succession planning - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 5

prepay for participating merchants' goods and services. Within a model of repeat experience good purchase, we examine two mechanisms by which a discount voucher service can benefit affiliated merchants: price discrimination and advertising. For vouchers to provide... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 May 2010
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First Look: May 4

910-409 On July 5, 2004, Pfizer's China team received disappointing news. China's patent review board just invalidated the company's existing patent on one of its most successful drugs, Viagra. Making matters worse, a Guangdong-based... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8

But in a world of constant layoffs and dying industries, it has become increasingly difficult to "plan" your way to success. So what is the solution? Well, when it comes to dealing with uncertainty, nobody handles it better than View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007

are beyond the farmgate. Embrapa's director of technology transfer must develop a plan to encourage adoption. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507019 Ethics: A Basic Framework Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Propose an Independent Project | MBA

successful projects include: Creating the strategic plan for a new department, including product roadmap, architecture, budget, staffing, product pricing, and additional resources Assisting in building a... View Details

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Hann Yew

One might think that an HBS student with a recent victory in the Deans' Health and Life Sciences Challenge would be eager to represent her life as a success story. Instead, Hann Yew, MBA 2015, sees it as a cautionary tale that began for... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Healthcare/Biotech

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Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online

. Overview Syllabus Enrollment Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Define what platforms are and how they create and capture value Understand network effects and how to leverage them to achieve growth Discover how to launch, scale, and maintain a View Details

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Online Digital Marketing Strategy Course | HBS Online

and faculty Define the right objectives, metrics, target audiences, and value proposition to position your product or service for success Discover how to acquire and retain customers through paid, owned, and earned media Gain frameworks... View Details

01 Sep 2008
News

The Business Environment in the 21st century

The business leaders surveyed for the colloquium suggested several ways in which business schools generally, and HBS in particular, could play a role. They included research and thought leadership on major challenges to capitalism; scenario View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

06 Jul 2017
News

Leadership on a Global Scale

Special Forces, planned to make the military his career. But a training accident brought that plan to an end, forcing a course correction that took him to Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and to HBS,... View Details

21 Mar 2019
Blog Post

What I Didn't Know About HBS Faculty

yourself with are truly important to your success and development. Before coming to HBS I heard a lot about how great the professors were in their fields and that we would have a chance to learn a great deal from them and our fellow... View Details

21 Sep 2015
News

Funding Progress Back Home

global and sovereign institutional investors Homestrings, launched in 2011, draws on lessons learned in those roles, plus Guichard’s own awareness that “those of us who have found success far from family and friends are looking for... View Details

26 Mar 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!

After-action reviews often neglect to address the multiple factors contributing to large-scale organizational failures. How Should Organizations Learn From Failure? Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science After successive failures to... View Details

Portrait Project

Melanie Harris

Like many others, I hope for success in career, pride in accomplishment, impact on my world, opportunities to lead, grace under pressure, and triumph over failure. But above all this, and as inspiration for it all, I View Details

12 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

The Marketing of a President

meant that change was in the air. Add to that the economic meltdown that decimated millions of 401(k) retirement plans and undercut any Republican claim to be the better steward of the economy. But, even so, for an inexperienced,... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

28 Apr 2025
Blog Post

How to Onboard Recently Graduated MBAs

uninitiated. Brennan suggests that employers look beyond their formal policies to “inventory the expectations that have not been officially codified” and that, once identified, can be shared with newcomers. Look to the “stars” Learn from the View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Dec 2022
News

A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light

developed a new way to teach capital markets, resulting in wide-ranging course materials and a successful book, The Financial System (with the late HBS professor William White). He also wrote a number of articles and cases, including one... View Details

Keywords: leadership; HBS Dean; obituary; academia

01 Apr 1997
News

How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries

was in keeping with the club's mission to inform students with an interest but no experience in high tech," says CMC Ventures trip co-organizer Brett Queener (HBS '97). Throughout the week, 37 of Silicon Valley's most successful and... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

01 Mar 2012
News

Learning to Speak the Language of Business

countries—including Brazil, China, and the United States—and plans to add seven more this year. Success as a global player takes more than an aggressive acquisitions plan, says Mikitani. It requires that all... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; e-commerce; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

12 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 12

Preannouncements under Market Uncertainty Authors:Ofek, Elie, and Ozge Turut Publication:Marketing Science Abstract A firm may want to preannounce its plans to develop a new product in order to stimulate future demand. But given that such... View Details