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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
products of countries where those sports were already widely popular and enjoyed high-caliber infrastructure and player-development systems. The success of these star imports to North America created demand back home, and globally, for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Research Brief: Where Top-Down Tops Out
stay, and job satisfaction of staff. In the study, the researchers looked at CEOs with tenure in at least two organizations and compared the performances of hospitals with new CEOs against those that did not experience a change at the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
If You're #1, Watch Out
You're the top performer in your market. Your products are of such a high quality that they exceed the requirements of all but the most demanding customers, and you're the only one able to serve them. Clear... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
New Spaces: Convening Power
large-scale conference center, a performance space, and an intimate community forum where HBS can harness the energy and creativity of the thousands of students, faculty, alumni, and leaders who will convene there each year. The building... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
focus instead on improving the performance of existing products - what I call sustaining technologies. For this reason, good companies have little difficulty succeeding in sustaining innovation - even... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success
driver of performance in these organizations, regardless of nationality. Eager to determine whether this finding would also hold true among developing economies, Deshpandé and Farley have expanded their study to include information they... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Invest in the New Abnormal
current drought of in-person events. Be human. “Firms that connect emotionally with customers and employees are expected to perform better than firms that just connect physically.” Dettol soap’s #HandWashChallenge generated billions of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The Maestro and the Market
team hope to evoke irony, humor, and even childhood memories with their creations. “We have turned eating into an experience that supersedes eating,” he has said. “If the product is merely food, Adrià should move the restaurant to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Joe Toplyn (MBA 1979)
and I started to learn what it takes to manage an unwieldy production process and to please the fickle consumer. Business school made sense to me because I liked to hatch ideas and make them happen. After HBS I went to work in consumer... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Digging Deep
irritation, Pieper could empathize: Having logged thousands of miles sailing in the Pacific Ocean, she knew that gear is important—that it should be portable, perform well under stress, and preferably look good. It was an aha moment that... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
moderate-income consumers, D2D develops and supports innovative new products and policies that make it easier for people to save. Among its many initiatives, D2D offers individuals and organizations (private employers, the military,... View Details
- 19 Oct 2011
- News
A Good Look
Levy: Ingredients for beauty from an unlikely source. Photo courtesy Kerty Levy A company that manufactures the nutritional ingredients used in animal feed doesn’t seem like the most likely incubator for a beauty products division. But... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Play's the Thing
with his own family." The play, Baron's first, had its off-Broadway premiere in 1997 with Eli Wallach in the title role, and has since been widely produced in the United States and performed in translation in ten other countries. The... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Faculty Books
the most experienced voices at HBS—Bill George, Krishna Palepu, Rakesh Khurana, and Lorsch himself—to address the challenges of governance and the role of corporate boards in wrestling with critical issues like CEO performance and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Talent: The Best Employee Perk?
“[Just] as organizations that invested financial capital more wisely than their rivals performed better in the past, the companies that do the best job of managing time, talent, and energy are the ones that win today’s competitive races.... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
development cycles and can't respond in mid-project to changing customer needs. But there's a solution to this dilemma, according to HBS assistant professor Stefan H. Thomke and Donald G. Reinertsen (MBA '79) of Reinertsen & Associates in California. In a working paper... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
The Corporate Lattice: Achieving High Performance in the Changing World of Work by Cathleen Benko (MBA ’89) and Molly Anderson (Harvard Business Review Press) The authors argue that a lattice model rather than the corporate ladder is... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Preparing Leaders to Leverage Artificial Intelligence
self-driving cars to robots mopping up spills at the grocery store. As computer systems increasingly perform tasks that people once did, the implications for business are enormous. Although more than 80 percent of executives believe AI... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
great reminder to fill every minute with 60 seconds’ worth of distance run.” —Dimitri Dadiomov (MBA 2015), Principal Product Manager, LendingHome Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown “Being an ‘Essentialist’... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Short Takes
members of a work team believe that well-intentioned efforts, regardless of outcome, will neither be seen negatively nor lead to punishment or rejection? New research by HBS assistant professor Amy C. Edmondson shows that such teams are more able to learn - and,... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross