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  • 31 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

Five Important Steps before Taking the Entrepreneurial Leap

that pioneered conversational commerce. At Hilma, Hilary leverages her personal passion for consumer products and integrative health with her Harvard MBA, and impressive professional history of launching new consumer brands, to build and operate Hilma's online retail... View Details

    Joseph B. Lassiter

    Joe is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Management Practice in Environmental Management, Retired. He focuses on one of the world’s most pressing problems: developing clean, secure and carbon-neutral supplies of reliable, low-cost energy all around the world. He... View Details

    Keywords: green technology; high technology; internet; oil ＆ gas; private equity (LBO funds); utilities; software; energy
    • 02 Mar 2016
    • Blog Post

    HBS FIELD - A Sneak Peek Into Retail

    Every January HBS sends hundreds of first year business school students to an emerging market for 10 days of cultural and business immersion. Dauntingly, in those 10 days students must acclimate themselves to the new View Details
    Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
    • 05 Feb 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    The Middle Manager of the Future: More Coaching, Less Commanding

    to connect groups with disparate skills—like engineering, sales, and market analysis—at key points in a project. Extensive analysis of job postings Zhang bases his conclusions on a unique linguistic analysis of more than 34 million online... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
    • 30 Apr 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    India’s Ambitious National Identification Program

    Unique Identification System," with Anjali Raina (HBS AMP 174, 2008), executive director of the HBS India Research Center in Mumbai. "Any company that wants to operate in emerging markets that are... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    Management Practices, Relational Contracts and the Decline of General Motors

    By: Susan Helper and Rebecca Henderson
    General Motors was once regarded as one of the best managed and most successful firms in the world, but between 1980 and 2009 its share of the US market fell from 62.6 to 19.8 percent, and in 2009 the firm went bankrupt. In this paper we argue that the conventional... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Structure; Decision Making; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry
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    • 10 Feb 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Chris Blattman, Associate Professor, Columbia SIPA

    • June 2020
    • Teaching Note

    Brand Storytelling at Shinola

    By: Jill Avery, Giana M. Eckhardt and Michael Beverland
    Detroit, Michigan, aka “The Motor City,” is known as the birthplace of most of the American classic automotive brands. It is a city filled with the rich history of the industrial age, the pride of American manufacturing, and of the soulful sounds of Motown music. It is... View Details
    Keywords: Brand Storytelling; Brand Management; Brand Management Of Places; Luxury Brand; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Communications; Advertising; Luxury; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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    • 24 Aug 2015
    • News

    The Workplace Culture That Flying Nannies Won’t Fix

    • 18 Nov 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: November 18

      Publications November 2014 Wiley Encyclopedia of Management Management as a Profession By: Khurana, Rakesh, and Eric Baldwin Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1119972515.html November 2014 View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 08 Nov 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: Nov. 8

    industry to measure to what extent waiting-time performance impacts different firms' market shares and price decisions. We report on a large-scale empirical industrial organization study in which the demand equations for fast-food... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • September 2005 (Revised January 2006)
    • Case

    Yum! Brands, Inc: A Corporate Do-Over

    By: Frances X. Frei, Amy C. Edmondson, James Weber and Eliot Sherman
    Describes the successful turnaround of the restaurant company Yum! Brands after its spin off from PepsiCo and covers how the company's leadership planned and executed on virtually every dimension of the employee experience. The main dilemma centers on what the company... View Details
    Keywords: Product; Brands and Branding; Service Operations; Expansion; Trade; Leadership Development; Business or Company Management; Food and Beverage Industry; Retail Industry
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    • 28 May 2024
    • In Practice

    Job Search Advice for a Tough Market: Think Broadly and Stay Flexible

    a former senior partner at McKinsey. Letian Zhang: Collaborative skills are increasingly important The labor market is changing in a lot of ways. Some of my recent work looks at changing skill requirements... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • Teaching Interest

    Competing in the Age of Digital Platforms—(Executive Education)

    By: David B. Yoffie
    Summary

    Without exception, the most valuable companies in the world today are platforms. Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, and many other firms have built their fortunes by facilitating innovation across global ecosystems or... View Details
    Keywords: Platforms; Technology; Strategy; Digital Business; Social Networks; Self-driving Cars; Mobile Gaming; Esports; Financial Services; Online Retail; Ride-sharing; Search; Auctions; United States; Asia; China; Europe
    • 09 Oct 2020
    • HBS Seminar

    Jeffrey L. Furman, BU, Questrom Sch of Business

    • Program

    Leading Professional Service Firms

    frameworks you need to develop and retain talent, deliver outstanding client service, and build a flexible corporate culture that can exploit disruptive innovation and market trends. Key Benefits In this intensive program led by... View Details
    Keywords: Professional Services; Professional Services
    • November, 2016
    • Article

    Fixing Discrimination in Online Marketplaces

    By: Ray Fisman and Michael Luca
    Online marketplaces such as eBay, Uber, and Airbnb have the potential to reduce racial, gender, and other forms of bias that affect the off-line world. And in the early days of Internet commerce, the relative anonymity of transactions did make it harder for... View Details
    Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Race; Gender
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    • March 2007
    • Supplement

    Bain & Company, Inc.

    In late 2001, the consultancy Bain must decide whether to launch information technology as a practice area within the firm. The senior executives who are Bain's clients have been asking more and more IT-related questions of the firm's partners, who find themselves... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Information Technology; Market Entry and Exit; Information Technology Industry; Consulting Industry
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    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Where Strategy Matters: Evidence from a Global Startup Field Study

    By: Nataliya Langburd Wright
    The role of strategy for innovative startups is theoretically ambiguous and much debated among practitioners. I interviewed executives of 253 scaling software ventures from 34 countries and scored the alignment of their market and organizational choices to detect... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship And Strategy; Scaling Technology Ventures; Global Contextual Intelligence; Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Global Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy
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    • Program

    Mergers and Acquisitions

    Summary Across the globe, mergers and acquisitions are reshaping the corporate and competitive landscape. To help companies gain a strategic advantage and expand market share, this M&A program takes you inside the process—from strategy... View Details