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  • 17 Jul 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

A Replication Study of Alan Blinder’s “How Many U.S. Jobs Might Be Offshorable?”

Keywords: by Troy Smith & Jan W. Rivkin
  • December 2009
  • Article

Negotiation? Auction? A Deal Maker's Guide

By: Guhan Subramanian
What's the best way to buy or sell an asset? Should you hold an auction and accept the most attractive offer? Or should you identify the most likely prospects and negotiate with them privately? Auctions became increasingly popular after the internet opened wide the... View Details
Keywords: Assets; Auctions; Market Transactions; Negotiation; Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions
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  • Profile

Davida Bynum

system in our classroom. Throughout the year, we learned about the science and technology of astronauts, robotic engineering, and mission control specialists which culminated into a final “mission” and week-long field trip at NASA’s Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama.... View Details
  • Web

Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy - Recruiting

Georgetown University, Leahy set out to uncover where her career path would lead, double majoring in English and Math. This academic combination allowed her to use her creativity and skills in quantitative analysis, both of which she’d... View Details
  • 13 Jun 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Extroverts, Your Colleagues Wish You Would Just Shut Up and Listen

When people feel heard, they tend to be less defensive, less anxious, and more relaxed. High-quality listening, research suggests, also increases creativity and improves work performance by boosting a person’s internal motivation to do a... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

Chemical and Chase management downplayed the size of the potential revenue enhancements, even though privately they believed the likely benefits here were huge. When conventional disclosure strategies are ineffective in a restructuring, sometimes more View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
  • Web

Careers Blog

Programs & Events Resources & Tips 17 Jun 2025 Balancing Career Stability with Creative Pursuits with Jeff Roslund (MBA 2013) Jeff Roslund Author Alumni tag Alumni Interviews Transitions & Paths Jeff Roslund (MBA 2013) explores how he's... View Details

    Walter A. Friedman

    Walter A. Friedman is Director of the Business History Initiative and Lecturer.  He edits Business History Review with Geoff Jones. He specializes in business, labor, and economic history. He is author of Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First... View Details

    Keywords: advertising; automobiles; automotive; electrical equipment; electronics; information technology industry; marketing industry; railroad; retailing; soft drink
    • 01 Mar 2019
    • News

    The Burden Legacy

    creative stuff on the Burden stage in the HBS Show. More recently, speakers at the Burden podium addressed challenging issues. Former Vice President Al Gore warned students, “We are managing the planet as if it were a business in... View Details
    Keywords: Linda Kush
    • 14 Dec 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Siobhan O'Mahony and Rebecca Karp, Boston University

    • TeachingInterests

    Strategy Execution

    By: Dennis Campbell

    This course takes strategy as given and teaches what students need to know to execute and win in highly competitive markets. Using fundamental building blocks based on accountability systems and structures, this course is divided into seven modules:

    1.... View Details

    • 2012
    • Teaching Note

    ChemChina (TN)

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li, Lei Li and Hong Zhang
    ChemChina is China's largest basic chemical manufacturing firm. It was included in Fortune Global 500 in 2011 and 2012, ranked No. 475 and 402. Its sales revenue in 2011 was 179 billion yuan, and profit was 600 million yuan. The year-end total assets were 254.2 billion... View Details
    Keywords: Reorganization; Strategy; China; China
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    • September 2011 (Revised July 2012)
    • Case

    Building Watson: Not So Elementary, My Dear!

    By: Willy Shih
    This case is set inside IBM Research's efforts to build a computer that can successfully take on human challengers playing the game show Jeopardy! It opens with the machine named Watson offering the incorrect answer "Toronto" to a seemingly simple question during the... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Standards; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mathematical Methods; Research and Development; Information Technology
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    • 09 Oct 2020
    • HBS Seminar

    Jeffrey L. Furman, BU, Questrom Sch of Business

      Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What to Do About It

      The United States patent system has become sand rather than lubricant in the wheels of American progress. Such is the premise behind this provocative and timely book by two of the nation's leading experts on patents and economic... View Details

      • 30 Mar 2023
      • Blog Post

      Amager Bakke: A Look into the Future of Waste Incineration

      greenhouse gas emissions far below EU regulatory requirements, the plant’s own environmental approved limits, and even current state-of-the-art reference levels. Our impressions The facility has a beautiful and creative design, both... View Details
      • 23 May 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'

      pursued. It’s really the ethos that I’ve carried with me from when I was 13 to right now.” “Being neurodivergent and having learning differences, creative outlets like drawing were always a way for me to express myself when finding the... View Details
      Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
      • 09 Oct 2001
      • Research & Ideas

      Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

      the variety can be too great and the gaps so large that confusion results. But if the variety is in a zone of moderate stimulation, creative new solutions to problems will be fostered that can be gratifying to the individual as well as... View Details
      Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
      • 16 Feb 2010
      • Research & Ideas

      The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service

      According to a new book by Harvard Business School's Ranjay Gulati, it is customer-centric firms—those with a so-called outside-in perspective—that are most resilient during turbulent markets. An outside-in perspective means that companies aim to View Details
      Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products
      • 02 Nov 2023
      • Blog Post

      Getting a Peek Into the HBS Experience

      Helsinki, Finland. What advice do you have for college students considering attending Peek? If you are considering or planning to attend Peek, I encourage you to proactively engage in the interactive sessions and never be afraid to contribute your View Details