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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
business functions, VanAuken finds that "consulting offers the greatest amount of variety and intellectual stimulation for people like me who get bored easily. It provides maximum independence, flexibility, and freedom in one's personal... 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
- 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
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
started developing them have ceased to exist as independent entities. In those cases in which the skills and capabilities that characterized new ecosystem domains were distinct enough to justify a truly focused strategy (for example, View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
"I believe 120 percent in what I'm doing," she said, well before the Boston site took shape. "If you didn't have that, you wouldn't have the energy to get up in the morning. You really enjoy the good days, because there are a lot of bad days right now.... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
that, as a priority, reputational risk ranked first and distinctly ahead of regulatory risk and human capital risks, which tied for second. It also found that the key reasons cited for difficulties in managing reputational risk were the lack of established tools and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Career Coach
Martin November
Marty (HBS '98) is an MD/MBA and practicing OBGYN physician who has broad expertise in the healthcare sector as the former Medical Director for Patient Safety and Risk Management at Atrius Health, Harvard Medical School teaching faculty and hospital division director,... View Details
- Career Coach
Carole Carlson
Carole (HBS '98) has a wide ranging business background, with particular expertise coaching MBAs and executives. She has a passion for helping individuals develop their career vision and implement it via practical job search skills, including strategy development,... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Education; Entrepreneurship; Government; Health Care; Hospitality; Real Estate; Social Enterprise
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
design, competing interests, global health, personalized medicine, residential care, and concierge medicine, among others—and structures what has been a highly fragmented research area into a coherent scientific discipline. The Handbook... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Mar 2016
- HBS Case
Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'
you to talk about that experience. So it could be argued that that’s not manipulation. Now what happens with the person who says, “Oh, I had an awful experience, the staff was not courteous, my room was awful.” What are they going to do?... View Details
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
(BMVSS) is an Indian not-for-profit organization engaged in assisting differently abled persons by providing them with the legendary low-cost prosthesis, the Jaipur Foot, and other mobility-assisting devices, free of cost. Known for its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
spending and confidence as well as new competitive forces on Starbucks' transformation. The case concludes by examining Schultz's own leadership journey, the lessons he learned personally during Starbucks transformation, and how he is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
character; maybe he didn't mean exactly what he just said. It was an aspect of the character's personality that hadn't been seen before that scene. The director saw this moment in the daily review of work in progress and said, "No, no.... View Details