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- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historical Perspective: Levitt Shaped the Debate
Agree or disagree—and even his colleagues disagree—Theodore Levitt's controversial article "The Globalization of Markets" reshaped the debate on globalism and consumer marketing, and continues to provide modern managers with constructive ways to view markets.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
values by sharing stories about their institutions. Indeed, they have discovered that pastors of so-called megachurches publish an unusually large number of books, not only to connect to church members, but to spread the message to an... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 17 Jul 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence
users to time-shift their TV viewing. According to Yoffie, entertainment and communications are coming together to produce a mobile music revolution—the distribution of digital music over wireless networks. And your cell phone has also... View Details
- 25 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People
they already knew from a roster of names and photos. Researchers randomly assigned participants to teams and work stations in a large open space and challenged them to create a mobile app for the Indian wedding industry. They tracked... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
heart of public services decision making.” That’s why DeBere and Helga Mutasingwa, a doctor and public health professional based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, cofounded Afya Pamoja in that country in 2020 with Patrick Anyanga and Robert Smith. The View Details
Keywords: April White
- 18 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Transforming the Energy Industry
endeavors where you need to mobilize such diverse talent at a global scale and climate change is one of those challenges. In terms of internal HBS resources, connecting with career coaches at CPD, especially those in the energy and... View Details
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
returned to debt within six weeks. One to two years after intervention, treatment individuals were borrowing at the same rate as control households. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54587 Show or Tell? Improving Agent Decision Making in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
on a Tuesday at 2 p.m., who’s going to show up?” Agora, the online platform Sze launched last year, offers a place for citizens to interact with their elected representatives using everything from message boards to streaming video chats.... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
online message boards were set up almost immediately to enable concerned alumni to check on the status of classmates, colleagues, and friends. “I see my family, my neighborhood, my classmates, my countrymen, and even the entire free world... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
last five years has been nearly $1 trillion in underperforming investment in the United States alone. Although its central message is that managers need to think more coherently about their project portfolios in order to align them with... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
you know, at the most basic level, what we've built is an application process that works on a mobile phone and takes eight minutes to complete, and it helps people stay enrolled by sending them a text View Details
- 11 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Crafting a Nontraditional Path to Venture Capital and Private Equity with Morgan Sheil (MBA 2021)
School as an undergraduate chemical and biomolecular engineering student at the University of Maryland. She was accepted into the 2+2 program and set out after graduation to explore potential careers and build her skills. After a year and half as a Process Engineer at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
subscription service, which we chose for ease of use. Yes, we could have launched an app, but that’s not necessarily the easiest way to consume news, whereas everyone with a mobile phone has access to a text View Details
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
them the news is empathic and caring. However, the message must also be delivered in a clear and direct way. In an effort to be compassionate, and out of a desire not to appear hard-hearted, it is all too easy to try to sugarcoat the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories 2007
messages I received were that if leadership involves control, it is only over setting an organization's course and priorities." HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn't) For HBS professor Andrew McAfee, Wikipedia is a surprisingly... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride
members is celebrated rather than derided. For instance, the lowest level of entrepreneurship in the developed world is in Japan, where they say, "the tall poppy is cut off." The message is, don't rise above the group. On the... View Details
Keywords: by William Mahoney
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
(including ESPN, Disney Channel, Food Network, and CNN) to mobile devices. Sony’s PlayStation Vue offers more channels but at a higher price tag, and later this year, Apple will launch a web TV service. “Everyone is obsessed with figuring... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite
of risk, and the apparent difficulty of identifying minorities as high-potential each constitute major hurdles to the career mobility of minority managers," they write. "Overcoming them is possible, but it places the equivalent... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
iStock MESSAGE FROM DEAN SRIKANT DATAR On February 27, Dean Srikant Datar sent a message to the HBS community regarding the invasion of Ukraine, noting the resources available to those looking to offer... View Details