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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
tackle. But the students said, “Whoa, how can we talk about the big problems of our time without thinking about inequality?” The students also pushed me to move beyond shared value. Of course, building the business models that create both... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Ink
strategy and assessing your place in the competitive landscape. Tool 15, “Taming Co-opetition,” helps one determine the risks and rewards of sleeping with the enemy. Essentially, the advice is, don’t. “With few exceptions, being in View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Supplying Demand
line of generic foods to be sold in the United States - and had spawned his first nationwide trend in the process. His brandless foods concept helped propel Star from fourth place in Greater Boston sales into a tie for first in 1982. Stemberg then View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
polarizing barrier to collaboration,” Neeley says. “But no one was looking at that, even as global organizations were rapidly moving toward making English their lingua franca.” Since joining the HBS Organizational Behavior Unit nearly... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
challenges faced by family businesses. "There can be problems," he said, noting that family businesses sometimes do not move with the times and can be slow to adjust to new competition. However, Chan's copanelist Jaime Augusto Zobel de... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
companies to describe their strategy clearly and move on to what really matters — making it work. "In today's business environment, strategy is more important than ever," write the authors. "This book shows how leaders can shape their own... View Details
- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
should move beyond salary and traditional cash rewards to place greater emphasis on non-pecuniary, tangible and intangible rewards and recognition initiatives. We further highlight the importance of aligning rewards with universal... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
Goals for influencing government should flow directly from the analytic frameworks that companies use to develop business strategies. As Michael Porter noted in Competitive Strategy, "No structural analysis is complete without a... View Details
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
turbulence” Badaracco, the John Shad Professor of Business Ethics, argues that, while market-based competition has been with us as long as capitalism, companies have been insulated from it over the last half-century by the growth of large... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 28 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students
continued to engage with HBS students and drive career opportunities for them—as evidenced in the connection made between Eric Westphal (MBA 2021) and Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999). From Brazil to Harvard A native of Brazil, Westphal moved at... View Details
Keywords: Becca Carnahan
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
itself from a competitive perspective to continue its growth and stand out from the other industry players?" The Answers: "I would suggest looking at the business model and trying to extend the brand by extending the offering. Cellphones... View Details
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
after the onset of the gr... Funding exceptional social enterprises starts with challenging your pipeline Christy Chin Elizabeth Washburn 19 Apr 2018 At DRK, our work is guided by a singular belief: that finding, funding and supporting exceptional... Congratulations to... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
But by 1992, assets had soared to $1.6 trillion, and by 1998, they had exploded to $5.5 trillion, a sum that surpasses the nation's bank deposits. As the industry flourished, more and more financial services firms, offering a plethora of products, joined the fray. An... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
increased its involvement in developing commercial enterprises? Yes, it has. In addition to providing outstanding education, competitive communities must offer high quality goods and services — an escalating need in our neighborhood... View Details
- 12 May 2023
- Blog Post
Breaking Barriers and Building Community: Get to Know the HBS Women's Student Association (WSA)
Helaina, Maude, and more. Our inaugural Female Founders Pitch Competition awarded $15K to the top three winners, amongst five final teams who pitched to 5 VC judges from firms such as Bessemer, Co-efficient, and Matrix, live on stage.... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
multinationals toward organization-wide rationalization. Efficiencies and commonalities have emerged, particularly with certain production processes but also in backroom functions such as quality assurance and control. In addition, multinationals have been increasingly... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
with certain production processes but also in backroom functions such as quality assurance and control. In addition, multinationals have been increasingly pressed to move toward international norms in the area of stakeholder relations... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
contemporaries, so I tend to reserve my admiration for historical figures. Winston Churchill comes to mind. As a leader, he had a remarkable ability to get people and processes moving together in the right direction, clearing obstacles... View Details
- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
since much of their interaction with management occurs in public. Specifically, we investigate sell-side analyst coverage decisions in the context of CEO and CFO moves between publicly listed firms. We find that top executive View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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