Continuous Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

on "maximizing profits at all times rather than playing games with the numbers" to meet artificial annual targets. I've seen some annual budget processes that didn't take any time at all.— William J. Bruns Jr.,HBS professor emeritus View Details

Keywords: by Loren Gary

04 May 2020
Blog Post

6 Things You Should Know About the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

they view you and whether your narrative sounds true to who you are. Start brainstorming about potential recommenders and continue to develop your rapport with them because their support can go a long way in... View Details

19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53633 Characterizing the Drug Development Pipeline for Precision Medicines By: Chandra, Amitabh, Craig Garthwaite, and Ariel Dora Stern... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

09 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Where to Find Remote Work Now: 250 Million Job Postings Paint a Complex Picture

authors write. Jobs based in San Francisco, Boston, and New York continue to offer a high-level of job postings with one or more days a week of remote work. Miami, among other cities in the southern US, is almost back to its pre-pandemic... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

06 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Are You a Level-Six Leader?

illustrates what the portfolio of levels might look like for a 35-year-old executive. This picture, however, is not static. Man is capable, though not always assured, of continuing moral development. The sense or the meaning we give to... View Details

Keywords: by Mitch Maidique

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Faculty and Research - Alumni

scholarship that ensures the School’s continued educational excellence and its impact on business and society. Watch more videos about faculty members' research activities The Insights we need to Educate Leaders Six faculty members... View Details

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Published CSV Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

course, visit the HBS Executive Education site . For more information about a published case, click its title. CVS currently in development Founded in 1963, CVS Health (CVS) was the leading drugstore chain in the United States.... View Details

31 May 2023
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2023

perspective, and I really enjoyed that.” Pivot: “A few years after medical school, I was teaching, seeing patients, and researching interesting science problems, but I wasn’t transforming human disease. I realized that what I wanted to do is discover and View Details

Keywords: leadership; management; work-life balance

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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

polarized light and mirages and Wood's own way of doing things. . . . I decided that the world needed a synthetic polarizer, an extensive sheet of polarizing material, in order to be able to carry out on a large scale all the things implied by Wood's stories." 8 Land... View Details

17 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 17

two-sided platforms and indirect network effects to develop an explanation why markets with two-sided platforms are often characterized by incompatibility with one dominant player who may subsidize access to one side of the market. We... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Feb 1999
News

Too Much of a Good Thing?

commercial and trade activity and agreements, with mountains of up-to-the-minute data available to firms and governments for making sophisticated projections, why do industries and countries continue to overproduce and create such... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

28 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 28

months since it went live. But traction with the firm’s developer friendly product, an API that allows large enterprise customers to automate their shipping needs, had initially been slow until one customer single handedly tripled the API... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research

Business Administration and co-head of the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. Consider that between the 1950s and 1980s, Uncle Sam’s spending on research and development (R&D) rose fivefold from less than $20 billion to more... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

April 2010
Case

A Giant Among Women

By: Willy C. Shih, Ethan S Bernstein, Maly Hout Bernstein, Jyun-Cheng Wang and Yi-Ling Wei

Few CEOs successfully manage the evolution of their companies from OEM outsourcer to branded manufacturer to expert consumer marketer as well as Tony Lo, CEO of Giant Manufacturing Co. Ltd., now the largest bicycle manufacturer in the world. In the mid-1980s, Giant... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Customer Focus and Relationships; Global Strategy; Gender; Customer Satisfaction; Product Development; Bicycle Industry; Taiwan

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19 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Handicapping the Best Countries for Business

performance trends forward—perhaps three to five years. The USA must deal with these issues now if we're going to maintain our competitive advantage. Thus, for example, the U.S. has a huge current account deficit. No matter what happens to presidents, parties, or... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2023
News

Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan

find new ways to continue their commitment to service, but that when they started at the School, “we didn’t know how we were going to do that.” Nurturing Breakthrough Ideas READ MORE STORIES Nurturing Breakthrough Ideas READ MORE STORIES... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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John H. McArthur | About

on August 20, 2019 outside Boston, Massachusetts. His energy and leadership kept HBS at the forefront of business education and laid a foundation of intellectual growth and development on which the School View Details

07 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

How Do You Value a “Free” Customer?

surprised to find that, at the current time, in our data the value of an additional buyer is almost the same as the value of an additional seller even though the ratio of sellers to buyers is almost four to one. Q: Will you continue with... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Web Services

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Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online

innovation to develop winning, executive-level strategy and position your business for growth. 6 weeks 5-6 hours per week 5 modules Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online. What... View Details

25 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker

some kind of conspiratorial development that was imposed by manipulative entrepreneurs trying to make women feel a certain way. It was much more organic and part of a huge social transformation." Church And Capital One of the secrets... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Beauty & Cosmetics

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