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- 01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music
record industry, 1996 was a bluesy kind of year. As revenues increased less than 1 percent and consumers bought 8 percent fewer CDs and cassettes compared to the previous year, the pause button, it seems, was hit on a decade of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
New Releases
HBS faculty and research assistants. Each year, more than 40 percent of the faculty's time and 30 percent of the School's total budget are devoted to faculty research and course development. A typical year at HBS will produce hundreds of new View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
business of publishing technical papers. “I didn’t want to spend the next 5 to 10 years doing these little increments and never knowing whether, with the right effort, we could solve a big challenge,” Ferrucci told HBS Professor of Management Practice Willy Shih in a... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
time. What helps? A clear sense of purpose, yoga, centering prayer, and a strong network of support. That support can be from friends who understand and share your values (for me, my church community) or from professionals (a dementia specialist View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
embracing rebellion at work and in life as well as illuminating case studies from a wide range of industries, this book encourages all to rebel against what’s comfortable so we can thrive. New Perspectives... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
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Sizing Up Social Impact
Ebrahim has studied or written about in cases that examine approaches to performance measurement. (See "A Case for Performance Management" below; others include the Robin Hood... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
book, The Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup (Princeton University Press), draws on data gleaned from nearly 4,000 high-potential start-ups and 10,000 founders, while incorporating case... View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
the Haitian Ministry of Commerce and Trade. “We’ve given a team of 30 farmers a crash course in strategy based on the HBS case method, and we’ve accompanied them on trips to meet potential customers—from coffee dealers in Seattle to mango... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
where people want to buy their cars,” Thomke says. “The companies can’t simply restructure their way out of their difficulties.” Thomke, an authority on the management of technology and product innovation, senses that “the culture within American firms seems different... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
People like me who were born in places like India and came here to study didn’t plan to go home.” What a difference a few decades have made. Tectonic shifts in geopolitics and business have profoundly reshaped thinking about management... View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
something around that. And so that evening, we cornered Tom Eisenmann at the Sheraton Hotel in Palo Alto and literally sketched out—about the most cliche thing you can do—sketched out on a napkin how Cloudflare would work. And said will you be our advisor for an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Julie Bishop (AMP 151, 1996)
some speculated on her own potential to gain the nation’s highest office—a fact she acknowledges without making predictions, not surprisingly. Life-changing case discussion: “Australia in the 1990s: Lucky or Broke?” by George C. Lodge.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photography by X99/Zuma
- 19 Dec 2008
- News
WHBS, 820 on Your Dial
Times, and other campus news. Later years saw a great variety in program content: visiting businessmen as guest speakers, Career Guidance Forums, “Music to Study By,” “Music to Relax By,” “Open House” (in which individual students were... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
mischievously saying: “I don’t speak Russian. Who the hell could I talk to over there?” ... In 1939 Weinberg got another assignment: conducting an exhaustive study of investment banking for FDR, with particular attention to the wholesale... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
case studies she read at HBS, which is why she often refers to her role at B Lab simply as that of a “storyteller.” Her own story is filled with determination to find a path. Raised in Stratford, New Jersey,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
HBS Alumni On Leading Their Alma Mater
being able to make decisions that are in the best long-term interest of the institution. We don’t have a quarterly earnings report that we need to be attuned to. And I still reflect on cases that we studied... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
Chairman, President & Chief Executive, The Procter & Gamble Company Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION Hamilton College, 1969 A.B., History LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "The case View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
unwilling to spare dollars for clean water filters. “I’d watch them on a cell phone and drinking water filled with bacteria and parasites,” he says. “For me, it was such a market failure.” The challenge in Cambodia became the case View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2013
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Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
must be like to be a celebrity. I wrote a case study on Maria Sharapova, and her agent allowed me to shadow her for a day and a half. I saw her receive an award and give a speech at the United Nations,... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
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The Right Thing to Do
Playing by the Rules, Ethics at Work, a new series of video case studies of business ethics, aims to teach people that there’s a direct link between morality and the bottom line. Joe Badaracco, the John Shad... View Details