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01 Mar 2023
News

Step Change

experience,” she says. “No one ever spoke about culture; it was embedded. We were in it together.” That interest in the very human aspect of how work gets done is more than clinical. When asked, anyone who has worked closely with Enan mentions her strong sense of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

beyond the ivory tower.” The priority paradox So why aren’t more scholars at business schools striving to make their work practically relevant? One reason is that for many, working on relevant problems has little impact on faculty... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

28 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

bankruptcy doesn’t necessarily mean the death of a company, and in fact, it can actually be the very thing that saves a business, assuming the courts can handle the flood that is likely coming. Dina Gerdeman: What impact do you expect... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

restrictions on the public will be lifted, how customers will behave in the aftermath, and how the once-familiar environments in which your company operated will have been impacted for the long-term, if not permanently. As a result, it is... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

January 2021 (Revised April 2022)
Case

Best Buy's Corie Barry: Confronting the COVID-19 Pandemic

By: William W. George and Amram Migdal

This case examines the leadership of Corie Barry, the new CEO of Best Buy, with a focus on actions the company took in 2020 to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic. The case includes a history of Best Buy’s strategy and leadership, including the transitions between the... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Change; Disruption; Volatility; Communication; Competency and Skills; Customers; Decision Making; Ethics; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Finance; Cash Flow; Financial Condition; Financial Liquidity; Goods and Commodities; Corporate Governance; Health Pandemics; Human Resources; Executive Compensation; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Resignation and Termination; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Innovation and Invention; Jobs and Positions; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Job Design and Levels; Job Interviews; Job Offer; Labor; Employment; Human Capital; Working Conditions; Law; Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Management; Business or Company Management; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Management Style; Management Succession; Management Systems; Management Teams; Risk Management; Operations; Distribution; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Logistics; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Supply Chain; Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Outcome or Result; Personal Development and Career; Retirement; Work-Life Balance; Planning; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Relationships; Business and Community Relations; Labor and Management Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Safety; Science; Strategy; Retail Industry; North and Central America; United States; Minnesota

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11 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Meet the MBA Class of 2020

BREAKTHROUGHS PEOPLE THOUGHT IMPOSSIBLE A YEAR AGO.” HOME REGION Wayne, PA UNDERGRAD EDUCATION College of William & Mary, Economics, 2014 PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Verily, Google, Symplivety HBS ACTIVITIES Digital Impact Initiative, The... View Details

18 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

suggests that economic clusters—usually used to explain development in local economies—have had a much wider impact on world economics than generally recognized. Harvard-Newcomen Fellow Valeria Giacomin calls clusters “the building blocks... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness

03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

creative or integrative thinking, or experiential learning and project work. A few schools were cutting-edge in one or more of these areas. Other schools felt that the business school community as a whole had a long way to go. So while... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

30 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides

charity. [related readings] “It’s a way to clearly communicate that ‘We are unique in the space,’” Choi says. “Here’s what we are and here’s what we aren’t.” More traditional organizations have also been opening up. The US Department of... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

15 Jun 2021
News

Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy

experiences with systemic racism. In late June, the NCF plans to announce its second round of grants, totaling $2 million, to community groups across the Commonwealth. See more from the online-only June Alumni Bulletin View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

January 2016
Case

Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey

This case study examines a market-based approach to economic development through the eyes of NGO TechnoServe's project manager, implementing a US$9.5 million five-year public-private partnership between Coca-Cola, IDB, and USAID. The case ends at the beginning of the... View Details

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22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

create even within a very traditional, industrial business. We think the basic design of Predix was heading in the right direction, but the challenges in execution have been severe. Lagace: A central concern of The Business of Platforms is the double-edged sword nature... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps

because they aren’t interested. “It’s simply that it was too costly for them to do so,” says Pons. Lowering the barriers even slightly had a dramatic impact on voter turnout and engagement. What’s more, a post-election survey administered... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Communications; Communications

09 Mar 2021
News

Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic

During COVID-19 and Beyond. Closures of schools and other learning spaces have had an impact on 94 percent of the world’s student population; for low and lower-middle income countries, the impact has been up... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

19 Aug 2021
News

A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Courtesy Steven Rogers Courtesy Steven Rogers On May 31st, 2020, six days after the murder of George Floyd, Steven Roger's daughter Ariel sent him a text. In it, she told her dad that the Black View Details

01 Dec 2015
News

Giving Advice

(courtesy of Susan Wolf Ditkoff) The philanthropy economy is booming. Last year, America’s charitable giving totaled $358.38 billion, equaling 2.1 percent of GDP—a number last attained in prerecession 2004. With that growth have come a number of new options, including... View Details

28 Oct 2021
News

Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity

failure in the startup and tech ecosystems. I think the HBS community is particularly well-suited to be a problem-solver here. We have so many leaders in VC, startups, and entrepreneurship. Our alumni network literally runs the largest... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

08 Mar 2018
News

How HBS Gives Back

the greater good. The piece details several initiatives, from Senior Lecturer Kevin Mohan’s position as chair of Boys Town to the students who work as mentors at the Gardner Pilot Academy through the Volunteer Corps to the Knowledge and Library Services staff’s work... View Details

03 Apr 2019
News

Finding Common Ground

began to change in 2009, when a community activist challenged Shumway to get more deeply involved in addressing the issue. He responded by applying the same evidence-based problem-solving approach Cicero uses with its corporate clients... View Details