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- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
expertise on how technology is helping leading companies gain an edge during the pandemic. For example, Lauren Cohen observed: “Technology will be most powerfully utilized . . . by those firms who apply it organization-wide to create more... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Vision: Into the Breach
Cyberattacks are surging: Accenture reports that cyber intrusions jumped by 125 percent, globally, in the first half of 2021 over the same period in 2020. And while all those data breaches and ransomware attacks have meant major headaches for View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 05 May 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is This a Golden Era for Marketing Productivity?
respondents concerned the misuse of such techniques. As Tom Henkel put it, "I'm sure the same companies that wasted time and money on poorly designed surveys and focus groups will engage in similarly misguided neuroscience and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Career Coach
Jon Puz
background spans from small to large companies across most sectors of the industry (particularly health IT / digital health, healthcare services, provider, payor, and some pharma/biotech). Jon also has... View Details
- Mar 2012
- Report
Enriching the Ecosystem
they are far more effective when they're networked. By collaborating to bridge the gaps between them, business, academic, and policy leaders can help generate more ideas, start-ups, company growth, global competitors, and prosperity. In... View Details
- Profile
Mark Gundersen
general-management program appealed to me. But I've become an enormous fan of the case method. From a career perspective, great investors are able to recognize patterns in companies and markets and apply that insight to their choices.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Sarah Talley’s Key Negotiation Principles
ignore small issues or let things fester. Do not let Wal-Mart become more than 20 percent of your company’s business. It’s hard to negotiate with a company that controls yours. Never go into a meeting... View Details
Richard W. Sears
After having much success selling a small order of watches he had come across while working as a telegrapher, Sears entered the merchandising business full time and devoted his business to rural, relatively poor farmers. Though Sears was... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- Career Coach
Christina LaMontagne
Christina (HBS '09, Dartmouth '03) has held senior roles across innovative healthcare companies. She has led small digital health companies to achieve market leadership and >$100M ARR and has helped... View Details
John F. Dryden
In 1881, Dryden became head of the company he helped found six years prior. He grew the company from less than $4 million in receipts in 1879 to more than $17 million in receipts by 1899, and from 1 million... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Books
patterns of corporate governance and finance between the early 20th century and the 1990s. To attract investors, the statutes of companies organized before 1910 often included stronger protections for small... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
turn, means putting the "mom-and-pop" operations cherished in American lore out of business. Indeed, the creation of the Standard Oil Trust in 1882, which put small companies out of business and... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
Garner A. Beckett
Through a series of four mergers, Beckett transformed his small Riverside Cement Company into the American Cement Corporation, one of the largest providers in the United States. During his tenure, the... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma
keep up, he said, they create the potential for a disrupter to take hold: to fill a ready niche and quietly, over time, expand and invade the market. And as each company gets big and successful, it loses its ability to pursue View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
center the company remodeled, is expected to cost about $200,000 to break even.) The sector is not of interest to venture capital or many angels. The company is too small for... View Details
- 11 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS
Conversations as Coffee Chats at other MBA schools. These 1:1 or small group meetings are a great way to connect with companies and get to know them on a personal level. View Details
- 10 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Retail
makes them important partners for retail companies seeking to attract and retain talent. What Students Want HBS student interest in retail has remained steady over the past five years with approximately 3% of the class joining the... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
later volunteered teaching at a prison. A couple of years after leaving HBS, I became interested in the idea of the ROI of higher ed; that a college degree used to be the best investment someone could make, and was quickly becoming one of the worst. I spent a year... View Details
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Scott D. Cook | Baker Library
basic software that would help people pay their bills quickly and easily, via their PCs. He launched Intuit in 1984, which today offers software and online products to help individuals and small companies... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Betting big on star power can be a winning strategy in business—not just show business
Researching the entertainment industry, Anita Elberse, the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration, has found that blockbuster strategies work. Content producers who pursue these strategies make huge investments in a small... View Details