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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
system. Handspring’s Visor quickly distinguished itself from the competition through the addition of an expansion slot that allows users to add a variety of capabilities — digital camera, MP3 player, or cell phone, for example — to their... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
an awkward moment, but the learning was tremendous. Beyond that, at the outset, there was some mutual antagonism and posturing; the scientists assuming MBAs only care about the bottom line, and the MBAs thinking projects would move along... View Details
- 08 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Entrepreneurship Immersion - Four Highlights
analytics for startups and small businesses. It is a very dynamic environment; I spent half of last year leading a new product launch (from customer discovery to creating marketing collateral) and the rest of the time on hiring, strategy, and fundraising. Things are... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Newman's Own Brand of Charity
job. But Newman voiced some serious concerns about competition from industry giants such as Heinz, Campbell's, and Kraft, along with the skyrocketing price of shelf space in grocery chains. Responding to one student's question about key... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
compliance with its loan covenants. The decision to sell its newspapers—a move that would help raise the cash necessary to comply with a time-sensitive refinancing agreement—was announced in February 2012. "The company's difficult... View Details
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
competition among firms? In the working paper Competing with Privacy, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Andrés Hervás-Drane "consider a market where firms set prices and disclosure levels for consumer information, and consumers observe both... View Details
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
of inter-organizational relationships. In contrast, we build on research emphasizing potential drawbacks to examine how competitive exposure, enabled by powerful intermediaries, can inhibit innovation. We develop the concept of View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Mar 2015
- What Do You Think?
Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?
wage disparity, which is more a symptom than a cause of the larger problem. These discussions often elicit an observation that, in many developed economies, too many workers can't live on the money they make. For whatever reason—globalization of and View Details
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
today's managers need to harness technological advances, manage and lead a dispersed and diverse workforce, anticipate and react to constant competitive and geopolitical change and uncertainty, compete on a global scale, and operate in a... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 13 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Entrepreneurs Needed for Long-Run Success
reassess the importance of entrepreneurs for not only the continuation of the family company, but for the continued success of the family itself. Managers inside your core business who think like entrepreneurs (we call them intrapreneurs) can identify opportunities... View Details
Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts
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Harvard Business School
Conference February 10-13, 1994 "Collective Advancement: Moving Beyond Individual Achievement," The 23rd Annual Career/Alumni Conference February 9-12, 1995 "Collective Advancement in a Challenging Environment," 24th Annual Career/Alumni... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Easy Rider
structure.” “American company culture...has the ability to unlock a higher level of performance in a climate where employees are used to being in a very rigid, top-down structure.” Competitive advantage: “American company culture—which I... View Details
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
excelled at analog photography but hasn't been able to make the leap to digital cameras. Boeing, a longtime leader in commercial aircraft, has experienced difficulties in its defense-contracting businesses and has recently stumbled in the face of View Details
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
itself yields several questions: Is there a view that negotiation is a collaborative process aimed at mutual advantage or a competitive battle? Should one focus on specific issues early on or is there a lengthy process of relationship... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
historical context and suggesting that scholars move past unconditional acceptance of the causal power of "socialist legacies" and instead attend to the importance of changes in the post-Mao administrative hierarchy. Working... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
inspire immediate excitement. Then Jacobson and his crew showed him another example, this time under a microscope, in which the pixels migrated over an electrode to spell out MIT. “You could see the individual particles moving around,”... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
will soon move from HTML programming language to XML. Ballmer stated that this shift would alter the current Internet balance of power in which consumers are in a reactive position as they relate to company (or "publisher's") Web sites.... View Details
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
Goals for influencing government should flow directly from the analytic frameworks that companies use to develop business strategies. As Michael Porter noted in Competitive Strategy, "No structural analysis is complete without a... View Details
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
On August 15th, Aetna announced that it would reduce by 80 percent its participation in the Obama administration’s public exchanges for health insurance policies in 2017, citing significant financial losses. The move came just a few weeks... View Details
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
singular belief: that finding, funding and supporting exceptional... Congratulations to the HBS New Venture Competition Social Enterprise Track Finalists! Margot Dushin Shelby Longland 05 Apr 2018 In February, the New Venture... View Details