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- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
at times in the form of subsidies. For example, Amazon provides discounts on its e-reader prices for customers who agree to receive targeted ads from Amazon and third-party sellers on their devices. Higher intensity of competition between... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
students would regard simply as home away from home. By all accounts, they succeeded. Angela Crispi (MBA ’90), associate dean for administration, recalls life on campus pre-Spangler. “There was so much energy in the classroom, but once class was over, that View Details
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
across regions, like software), have higher average wages than B2C industries. The supply chain economy also has a much larger intensity of STEM jobs and generates the majority of patents. While STEM jobs are most prevalent among... View Details
- 10 Apr 2014
- Blog Post
HBS FIELD 2 - A good sneak-peek into consulting
deliver value? “Don’t worry, Yolanda. This will be like consulting: you are going to be amazed at the intensity of the experience”- One of my team mates, a former consultant, said when we landed in Kuala Lumpur. And it was true. My first... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 07 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
The JD/MBA Seminar: The Perfect Practice Ground
program—some focus more on the law and its effects on how business is conducted, while others approach their topics from a business-first standpoint, analyzing how businesses are impacted by the positive or negative externalities of the law. Although the seminar is an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Who Owns Yoga?
slowly. In 1978, he wrote Bikram’s Beginning Yoga Class. He trademarked his company’s name, Bikram’s Yoga College of India, and in 1994 began offering intensive courses, training 200 teachers each year. Bikram also followed the very... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Clubs Offer Popular Management Programs
Charlotte, North Carolina, where Socarras is vice president for sales and marketing at Afton Village, a mixed-use real estate development company. “It was a pretty intense course, a lot of work, but I invested in something I really... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
move from 'commanding' to 'cooperating.'" Tending to the organizational spirit may necessitate more individual soul-searching on the part of managerial leaders, as well. "Companies that want to be great from here on in are going to have to become View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
was greatly inspired by his contact with Mother Teresa. He wrote, "One day, Mother Teresa, who at that point of time was convalescing in the intensive care unit of the hospital, saw me examining a 'blue baby.' After a few minutes of... View Details
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A Rewarding Work Life - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
recognized." 33 A dreamer and inventor himself, Land realized researchers needed time to solve problems in an environment without distractions: "I think the important and nearly impossible projects such as we set for our goal require prolonged periods of View Details
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Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
K-rations. "[I]n wartime, [Doriot] went through a unique, intense immersion in high-stakes product development, where human lives hung in the balance," author Jeffrey Cruikshank notes. "He experienced first-hand the astonishing innovative... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
readers. We had 20,000 subscribers when I started as editor, and we now have 185,000, which puts us ahead of the New Republic and National Review.” Navasky believes that The Nation and other journals of opinion, because of the quality and View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
traces the experiences of nineteen new managers over the course of their first year on the job. Based on six years of intensive field research and data analysis by HBS professor Linda Hill, the book explores the transformation that takes... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Forward Thinking
You can ask the internet anything, but getting an answer via generative artificial intelligence consumes about 10 times more electricity than a traditional Google search. Consequently, the data centers where AI tools are trained and run are guzzling more and more... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
From the Classroom to Casablanca
with local business partners, tackling real-world challenges through intensive project work for up to 10 days. While the novel ideas the students generate for a new product, service, or experience for consumers are often well received by... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 10 May 2015
- Blog Post
Brand Strategist Turns Entrepreneur
explore unanticipated opportunities and challenge yourself to do unfamiliar things. Plus, there is a sense that after two years of intense learning and thoughtful reflection, sometimes the right path is not to go back to where you... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Action Plan: Fired Up
growth at a 26-year-old regional business. Its self-described “Traegerite” customers were intensely loyal to the company’s signature wood pellet–fired grills and smokers. But he didn’t anticipate the challenge of managing a disgruntled,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni Are Integral to HBS
preconceived notions about doing business in the continent. “At the end, I had this feeling of wonder and excitement that I probably haven’t had for years, which is why I’m looking forward to doing it again!” —Hakeem Belo-Osagie Africa Rising was one of seven Short... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
flexible, fragmented, and intensely competitive environment. To me, belief in a new frontier of digital prosperity is an act of faith that underscores how much denial exists in America today. You seem to see competitiveness as a threat to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
My Real Career
toilet. I think the intensity and pursuit of perfection that brought me to HBS is also what ultimately convinced me to focus solely on my children for now. I don’t like to do anything halfway. Why settle for a 3 when you can get a 1? For... View Details