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  • 29 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 29

Business School faculty led in developing the method. A particular challenge in the writing of cases is finding the balance between enough complexity, so that the problem posed reflects reality and supports alternative approaches to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Bringing a Taste of Japan to the World - Global Activities 2020

new friends right away when they stopped in to see what smelled so good. Everyone who tried my ramen really loved it, and that inspired my decision to launch a ramen business in Boston.” “ Most restaurant owners can cook, but they don’t... View Details
  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

When Benchmarks Don’t Work

so it should, since the value of the differentiating IT group is measured by the increased value it creates for the line businesses, not by its success in reducing the costs of standard IT services. Figure 1 Strategic Information Technology Portfolio Analytic and View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service
  • Profile

Brandon Tieu

HubSpot's impending decision of whether to focus on selling to larger enterprise customers or small-medium businesses. The former CEO came to class and explained their rationale to focus on larger customers. However, what struck me most... View Details
  • January–February 2023
  • Article

Data-Driven COVID-19 Vaccine Development for Janssen

By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Michael Lingzhi Li, Xinggang Liu, Jennings Xu and Najat Khan
The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred extensive vaccine research worldwide. One crucial part of vaccine development is the phase III clinical trial that assesses the vaccine for safety and efficacy in the prevention of COVID-19. In this work, we enumerate the first... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Health Testing and Trials; Forecasting and Prediction; AI and Machine Learning; Research; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 20 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 20

Decentralize? Authors:Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Abstract There is a widespread sense that over the last two decades firms have been decentralizing decisions to employees further down the managerial hierarchy.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Aug 2018
  • What Do You Think?

What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?

overseas components.” There were concerns that the Company could become involved in politics and lose its needed focus on new markets. Supporting the plant in Thailand, Erich Almasy suggested that, “Politics are mercurial and should not... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto
  • 12 Apr 2022
  • Blog Post

The Many Languages of Medicine to Impact Care Delivery

Ted Obi (MS/MBA 2023) is a current MBA student at HBS and a third year medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. His previous experiences include co-founding Melanin Doc, a non-profit supporting the next generation... View Details
  • 07 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 7, 2007

mechanism whereby price partitioning affects a consumer's perception of the secondary (i.e., non-focal) benefits derived from a transaction. Four experiments support the hypothesis that a partitioned price increases the amount of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Jan 2023
  • Blog Post

Career Planning and Development: Interview with Career Coach Wendi Zhang (MBA/MPP 2013)

vicariously through my classmates, professors, and cases. HBS’s vast number of resources also enabled me to conduct deep research for my interests, receive career coaching that helped me with figuring out my career plan and get clarity on which offer was most fitting... View Details
  • 20 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 20

energy came in the factor markets (for land, labor capital, and knowledge), and it required the abandonment of feudalism. Unlike trade, capitalism spreads by political decisions and by political units such as states. As a consequence,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Feb 2019
  • Blog Post

LOVE At HBS

started HBS. We didn’t expect moving to a new country and adapting to a new culture to be easy but, looking back, decisions that normally would have been tough seemed obvious and easy thanks to the love and View Details
  • 10 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

High Commitment, High Performance Management

high commitment, high performance company. Martha Lagace: What differentiates HCHP firms and their leaders? Michael Beer: The leaders manage with a multiple stakeholder perspective. Contrary to many CEOs, HCHP leaders—with support from... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 06 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea

"demonstrated" why a proposal to allocate many more resources to building a firm's business in Europe went too far. The document is incomprehensible (we have yet to find anyone in that firm who can explain it clearly), but it has successfully undermined View Details
Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead
  • Profile

Bryan Stromer

Coming to HBS is like... Those “choose your own adventure” books, but the HBS version is filled with fascinating professors, supportive peers, and a lot of cases. Before coming to HBS, I imagined that business school would box me into a... View Details
  • 18 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 18

business model and analyzes how his firm evolved into a diversified business group. The research supports prevailing explanations of business groups, which identify the role of institutional voids, government policies, and contact... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jul 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Are Followers About to Get Their Due?

by extension, potentially supportive of bad leadership (as in Nazi Germany), she focuses on behaviors of the other three types. Of these three, "participants" seem to me to offer the most potential for long-term, productive... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 21 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

outperform others stands in contrast to theory and evidence supporting a broader scope for organizations. The literature on related diversification at the level of the firm provides some reconciliation of these conflicting observations by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 May 2011
  • What Do You Think?

How Ethical Can We Be?

another environment?" Anyone who has studied business cultures in various parts of the world probably would respond affirmatively. Gerald Nanninga observed that "unethical decisions can often appear to be the 'best' View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 03 May 2021
  • Blog Post

Celebrating the First HBS African-American Mother-Daughter Duo

community support to amplify my journey and contribution. Little did I know, we’d become the first African-American mother-daughter duo to graduate. B.J. and her mom, Benaree As a Black female founder, I’ve been extremely fortunate to... View Details