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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

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail

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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

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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

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the Art of American Advertising - Advertising Products

developed into a giant industry, from 60 companies in 1860 to 700 companies in 1890. 8 The newly specialized field of advertising also grew exponentially as it became progressively complex. After the Civil War, for example, copy writing... View Details

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

Kanter says that attention to the issues of numbers, narratives, networks, and new pathways helped these founders not only overcome their own professional obstacles, but elevate others. As she writes in the case: “Their stories raise the... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

07 Nov 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United

decades—he has been at his current club, Manchester United, for over a quarter of a century. Under his leadership, United has become one of the world's most successful franchises in all of sports. So when I learned through an industry contact that there might be an... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation

10 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces

themselves,” she says, noting that the same is often true in any workplace where differences exist. “The fact that we observed an engagement and openness to creating the relationship, despite those stumbles, was definitely one of the reasons to View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

18 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Learning in Action

"The most effective learning strategy depends on the situation," writes David A. Garvin. "There is no stock answer, nor is there a single best approach." In Learning in Action, he illustrated the diversity of learning organization... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin

13 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

their own weaknesses. Please elaborate; you write in your book that "learning how to express your vulnerabilities on appropriate occasions is an emerging leadership skill." A: One of the great myths of leadership in recent years... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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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

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HBS - The year in Review

interviews conducted by Hawkins during the writing of his biography of Termeer, the former chairman, chief executive officer, and president of Genzyme Corp. The collection features 120 interviews with leaders in biotech, science,... View Details

03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

“Rebalancing must occur." -Srikant Datar "Increasingly, we believe, business schools are at a crossroads and will have to take a hard look at their value propositions," the authors write in the introduction. "This was true before the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

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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

Keywords: Non-market Strategy; Political Strategy; Lobbying; Make V. Buy; Multinational Enterprise; Global Strategy; United States

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

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

08 Mar 2021
Blog Post

International Women's Day Featured Stories

leaders to challenge our school to do better. Jessica McNeill Assistant Director, Annual & Reunion Giving For hundreds of years there was a conscious effort to silence Black Voices in America. Words have energy and power so they kept us from reading and View Details

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

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

13 Apr 2021
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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