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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Making the Case for Maine: HBS Club and State's CEO Discuss Business Issues
guests, participants addressed both the positive and the negative factors that business encounters in a state best known by the nickname inscribed on its license plates: "Vacationland." "The whole discussion was predicated on a very... View Details
Keywords: Janine Brunell Looker
- 27 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 27, 2007
research and discuss his contributions to management and economics. We look at three distinct bodies of work. In the first, Clark (in conjunction with Robert Hayes and Steven Wheelwright) argued that the abandonment by U.S. managers of manufacturing as a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies
The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details
- 30 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Preparing to Sell
companies, and those that do sell generally part with them very reluctantly, given all that selling represents. We sympathize with a family's emotional attachment to its company. But given how fast industries are changing and other factors, more families should... View Details
- Profile
Danelle Radney
community relations position she really wanted. So by the time Danelle folded her College Pro franchise, she had accomplished the unexpected. “It was the hardest thing I had ever done,” Danelle says. “But by the end of the summer, I had... View Details
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
Publications August 2013 Strategic Management Journal Location Choices under Strategic Interactions By: Alcácer, Juan, Minyuan Zhao, and Cristian Dezso Abstract—The literature on location choices has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2019
- News
Is This Disney’s Next CEO?
A recent article in Bloomberg notes that Disney strategy chief Kevin Mayer (MBA 1990) might be positioned to succeed longtime Disney CEO Bob Iger. The article highlights Mayer’s recent initiatives at Disney, including a 2015 View Details
- Profile
Tafadzwa Samushonga
Tafadzwa first witnessed the positive impact that a community can have on its members’ lives at home. Her mother, a single parent, leaned on the support of family and friends to juggle raising three children while working and furthering... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- Profile
Brandon Gayle
insurance, and housing." Then an opportunity opened in an exciting and unexpected arena — sports: specifically, working with the New York Jets. "They were looking for help with strategic planning," Brandon says. "It... View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Learning the Language of Business and Science – The MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program
valuable to organizations, and can make a significant impact for patients. I am trying to develop my skills to position myself directly between science and business in my career. After getting a bachelor’s degree in bioengineering, I... View Details
- Web
IFC: Singapore; Shaping a Global Innovation Hub - Course Catalog
position enhance its appeal to global businesses and investors? Is there an arbitrage on China, and will Singapore have to pick sides? What is Singapore's five-year and ten-year vision, and what are the potential advantages and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Sustaining HBS’s Unique Economic Model
fellowships and professorships — by their donors. Current-use gifts to the HBS Fund provide an annual influx of funds that can be spent immediately. “As HBS has made strategic investments in recent years, gifts to the HBS Fund have... View Details
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
piracy strategically to improve its market position? From a managerial perspective, these are significant questions. If it turns out that OSS will incontestably displace traditional software, software firms need to adapt as quickly as... View Details
- Web
Propose an Independent Project | MBA
Propose an Independent Project Independent Projects allow second-year Harvard Business School (HBS) students to partner with an organization on a real-time challenge of strategic importance. Students are advised by a faculty member and... View Details
- 05 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2006
Working PapersNone this week Cases & Course MaterialsCreating Meaning for the Customer: The Case of GMACI Harvard Business School Case 106-073 Excellence in exploiting customer information and leveraging its affiliation to the GM group are among the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
difficulty in obtaining further positive results for the class of solvable one-sided assignment problems in line with Sasaki's (1995) characterizations of the core for two-sided assignment problems. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
sites might be beautiful, intuitive, mobile-optimized, and written with simple, straightforward language. And just like TurboTax is upfront that the process might seem like a slog but, don’t worry, we’ll get through it together, one step at a time, the City might View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
expectations with promises of same-day delivery, the logistics industry is looking to completely new models, like crowdsourcing, autonomous technology, and on-demand delivery. Robert Reisner (MBA 1971), who led the Postal Service’s technology and View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Carla Small
corporate clients wishing to develop such programs. After various positions in the firm's sales and strategic planning areas, she eventually became director of new product development. "I loved creating new... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 21 Aug 2014
- Blog Post
HBS Social Enterprise Initiative Visits NYC
Transit Authority, he often finds himself going between on-the-ground construction sites and strategic planning meetings at the central office with the Recovery and Resiliency group – a team that started in 2013 in response to the effects... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government