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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
Gita—not only impacts their daily reality but may represent a "bottom-of-the-pyramid," high-potential market for business as well. Above all, the key is the delivery of solutions. As Chu says, "A product must be coupled with delivery to... View Details
- 30 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networks in China and America
sufficient to just interact with the person with whom you want to do business. You would need to get acquainted with the other people in this person's network because that could improve your level of perceived trustworthiness. Couple this... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building a Powerful Prestige Brand
started their business, their product line enjoyed little consumer awareness outside New York City. But the couple was determined to build a large market for premium cosmetics. One of the earliest and most important decisions that the... View Details
- 01 Nov 2024
- In Practice
Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times
why the company decided to part with 1,800 Intuit employees, or about 10 percent of its workforce: The company was redirecting staff to two “big bets” in AI. These examples, coupled with tracking data showing tech layoffs moved from... View Details
- 18 May 2021
- Book
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
soon as possible, not all teams will know how to provide the necessary support. Ng suggests a couple strategies: Observe others and take notes: If you don’t have regular workgroup meetings, consider asking your manager to suggest meetings... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 20 Jun 2012
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Leadership: What We Know
Build a Respected Community of Practice. With the demand for courses on leadership growing exponentially, the need to establish a respected community of dedicated scholars and practitioners is more important than ever. As a nascent field, leadership education is... View Details
- 24 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support
they conclude they can’t stay given the requirements of the job. Unless employers assist them so they can stay in the job, they give up a productive worker. Their replacement is an unknown quantity. Employers constantly make speculative bets on new employees based on... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
of personality, coupled with the leadership of his successor, a former investment banker, extraordinary structural changes were made in the Seattle system. Nielsen retired from the school board in 2001 but remains active with a community... View Details
- 13 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens
not enough; it must also be coupled with a positive outcome. Norton compares it to results in their online dating research in which users were more satisfied when they saw the website working hard for them during searching-but only if... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Sep 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom
unexpected ways. One of the students self-assembled a team in the very early stages of the course. He assessed classmates' strengths and interests during the first couple of sessions and recruited the ones he wanted to work with. The... View Details
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
new digital economy, coupled with the growing size of the EC and IT sectors within the overall economy, we can no longer afford to further postpone attention to efficient business process interfaces between supply-chain trading partners.... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 09 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Stock Options Are Not All Created Equal
the price drops 70%, his options are worth a mere $211,000, less than 8% of the original stake. Disney's Michael Eisner is perhaps the best known CEO who has received megagrants. Every few years since 1984, Eisner has received a megagrant of several million shares. It... View Details
Keywords: by Brian Hall
- 27 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Summer Fellows Respond to COVID-19
through all the management issues we discussed and learned about in class the last couple years. First, we need to consider all the stakeholders involved and develop practical solutions to satisfy each one. It is an economic development... View Details
- 19 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Tata Power - Trombay Thermal Power Plant Takeaways
discussed (2). As recently as January 2024, the Government of India has discussed collaborating with France on small nuclear reactors, and the US government has indicated similar interest (3). A scenario involving an opening up of the nuclear sector View Details
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
numbers of capital-efficient companies today face challenges in raising that next round of capital. "Today entrepreneurs have more access to their first couple of million dollars than they have had before," says Dorsen. "The challenge is... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
assessed classmates’ strengths and interests during the first couple of sessions and recruited the ones he wanted to work with. The surprise is that he was a Ph.D. scientist, not an MBA. And this was the team that won the MIT contest.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dare to be Different
that as consumers, we are tempted by a far greater number of brand choices that rotate much more frequently. I talk in the book about how, many years ago, I used to date a guy who was a fanatic about Häagen-Dazs ice cream. Well, back then, there were only a View Details
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
What I found out from that experience in Boston was that my sectionmates still liked me for who I was. A couple of them gave me some pretty good advice and it wasn't so much what I had, but who I was, that counted. I would encourage you... View Details
- 20 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business with Structured Finance
CDO²s. That, coupled with the increase in subprime mortgages—from $96.8 billion in 1996 to approximately $600 billion in 2006—created a recipe for economic disaster. The exercise clearly shows how the sensitivity of tranches to error in... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
client responds with, "It's good, but we need it less smoky and more gutsy." The client knows precisely what that means, but BBA flavorists find the request difficult to interpret. The result is more frenzied activity as BBA struggles to adjust the flavor in... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel