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23 Oct 2018
News

Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart

say. So that was just one small piece of this sort of obsession with perfection, which just happened to spill over into this oratorical competition. My sister and her friends helped me come up with a speech,... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change

world-class performance in racehorses? Section F is not unique in its achievements. Who on the B-School Blades could have predicted that when Barry Allardice stopped living out of his car he would become an investment banker? How about... View Details

Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer

02 Sep 2016
News

Mentoring Is ‘the Best Part of the Job’

Mary Callahan Erdoes (MBA 1993) is CEO of JPM Asset Management at JPMorgan Chase & Co. and is a 2016 recipient of an HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this interview, Erdoes talks about the value View Details

01 Dec 2009
News

Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty

accounting from the University of Chicago. He’ll tap his interests in corporate accountability and disclosure to help him teach the first-year required course Financial Reporting and Control. Assistant Professor Thales Teixeira, a member... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

March 2000 (Revised May 2000)
Case

Evolution of eCoverage in the Online Insurance Market, The

David Riker, the founder and chairman of eCoverage, an online insurance company, describes the various phases of company development, such as presenting a business plan, gathering a management team, getting the word out, and running the site. View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Internet and the Web; Business Startups; Insurance Industry

01 Oct 1996
News

Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life

concept of "knowing-and-not-knowing" in business histories all the time. People, both in business and in life, often find themselves in states of "rational apprehension" that do not result in "appropriate... View Details

01 Jun 1999
News

New York Club Names Entrepreneur of the Year

highlight of the dinner event was the presentation of the Club's Entrepreneur of the Year award to David McCourt, chairman and CEO of RCN... View Details

October 2018 (Revised August 2019)
Case

Everybody Knows: Russia and the Election

By: Rawi Abdelal, Rafael Di Tella and Galit Goldstein

Following a contentious presidential race, Donald Trump’s 2016 election destabilized America’s status quo. Academics, journalists, politicians and the public at large examined why Trump had won. Many Americans, inside and outside the government, asserted that a... View Details

Keywords: Strategic Industry; Strategic Alliances (Business); Business And Government; Business And Public Policy; Business And Society; Media Businesses; Media Content; Media Slant; Media Regulation; Internet Of Everything; Government Policy; Politics; Political Campaigns; Political Strategy; Political Turmoil; Government; Government Regulation; Security; International Business; International Relations; National Security; Political Elections; News; Media; Internet and the Web; Rights; Problems and Challenges; Globalization; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Government Legislation; Risk and Uncertainty; Cognition and Thinking; Conflict and Resolution; Identity; Civil Society or Community; Culture; Public Opinion; Social Issues; War; Social Media; Public Administration Industry; United States; Russia

25 Apr 2012
What Do You Think?

How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?

data?'" That's Paul Nicholas' reaction after reading most of the responses to this month's column. It's not a bad "sense of the meeting," in which many contributors offered suggestions to managers wishing to... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

22 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment

As chair of the investment committee for a college, Sam Hayes was faced with a challenging dilemma: Should the committee invest only in socially responsible funds even though the outcome might mean fewer scholarships and teaching... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 Sep 2002
What Do You Think?

Are Business Schools Really Important “Crucibles of Leadership?”

Summing Up Crucibles of leadership are where you find them—or they find you. And business schools rarely create them, at least according to the respondents to the October column. Perry Miles put it most succinctly when he said, "A... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Feb 1997
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

Greetings from snow-swept Minnesota! In the last few months, I've had the privilege of visiting HBS a number of times, and I wanted to update you on my trips and the things I... View Details

02 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017

Deviating from an organization’s prescribed task schedule tends to erode productivity, even among the most experienced workers, according to new research from María R. Ibáñez, Jonathan R. Clark, Robert S. Huckman, and Bradley R. Staats. People Have an Irrational Need... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

23 Aug 2019
Blog Post

A Summer of Peaks and Swells: Interning at Patagonia

its two thousand employees have the means and the will to prove to the rest of the business world that doing the right thing makes for a good and profitable business.” There was meaningful work to be a part... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products / Retail

December 2018 (Revised October 2020)
Case

Shiseido: Reinvesting in Brand

By: Jill Avery and Nobuo Sato

Shiseido was in the midst of a six year corporate turnaround, trying to reverse the effects of decades of under-investment in R&D and marketing which had led to a cycle of declining customer support and brand value. Would the CEO’s VISION 2020 plan, centered on four... View Details

2020
Working Paper

Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 7 The Value Structure of Technologies, Part 2: Strategy without Numbers

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

Functional analysis as set forth in the last chapter decomposes a technical system into functional components that do things to advance the system’s purpose and the goals of its designers. Functional analysis in turn can be used to construct value structure maps... View Details

Keywords: Modularity; Value Structure Mapping; Value Capture; Information Technology; Organizations; Strategy; Value Creation

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01 Sep 2006
News

Sorry, We’re All Out of Chilean Sea Bass

Bruce Knecht (MBA ’86) reveals in his new book, Hooked: Pirates, Poaching, and the Perfect Fish (Rodale, 2006). The author, a writer for the Wall Street Journal, details an Australian patrol boat’s 4,000-mile chase of an illegal fishing... View Details

Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Fishing, Hunting and Trapping; Agriculture

First Quarter 1996
Article

Electronic Commerce: Building Blocks of New Business Opportunity

By: L. M. Applegate, C.W. Holsapple, R. Kalakota, F.J. Radermacher and A.B. Whinston

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Opportunities

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October 2011 (Revised September 2014)
Case

Paddle8: Painting a New Picture of the Art Market

By: Mukti Khaire

The Paddle8 case is a short case that presents the idea for a new business in the global art market and asks students to evaluate whether it will work, given the structure and unique workings of the art market. Paddle8 is a New York-based startup that partners with... View Details

Keywords: Arts; Business Plan; Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Internet and the Web; Trade; Fine Arts Industry; New York (city, NY)