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  • 10 Oct 2018
  • Blog Post

6 Lessons Learned from a Summer of Entrepreneurship

employee benefit. We not only were challenged and learned a ton, but also had a lot of fun working on our venture in NYC. Here are the top 6 lessons we learned: 1. Identify your strengths early on. As the... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
  • 06 Apr 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Cheers to the American Consumer

than the European eccentric. Technology. Americans understand that innovation is the key to growth and wealth in a global economy where knowledge travels at lightspeed over the Internet. America's economic View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 16 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 16

horizon when assessing impact on host economies. Second, it is necessary to incorporate societal and cultural impacts alongside more traditional measures of economic impact. Third, there is weak historical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jun 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Does Internet Technology Threaten Brand Loyalty?

information technologies will punish weak brands faster and more severely than in the past. That's the general sense I received from responses to this month's column. There was a minority opinion, however.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising; Consumer Products; Technology
  • 02 Apr 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Four Companies that Conquered America

Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.Accounting for almost 30 percent of world GDP, the United States is the... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 10 AM – 11 AM EDT, 22 Oct 2015
  • Webinars: Trending@HBS

Collective Impact: An Innovative Approach to Improving Public Education

In this webinar, Professor Grossman will describe an innovative approach to improving public education Collective Impact and how you can get involved to help transform public education in the communities you care about. View Details
  • 22 Mar 2017
  • Research & Ideas

What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?

according to Chung and Narayandas. The paper follows a 2013 study in which Chung and colleagues developed a structural model to determine the ideal frequency of quotas. That study showed that quarterly... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit

slower to recover than other European nations. Government has focused on lowering taxes, decreasing regulation, and imposing fiscal austerity, but not really addressed deeper weaknesses such as overstretched... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 01 Aug 2017
  • Blog Post

Redefining the Term Networking at HBS

Every year, Harvard Business School welcomes 900 new business students. The campus buzzes with excitement, which never fades as the days, weeks, and months pass. As relationships are forged, dreams shared, View Details
  • 13 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis

self-evaluation. They appraise themselves not on P&L but on a set of 35 skills—a process that lets them measure strengths and weaknesses thoroughly, proving to CEO Jeff... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Prompt-a-thon Invites HBS IT Staff to Sharpen GenAI Skills | Information Technology

Prompts: Learn about the tool’s strengths and weaknesses through trial and errors Join the Fun! If you wished you could have participated, you’ll... View Details
  • 06 Dec 2011
  • Op-Ed

Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis

increase in borrowing cost, paralleling that of their respective sovereigns, while their collateral is decreasing in value. Since the amount of leverage in the system is still high, equity valuations and capital ratios are squeezed. The... View Details
Keywords: by Dante Roscini
  • 09 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 9, 2010

quickly expose the shortcomings of your business strategy. But can you identify its weak points in good times as well? And can you focus on those weak points that really... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness

beginning of the Industrial Age that the advent of mass production would mean there would be no jobs for the vast majority of the population, but we reinvested and gained productivity and expanded the... View Details
Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette
  • 22 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 22, 2016

monetary incentives encourage volunteering? Or, do they introduce a "greedy" signal and hence crowd out the motivation to volunteer? Since the strength of this greedy signal is normally unobserved,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers

ownership patterns that help to explain the dispersion. For instance, government-owned organizations tend to receive low management scores across all the sectors and countries in the study. "They are particularly View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 29

between regional spraying and individual level health appears rather weak in the data. Purchase the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16069 Financial Innovation View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Sep 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How Leaders Build Winning Streaks

obfuscation or cover-ups, enables facts to be squarely faced and promises to be based on reality. "Humiliation-free zones" support objective discussion of strengths View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 14 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

direction and the internal data to understand its own strengths and weaknesses can be overly influenced by outside demands for metrics that may... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 19 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 19, 2016

mutual funds also impact the propensity toward other contractual features that influence when and how creditors have control. However, these factors are less relevant in explaining the strength of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne