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Judging Criteria - Alumni

addressable market for your product and service. Highlight growth and trends. Attractive business model: How do you plan to make money? Who pays you? What are your distribution channels? What is your gross... View Details

Portrait Project

Janie McDonough

schedule had been set, but only for a moment... before a rush order came in or a pressman called in sick and the process started all over. But my dad did not mind the chaos. In fact, he secretly enjoyed the inevitable hiccups in planned... View Details

23 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Arla Foods: How Sustainable Can A Dairy Company Be?

In January 2023, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led more than 40 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in their new... View Details

16 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 16

innovation performance such as firm productivity and profitability, (d) mergers, and (e) divestments as providing context or "shocks" to an activity system and their value as an empirical source of exogenous variation.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Jun 2009
What Do You Think?

What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?

modest increases in both productivity and jobs.) It also means, even without a change in tax rates, a larger tax base. This is important to the extent that it is a major component of a government's plan to... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

29 Aug 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?

CasPhotography What Can the Harley-Davidson Case Teach Us About Managing in a Politicized Environment? The advice to Harley-Davidson’s management from respondents of this month’s column is to (1) ensure that politics doesn’t deter the Company from its current strategy,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto

12 Oct 2022
Blog Post

11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

my breakup, I resorted to the love and support of my family, only to realize that the people who are important in my life, like my dad, did not know truly me. This was not a product of his lack of curiosity. I kept him at the peripheries... View Details

04 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 4

firms to make certain enhancements public, creating an incentive for firms to free ride on the contributions of others. This practice raises a number of puzzling issues. First, why should a firm further develop a product if competitors... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 23, 2007

directly: high oil prices, a growing demand in emerging economies like China and India, and the possibility of agribusiness companies competing successfully in the production of biofuels. Bunge had traditionally followed an organizational... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

ideas, assesses their importance today, and explores their potential for the future. Through its wide historical focus, this Reader challenges the widespread assumption that creativity research is mainly a product of the second half of... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

17 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?

psychological boundaries with your spouse, and people vary in how bumpy that transition is” “Many people will say that they have to figure out who they are in terms of always having been a really productive person,” Amabile says. “They... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Entertainment & Recreation

02 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

kinds of mistakes from the U.S. Midwest. In this case, environmentalists and farmers opposed a power company's plans to build a dam. On the surface, the parties appeared to have deep, irreconcilable positions, which had resulted in a long... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

26 Sep 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Lady Gaga

their plans for "Fame Kills." Sure enough, a media attack ensued. West pulled out of the painstakingly planned tour. And Carter had to mull a decision that would have major implications for Lady... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Entertainment & Recreation; Music

05 Feb 2019
News

The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)

strategy and we have successfully acquired three companies. MEMCO (India) and MFT (Germany) have not only expanded our geographical footprint but also diversified our product range and customer list. In addition to camshafts, PCL group... View Details

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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Marketing Science , September–October 2021) with Nitin Mehta, Param Singh, and Kannan Srinivasan. 2021 Eva Ascarza : Finalist for the 2021 Weitz-Winer-O'Dell Award for “The Perils of Proactive Churn Prevention Using Plan Recommendations:... View Details

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

experiences are enhanced for everyone involved. There are three barriers that can prevent us from productively engaging: 1) not being able to help, 2) not knowing how to help, and, 3) not believing our help is important. Organizations... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Teele Hall | About

Production Board and, later, was a member of the three-person team that developed the Industrial Mobilization Plan of 1947. In 1946, Teele was appointed Associate Dean at HBS and worked closely with Dean... View Details

September 2019 (Revised August 2020)
Case

Engineering an Inclusive Bioeconomy

By: Tarun Khanna, Raffaella Sadun and Susie L. Ma

In 2019, entrepreneur Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio was developing a project he hoped could generate and share wealth from the natural resources of the Amazon without destroying those resources. His idea, called Earth Bank of Codes (EBC), would create a library of the... View Details

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Purchase

23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Power of Conversational Leadership

are the leader," Slind says. "You still have responsibility for setting the tone and setting the direction. And that's what intentionality is about. As you're planning a conversation, you need to make sure that it's in alignment with your... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

15 Jun 2021
News

Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock

recalls his father asking. That question stayed with Pete Stavros. There had to be a better way. Early in his career as an investor, Stavros was part of a deal with a company that had an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), an... View Details

Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

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