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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Levitt Brand
great deal of comment,” said Levitt, who chaired the Marketing faculty from 1977 to 1985 and served as HBR editor from 1985 to 1989. He noted that he was “not at all surprised” that View Details
- 14 Mar 2018
- Blog Post
The 2+2 Program: Finding the Freedom to Take Risks
CPG leader and retail start-up that taught me incredibly valuable business skills on a global scale. Great Fit for Big-DreamersToday at HBS, not only do I have the opportunity to learn through an... View Details
- March 2013 (Revised October 2013)
- Supplement
Jones Lang LaSalle (2012): Integrated Services and the Architecture of Complexity (D)
By: Ranjay Gulati and Luciana Silvestri
This case describes the strategic and organizational challenges that Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) faced between 2008 and 2012. In 2008, in order to strengthen the firm's brokerage team, JLL merged with The Staubach Company, a real estate services provider with a first-rate... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Structure; Strategy; Integration; Real Estate Industry; North America; South America; Central America
Gulati, Ranjay, and Luciana Silvestri. "Jones Lang LaSalle (2012): Integrated Services and the Architecture of Complexity (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 113-117, March 2013. (Revised October 2013.)
- 17 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve
haven’t proven anything about the usefulness of their product, that it solves a real pain point, or that their target customer is willing to pay for the fix. If you plan to do interest tests, here are... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Leading the Way
leaders and thousands of executives every year. Leadership is about getting results, and the School is on a great trajectory. The Importance of Engagement NN: One of View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
America the Unequal
recent nationwide survey, my colleague Dan Ariely and I found that Americans drastically underestimated the level of wealth inequality in the United States, currently at levels not seen since View Details
- 09 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unconscious Executive
that sleep is disrupted. “We could tap into the vast potential of the unconscious, while we're comfortably sleeping in our beds” Another route we're investigating is whether this cue-activated boost works... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Quiet Leader—and How to Be One
that was in my mind. In the course, so many of the people in the works of fiction we read—who aspire to greatness or who achieve greatness—end up... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
to Levitt for that insight. “He had such great antennae. And he was brave. It takes courage to stick your chin out in the air and say this is what’s coming. I always wanted to be prepared for his class. Not... View Details
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Economics of Open Source
may be a great stepping stone to future venture capital. The open source environment made it possible, for instance, for the founders of Sun, Netscape and Red Hat, to show... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
knowledge transfer. Experts can mentor novices, despite a very large gap in knowledge, if the experts are willing to coach and the novices can bear having their knowledge gap exposed. Some experts find View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 18 Jul 2023
- News
The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)
What inspired you to launch Forby Entertainment Partners? I started working on film and TV shoots in New York City during college. My first boss, an executive producer, recommended Edward Jay Epstein’s book, The Hollywood Economist: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind... View Details
Keywords: Robert Bochnak
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
methodologies differ so much that “the best” school in one ranking can fall far behind in others. So while the rankings game is great for selling publications, it’s confusing for readers. Bloomberg... View Details
- Blog
Inside the Learning: Wellness on Campus
is located right on the banks of the Charles River, which provides great trails for walking or running while taking in the local scenery. For... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
of the great aspects of this sport is its element of uncertainty,” says DeWitt. “A losing team still wins about 40 percent of the games it plays, while a winning team wins... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
miss the extreme lows, but I miss the adrenaline of the extreme highs. In choosing a business plan to fund, I look for a unique perspective on an enormous market opportunity.... View Details
- 02 Apr 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Making the Move to General Manager
People achieve success in the early years of their career by specializing and becoming functional experts—in essence, they succeed by knowing more and more about less and less, says Benjamin C. Esty, chair of View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 2010
- Book
The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal
By: Noel Maurer and Carlos Yu
On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal was officially opened for business, thus changing the face of both world trade and military power and playing a pivotal role in the rise of the United States on the world stage. Today we view the creation of the Panama Canal as a... View Details
Keywords: Political History; For-Profit Firms; Development Economics; Infrastructure; State Ownership; Ship Transportation; Panama; United States
Maurer, Noel, and Carlos Yu. The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal. Princeton University Press, 2010.
- 21 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Meet the AFAA Club
Additionally, the club hosts an annual career fair at which employers can meet AFAA members in a more personal setting to explore internship and full-time career opportunities. Both potential employers and current students have expressed... View Details
Keywords: All Industries