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19 Jan 2022
Blog Post

From Retail to HBS: How I’m Building a Career Path at the Intersection of Arts, Culture, and Business

at West Elm as a buyer, analyzing trends in the market and developing our Bedding and Bath products, before moving into buying at Bloomingdale’s (just like Rachel from Friends), where I selected and oversaw merchandise from several... View Details

19 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?

and delivery delays, and explains how dollar stores have been able to defy the downward trends that have devastated brick-and-mortar retail in recent years. This interview has been edited for clarity and length. Harvard Gazette: The... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Retail

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

its flagship magazine, Harvard Business Review, as well as digital content, live events, books, and tools, HBR Group continued to deliver insights on emerging business trends and management best practices. Paid circulation rose to... View Details

06 Feb 2013
What Do You Think?

Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?

issue." Just how the idea might be implemented more widely was a concern of several. As Michael Hogan put it, " absent a revival of the organized labor movement it is boards who are best positioned to reverse this ultimately fatal trend... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jan 2002
News

Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)

percent of its work is in the area of high-level executive search. In his more than forty years in the business, Zehnder has seen many trends come and go in management practice, but the qualities he and his partners value in a prospective... View Details

18 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!

challenging spot, since their responsibility to their shareholders is to make money, and their go-to way of doing this has been by selling junk food,” she says. “But, you can see this trend where they’re trying to juggle their product... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising; Public Relations

05 Nov 2014
HBS Seminar

CV Harquail, Authentic Organizations and Stevens Institute of Technology

02 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 2

Publications 2006 pub Matching Firms, Managers, and Incentives By: Bandiera, Oriana, Luigi Guiso, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We exploit a unique combination of administrative sources and survey data to study the match between firms and managers. The... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

09 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns

Dave Cote and his team brought to managing their company during the Great Recession. The shift to managing companies for short-term financial interests has been an increasing trend among US businesses, leading to a focus on actions that... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra Sucher & Susan Winterberg; Aerospace; Electronics

20 Jan 2023
News

Free Spirits

multinationals, everyone seems to agree that it’s too early in this story to predict how big the segment could get or how long consumers will angle for these products. Professor Israeli, who wrote the case on Athletic Brewing, points to a panoply of wellness View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

13 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding

Biography," details her joint research about the trend and its implications for brand management. Keinan, an assistant professor in the Marketing Unit at Harvard Business School whose research on consumer behavior has been published... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Press / Media

By: Karim R. Lakhani

Can America Invent Its Way Back?

BusinessWeek, by Michael Mandel, 12 Sept. 2008

Today, researchers are focusing on ways to make those... View Details

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

nominal and real interest rates in the last four decades, and how their recent trends and their potential evolution in a world characterized by structural changes in the way economies are organized and in geopolitical tail risks might... View Details

06 Aug 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?

and the Pepsi logo, which you would never see in Atlanta any other time. So, that was a very interesting move. Kenny: But does that signal something bigger? Is there kind of a trend moving in the opposite direction? We're in this period... View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

21 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)

policies, and for the overall legitimacy and stability of democratic regimes. In the United States, for instance, minorities are much less likely to vote than whites and young people are much less likely to vote than seniors. The trend of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

TeachingInterests

Managing Human Capital

By: Ethan S. Bernstein

The Managing Human Capital course has been specifically designed to teach practical skills for the future general manager (not just the human resource practitioner) who seeks to manage both other people and her or his own career with optimal... View Details

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

desire to conduct relevant research and to acquire the knowledge to do so, including by encouraging them to engage with practitioners,” he writes. In the end, the trend toward more applicable research will have to start with the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

31 May 2017
What Do You Think?

Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?

retailing? What do you think? References: James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser, Jr., and Leonard A. Schlesinger, “Leading for the Future of Services,” Chapter 8 in What Great Service Leaders Know & Do (Oakland: Berrett-Kohler Publishers, Inc., 2015), pp. 191-224. M. P.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

September 2021 (Revised December 2023)
Case

On the Bubble: Startup Bootstrapping

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Tom Quinn and Annelena Lobb

Bubble was a software company in the low-code/no-code market, making tools that allowed users without traditional programming backgrounds or technical skills to build software. The case covers cofounder Joshua Haas’s engineering background, as he experienced a high... View Details

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01 Mar 2018
News

Every Trick in the Book

of books that make up its online inventory on hand—but the curation is not specific to the location. Nationwide ordering trends and reviews inform what is available on the shelves in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and elsewhere. In late... View Details

Keywords: April White

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