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- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
end of the day, it’s the people that give me hope, that they’re there for the right reasons. Pharma nowadays gets a lot of negative press at pricing and things like that. It’s tough to say, but I don’t think that’s characteristic of the... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
Yeah. My fifth grade teacher, Gwendolyn Davis, was about the most terrifying educator I had ever had up to that point and probably since. I mean, sort of imagine the terror of a first year at HBS cold call, and amplify it by about a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
marketplace for neurotechnology digital health products, was accepted into the Harvard i-lab Venture Incubation Program and the Rock Accelerator; she is now working on it full-time with cofounders Brian Smith (MBA 2017) and Sofia Warner (MBA/MD 2017). That lineage is a... View Details
- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
significant effect is found in IDA funding. These results point to challenges of global governance through representative institutions. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
company’s name. Clearly, all signs point to your firm’s continued success. Right? Not necessarily, says HBS assistant professor Donald Sull in Revival of the Fittest: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Managers Remake Them. Based on... View Details
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
Survive is his signature phrase, if you will, and a book in which he introduces the idea of strategic inflection points. The basic idea of the strategic inflection point is that companies come to basically a turning point. If you think of... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
core markets, while also winning in new domains. Clayton M. Christensen has been pessimistic about whether established companies can prevail in the face of disruption. Charles A. O'Reilly III and Michael L. Tushman have a contrasting View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
distribution An effective channel steward considers the channel from the customer's point of view. With that view in mind, the steward then advocates for change among all participants, transforming disparate entities into partners having... View Details
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
pipelines, toll roads, and mines. The key is to understand for which assets and in which settings the benefits are likely to be realized. Q: I found your point interesting: Given the high debt-to-total capitalization ratios (typically 70... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
directions. Fads can be mistaken for trends; the flavor du jour can masquerade as a time-tested recipe. An ephemeral stock price can be made to seem a permanent achievement, an unwavering final verdict. The temporary opinion rendered by... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
(MBA '92), Paul Knutson (HBS '98), William H. roedy, Jr. (MBA '79), and Strauss Zelnick (MBA/JD '83), industry insiders with perspectives from key vantage points in the music world. They, along with HBS associate professor John J.... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
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Q1 1.5 Pricing Strategy: Monetizing and Growing the Business Marketing Elie Ofek Fall 2024 Q2 1.5 Private Equity Finance Finance Victoria Ivashina , Ted Berk Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Product Management Entrepreneurial Management Sara McKinley... View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition
great day!” What does this honor mean to you, personally and also professionally? Pradhan: “This really is a team award. On the personal side, it is an award that belongs to my wife, my parents, and my broader friends and family, who collectively deserve the credit for... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
not doing this to increase our sales ... or our profits." Our sample cases have exhibited remarkable correlation between altruistic drives and family companies. From an ethical point of view, it is to be expected that individuals... View Details
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
Disrupting Consumer Packaged Goods Brandless, an online direct-to-consumer seller of upscale private-label consumer packaged goods, offered consumers a limited assortment of values-conscious products delivered directly to their homes with the simplicity of one fixed $3... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
or cult of the CEO was "Made in America." But the main point is that we tend to forget that American firms pioneered a vast, bureaucratic, middle management apparatus. As a trick, I've posted General Motor's organizational chart... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
Working PapersIf You Are So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? The Effects of Education, Financial Literacy and Cognitive Ability on Financial Market Participation Authors:Shawn A. Cole and Gauri Kartini Shastry Abstract Household financial market participation affects... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
distribute products, this is how you price them, this is how you brand them, this is how leadership is optimized, this is how you design organizations, and this is how you motivate people. Take any subject, they were all grounded in... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
management consulting and technical problem solving for industry. In 1949, ADL hired John Magee (MBA 6/'48) to help it expand into the new field of "operations research"; during decades of subsequent service as ADL's president and chairman, Magee led the firm into the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
of big money in the world of sports seems to have aggravated public disenchantment with many aspects of the professional game, from high ticket prices to athletes' personal behavior. That does not bode well long term for an industry that... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons