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07 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

As the COVID-19 virus pandemic began to sweep across the world, Doug McMillon and his team at Walmart watched in horror. Suddenly, they realized, tomorrow would be nothing like “business as usual” and everything in the company’s marketing... View Details

Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman

25 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 25

alongside those offering a larger number of candidates, even though the existing literature on network effects suggests that the latter should always dominate the former. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-098.pdf Varied Experience, View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 23

more than 250,000 invitees, resulting in 150 research ideas and hypotheses. The goal of opening up idea generation and disaggregating the different stages of the research process was to expand the number and range of people who might participate. Today, seven View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Mar 2016
News

David Moss is Rewriting History

market in early 18th-century Japan, Wall Street’s first financial panic in 1792, and the Federal Reserve’s highly controversial response to the global financial turmoil of 1931. The course debuted in the spring 2008 term; six weeks later... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2023
News

Buy Big, Sell Small

connection. “But then COVID-19 hit,” she says, “and all of India stopped traveling.” The risks Shruti had considered in the abstract became real. “The 15 people on my team had devoted a year of their lives to the travel venture,” she... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; retail; supply chain management; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Jan 2012
News

Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993

translates to “optimism”—into one of Japan’s most successful businesses and a thriving global enterprise. Through savvy investments, strategic partnerships, and acquisitions, he has expanded the company rapidly and diversified its... View Details

19 Apr 2023
News

A Kick Start for Latin American Startups

MAYA invests in a startup, the goal is to support the first round of funding—launching the team and putting it in a position to successfully raise a second round. "Most of the funds in this region invest, and that's it," explains Saggioro... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

03 Nov 2021
Blog Post

Recent Grad Reflections: From Being Cold Called to Becoming a Case Protagonist

opportunities for themselves, and miss chances to create opportunities for others.” As a member of the Class of 2020, my final semester and commencement was abruptly disrupted by the global pandemic. I graduated from HBS View Details

12 Mar 2021
News

My Favorite Case

the facts as they were known a week after the incident occurred and raises a wide range of questions regarding consumer behavior, corporate responsibility, and competitive reaction. I recall only two cases that we spent more than one class period discussing: the... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

08 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate

Efforts to restrict women’s sexual behavior date back centuries in virtually every region of the world. Now, the end of Roe v. Wade in the United States has returned such limitations on women to the contemporary spotlight. Yet, the desire... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

a Google doc or Slack. This is how virtual companies work. If you and I are working as a team, I can work in a Google doc and explain what I’ve done, and you can wake up in a different time zone or city, open it up, and see the work I’ve... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

02 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

asserted that negotiation should be a core skill for virtually all managers. Why? How can managers who are not directly involved with deal making assess and hone their own skills on a regular basis? A: Most important managerial problems... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Business Insights Blog | HBS Online

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11 Apr 2024
Blog Post

Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #17: Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO of Celeste

celestial, or sky. “It also means a shade of the color blue and can be easily translated and understood in languages as different as English, Spanish, Greek ( /Seleste) and Arabic ( /Seylest)." The universality of the name is important for a company hoping to work in... View Details

01 Nov 2022
What Do You Think?

Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?

reported that, “ my entire team has reported registering for virtual conferences but not really feeling they could fully set aside time to engage fully as they would if they traveled to a conference.”... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

27 May 2022
Blog Post

Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023

Force Academy; History major Military experience: US Air Force Intelligence Officer; current US Air Force Reserve Intelligence Officer What do you think helped you stand out during the application process? As an Intelligence Officer, I had the opportunity to lead... View Details

28 Mar 2024
Blog Post

Empowering Future Leaders: Meet the HBS Women’s Student Association

(CHRO, L’Oreal USA), and Victoria A. Budson (Partner & Global Head of DEI at Bain Capital), as well as six panels and our second annual startup pitch competition. Panel speakers included women execs and female founders from a variety... View Details

02 Aug 2007
What Do You Think?

How Will Millennials Manage?

thus invigorate their teams and provide cultures that are profitable not because they are forced to, but because they want to." David Mullings added, "We will in fact treat our employees the way we expect to be treated."... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

17 Jul 2008
Working Paper Summaries

A Replication Study of Alan Blinder’s “How Many U.S. Jobs Might Be Offshorable?”

Keywords: by Troy Smith & Jan W. Rivkin

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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

distinct challenges of leading larger, more dispersed teams Develop strategies for planning and engineering organizational change and innovation initiatives Shape your organizational culture and architecture to maximize talent, leverage... View Details

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