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Year in Review | Annual Report 2024
economics. This award celebrates the extraordinary achievements of students who made a positive impact on Harvard, Harvard Business School, and/or broader communities through exceptional acts of leadership during their time at the School.... View Details
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Jonathan Assayag
Player two years in a row. More importantly, he says, "My school is still competing in the competition today, and the robotics program has become a key differentiator against the public high schools in the region." Jonathan... View Details
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
today's managers need to harness technological advances, manage and lead a dispersed and diverse workforce, anticipate and react to constant competitive and geopolitical change and uncertainty, compete on a global scale, and operate in a... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
plus side of the ledger, tariff rates declined, leading to more competition and forcing Greek companies to compete internationally. Reducing bureaucracy also helped: time to export decreased from 20 to 16 days, according to the World... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Porter Appointed to University Professorship
His books can be found on the shelves of CEOs, heads of state, academicians, and business school students alike. Countries and companies all over the world have embraced his theories on competition and strategy in the expanding global... View Details
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
Approximately 5 percent of the sample chose to respond online. The overall response rate was 53 percent. Q: What was the overall reaction to DTCA from physicians in your sample? Weissman: Quite mixed! Overall, 40 percent felt that DTCA had a View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
minutes before class that he will be asked to speak. The opening question—usually one from the assignment—typically requires taking a position or making a recommendation. Since as much as 50 percent of their grade is based on class... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
design business models to generate winner-take-all effects similar to the network externalities that high-tech companies such as Microsoft, eBay, and Facebook often create. A good business model creates virtuous cycles that, over time, result in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Supporting Careers | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
graduating students to experience high-impact management positions in nonprofit and public-sector organizations for one year at a competitive salary. The program provides social-sector organizations access... View Details
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
investigates the effect of pay for performance in firms, yet less is known about the effect of non-financial rewards, especially in organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with positive social spillovers. We conduct a field... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jun 2019
- News
Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo
maintain competitiveness in a situation where China essentially says: ‘First we will buy from you, but then we will do it ourselves.’ It gets very complicated.” Still, Shih added that the U.S. aerospace industry is strong enough to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
Hervas-Drane Abstract—We analyze the implications of consumer privacy for competition in the marketplace. We consider a market where firms set prices and disclosure levels for consumer information, and consumers observe both before... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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History | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Education Leadership Program (PELP) . 2002 Leadership Fellows program launches, enabling a select number of graduating HBS students to experience high-impact management positions in nonprofit and public-sector organizations for one year... View Details
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
financing from leading venture capital (VC) firms and by 2012 had been cash flow positive for the past six quarters. Its founder, Bryan Mistele, was looking to pivot into high growth and faced several intriguing options. However, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- October 2003 (Revised February 2004)
- Case
Strategic Inflection: TiVo in 2003 (A)
By: David B. Yoffie, Pai-Ling Yin and Christina L. Darwall
Mike Ramsey, TiVo's CEO, must decide on which direction to build the company. Facing an onslaught of new competitors, a huge opportunity in the cable industry, and the possibility of becoming the new "user interface" for TV entertainment, Ramsey must balance the... View Details
Keywords: Television Entertainment; Profit; Product Positioning; Standards; Opportunities; Commercialization; Competition; Technology Adoption; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Yoffie, David B., Pai-Ling Yin, and Christina L. Darwall. "Strategic Inflection: TiVo in 2003 (A)." Harvard Business School Case 704-425, October 2003. (Revised February 2004.)
- 17 Mar 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in New York
interdisciplinary research enterprise that will position HBS as an intellectual hub for examining the most critical issues and opportunities of our times—from climate change and environmental sustainability to racial equity and social and... View Details
- 31 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Climate Change Puts Heat on GMs
What is the responsibility of business regarding social issues? And how does that jibe with maximizing profits? In "UBS and Climate Change—Warming Up to Global Action?" Associate Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Professor Forest Reinhardt present the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change
the less government involvement there is, the better,” says Oberholzer-Gee. “In fact, a number of the competitive advantages enjoyed by companies have come from the regulations that governments impose on markets.” In the course’s last... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
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within an industry, its outcome is competitive convergence and eventually decreased profitability. The authors conclude that for Japan to succeed, "the missing link is strategy. Strategy rests on choosing a unique View Details
- 17 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers
undercut a positive message about a product's benefits with safety warnings. That might make you feel uncomfortable and even dissuade you from buying the brand. You might instead buy a competitive product... View Details