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  • 19 Nov 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

E-Santa: Is Retail Ready for Digital Christmas?

Is Amazon's growing retail power capable of breaking the "wheel of retailing" theory? Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive? E-commerce is about to deal severe blows to many familiar store-based brands. How to Use Free Shipping as a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 14 Feb 2007
  • Op-Ed

Tata-Corus: India’s New Steel Giant

complacency might well prove to be the biggest weapon available to the new big-five kid on the block from Jamshedpur. First printed in The Economic Times/India Times. View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
  • 01 Jun 2015
  • News

The Military and the MBA: Lance Batchelor (MBA 1993)

talked for 10 minutes with the benefit of real, personal experience about what it feels like to be on a ship at sea, operating a complex weapons system. The ex-military guys and girls brought something interesting and unique to the... View Details
Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government
  • 01 Dec 2007
  • News

A Call to Innovation

shores.” In fact, becoming an innovation nation should not only be presented as a generational challenge, he argues, but also as a means of solving the world’s thorniest problems: poverty, disease, global warming, energy sustainability, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Telecommunications; Information; Management
  • 01 Apr 2020
  • News

What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages

nothing away from the brave men and women who brought victory in World War II to say that without the outpouring of weapons and equipment from US companies, the war might have been lost. American companies can do the same thing today to... View Details
  • 01 Aug 2001
  • News

J. Ronald Fox (MBA '59)

resumed his academic career at HBS and completed the first of several influential books, Arming America, an exploration of the military weapons acquisition process. After leaving the faculty in 1972 to immerse himself in a successful... View Details
Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; J. Sterling Livingston; George P. Baker; Government
  • 22 Feb 2010
  • Op-Ed

Tragedy at Toyota: How Not to Lead in Crisis

plans for resolution have been Toyota's substitute for crisis response. As accounts pour in about declining quality, the company parades out relatively unknown mid-level managers to quell the firestorm. It won't work. "You live by the sword; you die by the... View Details
Keywords: by William George; Auto
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

Righting the Ship

important, particularly in moments when hope frayed, pessimism sunk in, and dissention threatened. Shackleton always understood that instilling credible hope in his followers was one of his most powerful weapons for accomplishing his... View Details
  • 23 Apr 2019
  • Blog Post

HBS Shares Their Favorite Books for HR Leaders

Business Frances Frei and Anne Morriss believe that customer service is a secret weapon for achieving strategic advantage in the service based economy. To take it a step further, a high level of customer service needs to be so engrained... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 06 Dec 2011
  • Op-Ed

Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis

deleveraging that made them sell European sovereign debt. But the ECB's most powerful weapon - intervening in the bond market - is still locked away. Draghi needs to create consensus among the German "hawks" who worry about the... View Details
Keywords: by Dante Roscini
  • 21 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership

asserts, "is the ultimate weapon to help leaders meet the challenges of the 21st century." Leaders at companies that particularly stress innovative new products and services, she adds, give virtual kaleidoscopes to everyone else in their... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Gazprom Goes Global

helpless neighbor and to flex its geopolitical — and potentially expansionist — muscles. Big bully vs. little innocent. Case closed? Nyet. “The Western notion that Russia uses energy as a weapon is a media oversimplification of very... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities
  • 02 Oct 2019
  • What Do You Think?

What Grade Would You Give Walmart CEO Doug McMillon?

two store workers by an angry former employee at a Mississippi Walmart and a mass shooting around a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, the Company announced it would: No longer sell ammunition that could be used in military-style assault View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail
  • 07 Jun 2004
  • What Do You Think?

How Important are Big Ideas?

from fads, time their moves carefully to meet the needs of their respective organizations, and enlist top management support. One might infer from this work that the real secret weapons that many U.S. firms possess in their competitive... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 02 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Stuck in Gear: Why Managers Don’t Act

Firestone extended its existing technology, made more tires on the existing equipment, and kept the existing factories—some of them superfluous—at full throttle. In Firestone's view, it was calling on sure-fire weapons that had given the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2025
  • News

Forward Thinking

book, Space to Grow: Unlocking the Final Economic Frontier, Weinzierl and his coauthor Brendan Rosseau—a former teaching fellow and research associate at HBS who now works for Jeff Bezos’s space company Blue Origin—explore how the commercial space revolution became the... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Franziska Barczyk; Space Research and Technology; Government
  • 06 Oct 2011
  • What Do You Think?

How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?

Gaurav Goel: "Analytics is a powerful weapon but we need prudent processes for data capture that ensure a consistent quality of data." The tone of responses suggested that there was little question that the analytics of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 04 Oct 2004
  • What Do You Think?

Does Speed Trump Intellectual Property?

that unethical behavior can deny people their intellectual property." These are the latest examples of the effectiveness of speed as a competitive weapon that was described some years ago by George Stalk and Thomas Hout in their... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Mar 2005
  • News

A Primer on Patents

rule for the patentee. So, ironically, patents have been turned into weapons against innovation and competition? Unfortunately, yes. One of the themes we heard repeatedly from practitioners was that the current patent system has created... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Sep 2007
  • News

Getting Security Right

in harmonism and convergence, we get the war in Iraq. There was nothing wrong with getting rid of Saddam Hussein and making sure Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction. Where we went astray was in deciding we could rebuild Iraq in... View Details
Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
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