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November 2024
Case

Group AMANA: Built to Last

By: Hise Gibson and Fares Khrais

The case chronicles the Bsaibes brothers’ journey in founding and operating Group AMANA; a contracting business founded in 1993, based in the United Arab Emirates with operations across the Middle East. Over the years, the business found itself grappling with major... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Family Business; Transformation; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Succession; Business Strategy; Construction Industry; Middle East; Saudi Arabia; United Arab Emirates

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19 Jan 2024
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The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix

beautiful books that really capture the history of the organization that everyone who shows up on the team gets. What we do see—and, I'm a woman of a certain age, so I can talk about “younger”, the younger generation—younger CEOs we find... View Details

15 Jan 2013
Working Paper Summaries

The Promise of Positive Optimal Taxation: A Generalized Theory Calibrated to Survey Evidence on Normative Preferences Explains Puzzling Features of Policy

Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl

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Managing Marketspace Service Interfaces

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport

Jeffrey F. Rayport is focusing on the strategic challenges that face businesses selling information-intensive products and services. A key strategic issue in such businesses is the dematerialization of information-intensive products and services as a consequence of... View Details

Overcrowded – Designing Meaningful Products in a World Awash with Ideas

We live in a world awash with ideas. Thanks to the web and to powerful ideation approaches such as open innovation, design thinking, or crowdsourcing, organizations have today easy access to an unprecedented amount of novel concepts. In this context, what... View Details

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The Challenge of Color - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

color in the 1930s, advances were made in the capture and reproduction of color images—with the aim of controlling prints so they matched the original transparencies, and the objects they depicted, as closely as possible. Nickolas Muray,... View Details

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McArthur Hall | About

oversaw the construction of three new buildings and 16 major renovation projects. In addition, he revitalized HBS publishing activities, widening dissemination of the faculty’s intellectual capital and capturing an important source of... View Details

17 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity

which you can capture whether people are cognitively distracted is to actually look at the errors they make when they are entering data," says Gino, who, as a native of Italy, was in a good position to detect transcription errors. “People... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

23 Oct 2019
Blog Post

How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life

helps scholars and firms capture and analyze conversation data online. We sat down with Professor Brooks to discuss the "How to Talk Gooder" course and to get some advice on that very topic. What is the class “How to Talk... View Details

11 Jul 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Deconstructing 'Customer Experience'

evolved to the concept of the “customer experience,” essentially the ability to capture customer loyalty and promote evangelism by offering top-notch service and a delightful experience at every interaction, from browsing products on a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Service

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Negotiation Course Online | HBS Online

will be communicated at the start of the course. No grades are assigned for Negotiation Mastery. Participants will either be evaluated as complete or not complete. What is the workbook? + – Your workbook will be your personalized resource in which you View Details

11 Apr 2024
Blog Post

Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #17: Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO of Celeste

aggregate information or map out where and how water is impacting a company’s supply chain.” Leni and Taryn see multiple entrepreneurial opportunities in the water space, among them: “assessing water risks and water quality, nature-based solutions to water quality... View Details

16 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Does Competition Make Us More Creative?

After providing information about its business and goals, a company sponsors a tournament of successive rounds where designers submit proposals to capture the winner-take-all award. Following each round, designers can modify their... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

01 Mar 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

customer relationships. Those that don’t risk falling on the wrong side of the next great digital divide. Boys in the Barracks By Carl A. Castro and Anthony M. Hassan (AMP 199, 2021) Barracks Books In a candid description of Army, Castro and Hassan vividly View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

04 Mar 2019
What Do You Think?

What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?

the digital dream” began with the founding of Google, “the pioneer of surveillance capitalism,” during what can be characterized as a naïve global environment that allowed it to capture and organize much of the world’s information... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising; Consumer Products

06 Sep 2022
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment

with ambitious net zero commitments. BCG's climate & sustainability team helps clients turn these pledges into action -helping them identify and harness climate innovation, embed sustainability at scale into their business, and View Details

Portrait Project

Neda Navab

The black and white photo of my grandparents' wedding captures two strangers – a bride, hooked into a stiff corset gown, and a groom, rigid in a starched tuxedo – timidly posing beside each other. They were not in love. Angered by the... View Details

20 Jan 2023
Blog Post

The Importance of Mentorship: A Conversation With Professor Ting Zhang

Throughout your journey, what is the greatest lesson that you believe you learned and what is one piece of advice you would give people reading this? One of the key lessons I’ve learned is captured in a poem by Antonio Machado:... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success

of change. The unprecedented flood of mergers and acquisitions, the advent of the global marketplace, the stock market's dizzying rise, and the capricious fortunes of technology-based companies have made financial services a fascinating trade during the last quarter of... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

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Research - Health Care

UAE for fibroids or adenomyosis were captured from electronic health record timestamps and... May 2024 Article Tepid Uptake of Digital Health Technologies in Clinical Trials by Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Firms By: Caroline Marra... View Details

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