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- 01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives
Minister) Dr. Manmohan Singh. Up until that time, government controls on production (referred to as the “license raj” or “permit raj”) created a stagnant environment for competition and entrepreneurial activity. MBAs who came home during... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Joe Toplyn (MBA 1979)
and I started to learn what it takes to manage an unwieldy production process and to please the fickle consumer. Business school made sense to me because I liked to hatch ideas and make them happen. After HBS I went to work in consumer... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
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Blockbuster Deals
corporate gamesmanship and dizzying sums associated with M&A; activity, for the business scholar, such deals are often more interesting as windows inside organizations, revealing how they adapt and perform in times of dramatic change.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2012
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Ideas in Action
shoppers deliberating over a luxury goods purchase. “Marketers can convince consumers that buying their product is actually a farsighted behavior,” she observes. “In that sense, consumers are investing in future memories.” —JH Tsedal... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
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Lords of Strategy
you can’t pronounce . Part of the strategy revolution was the coming of what I’ll call Greater Taylorism, the corporation’s application of sharp-penciled analytics, this time not to the performance of an individual worker — how fast a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
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Balanced Equation
perform at Carnegie Hall. Do you still play, and what kind of music do you favor? At best, I was an adequate musician, and that was only when I could steal time to practice. I love playing, though, especially chamber music. Haydn, Mozart,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
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Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
focus instead on improving the performance of existing products - what I call sustaining technologies. For this reason, good companies have little difficulty succeeding in sustaining innovation - even... View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
what's really the job is to oversee a production from start to finish. But really, when you're deep into the production process, to hand over the keys to a director and then continue to work with that... View Details
- 12 Feb 2020
- News
Culture Shift at Big Blue
among the old guard of tech firms, is due for shift in culture. A former COO at Delta Airlines, Whitehurst joined Red Hat as CEO in 2008. Although his corporate background may have seemed like a surprising fit for Red Hat—the open-source antithesis of corporate—his... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
Commercializing Science and included members with medical, science, public health, and business backgrounds from HBS, MIT, and across Harvard University. The realization that DFA’s product had the power to impact the health of millions... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Digging Deep
irritation, Pieper could empathize: Having logged thousands of miles sailing in the Pacific Ocean, she knew that gear is important—that it should be portable, perform well under stress, and preferably look good. It was an aha moment that... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 19 Oct 2011
- News
A Good Look
Levy: Ingredients for beauty from an unlikely source. Photo courtesy Kerty Levy A company that manufactures the nutritional ingredients used in animal feed doesn’t seem like the most likely incubator for a beauty products division. But... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Play's the Thing
with his own family." The play, Baron's first, had its off-Broadway premiere in 1997 with Eli Wallach in the title role, and has since been widely produced in the United States and performed in translation in ten other countries. The... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
wants to open a chain of retail shops selling a commodity product you can get anywhere for 25 cents, but he will charge 2 dollars. Of course, you listen politely and then fall off your chair laughing when he leaves. [Starbucks founder]... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Talent: The Best Employee Perk?
“[Just] as organizations that invested financial capital more wisely than their rivals performed better in the past, the companies that do the best job of managing time, talent, and energy are the ones that win today’s competitive races.... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
development cycles and can't respond in mid-project to changing customer needs. But there's a solution to this dilemma, according to HBS assistant professor Stefan H. Thomke and Donald G. Reinertsen (MBA '79) of Reinertsen & Associates in California. In a working paper... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Easy Rider
native knew an icon—and a challenge—when he saw one. In 2009 he stepped into the role of managing director, Harley-Davidson India. Entering the Indian market had plenty of challenges related to tariffs, accessibility, and brand perception, and also required a focus on... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
design; 27 proven “plays” from the UXReactor playbook to put concepts into practice, and game planning examples to execute at different levels of an organization. A comprehensive and practical book for business leaders, design leaders, View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
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One Degree of Difference
revenue and growth, and every division’s key performance indicators on diversity roll up to the company’s balanced scorecard. Everyone gets paid out if the company meets its diversity goals. So if the View Details
- 10 May 2023
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Alumna Snags an Emmy
whether you won or not,” says Smith Cochrane, the Group Product Manager at YouTube TV. One of two big news items this spring (she welcomed a daughter just two weeks earlier) we asked her where the statuette resides—and her path to the... View Details