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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
Suchismita had resolved that she was going to open a bank account. "That morning," Nundy recalls, "Suchismita spent hours in preparation, bathing and dressing up as if for a wedding. As we drove to the bank, she told me it was the first... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
legendary impresario Charlie Finley was having trouble finding a radio station to broadcast his struggling team’s games, the young entrepreneur made his pitch. “I called Mr. Finley ten days before Opening Day, and we negotiated at first... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
deliver this spring’s Commencement address. As he greets a visitor to his bare-bones office in Mountain View, California, there’s little evidence of this former hedge-fund analyst’s meteoric rise to rock-star status as a kind of online... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
sophisticated bells and whistles of contemporary marketing. Macondo has been eclipsed by a proliferation of gleaming office towers and high-tech factories in some of the world's greatest cities. Yet Latin Americans will tell you that amid... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
modern organization is less and less about looking inward and creating strong teams inside the company and more about teaming across boundaries—that often are in flux. Extreme Teaming is a must-read book for all courses related to leading View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Admit It: You’re in Denial
alcoholic who swears he is just a social drinker to the investor who refuses to open his 401(k) statement after a market crash, denial permeates every facet of life. The impulse to avoid painful truths, just like the impulse to avoid pain... View Details
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) Your CEO Succession Plan Can’t Wait (Harvard Business Review) A Pandemic Won’t Kill The Open Office, But... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
implications of these findings for organizational learning, process improvement and human resource management are discussed. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-002.pdf Deferred Acceptance Algorithms: History, Theory, Practice, and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
articles, "Clusters and Competition: New Agendas for Companies, Governments, and Institutions" and "Competing Across Locations: Enhancing Competitive Advantage through a Global Strategy." Jim Aisner of HBS spoke with Professor Porter in his View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 21 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse
without much physical interaction: Zoom replaced meetings, Slack subbed for water-cooler talk, and offices stood mostly vacant. “Our view is that the metaverse can still succeed.” Researchers Andy Wu and David R. Clough felt the brunt of... View Details
- 07 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Revolutionizing Wellness: Kate Twist (MBA 2008) Shapes the Future of Consumer Health Brands
After Clinique, Twist brought her skills and experience to a group of iconic American brands and led all marketing, e-commerce, business intelligence, and creative for Isaac Mizrahi, Halston, Judith Ripka, and C. Wonder as Chief Marketing View Details
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
purpose company” with employees in London, New York, Singapore, New Zealand, and Sydney, with a new office opening soon in Toronto. Aside from generating big tax dollars for the UK, BIT has seen successes in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
be able to experiment with the economics and logistics of a pizza business and gain firsthand experience of his customers as well. The outlet was an instant hit, but Pujals resisted the temptation to immediately replicate it. He waited a year before View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
looks on the back of the garments right down to the appearance of the hangtags. Having that level of access to the product inspires us as much as anything else. What management issue do you think about most in your job? The culture of the agency. When the doors View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
he continues. “This company’s service allows e-mail messages to be sent from anywhere in the world to a post office near the addressee’s home, printed out as a letter, stuffed in an envelope, and delivered in just a few days. They’re even... View Details
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
science/learning, metrics, structured interventions, open communication, and promoting culture change at the work unit, leader, and organization level. Conclusions and Relevance: Understanding the business case to reduce burnout and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
approaches to analyzing measurement of digitization. This agenda overlaps with many related open questions in organizational and strategy research. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Mar 2025
- News
What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
to read a book about me. That was kind of characteristic of him, is some of it was maybe a false modesty, but a lot of it was very real. So, fast forward to the summer of 2020, the pandemic hits, we’re all working from home. He was complaining about not being able to... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
Software 806-121 Black Duck Software involves a venture-backed start-up that converted software developers' concerns about violating copyright licensing agreements or open source protocols into an opportunity to help firms use technology... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
scheduled to start by the end of 2016. “The Dandelion program is focused on building careers, resilience, and independence for the individuals involved,” Fieldhouse says. He credits his time at HBS—where he interacted with a diverse group of people, thus View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers