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- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
several years ago to connect the back end of its 50,000 stores with company headquarters. But it soon dawned on executives that 90 percent of Starbucks customers use the Web, and many are high-end business travelers. Offering them Web... View Details
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Georges F. Doriot
was his ability to ask questions that illuminated the critical aspects of an important decision his friends might be facing.” Always quotable, he famously told his students, “Always remember, that someone, somewhere, is making... View Details
- 30 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Urban Adaptation in a Changing World
administrative footprint of Mumbai’s municipal government only covers part of the greater metropolitan area due to the city’s rapid growth, limiting the government’s ability to apply adaptation initiatives throughout the city. Several... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
Schultz (MBA 1983) was working as an executive chairman for a tech company, and on his way home from a fundraising presentation at a venture firm when he had an epiphany. A longtime executive with a personal... View Details
- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
performance throughout his career. We highlighted McVay’s penchant for surrounding himself with effective staff and willingness to delegate tasks to them. Here, we raise another skill of his that bodes well for long-term success: a strong View Details
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55650 February 2019 Top Sales Magazine Sales Managers Must Manage By: Cespedes, Frank V. Abstract— A common complaint from C-level executives about their sales colleagues concerns the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
way without compromising the ability of conventional monetary policy to focus on its traditional dual mandate of promoting maximum employment and stable prices. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52330... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
particular, the ability to collaborate with partners to achieve superior innovation performance. Yet despite this need, there is little guidance on how to develop or deploy this ability. This article describes the results of a study to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia
a permanent reality in corporate boardrooms—whether or not executives have a deep-seated passion for the social issues involved. Expectations are changing, agreed panelists. Oil corporations, for example, are well versed in the standard... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Ink
Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges, Cuddy highlights her personal experience to introduce the concept of “presence,” the ability to generate an inner calm, authority, and confidence during times of potential... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
more direct international experiences for our students, and for our faculty. One idea might be short study trips that would combine immersion in key regions around the world with individual preparation beforehand and class work or field studies after. In View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Unlocking Innovation: A Leader's Guide to Turning Bold Ideas Into Tangible Results By Robyn Bolton (MBA 2005) Page Two Press Only 1 in every 50,000 incubated ideas reaches $1 million in sales. If you ask most corporate executives why their... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
Dean McArthur set about assembling a group of expert academics and practitioners at HBS. As he recruited faculty, MBA and Executive Education courses were developed, attracting students and stimulating further research. One of these... View Details
- 05 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?
investors, which in turn is acquired thanks to the brokers’ ability to observe order flow before the rest of the market.” Stockbrokers are intermediaries who buy and sell stocks for retail and institutional clients, either for a fee or... View Details
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
increasingly turn to athletes to promote their products. The marketing executives I spoke with told me they value these endorsements especially because it is getting more and more difficult to reach a wide group of consumers using... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
I want to show my support for an institution that has made and will continue to make a valuable contribution to management practice all over the world," says Andreas Andresen (69th AMP), a retired German industrialist who recently became the first European and the... View Details
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
lengths—60, 30, and 10 seconds—and in 10-second silent videos and 10-second audio clips. We find that perceptions of collective properties of groups, including cohesion, affective trust, and cognitive trust partially mediate perceivers’ View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Understanding Users of Social Networks
LinkedIn comes in handy—there I can go and search through the network of my friends of friends and find the person I am looking for." Online social networks also can improve people's ability to use offline social networks as... View Details
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
(coauthored with Joanna Radin), Perspectives on Risk and Regulation: The FDA at 100, has just been released. The book collects views on the work and challenges of the agency from FDA officials past and present, as well as from executives... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
titled "Groupthink," "Debate and criticism do not inhibit ideas but, rather, stimulate them." These ladies will help you generate ideas to navigate both the best and the worst events in the arc of your career and life. Sue Schooner (MBA 1983), View Details