approach they do! Based on extensive research and interviews, Own Your Future shows how to apply the simple model they use-Act. Learn. Build. Repeat-to reinvent the way you maneuver in an unpredictable job market. Here's how it... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Sep 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom
Despite earning two engineering degrees at Stanford, HBS associate professor Lee Fleming says he always knew he "wanted to study more than electrons." Even so, the former professional musician and bike racer, who worked at... View Details
- 18 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 18
challenges for educators because it requires a facility with different kinds of knowledge and wide-ranging learning abilities. We report on the development and delivery of an information technology (IT) management course designed to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
tribes and U.S. states often find themselves at the bargaining table, often negotiating "compacts" to govern gaming operations on tribal lands. The operational success of the Pequot gaming operation in Connecticut, Foxwoods, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
Don't Learn: Our Traditional Obsessions—Success, Taking Action, Fitting In, and Relying on Experts—Undermine Continuous Improvement By: Gino, F., and B. Staats Abstract—For any enterprise to be competitive, continuous learning and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
Foreign investment in developing countries has always involved an element of risk. Just ask Verizon Communications, which could lose hundreds of millions of dollars in Venezuela should President Hugo Chávez follow through with plans... View Details
- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
exploiting innovation will serve as economic growth engines in the future—and will be the industry leaders of tomorrow. Q: Which industries offer the most opportunity? A: Over the long run, opportunity exists in every sector. In the short term, I recommend that... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
Tedlow, a noted business historian on the HBS faculty and the MBA class of 1949 Professor of Business Administration. His latest book (Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American) is a biography of Andy Grove, a founding father of... View Details
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
the sense of purpose. If P&G had let the Children's Safe Water program wither just on financial grounds, employees would have looked at top management and said, "You don't mean those words." Leaders also need two additional... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
bet on your cost position, and (based on experience!) it's always worth emphasizing certain core truths: Lowering cost does not necessarily mean low cost versus relevant... View Details
- 16 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘The Strategist’
plan that need to be clarified. There will always be countless contingencies, good and bad, that could not have been fully anticipated. There will always be opportunities to capitalize View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery
- 17 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry
Most advertisers have some way to have online links even in ads that aren't online. For instance, many magazine ads prominently tell you, "Here's our Web site to get more information." TV news programs always send you to their... View Details
- 10 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later
change process. We need the formal policies and structures and opportunities, but clearly they’re not enough. Ely: You have always been focused on research insights that are relevant to practitioners and... View Details
Keywords: by Robin J. Ely
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
companies? What would be the consequences of their choices on the brand and on the Group? Would they always be able to inject the Virgin culture and turn around companies?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Changing Face of American Innovation
The contributions made by immigrant scientists and engineers for developing new U.S. technologies have been formidable—but not always well described. What we do know: While the foreign-born account for just over 10 percent of the U.S.... View Details
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
investors to use your product? When asked (or not), investors never lack for advice on how your product can improve. Just remember, you are in it every day, they are not. So, always weigh that advice against... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
companies only analyze the resources they take, they should try to give a big portion back," says Rangan, who notes that companies may not always operate at a "net positive" to society or the environment, but they should at least strive... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Going Negative in Political Advertising
desperate as the day of reckoning approaches. They flood the airwaves with negative ads, especially in closely fought states like Pennsylvania and Indiana where the margin of victory was as important as who wins. Political brands, on the... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
shape when and how public agencies implement policies effectively on behalf of marginalized citizens. November 2014 Antitrust Law Journal Are Patents Creative or Destructive? By: Nicholas, Tom Abstract—Current debate over patent... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel