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- 20 Apr 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Love My Job: Ching Ching Chen On Her Passion For the Music Industry
Universal Music Group in their Corporate Development & Strategy team. Though I have always been passionate about music, I had no industry experience prior to my internship, so the opportunity to sit at the corporate center and touch... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
- 04 Feb 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?
Summing Up How Transferable is the Google "School of Management"? Responses to this month's column suggest a great deal of respect for what Google's management has been able to achieve, both in terms of a strategy for bringing... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
HBS Press Books in Brief Total Access: Giving Customers What They Want in an Anytime, Anywhere World. Regis McKenna, the renowned "father of high-tech marketing," sets forth a new marketing paradigm in which machines and networks do most... View Details
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
change). They can be used to diagnose a culture and to model how likely an individual leader is to align with and shape it. The authors offer five insights regarding culture's effect on companies' success: (1) When aligned with strategy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2018
- News
One Last Pitch
open, her father standing outside. “There has to be a better way to support recovery,” he said. Gastfriend partnered with his own father, Dr. David Gastfriend, an expert in addiction psychiatry, to create DynamiCare Health, a digital platform for monitoring and View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- Web
Why Soft Skills Still Matter in the Age of AI | Working Knowledge
Letian Zhang and coauthors in their new paper, " Skill Dependencies Uncover Nested Human Capital .” The research, published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour , offers a roadmap for companies and policymakers to understand how skills build by “nesting” and View Details
- 11 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t
similar research in Japan, where he anticipates similar results. "I do think that the strategy may prove successful in numerous labor markets where gender-based, ethnic-based, race-based, or religion-based discrimination is the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Navigating the Future of Renewable Energy at Port Esbjerg
towards renewable energy production and CCS, with plans to inject captured carbon into depleted oil fields in the North Sea. Total is targeting 50% renewables in their portfolio mix by 2050. Their strategy... View Details
- 16 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity
added Suraj Srinivasan, the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “Pursuing a digital strategy is an especially valuable source of differentiated value creation by PE funds.” Yet digital... View Details
- 19 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature
Despite its name, the Great Wall of China began as a series of smaller, isolated defensive fortifications. Those structures grew and were later unified into the imposing structure that exists today. The Great Wall is a great metaphor for the Chinese economy. By... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- What Do You Think?
When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?
This involved such things as reorganizing, delegating authority, increasing accountability, building trust among employees, and recognizing and rewarding desired behaviors. The authors conclude from this that “cultural change is what you... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
sports industry accounted for around $50 billion in revenues in the United States in 2007, up from just under $35 billion in 2001. On a global scale, total revenues are expected to be nearly $100 billion this year, compared with $70... View Details
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
Resource Management Review Cross-boundary Teaming for Innovation: Integrating Research on Teams and Knowledge in Organizations By: Edmondson, Amy C., and Jean-François Harvey Abstract—Cross-boundary teaming, within and across organizations, is an increasingly popular... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Levitt Brand
Business Administration, Emeritus, Levitt has published a total of 25 articles in HBR, in addition to authoring or coauthoring eight books and numerous other writings. He retired from the HBS faculty in 1990. View Details
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
definition, competency-based strategies are dependent on people: Scarce knowledge and expertise drive new-product development, and personal relationships with key clients are at the core of flexible market responsiveness. In short, people... View Details
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
explanatory variables, controlling for player quality, total team salary, total number of players used by the team during the season (a proxy for team injuries over the course of a season), and team control... View Details
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
and Spain, on many Latin American countries, especially Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico, and on Chinese-speaking communities. Much of the best research is only available in local languages. Business historians have also widened their research agendas. Understanding the... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
grown into the company's second biggest-selling product. But before Vasella could accomplish any of this, he had to reconcile the diverse cultures of Sandoz and Ciba-Geigy. His first task was to define the new company's mission, values, and core View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Fellowship Enables Opportunity in Africa
five years of completing their MBAs to pursue full-time jobs on the continent by supplementing their income when their total compensation is less than $100,000. The maximum award is $50,000 per year. The first four GO: Africa recipients... View Details
- 19 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech
companies might benefit from picking other forms of incentive compensation that arguably do a better job of aligning executive and shareholder interests than conventional stock options do. Indexed or performance options, for example, ensure that management is not View Details