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  • 02 Mar 2007
  • What Do You Think?

What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?

Butler believes that it could come in the form of a two-tiered system of private treatment at personal expense layered on a service free to all with protections for healthcare givers and the elimination of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health
  • January 2020 (Revised April 2020)
  • Teaching Note

Brandless: Disrupting Consumer Packaged Goods

By: Jill Avery
Brandless, an online direct-to-consumer seller of upscale private-label consumer packaged goods (CPG), offered consumers a limited assortment of values-conscious products delivered directly to their homes with the simplicity of one fixed $3.00 price point that promised... View Details
Keywords: Brand; Brand Management; DTC; Private Label; Groceries; Packaged Food; Personal Care; Startups; Retailing; Amazon; Brands and Branding; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Business Startups; Disruption; E-commerce; Consumer Products Industry; Retail Industry; United States
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  • Web

HBS - The year in Review

2021 Annual Report From The Dean Financials PDF Downloads Archive The Year in Review The 2020–21 fiscal year was one of innovation and adaptation. While the pandemic disrupted lives and activities around the world, Harvard View Details
  • 16 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

Faculty Books Published in 2020

became common to describe the United States as a "business civilization." President Coolidge in 1925 said, "The chief business of the American people is business." More recently, historian Sven Beckert... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 06 Sep 2018
  • Blog Post

How to Thrive in an Unstructured Environment

get you so far. The best resources are truly other people - the people who have achieved what you’re looking to do before or are currently in the weeds now. Leveraging our personal network and LinkedIn, we... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
  • 09 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times

long-term study of successful CEOs, some of them outlined in the August 2008 Harvard Business Review article, "The Uncompromising Leader," cowritten with Russell A. Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • October 2018 (Revised July 2019)
  • Case

Sidewalk Labs: Privacy in a City Built from the Internet Up

By: Leslie K. John, Mitchell Weiss and Julia Kelley
Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.

By the time Dan Doctoroff, CEO of Sidewalk Labs, began hosting a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” session in January 2018, he had only nine months remaining to convince the people... View Details
Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Govtech; CivicTech; Smart Cities; City Innovation; Government Innovation; Privacy; Sidewalk Labs; Dan Doctoroff; Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Consumer Behavior; Governance; Business and Government Relations; Innovation and Invention; Technology Industry; Public Administration Industry; Transportation Industry; Real Estate Industry; Canada
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  • 29 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Race Does Matter in Mentoring

responsibility for a functional department within a business unit—for example, the director of marketing or a plant manager.) And Stage 3 covered upper middle management to the executive level. (A person... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas

    The Portfolio Life: How to Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build a Life Bigger than Your Business Card

    What Color Is Your Parachute? meets Out of Office in this inspiring, practical playbook to achieve sustainable work-life balance while optimizing your happiness, personal growth, and bank accounts.

    Pouring yourself into a single... View Details
    • 05 Jul 2012
    • What Do You Think?

    Why Is Trust So Hard to Achieve in Management?

    taught? As Dan Wallace, a graduate of Harvard Business School, points out " none of this was addressed when I was a student there trust would be more prevalent if our best schools of leadership taught it." Finally, Richant... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 05 Oct 2016
    • News

    My pen pals, the white-collar criminals in jail

    • 30 Jun 2019
    • News

    Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo

    Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration, teaches in the MBA and Executive Education programs. According to HBSCB president Bing Sherrill (MBA 1962),... View Details
    Keywords: Margie Kelley
    • 02 Sep 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road

    What can companies today take away from the experience of myriad multinationals in the United States? A lot, says HBS professor Geoffrey G. Jones, a specialist in business... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
    • 01 Apr 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

    Science Quarterly, a research team finds that shifting the focus to an employee's personal identity leads to an increase in both employee retention and customer satisfaction. "Organizations will talk about... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Web Services; Service; Telecommunications
    • 04 Oct 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms

    information on where each person went to school from LinkedIn. Birds of a feather invest together The information showed that the venture capital world is incredibly homogenous, consisting mostly of white men from liberal arts colleges... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services
    • 11 Nov 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation

    organized and hosted the conference. All three panelists represented praiseworthy models of entrepreneurs who have intertwined their personal values with business goals, said Hill, who has written HBS cases... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • December 2016
    • Article

    Deal Process Design in Management Buyouts

    By: Guhan Subramanian
    Management buyouts (MBOs) are an economically and legally significant class of transaction: not only do they account for more than $10 billion in deal volume per year, on average, but they also play an important role in defining the relationship between inside and... View Details
    Keywords: Management Buyout; Deal Structuring; Acquisition; Design; Fairness
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    Two-Year Action Plan Update: Q+A with Terrill Drake, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Harvard Business School

    This article originally appeared in the Harvard Business School—Newsroom. You've been in this role, and at HBS, for just over a year now. Can you reflect a bit on what you've... View Details
    • 08 Mar 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens

    As Amazon’s stunning pullout from New York fades into the news archives, its potent lessons for business negotiators risk being lost. Highly promising deals in diffuse multiparty settings with many potential... View Details
    Keywords: by James K. Sebenius; Real Estate; Construction
    • 31 Oct 2018
    • What Do You Think?

    What is the Function of Fear in Leadership?

    under which fear is employed and the personal qualities of the leader employing it. At least that was the predominant view among a wide range of reactions to the synopsis of Amy Edmondson’s book, The Fearless Organization, that appeared... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett