Filter Results:
(3,411)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(3,411)
- People (22)
- News (1,592)
- Research (1,375)
- Events (4)
- Multimedia (84)
- Faculty Publications (320)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(3,411)
- People (22)
- News (1,592)
- Research (1,375)
- Events (4)
- Multimedia (84)
- Faculty Publications (320)
- 18 Feb 2020
- News
Global Ocean Trust: Protecting the Blue Planet in New Ways
Alberto F. Cavallo
Alberto Cavallo is the Thomas S. Murphy Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE) unit, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a... View Details
- June 2017
- Teaching Note
IBM Transforming, 2012–2016: Ginni Rometty Steers Watson
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen
Ginni Rometty, who became IBM CEO in 2012, led efforts to transform the company around cognitive computing and the AI platform Watson. This Teaching Note helps instructors understand and teach the Harvard Business School case “IBM Transforming, 2012–2016: Ginni Rometty... View Details
- 27 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring Claire Friedman...
resident, it was a big transition to move out west, but once I learned how to drive, it was smooth sailing. I spent some time at Warner Bros., working on strategy projects for the studio including a film partnership in China, and at FX... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
- 06 May 2011
- News
Bin Laden's Death An Opportunity For Unity
- 30 Aug 2021
- News
How The Pandemic Could Give Workers More Leverage
- 08 Oct 2020
- News
Sales Calls Have Gone Virtual, and AI Is Listening In
- 29 Jun 2013
- News
Hospital operators and Obamacare: Prescription for change
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places
business publication, for example, recently cited a survey that found that two-thirds of the world's largest companies had replaced their CEOs since 1995. More than one thousand left US companies last year alone. Khurana's interest in CEO... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
The art of business today seems to be the ability to influence resources your company doesn't own—resources such as the production scheduling of manufacturing partners, the packaging requirements of distribution partners, and the... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
over time, perhaps by inviting them to lunches, as the Goldman Sachs board does. Companies often choose a successor who pledges to lead the business in the same direction as the current CEO. All too often, the board is satisfied with the... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- June 10, 2021
- Article
How to Be a Purpose-Driven Leader in a Capitalist World
By: Celia Bravard, John Pontillo and Andrew J. Hoffman
Today’s business school education isn’t suited to the big challenges facing the world — climate change, economic inequality and racial injustice — that the leaders of tomorrow will be expected to solve. So, how can students and young professionals succeed in a system... View Details
Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Mission and Purpose; Social Issues; Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Opportunities
Bravard, Celia, John Pontillo, and Andrew J. Hoffman. "How to Be a Purpose-Driven Leader in a Capitalist World." Harvard Business Review (website) (June 10, 2021).
- 19 Sep 2019
- News
How TiVo is trying to make a comeback
- June 2006 (Revised January 2007)
- Case
e-Types A/S
A successful young design firm faces a difficult decision: whether to compromise its creative values to win a big job. The client brief is very conservative. The company is pretty sure it can win the design competition, but the design staff hates what they think they... View Details
Austin, Robert D., Shannon ODonnell, and Silje Kamille Friis. "e-Types A/S." Harvard Business School Case 606-118, June 2006. (Revised January 2007.)
- 26 Sep 2014
- News
Has Capitalism Reached A Turning Point?
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
research must be much more thoughtful about accessing external resources. What I'm advocating is an expanded view of R&D, blending the external with the internal." Exemplifying one of Chesbrough's outward-looking approaches was panelist Les Vadasz; a graduate... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- September 2010 (Revised November 2010)
- Case
Ze-gen: Commercializing Clean Tech
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Kaitlyn Lyons and Scott Prozeller
The Ze-gen case covers the first five years in the life of a clean-tech start-up. Ze-gen had developed an innovative technology that converted solid waste into synthesis gas (called syngas). This technology was in testing at the company's pilot plant, built next to the... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Renewable Energy; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Environmental Sustainability; Commercialization; Green Technology Industry; New Bedford
Applegate, Lynda M., Kaitlyn Lyons, and Scott Prozeller. "Ze-gen: Commercializing Clean Tech." Harvard Business School Case 811-014, September 2010. (Revised November 2010.)
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tips to Reinvent the Department Store
store," he said. As the first conference in what is planned to be an annual event, the HBS Retail and Luxury Goods Conference on April 3 was organized by two HBS student clubs, the Retail & Apparel Club and the Luxury Goods & Design View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
both online and in-store, which can reduce stores' ability to upsell, make complementary sales (recall the Best Buy example), and make impulse sales (think candy at the checkout), resulting in smaller shopping baskets. This basket disruption could cause the View Details