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- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987
2002, 'venture philanthropy' as we know it today didn't exist, but we saw the opportunity to use business practices to create real social change," says Jacobson of the origins of Strategic Grant Partners, a coalition of 15 family... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Blog
What Black Executives Really Want
say, "Yes, my company is trying, but ." This was one of the most emotional research projects I have ever done. I rarely tear up in an interview. But on multiple occasions, I really had tears in my eyes hearing people's stories. It was amazing. I tried to walk in other... View Details
- 08 Feb 2010
- HBS Case
Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China
downside consequences are more certain. Google has some 700 employees in China, the best of whom are already finding alternative employment. So de facto, Google is going to be a much smaller entity in China. It seems unlikely to me that... View Details
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
now a dynamic and growing business that attracts the best and the brightest. It is tempting to declare the industry a roaring success. But its purpose is to serve the needs of U.S. households and firms, and by this standard its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
providing personal protection equipment (PPE) to suppliers and contractors. In some cases, risk-sharing practices meant sharing workers with other businesses so companies experiencing a downturn could help businesses with a temporary... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
Photography by Jared Leeds "Our students use traditional academic theory to take on problems that have fundamental relevance in today's business world," says Janice McCormick, executive director of the HBS Doctoral Programs. "Many come in with View Details
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
undermine Hong Kong's position as a financial center in the long-term. Hong Kong's position as a global financial powerhouse was due in part to its rigorous emphasis on compliance and enforcement-allowing companies to report under Chinese GAAP, the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
it paid off. Three years later, Honeywell had almost doubled the pace of the S&P 500 and had outpaced its nearest competitor by almost 23 points. MAKING THE DECISION FOR FURLOUGHS The practice of furloughs is commonplace in Europe... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
different configurations work in different communities. A big takeaway of our work is that every community is different. There are certainly things that are similar about the business model, and some of the business model pressures and View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
- 19 Mar 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’
to workers, who were expected to pay for their own English classes and learn during off-hours. Neeley, who drafted some best practices that the company began to implement, says Rakuten has quickly moved to... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
"Ted Levitt changed my life," wrote Barry Koh (HBS PMD 30, 1975). "In our very first class he opened my eyes to how people are motivated to make decisions. Before, I thought as an engineer—the best attributes and the View Details
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
need, the new world for brands will have trust at its core. The mandate to brands from global consumers is clear: step up and help, not just your own customers and employees, but the world at large; protect all, support and care for all, and innovate in the public’s... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- Research Summary
Supply Chain Inventory Planning
My work studies management decision-making in demand and supply planning contexts with a focus on forecasting and inventory planning decisions. I examine these decision-making processes from both a supply chain (i.e. across firm) and an... View Details
- 24 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software
million, of secure web servers on the internet and allowed numerous data breaches, including the theft of 4.5 million medical records from a large hospital chain. In response to Heartbleed, the Linux Foundation established CII, a project that helps support View Details
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
powerful economies [at the expense of] Bangladeshi rickshaws." It is neither principled nor practical for companies to stick their heads in the sand in response to an issue as fundamental as the distribution of the globalization... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
linkages he saw and analyzed. “Al Chandler had one of the best darn smiles this side of the Continental Divide." —Nancy F. Koehn Second, he wrote about the past but this work was always anchored by his own eye on the present. Al... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
you to be where you are today, and it means knowing that you have to do your best every day so that perhaps one day you will come close to paying them back for all that they have done for you. My heritage is both my reminder to always be... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
fashionable. Here’s the problem: The sunny rhetoric in books, articles, and podcasts is too often simplistic and superficial. It fails (!) to make the crucial distinctions that separate good failure from bad, resulting in difficulties for View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
years after Android. By then, there were already hundreds of thousands of applications written for the other operating systems. Even though Microsoft may have had the best of the three operating systems, it didn’t matter because it was... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace