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- 25 Aug 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: After Charlottesville, Where Does a CEO's Responsibility Lie?
reason–people tend to form brand preferences when they’re young. Young consumers who are alienated by a perception of corporate support for Trump might be lost for a lifetime, not just an administration. “A company that is seen as... View Details
Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
B2C and B2B methods. But in seeking to grow and scale the business, they now must make decisions about the relative emphasis on building their consumer brand or its B2B partnerships as well as the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
really want to go with my career? How do I approach this new hybrid work environment, whether I’m working remote, in person, some combo, whether my colleagues are how do I do that effectively? How do I think about reforging some of those connections with other working... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
attention to increase financial inclusion among individuals with historically no access to banking or financial services in countries around the world with large underserved populations. The effort included partnerships with governments and banks to issue MasterCard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
abstract is unavailable at this time. Book: http://hbr.org/2012/05/six-myths-of-product-development/ar/1 Working PapersLearning by Supplying Authors:Juan Alcácer and Joanne Oxley Abstract Learning processes lie at the heart of our understanding of how firms View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
or is it still too early?" Dick Costolo wondered as he reflected on the latest acquisition offer. He had been building FeedBurner with his three co-founders for almost four years and was staring at the details of an acquisition offer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
academic cultures, structures, and traditions. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51876 Innovation Network By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, and William Kerr Abstract—Technological progress builds upon... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
companies do CSR in fits and starts” The problem? They lack a cohesive CSR strategy, says Rangan, who recently cowrote the working paper Why Every Company Needs a CSR Strategy and How to Build It with HBS research associate Lisa A. Chase... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
to go and deal with those forks in the road. Flint: You also write about how, as humans, we’re not very good at thinking constructively about either success or failure. In your book you quote Thomas Edison in his effort to build the light... View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708429 MINI USA: Finding a New Advertising Agency (A) Harvard Business School Case 508-041 Selling an intangible like advertising services is a difficult task. The first step is to understand how View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
Bob Ryan first got involved, the business had been neglected. Estes Funeral Chapel, located at the corner of Penn and Plymouth Avenues in North Minneapolis, is easily accessible by light rail. "Rather than looking at this building as... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
deal of attention for its entrepreneurial approaches to aid over the years, from building resilience in climate-vulnerable communities with the help of NASA satellite data to delivering assistance to refugees via cryptocurrencies. It... View Details
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
Building on previous theories of how social activists inspire field-level change, we hypothesize that shareholder actions and regulatory threats are likely to prime firms to cooperate with shareholder requests for information disclosure.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
traces the strategic, organizational, and cultural challenges JMB faced in building an organization that eventually offered mentoring partnerships to 8,000 Indigenous students in 350 high schools throughout Australia. Furthermore, the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
& Private Equity: A Casebook, 5th edition provides an understanding of the ways in which private equity groups work. The casebook builds an understanding of the key distinctions in the industry and reviews and applies key ideas of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
and clinical research. How should IAVI manage tensions between what is necessary to achieve its mission and what is necessary to build new incentive structures that enable key actors to work together effectively? Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
brand strategies. They looked to emerging international markets to fuel growth and broaden their portfolios of alternate beverages like tea, juice, sports drinks, energy drinks, and bottled water. Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola had vied for the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
“blockbuster” green patents, meaning they have developed foundational technologies that other companies frequently cite and build on in subsequent innovations. Cohen says many large energy companies have tried to rebuild their images,... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- HBS Case
How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?
make some of the building tools themselves because commercial ones aren’t precise enough. Every watch is hand assembled, twice, in the German workshop. When the first assembly is complete (and working fine), the watch is taken apart,... View Details
- 03 Aug 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?
example, Pilgrim commented that the need for leadership is highly overrated. “We build structures with a slot at the top and the result is an implied need for leadership.” If our organizations were more fashioned like a networks,... View Details