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- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences
cautionary tale of what can happen when companies go too far. Acer entered early into the contract manufacturing of personal computers, operating in low-wage Taiwan, and made good money with that arbitrage play. But in the early 1990s, it... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online
of power, for democratizing power, and for holding the powerful accountable. Highlights Cultivating Empathy Capstone Case: Umaimah Mendhro and VIDA Show Hide Details Concepts Managing Power Responsibly Leveraging Power for Good Capstone... View Details
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
offered free hotel rooms located near medical facilities to healthcare workers, while Serta Simmons donated 100,000 mattresses to hospitals as they frantically worked to increase the number of ICU beds during a surge in cases. Shift factories over from making consumer... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 10 May 2020
- Blog Post
Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers
tasks. Aligning our prioritization and constantly talking to each other whenever there is an issue has been key for us to enjoy our campus life while securing enough family time. We couldn’t go out at night but we had many dinners at our place, which have been a great... View Details
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
rather than burying them in fine print, makes them less likely to be broken; 4) Should we make our algorithms discrimination aware? To ensure fairness, designers need to track how race or gender affects the user experience and set... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle
“Conspicuous Consumption of Time: When Busyness and Lack of Leisure Time Become a Status Symbol,” co-written with Columbia marketing professor Silvia Bellezza and Georgetown marketing professor Neeru Paharia. What happened to the good... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
International Women's Day Featured Stories
the official site. For more on the Women's Student Association, visit wsahbsclub.com. Taylor Clarkson Harvard MBA Student, Class of 2022 Being mixed is a experience shared by many, but discussed by few. My mother is Ukrainian, my father... View Details
- 10 Jul 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?
emphasize developing good leadership drive an extra 10 percent premium in EPS , I think most CFOs and CEOs would salute those results." Several shifted the topic (or did they?) to followership, suggesting an interesting set of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
year. And there are mounting signs that her other plans for the neighborhood—a smaller retail-residential site that will house her African-themed online clothing business, a 51,000 square foot live-work building for artists and digital nomads—will also soon come to... View Details
- 18 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education
book, coauthored with Michael B. Horn (HBS MBA '06) and Curtis W. Johnson, shows how the theory of disruptive innovation-which in a nutshell explains why organizations experience difficulty with particular types of innovation and how they... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
a software company that encourages households to reduce their energy consumption. From Opower's earliest days, its managers utilized experiments to amplify their environmental impact and enhance customer value. We will revisit some of... View Details
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
initial interviews, however, we kept hearing the same concern: "Thank goodness you folks are doing this. All of us collectively need to take a hard look at the state of business education." Srikant Datar: With that prompting, we expanded... View Details
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By: Karim R. Lakhani
Can America Invent Its Way Back?
BusinessWeek, by Michael Mandel, 12 Sept. 2008
Today, researchers are focusing on ways to make those... View Details
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Fereshteh Zeineddin
needed to take the next step in my career. HBS seemed like a perfect fit because of its focus on general management, case-study teaching method, and diverse student body. How has your experience here shaped your goals & career path?... View Details
Keywords: Retail
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Tariro Goronga
to date?” Taking an open-minded approach Tariro’s BP experience awakened an interest in finance. To expand his business skills, he turned to HBS—and discovered even deeper lessons than he had expected. “Before I came to HBS,” Tariro... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
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Leila Meliani
In the January break between semesters this year, Leila Meliani participated in the Tech Club's WesTrek to Silicon Valley and arrived at a welcome epiphany. "We heard several venture capital partners speak to the need for talent – and for View Details
Keywords: Consulting
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Farah Ahmed
Going outside of her comfort zone, Farah Ahmed, MBA 2015, put nine hours of distance between herself and her family, her friends, and the corporate networking opportunities she would otherwise have in her company's Houston office, to gain direct oil field View Details
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Pasha Nahass
Amazon. “In 2010, mobile was not as ubiquitous as it is today. It was a new challenge: How do we apply all the things Amazon is good at to a tiny screen on a device that may have poor Internet connectivity?” The work was rewarding, but... View Details
Keywords: Tech
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Frances Dixon
learning environment. As a non-traditional student with more professional experience, I was concerned that a straight lecture environment wouldn’t be a good fit. As soon as I sat in on a case, I knew this was the perfect academic... View Details