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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Snapping Up Voters
returned to many of his former clients with a pitch for an entirely different type of online opportunity: a place to show campaign ads to people who probably don’t expect to ever see them. After a stint at the Treasury Department during... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Outsourcing for Radical Change
distinctive aspects of transformational outsourcing. First, senior management has the explicit intention of transforming the organization, and secondly, the impact of the change is measurable at the enterprise level. Why should HBS alumni read this book? Those who are... View Details
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
Farrington worked all over the world in investment banking and a decade into her career, she hit a major speed bump. Deborah Farrington: Probably one of the biggest earliest challenges I faced in my career was being fired from Merrill... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Reflecting and Digesting
Finals just ended, I said some goodbyes, and I am all packed and ready. My first year at HBS has already come to an end, way too quickly, and I just boarded my flight to Singapore. As you can probably imagine, I have not yet reflected on... View Details
- 18 Jan 2017
- News
HBS Gains New Insight Into Africa
and developing MBA and Executive Education courses in the region. “Today, Africa is probably the most exciting continent because of its unlimited opportunities for growth and emerging middle class,” says Newton Omebere-Iyari (MBA 2016), a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Check In
rates in some cases that are less than half of what they were a couple of months ago. The hope is that it won’t last long, but it’s going to take quite a long time to dig out of this hole. Tourists will probably return the quickest,... View Details
- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
shoppers modify their behavior to take advantage of reward or loyalty deals. How do behaviors such as cherry-picking and stockpiling play into the equation? A: When we looked at this data, we didn't see much of a stockpiling effect. Worst customers View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- What Do You Think?
When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?
organization’s mission and culture, and great places to work have been shown statistically to produce higher returns than the norm for an industry. Lou Gerstner, in reflecting on his stint as CEO of IBM, said, “Until I came to IBM, I View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 02 Jul 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?
commented, "Operationally, profit as a final goal is probably impossible because of principal/agent problems and lack of information and knowledge. This makes intermediate targets that affect profit important." Steve Brogan,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
elsewhere and then work with those countries to clean up their act. Most executives probably believe these problems don't affect them or their companies. Are they right? Assisting in the movement of tax-evading money is subtle and can... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- Blog Post
Looking back on 1st semester and looking forward to 2nd semester
Recruiting, like most things in life, is all about timing. If you don’t initiate those conversations early-on, you’ll probably be beat out by someone (whether at HBS or another school) who does. Expressed interest equates to perceived... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Head Games
either from the run of play or impact with the playing surface. Improvements in equipment and rule changes can make things better but probably not eliminate the longer-term danger of life-shortening injury or impairment. Is it possible... View Details
- 04 May 2018
- News
How to Win the Kentucky Derby
ago. Hanna: I'm guessing that you were probably part of making the barn clean—that you were picking stalls and stuff like that, which is pretty tough work really. Finley: Well, I didn't answer the second part of that question, but you're... View Details
Keywords: horse racing
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Creativity Maze
motivation, will indeed get him out of the maze. But the solution that arises from the process is likely to be unimaginative. It won't provide new insights about the nature of the problem or reveal new ways of looking at it. The rote solution View Details
Keywords: by Teresa Amabile
- Profile
Cathy Zhou
there were many aspects of business that I could probably learn on the job, but becoming a leader with a strong sense of personal values and conviction takes introspection and reflection. I knew at HBS I would be surrounded by professors... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Roadmap for Moms
stay-at-home moms to return to work? Money is probably the biggest motivation but not just for itself. Often it’s a desire to be able to spend one’s own earned money. People often measure how successful they are by money. Many women want... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
Morrell: Now, the interest that you've had in living a sort of quantified life, your first year out of HBS, can you talk about what prompted it? Grana: I think, as a lot of people probably have, HBS is sort of a break from the real world.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
moving off the shelf fast enough to yield $1 million, you probably have a consumer-marketing problem more than a financing problem. Do you know how well your product is moving off the shelf? It is easy to think you are succeeding based on... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
Capturing industrial carbon dioxide and pumping it back underground to help extract energy from old, unproductive oil fields seems like a plan that might be good in theory but is probably too complicated to pull off in the real world.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Media: Courting the Cord-Cutters
bundle” and over-the-top (OTT) services. The skinny bundle is a response to customer concerns that cable packages are too expensive. The bundle had simply gotten too big; there were 250 channels, and the customer probably never watched... View Details