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- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
new electronic-based century. I hope that this review of the opportunities for writing the history of electronic-based businesses and industries—the industries that created the infrastructure for the new electronic century—will encourage... View Details
- Web
Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services
importing a text file (e.g., .csv), you may need to request up to 10x the size of the text file. We discourage ongoing reading and writing of text files; to save time and RAM, try to read your text files into binary data files and work... View Details
- 05 Nov 2014
- HBS Seminar
CV Harquail, Authentic Organizations and Stevens Institute of Technology
- 13 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet
require. “Without a soul, without human insight, the capabilities of the machine will be limited,” a group of 13 marketing scholars write in their working paper, Soul and Machine (Learning), which takes a high-level view of the present... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
color on its staff and failed to live up to its equity and inclusion rhetoric. Writing in Fast Company, she explained that by failing to listen to employees, Wing had missed important information about problems that worsened as they went... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 02 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?
organization.” In his book Experimentation Works, Thomke writes that at Booking.com, “experimentation is an integral part of everyday life (where) anyone can conduct or commission a test (without approval from above).” This requires that... View Details
- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
special or amiss in reading Shakespeare and writing Chinese poems in school, eating Indian and Malay food at school canteens, and watching the English Premier League at Irish pubs. Most of my friends spoke another language apart from... View Details
- Blog
What Black Executives Really Want
executive at Blackrock, agreed to help me learn more about this through our joint research. I did not start out to write a paper—I just wanted to learn, to understand what was really happening in America and what racism was. HOW DID YOU... View Details
- 09 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government
lean startup practices needed to be successful in entrepreneurial projects. "In government we announce something and wait to get it perfect. By using more experimental approaches, some public leaders are achieving success by testing and learning instead of View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Research Summary
Career Histories and the Biotechnology Industry
Professor Higgins' other major project focuses on the consequences of individuals' career experiences for firms and industries. This second research stream centers on the careers of executives in the biotechnology industry.
Professor Higgins has written... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
organization that operate under a corporate umbrella. For example, Google Search is a classic transaction platform that connects end users to advertisers, and the Android operating system is a classic innovation platform that enables third parties to View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or Die
Corporations, Wells collects case studies from companies that have learned this lesson—some of them the hard way—and explains how all companies can strategize more intelligently. Michael Blanding: Why did you decide to write a book about... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
the things I write about in these papers are applicable to a large range of Americans. Programs such as automatic defaults and 401(k) defaults, as embodied in proposals like the auto-IRA and AutoSave, are effective and would appeal to... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
world won't help. Q: You write in this book that "earlier thinking about global strategy, which focused only on globalness and networks, was clearly too simple." How so? A: Facing the global economy, many companies made the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
investors, sometimes called “vultures,” have raised vast sums of money for the purpose of investing in distressed companies. As I write about in my book Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring, they employ a variety of strategies... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
crises. Participants will leave this session understanding the state of the art in identifying financial market bubbles, and how predictable crises are. Women Protagonists: On and Off the Page Carin Knoop (MBA 1994), Executive Director, Case Research and View Details
- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
president and CEO of Estée Lauder International Inc. "Ted's writings taught me that relationship management is particularly relevant in a global business," she adds. "I knew every single department store owner in every part... View Details
- Research Summary
Corporate Lobbying Strategy and Foreign MNEs
“U.S. Defense Contracts and the Lobbying Strategies of Foreign MNEs: The Liability of Foreignness and Make-or-Buy Decisions about Political Goods”
Many firms engage in lobbying with the expectation that their lobbying efforts will... View Details
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
with them. The press wants to write about them. Cognitive referents have buzz. McDonald delves into how companies can come to epitomize a market in the working paper Becoming a Cognitive Referent: Market Creation and Cultural Strategy. An... View Details
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
along, but Shelly, can you just tell me, what prompted you to write this case? Santana: I was teaching a course on branding this year, and we were going to do a module on brand storytelling. I thought the Super Bowl is such a unique... View Details