Threats - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments

business leaders are using to transform communications with their employees and customers, as it shifts from one-way transmission of information to two-way interaction. That's one reason Time magazine just named Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg Person of the Year. “The... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

13 Jun 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

That's Classic: Modern-Day Business Lessons from Ancient Rome

not a serious daily threat for them. But then we’d hear, “I’m not going to be killed, but I could be fired by my board of directors.” Q: Give an example from the course of how you compare and contrast contemporary and ancient texts. Frei:... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

30 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: Preparing to Sell

are willing to face the challenges common to post-liquidity business families that can pose threats to unity of the family and the owners. Enterprising Families Build Value Through Liquidity Transitions The attitudes of enterprising... View Details

Keywords: by Jonathan Pellegrin; Food & Beverage; Retail

17 Apr 2024
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures

(MBA 2023) - There are 15 million homes in the US with a one in four chance of total asset loss due to flooding, RESILIFT will end that threat to American Housing. PARTICIPANTS - BUSINESS TRACK AgX - Maxwell Leef (MBA 2025), Callum... View Details

02 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Summer Listening - HBS Podcasts to Take to the Beach

for their research, their framework and analysis help to explain current trends in the consulting industry and, crucially, to consider where the industry may be heading in the future, both in terms of threats and opportunities. Listen... View Details

01 Sep 2018
News

Turning Point: Power Outlet

around was a fact that had stayed with me ever since I heard it: Black boys as young as 10 years old are no longer viewed as innocent children but as a potential threat and aggressor. That made me feel like I was on the clock with my own... View Details

13 Jun 2018
News

The First Five Years: Momchil Filev and Ben Faw (both MBA 2014)

hiring people who were either underemployed or unemployed and then watching them thrive and build self-confidence and a better life. Creating the dignity of work and allowing people to provide needs for their loved ones is exhilarating. The challenge is the crushing... View Details

01 Apr 1996
News

Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?

flexible, fragmented, and intensely competitive environment. To me, belief in a new frontier of digital prosperity is an act of faith that underscores how much denial exists in America today. You seem to see competitiveness as a threat to... View Details

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Working Groups, Upcoming Event, and Resources | About

closing, I want to stress that the safety and well-being of our community remains our highest priority. We work closely with the Harvard University Police Department as well as local, state, and federal agencies to monitor security concerns and assess credible View Details

21 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 21

Disruption? Willy Shih and William NobleHarvard Business School Case 612-101 As Clayton Christensen drove to the studio to deliver an online executive education class, he pondered the future of management education. How big a threat did... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Mental Health Awareness Month | Baker Library

literature in 1994 around coping processes for Black women entrepreneurs. It details that when an individual experiences a stressor, such as issues with cash flow or discrimination, they begin a primary mental appraisal to determine if the stress event is a View Details

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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Aspirations and Learning Experiences of Diverse Women Progressing Toward Top Leadership" at the 2018 Gender and Work Symposium Minimizing Identity Threats While Increasing Safety: Attending to Diversity Ideologies University of Georgia... View Details

06 Nov 2019
Op-Ed

Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything

The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a... View Details

Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy

10 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’

leadership has been associated with change. It's not about mobilizing a group to act the same way they have always acted. It has to do with changing people and their organizations so they can leap into a different and better future, no matter the View Details

Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter

14 Feb 2019
News

Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change

partnership with the HBS Association of Boston (HBSAB). The blunt, 90-minute dialogue featured a trio of experts looking at climate change from diverse backgrounds and perspectives. “It took me 20 years to wake up to what an existential View Details

12 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 12

new product, a firm may decide to preannounce untruthfully in order to deter competitors. We examine an incumbent's preannouncement strategy when there is uncertainty regarding the commercial viability of a new product opportunity and a View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

threats and asks students to choose one after they analyzed the company's strategy. The analysis begins with the understanding of value proposition, as derived from failures of substitutes. It proceeds to examine industry structure and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

31 Mar 2002
What Do You Think?

Is This the Decade of the Investor?

their responsibility to represent the best interests of investors, who will? Will dynamics that determine flows of funds and foreign investment levels in the U.S. ultimately pose the threat of fewer funds—foreign or otherwise—to finance... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Apr 2013
Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

two-year MBA program. Glick's presentation focused on benevolent sexism. Unlike hostile sexism, which is an overt response to a perceived threat to male power, Glick said that benevolent sexism's reinforcement of the male-as-caretaker... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

05 Aug 2002
What Do You Think?

Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?

entrepreneurs can exploit through the development of products and services specifically for inclusion in platforms, whether they are technological or marketing in nature? And do increasingly powerful platforms represent opportunities or View Details