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11 Oct 2006
What Do You Think?

How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?

for all to work forever" to Deepak Alse's, "Do not retire employees; treat them as part of an extended family where their services may be required." The timeliness of the issue was emphasized by information from Richard... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Feb 2002
News

It's academic. (Not!)

business administration (DBA) in accounting and control, marketing, policy and management, or technology and operations management. Another option is a joint program with Harvard University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences that grants a Ph.D. in business... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

21 Feb 2019
Blog Post

Machine Learning and Behavioral Economics

policy to work on a side interest, a machine learning tool to help small businesses identify promising business opportunities. “Google has useful information on foot-traffic patterns, plus satellite imagery and other data that can help... View Details

20 May 2022
Blog Post

Nucleate Eco: Connecting Aspiring MBA Entrepreneurs with Cutting Edge Climate Research

closely with Nucleate Bio, who seeks to do the same thing, only they are focused on human health rather than sustainability. As an HBS MBA student, you’re free to apply, whether an RC or EC. You don’t need to have an idea in mind, one of... View Details

18 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask

surprising number don't," he says. Senior leaders should leverage this depth chart information about up-and-comers by delegating to them more extensively. This also allows senior leaders more time to achieve a better match between... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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John H. McArthur | About

committee memberships, and consulting posts in business, government, education, and health care organizations around the world. For many years, he served as chair of Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), which sparked a lifelong... View Details

13 May 2019
Blog Post

The Many Facets of Becoming a Mother at HBS

experiences. What do you wish you knew before coming to HBS? The multiple ways HBS supports student moms; I went in with the mentality that I would have to solve most of the “logistical” issues myself. From classes, exam planning, Harvard View Details

01 Jun 2008
News

You Only Thought You Were Republican

capitalists like Warren Buffett, a hero to many of us, support the Democratic Party. (Warren did two fundraisers for Hillary, two for Barack, one for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and, I am ever so pleased to say, one for the DNC.) How are your... View Details

Keywords: Andrew Tobias; national debt; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Government

18 Sep 2019
Op-Ed

WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?

require them to allocate all of it in an EBIDTA calculation. If these items are included, WeWork’s contribution margin becomes substantially negative. Ultimately, the metric WeWork proposes to use is of marginal utility in analyzing the company’s results. Missing View Details

Keywords: by Nori Gerardo Lietz; Financial Services; Real Estate

01 Mar 2023
News

Step Change

population is approaching 110 million, the highest in the MENA region, with about half of its citizens between the ages of 15 and 45 and the range of mobile-phone penetration well over 90 percent. The market to meet a host of consumer needs is wide open and still... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

10 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 10

insisting that no one's contribution be marginalized, and framing new information within familiar contexts, teams can escape the performance pressure paradox and keep doing their best work when it matters most. Book:... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

09 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad

standards). But the corporate auditing arena is a particularly fertile ground for self-serving biases. Three structural aspects of accounting create substantial opportunities for bias to influence judgment. Ambiguity. Bias thrives wherever there is the possibility of... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, George Loewenstein & Don A. Moore; Accounting; Financial Services

24 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software

use. Census II identifies the most commonly used FOSS components in production applications and begins to examine them for potential vulnerabilities, which can inform actions to sustain the long-term security and View Details

Keywords: by Frank Nagle and Jenny Hoffman; Computer

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

accessible, friendly man. He was always willing to talk about business, share anecdotes, and exchange ideas. He never stopped. He was a living compendium of information about the history of business. I once... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Information Frictions, Pay, and Pay Equity" with Ricardo Perez-Truglia. Ranjay Gulati : Winner of the 2023 Axiom Business Book Award Bronze Medal in the Business Ethics category for Deep Purpose (Harper Business, 2022). 2022 Lauren H.... View Details

12 Oct 2017
News

Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time

multigenerational cycles of poverty. “You can’t expect schools to consistently outperform the health of their neighborhoods,” says Majors, a vice president at Purpose Built Communities, an Atlanta-based, nonprofit consulting group. “The... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

that health care organizations typically fail to analyze or make changes even when people are well aware of failures. Whether medical errors or simply problems in the work process, few hospital organizations dig deeply enough to... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

16 Sep 2020
Blog Post

Turning a Moment into a Movement: Interview with Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders Kenneth and Kevin Chenault

their expertise on what we don’t know.” For example, without a background in website design, the ARF founders turned to Kevin’s classmate, Brendan Lind (JD/MBA 2023) who designed the organization’s online presence used for sharing View Details

March 2016 (Revised May 2018)
Case

ASOS PLC

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

Launched in 2000, ASOS was one of the world’s largest online fashion specialists in 2018. Focusing on young consumers aged 16–25 years, the company offered over 85,000 items on its websites, many times more than the largest fashion stores, and added several thousand... View Details

Keywords: ASOS; AsSeenOnScreen; Online Fashion; Online Apparel; Nick Beighton; Nick Robertson; E-commerce; E-Commerce Strategy; Online Retail; Multichannel Retailing; Omnichannel; Social Media; Marketplaces; Shipping; Advertising; Digital Marketing; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Startups; For-Profit Firms; Customer Focus and Relationships; Age; Gender; Currency Exchange Rate; Profit; Revenue; Geography; Geographic Scope; Global Range; Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business History; Selection and Staffing; Journals and Magazines; Human Capital; Business or Company Management; Crisis Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Succession; Brands and Branding; Marketing Channels; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Product Positioning; Social Marketing; Media; Distribution; Distribution Channels; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Infrastructure; Logistics; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Vertical Integration; Segmentation; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Fashion Industry; Retail Industry; United Kingdom; England; London

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12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

and prosperous than others. And the third, which arose from the second, examines how you can take competitive thinking and apply it to social problems such as the environment, inner cities, and health care. Most of my readers have tended... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

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