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- 01 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
What is the HBS Latin America Club?
Last October, around 100 HBS Latin American students, together with our families, celebrated the beginning of a new semester with a weekend retreat in Cape Cod. At this annual celebration we welcomed the... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Getting New Ideas off the Ground
perspective, the great opportunity is to build products that delight people across the globe, but also to create jobs and opportunities for people to explore their creativity... View Details
- 11 Jul 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Deconstructing 'Customer Experience'
With the help of LEGO bricks, business executives discover how design principles can serve as building blocks to create a great customer experience. How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of... View Details
- January 2003 (Revised January 2008)
- Case
The British Motorcycle Industry at a Crossroads
By: Jan W. Rivkin
By 1975, the collapse of the British motorcycle industry is nearly complete. Only one British manufacturer, NVT, remains in operation. In this setting, the British government commissions the Boston Consulting Group to identify and evaluate strategic alternatives for... View Details
Keywords: Cost; Industry Structures; Business and Government Relations; Mathematical Methods; Competition; Consulting Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Motorcycle Industry; Great Britain
Rivkin, Jan W. "The British Motorcycle Industry at a Crossroads." Harvard Business School Case 703-031, January 2003. (Revised January 2008.)
- 11 Jan 2016
- Blog Post
Meet the Business and Environment Initiative
career advice and direction. The BEI Student Advisory Board is another great way for interested MBA’s to contribute to the mission of the... View Details
- 12 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career
League in the MIT Sloan Management Review. "As research on the National Football League reveals, sometimes the specific nature of a job determines whether a View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
it's hard. I have kids and so sometimes it's hard. So I do watch movies at home as well. Nowadays TVs are so great and you can get so many great movies on Netflix. And so no, I watch most event movies in... View Details
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
marketing allocation decisions. Many interesting and useful techniques have been developed over the past 20 years that might be brought to bear in addressing these problems, and we thought it would be great... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Happy New Year: The HBS Alumni Board's Newest Members Look to the Future
meeting will be the same. It's a challenge in that so much of the value of the Alumni Board comes from new relationships and shared learning, and that can be more difficult... View Details
- 2009
- Chapter
The Decline and Renewal of British Multinational Banking.
By: G. Jones and Lucy Newton
This chapter discusses the renaissance of British multinational banking from the 1990s. British commercial banks had pioneered multinational banking during the 19th century, but they were unable to build on this legacy during the new wave of global banking that began... View Details
- 03 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Viewpoints: Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Aveeram WindBeing Responsible Towards the Environment Is a Great Financial Investment+Jennifer Tisdel Schorsch (MBA 1992) President, Water.orgIntegrate Water Strategy into Business Strategy+Michael Skelly... View Details
- 07 May 2015
- Blog Post
Career Change: From the Military to Consulting
you planning to do after HBS? After HBS I will work as a management consultant at Bain & Company in New York. I knew I wanted to move into the private sector, and consulting is a great way to gain... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
you laugh at. And if you can do that, I guarantee you'll have a great life. Hi, my name is Joseph Meyer. Section E, 2007. My wife and I have four kids. One of things that I've thought about a lot when it comes to happiness is View Details
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”
more rapid learning from internal and external use of those technologies. Q: In days gone by, the great R&D labs were affordable only to the largest companies. Can smaller... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
"In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions of the next seven generations." —from the Great Law of View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
Paul Callahan (MBA 1992) is the captain of his own fate. A freak accident at age 21 left him a quadriplegic. That transformative moment led him, ultimately, to take the helm of Sail to Prevail, a nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
heightened uncertainty? While we are still far from knowing what constitutes a “best practice,” there is already a great deal of experimentation emerging globally. To provide an early report of these emerging approaches, over View Details
- 03 Jan 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?
that the Girl Scouts paid for their operations out of money earned from cookie sales. It was a set of assumptions difficult to change; it mattered a great deal in an organization in which each of View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain
to port.” Because of world events, the country is also seeing great opportunity. Alvarez explains that Argentina and Brazil have become beneficiaries of the trade war between... View Details
- 30 Sep 2024
- News
The Making of a Streaming Sensation
over the past seven years or so. But the audience still has a voracious appetite for great content. There's this sort of consumer expectation that they're always going to be... View Details