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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Faculty Debates Lessons from Enron's Collapse
consensus that Enron's demise was what one faculty member characterized as “a creeping disaster” that can only be understood when it is viewed through a variety of lenses. “I think it's safe to say,” posited Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter near the View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
end of the line. Her goal, as both a leader and a human being, is to listen to others, empathize, and respond accordingly. She begins the conversations sharing a bit about herself so that people can immediately feel a sense of comfort and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Breakthrough Marketing Plans: How to Stop Wasting Time and Start Driving Growth by Tim Calkins (MBA ’91) (Palgrave Macmillan) Most marketing plans are a waste of time — too long, complicated, and dense — and end up unread and unrealized.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
(MBA 2007). Mobius’s founder, British entrepreneur Joel Jackson, moved to rural Kenya to work in a micro-forestry enterprise in 2009. During his field visits, he encountered the problem of expensive secondhand vehicles, many of them... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Corruption 101
"Against the Grain" ends as a cliff-hanger: What should Jim do? The array of ethical choices forms the basis of class discussion in the required course Leadership and Corporate Accountability. "Corruption can be defined as paying for a... View Details
- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
It's safe to say that the rollout of the Affordable Care Act was not pretty. Plagued by technical problems on Healthcare.gov, and stymied by a lack of political support in around half of the 50 states, the federal healthcare exchange set... View Details
- 17 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
The Fifth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS
Leschly led students through conversations, Q+A sessions, and presentations aimed at inspiring change and innovation in the sector. The lauded American dream, Leschly posed, rests heavily on the promise of higher education—a supposedly universally accessible and... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
2016 Alumni Achievement Awards
really wanted to be a pilot, but I had an astigmatism and couldn’t fly—a big disappointment, but I still served over four years as captain. I then applied to HBS, which changed my life.” “When I speak to young people today, I emphasize the serendipity of life. You may... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
people. When Cohen visited Nairobi to survey the damage, she found the embassy site a “tangled, chaotic mess,” with stairs that ended in midair and entire floors blown open to the elements. SaysCohen, “The bombings were horrific. The... View Details
- 23 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick
purchasing the farmers’ products, had doubled or even tripled local farmers' income and increased the overall wealth of the community—leading to better nutrition and health. “It’s a huge transformation,” says Kaplan. “The brewery is happy... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Solving Climate Change Starts with an Idea
benefits of modular homes might be applicable, did some payback period calculations, and ended by identifying a list of possible customers and asking ChatGPT to write outreach emails to them. We even ran into classic ChatGPT View Details
- 12 Feb 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students
there. —Erik Stafford "Competition is at the heart of many of the concepts in finance," says Coval. "The problem you face in the classroom is that the setting is very static. You have a case and a blackboard to show how the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
school in that capacity was rejuvenating for me as well. Suddenly I was in a situation where I could really think about different kinds of business problems and potential opportunities because I wasn’t constrained by my own operating... View Details
- 20 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Ordinary Practices
management in seven companies identify teams working full-time on projects that demanded creativity. We ended up studying 238 professionals in 26 project teams in 7 companies in 3 different industries. They were highly educated—a vast... View Details
Keywords: Re: Teresa M. Amabile
- 16 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
HySynergy and Crossbridge Energy
Production immersive field course, we met with the HySynergy-Crossbridge Energy partnership that was created to produce liquid e-fuels in Fredericia, Denmark. Many of the companies we visited in Denmark and the Netherlands emphasized investment time-lags and the... View Details
- 03 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Tricky Business of Managing Web Advertising Affiliates
affiliate quality, GAN was impressive, and GAN's high standards show clearly in our large-sample data." Setting The Rules Given the potential problems with affiliate marketing, would firms be better advised to ignore them all together?... View Details
- 14 May 2014
- News
(Re)moving the Needle
2009), the company's cofounder and CEO. The device, which is powered by an electric motor, is highly customizable across a variety of medical, animal, agricultural, and cosmetic applications. One major market, says Anquetil, is diabetes treatment, which traditionally... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
think, made me want to give in a more intense way, which is why I ended up working with a nonprofit for a year—kind of dedicating a year of my life on that. I also think, from a concrete perspective, just stepping away from the pace and... View Details
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
and on and on—a coalition of associates that spanned the earth and in the end proved nearly as dysfunctional as the real United Nations often seems. Outsourcing woes cost the 787 an estimated three extra years of development, required... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
forces within the team. Ends with a discussion of bridging differences in teams across both geographic and cultural divides. Purchase this note: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/410051-PDF-ENG Radiant Cosmetics: What's in a Pout?... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace