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- February 2012 (Revised June 2012)
- Case
Rospil.info
By: Paul Healy, Karthik Ramanna and Matthew Shaffer
What should business leaders do about corruption? In December 2011, four HBS alumni met to debate how to engage the unprecedented protests against Vladimir Putin's corrupt government, which had erupted in Russia in response to alleged fraud in the recent parliamentary... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Crime and Corruption; Government and Politics; Social and Collaborative Networks; Blogs; Information Industry; Russia
Healy, Paul, Karthik Ramanna, and Matthew Shaffer. "Rospil.info." Harvard Business School Case 112-033, February 2012. (Revised June 2012.)
- 11 Mar 2009
- HBS Case
The Energy Politics of Russia vs. Ukraine
innocent. Case closed? Nyet. "The Western notion that Russia uses energy as a weapon is a media oversimplification of very complicated politics," says HBS professor Rawi Abdelal. Abdelal, who recently produced a three-part case... View Details
- February 2021
- Background Note
Jobs to Be Done: A Toolbox
By: Derek C. M. van Bever, Bob Moesta, Iuliana Mogosanu, Shaye Roseman and Katie Zandbergen
The Jobs to Be Done methodology is both a theory and a practical approach for understanding customer behavior and why people make the choices they make. Many practitioners, whether they work for startups or incumbent businesses, find Jobs to Be Done useful because it... View Details
Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Decision Choices and Conditions; Knowledge Acquisition; Attitudes; Perception; Theory; Behavior; Customer Relationship Management
van Bever, Derek C. M., Bob Moesta, Iuliana Mogosanu, Shaye Roseman, and Katie Zandbergen. "Jobs to Be Done: A Toolbox." Harvard Business School Background Note 321-095, February 2021.
- 10 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
The Challenge of Managing National Security
Associate Professor Jan Rivkin joined the HBS faculty in 1997 as a member of the Strategy Unit. His special area of interest is examining the interactions that occur between and across the various functional and product boundaries of the... View Details
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are You Supporting Your B Players?
and yet pose a drag on the organization because they require constant reinforcement. So who is there to care about the B players? According to HBS professor Thomas J. DeLong, both in a reunion session for View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
personal connections amongst U.S. politicians have a significant impact on Senate voting behavior. Networks based on alumni connections between politicians are consistent predictors of voting behavior. We estimate sharp measures that... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 18 Jun 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Why Leaders Need Great Books
the policies of a large organization." Badaracco, talking about the course recently with about 80 HBS alumni during the school's reunion weekend in June, said The Moral Leader is unusual for View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2008
- Research Event
Venture Capital
Centennial celebration. Through it, HBS honors the important contributions made by its graduates to the development of the VC industry, and who today are estimated to make up more than 20 percent of the world's venture capitalists. The... View Details
- 08 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
We’ve Now Been Asking “What Do You Think?” for 20 Years
This month marks the twentieth anniversary of the beginning of my “What do you think?” column. The Working Knowledge website was the brainchild of a faculty and staff committee organized in 2000 by then Dean Kim Clark to communicate the results of faculty research to a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
graduates—descended on the Allston campus for the start of the W50 Summit, two days of reflection, celebration, and brainstorming on women's experiences at HBS and beyond. They heard from panels of professors and View Details
Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Babies
to the 2003 Alumni Healthcare Conference on November 7, outlined the characteristics of the baby market and the political, social, and regulatory roadblocks to businesses that wish to participate. "Morality surrounds this market to... View Details
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
revealed his password to someone posing as another company employee. Why did the employee reveal his password? Because he didn't realize the danger in doing that. Why didn't the employee realize the danger? Because he had not seen a security View Details
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
No matter how you slice the numbers, all arrows in biotechnology's financial performance after twenty years are still pointing downward, said HBS professor Gary P. Pisano recently. Despite the great promise of the sector—to improve the... View Details
- 19 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Here Comes Internet2—Time to Shed Dot Vertigo
fallacious," Nolan charged. In a lively discussion with about fifty HBS alumni held during reunion weekend this summer, Nolan, who spent a year's sabbatical concentrating on Internet2, described the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
In June, Professor Joe Bower (with fellow HBS professors Dutch Leonard, David Moss, and Lynn Paine) led an HBS faculty colloquium on "The Future of Market Capitalism." The View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
Cell Biology at Harvard. Sato oversees the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Sciences Entrepreneurship, which provides a select group of HBS MBA alumni the opportunity to work with top Harvard inventors. The... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them
Frei. Their customers are better off and the organizations earn a disproportionate share of the profits over their competitors. Frei, who spoke with HBS alumni on June 4 in a session titled... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
changing corporate world beset by reorganization, downsizing, and recession. Of that group, the Bulletin asked four members of the class to share some of their views on sizing up and seizing opportunity. Their discussion gives insights... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why dot.coms Will Rise Again
In separate sessions at the 2001 Global Alumni Conference, HBS professors McFarlan (HBS MBA '61 and DBA '65) and Dorothy A. Leonard dissected the dot.com disaster and found much worth salvaging. In fact,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
not currently in the full-time workforce. Many of the women who chose to leave their professional careers had approached Clark during his recent visits with alumni groups. They told him they felt disconnected from business and from View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace