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- 07 Mar 2019
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Smart Marketing Brings Rapid Growth to Latino Brands
accomplish that was to create their own distribution network. Therefore, we are able to control how the brand should look like, how the brand should be able to be established in the marketplace, and how that brand could revolutionize View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Rethinking Call Centers: Effective Delivery of Service is Key
two colleagues, Ann Evenson and Patrick T. Harker, both of Wharton, have written a working paper on this subject titled "Effective Call Center Management: Evidence from Financial Services." The authors go beyond earlier research to look at the broad View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Up Your Time Affluence
led to time savings and happiness. and reframe it If you’re bothered by work tasks that seem repetitive and meaningless, reframe them in the context of helping your colleagues and your organization achieve higher-level goals. And shift... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Exploring Big Issues at the Intersection of Business and Society
Curriculum. To address this need, the School piloted a new daylong program, Viewpoints, this past spring. “Our goal was to help students understand how they need to think about the broader social context in which firms operate and how the... View Details
Keywords: Educational Innovation
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Business Firsthand in South Korea
wouldn’t have the appreciation for the ways business is conducted in different contexts without having gone to South Korea,” explains Lim. The team worked together to add value to Orion’s marketing strategy. Their recommendations ranged... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
actively participate in a dialogue. When an attorney is asked to draft a contract, he or she should have enough knowledge about the broader business context to speak up if the rationale behind the deal seems flawed. Similarly, if a lawyer... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 06 Dec 2012
- News
New Thinking on Healthcare Reform
complex." "As a designer, I see my job as navigating the interface between people and the world around us," said IDEO's Tim Brown. "Designers are good at simple and naïve ideas," he added. "Here's mine: Patients are people." So what does that mean in the View Details
- 11 Oct 2024
- News
Highlights from the Fall 2024 Alumni Board Meeting
and Doctoral Programs and External Relations, to discuss the current MBA student recruiting landscape, the Board was joined by Senior Associate Dean for External Relations C. Fritz Foley (PHDBE 2002). Foley discussed the current economic View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
In Pursuit of Academia
shows that, as people move between contexts where they experience different levels of status—something that is becoming increasingly frequent as organizations adopt more crossfunctional and flexible structures—these changes in status... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advanced Statistics Are the New Foam Fingers
more and more commonplace, they help provide a richer context for intelligent and nuanced conversations about the game. And to Marinak and the MLB, a more enlightened fan is a more engaged fan. “You have to have some sort of processing to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Research Brief: Cultivating Creativity through Competition
Creativity is often considered a mysterious, impossible-to-harness force. But a new working paper by Assistant Professor Daniel P. Gross suggests that it can indeed be nurtured with the right incentives. Gross studied the question in the View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Decision Points
Bush: For future observers, a context for his administration. On the occasion of the publication of his memoir, Decision Points, and in his first newspaper interview since leaving the White House, a relaxed, introspective former President... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
On Eve of Transition, Alumni Conference Set for Hong Kong
discussions will include a number of HBS professors. The Hong Kong conference will also consider China in the larger context of the Asian business environment. HBS professor Michael E. Porter will offer his perspective on the competitive... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Kids Are Alright: Alumni Children Crack Case
pop-up ads on most sites. Instead, its “immersive” advertising was more like the product placements common to television and movies — sponsors’ products or messages appear in the context of the site’s games and activities.) As the class... View Details
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Emphasis on Teamwork
recently directed his support to the HBS Fund in support of program innovation. “The School’s consistent focus on making leadership the fundamental tenet of the curriculum sets it apart,” he observes. “It’s critical to placing business in the View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
narrowed. "Much of what we teach in management theory is that there is one best way to do things," West observes. To explain the existence of two "best ways," he cites differences in the institutional contexts in which U.S. and Japanese... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
insides of their companies as they do to shaping the institutional context within which the companies operate. That’s because everything is a work in progress. You really can’t throw your hands up and say, “I’ll wait for the government to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
gain in understanding about themselves and their own work context through the lens of distant colleagues. “The two kinds of knowledge offer different insights that, in complement, foster trust and make you feel closer to distant... View Details
- 13 Jul 2011
- News
China Boot Camp
case he had been contemplating for inclusion in his fall course, Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements. “The context and contacts I’ve acquired have brought very tangible benefits,” Srinivasan says, adding that the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
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Short Takes
motivated and characterized successful firms for decades, in the environmental arena and elsewhere. Thus, he concludes, "The way to situate business in the context of the natural environment is to integrate the natural environment into... View Details