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- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands
International Red Cross, UNICEF, Médecins Sans Frontières, Oxfam, and Amnesty International. Topics include managing growth, performance assessment, mission and strategy development, and most of all, understanding, developing, and View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 07 Jul 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can We Have Too Much Productivity Improvement?
whether or not too much money is a good or bad thing... it depends upon what you do with the money." An equally strong set of voices doubted whether an economy could have too much productivity. Chris Walker summed up many of these views by commenting, "...... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
individuals. In response to the recent scandals, politicians and government officials have stepped in to pass new laws and create new regulations, while prominent persons on Wall Street and elsewhere in the business community have issued... View Details
- 09 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government
"private-public entrepreneurs" who establish private businesses that sell to government agencies or sometimes to citizens directly. In Philadelphia, for example, Textizen enables citizens to communicate with city health and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Financing the Climate Transition in India
GEAPP is an alliance of entrepreneurs, governments, technology, policy, and financing partners working together to support developing countries shift to a clean energy model that ensures universal energy access while enabling the global View Details
- 26 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Office of Strategy Management
distinct advantage. These organizations have found ways to describe and communicate their strategies using powerful and tested approaches. They have recognized the need to make strategy execution a recognized competency of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?
Eiichi Shibusawa continues to gain influence in Japan—even though he died almost a century ago. Japan’s government announced earlier this year that the 19th century business leader would be the face on 10,000 yen ($90) bank notes—the highest value denomination in... View Details
- 08 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Recalling My First Cold Call: A Conversation with Second-Year Students
Entrepreneurship Club, and the Women In Investing Club. After graduation she will be joining Amazon as a senior technical product manager in Amazon Web Services (AWS), where she completed her internship last summer. What do you remember... View Details
- 13 May 2019
- Blog Post
The Many Facets of Becoming a Mother at HBS
classes (or on a bus in Lima during FIELD 2!) was my particular challenge – and I regret losing that casual social time with section-mates. But it was clear to me throughout that the HBS community wanted me to thrive and I always felt... View Details
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
the alternative is liquidation. In other words, Chapter 11 assumes, at least initially, that a live business—one that sells products and services to customers, employs people, invests and grows and innovates—is worth more than a dead... View Details
- 30 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Corporate Governance?
historic financial measures. In a book that I wrote with Earl Sasser and Len Schlesinger, The Service Profit Chain, we discussed the mounting evidence that customer and employee satisfaction and loyalty are far better predictors of future... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
Authors:Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr, and Stephen O'Connell Abstract We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We focus on the presence of incumbent female-owned... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
Championing the HBS Fund
small Cambridge consulting firm before coming to HBS. Impressed by the Harvard Community Earning his MBA, he says, was “all I expected it to be and more.” His section experience was particularly meaningful. “I met people from all over the... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
compliance. Similarly, AmberCo, a Mexican provider of catering services and food service solutions with around 380 employees, deployed a wide variety of communication... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)
important was in service to the community -- an outlook that was an integral part of her upbringing," Porter explains. Inspired to a large degree by her work as the founder of a program for disadvantaged... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- Web
Charts & Statistics - Leadership
routes added Influence: Medium 10 1910 s 19 Anti-immigration sentiment peaks during WWI Great Migration begins as African-Americans relocate from rural South to northern cities Influence: Medium-High 20 1920 s 19 Population of urban centers overtakes that of rural... View Details
- 27 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing
such topics as custom product or service programs for large customers, and coordinated communication messages for all dealers and end users can be specified. A major underlying point of contention will be... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
- Web
The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture , 1884–1929 . “Businesses, especially manufacturing and communications industries at the forefront of both labor activism and welfare capitalism, responded... View Details
- 03 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First
Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
adopt the innovation later. Since innovators are the first to adopt and are more likely to influence others, they do not need to be influenced. However, organizations should harness their influence, using targeted communication to... View Details