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- 20 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism
he succeeded so convincingly playing the game of market capitalism that first emerged in the late 19th century and grew to great influence during the 20th century. This game or system has been dominated in... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy Koehn
- Portrait Project
Arpit Agrawal
“Let him field. He won’t bat or bowl anyway.” A 9-year-old me anxiously waited with bated breath as a group of teenagers debated if I should be allowed to join them in a game of cricket. Batsmen stole the limelight. Bowlers were crucial.... View Details
- 02 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top
Knowledge editor, Sean Silverthorne, Iansiti and MacCormack discuss their findings.Silverthorne: Although many large companies have been swamped by so-called disruptive technologies, Microsoft has remained at the top of its game for more... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
to those in need. On April 29, 2011, the Eagles returned to their stadium to play their first home game since the disaster seven weeks earlier. With tremendous effort, the heavily damaged facility had been repaired, and the Eagles were... View Details
- 25 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway
at people's scores in a game, and guess how well they would do in the subsequent round. "We wanted to see if we could eliminate the bias by providing people with full information," Gino says. But even when subjects were told that these scores were subjective,... View Details
- 01 May 2023
- News
Yahoo Acquires Alumni Startup Wagr
Illustration by Drue Wagner Illustration by Drue Wagner Last week, Yahoo announced that it had acquired the sports betting startup Wagr, which was cofounded by Mario Malave (MBA 2020) and Eliana Eskinazi (MBA 2020). "Yahoo Sports offers us a stage to build products... View Details
- 13 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Expanding My Worldview Through FIELD Global Immersion
the most successful business in one country may fail in another if it doesn’t develop customer empathy in the new market. Just ask Walmart about how their expansion into South Korea went (not well). Karaoke, local coffee shops, frequent outings for food and snacks, a... View Details
- 07 Nov 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United
straightforward, but if you have been as successful as he has, I can imagine it is very easy to get stuck in your ways. Q: Like many managers, Ferguson must manage for the short term (in-game and game to game), intermediate term (for a... View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Hedge Funds
fund. A hedge fund investor must have at least $1.5 million in net worth to invest. The funds are regulated little and do not report their activities, trades, and balances. The smaller investor cannot play this game successfully. He or... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
adversaries as well as with colleagues within your organization? In this Q&A, James Sebenius and David Lax, authors of 3-D Negotiation: Powerful Tools to Change the Game in Your Most Important Deals, discuss the common mistakes of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Donald J. Chiofaro
future,' it's clear to me that's the way things will turn out." But Chiofaro's career path hasn't always seemed so certain. After graduating in 1968 from Harvard College (where, as a bone-crunching linebacker, he captained the football team) and after a few View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 26 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What’s the Value of a Win in College Athletics?
As the debate continues over whether college student-athletes should be paid for their on-field performances, a new study from Harvard Business School reveals just how much intercollegiate football and basketball programs contribute to a school’s bottom line. The... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding
perhaps more so than in any other industry, as the right answer to improve performance. Owners look to their team managers (coaches) to be game changers and bring back success to the organization, especially when the manager is hired in a... View Details
- 31 May 2023
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2023
school, and averaged 28 points per game playing basketball. A teacher said, ‘Why don’t you test yourself against the big boys and girls back East?’ So at 16, by myself, I flew to Bradley Field, took a Greyhound bus around New England to... View Details
- 17 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups
season from the website BasketballReference.com, and then compared how many minutes each player played under black coaches versus white. He found that players averaged 40 second less per game when playing for a coach of a different race,... View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
steadily solves unique problems, it builds the ability to do whatever is required to succeed in its context. When the incumbent has retreated into the highest tiers of its market and has to fight because there is no room for further retreat, it is at a competitive... View Details
- 18 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020
a football game between our two schools, Howard University and Morehouse College. What began as a friendship turned into a love that grew over several years of long-distance dating, six cities, two separate MBA application cycles, and way... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Thomas S. Volpe, MBA 1976
services company where he served as CEO from 2007 to 2010. A lifelong baseball fan, he owns three minor-league baseball teams and often attends San Francisco Giants games with his close friend and Bay Area neighbor Arthur Rock (MBA 1951).... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
a Friday night fight every week of the year. The challenges posed by that sort of expansion are not lost on Cui, a Canadian native and former ESPN executive whose successes include selling the X Games to Chinese officials who had never... View Details