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- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
credit cards that could be used in Falabella stores, and Banco Falabella competed with other banks by offering personal banking services. The case covers many of the key questions the leaders of the firm faced, including whether to allow... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
1911; Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, the first to stand atop Mount Everest, in 1953; and Neil Armstrong, the first on the moon, in 1969. But Vescovo hadn’t gotten there by himself. To send one person to the most remote places on the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
experience a different educational model. “Cases can’t always completely capture the way the real world unfolds,” says Roberts, explaining that participants must source primary data and conduct in-depth analysis in their business area. “When students work on a project... View Details
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
EverTrue and is struggling with issues like a conflict in his B2B2C business models and what his next steps should be as well as personal concerns. At the moment, he is trying to decide among three candidates for CTO, and he must weigh... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
taking considerable initiative to deliver the highest quality personalized service in the hospitality industry. The case also highlights Aman's strategy and operations which differ in many ways from industry standards. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Choose the Best Deal
million for the Abbott estate and $1.8 million for the orchard property. If Jim has taken both monetary issues and personal satisfaction into account, then the two deals should be equivalent at his stipulated upper limits. That's because... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
taken away and then given back,” he says, “you want to use it in the very best way you can.” Web Exclusive: Bob Massie - Finding His Place at HBS “I owe a great deal to the late Professor John Matthews,” Bob Massie says, as he retraces his View Details
- 17 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper
data-driven personalization platform for fashion retailers, provided us with an aggregated dataset of online apparel sales from a variety of anonymized well-known fashion retailers in the United States and the United Kingdom in 2019 and... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
Sustainability Goals. BWC was a set of internal award recognizing products that effectively addressed one of five world challenges: energy and climate change, sustainable water supply, decent affordable housing, personal health, and food... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
agreement with each party as well as the value of having that person or group onboard. 3. Identify key relationships among the parties: who influences whom, who tends to defer to whom, who owes something to whom, and so on. 4. Focus on... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Build a Better Board
should pause and ask, "Are we working the way we want to work, have conditions changed, should we do something different because we have a new CEO or because the new CEO is a more experienced person in whom we have more... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS
spend time: career; academic; extracurricular; social; personal wellness. Prioritize these upfront. There’s a lot of leeway in the application process itself. There’s more pre-work before you even get to the application and that journey... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
technical person - whom I call a 'maestro' - to help find the solution. As the CEOs get up to speed on the technology, they suddenly begin to see the opportunities that computer systems provide by integrating across functions that create... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
person from the community have been hired in her place to do the work? “The experience made me realize that I had work to do to understand what communities need, and that I needed to pick up some skills and learn how to add value,” she... View Details
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
revealed a pattern: the failed leaders couldn't lead themselves. On their leadership journey these high potential managers adopted a set of personal behaviors that worked temporarily but were unsustainable in the long run. Findings—The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
why people aren't consuming. Sometimes they just don't have a job they are seeking to get done. For example, many people can afford to purchase personal computers but choose not to because there are no jobs that are important enough to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
consumption per person has declined from 3.5 gallons per day in 1979 to 2.9 in 2007. One dramatic way to further reduce oil use is to increase mileage efficiency in motor vehicles. Stobaugh believes that mandated fuel efficiency is a... View Details
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Year in Review | Annual Report 2024
tenure-track professors, visitors, and practitioners—participated in START, a deep-dive orientation to the School that took place in person on campus over three days in July 2023. The program provides an overview of Harvard Business... View Details
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
retailers rely on temporary workers during the holiday season, so training and managing frontline staff becomes essential. Finally, retail executives should be highly focused on customer service. Consumers who shop in person will likely... View Details
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
Business historians can profit from careful analyses of government and personal archives to reconstruct the early "start-up" phases of firms—and to uncover the role that other organizational forms, such as partnerships, played... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman