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- 20 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness
At an event at Harvard Business School that was three parts analysis and one part rally, participants tried to chart a new path forward for the sluggish US economy—a move that may require a new definition of... View Details
Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette
- 10 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal
scandal drifted under a larger cloud of national media coverage, applications took a much steeper dive. For instance, when an event received at least one mention in the New York Times—which is considered a... View Details
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
problem: how the business was run ran completely counter to what he’d learned as a child working alongside his entrepreneurial father in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Traveling to New York as the company’s... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
public education linking an employer, the New York City K-12 public education system, and the city's two-year colleges. P-TECH (Pathways in Technology Early College High... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Are Paywalls Saving Newspapers?
in the sample, the mechanisms through which the paywalls increased total revenue varied. “For example,” the study authors write, “the success of the New York Times came from a large increase in print and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Role Model
Theater before moving to New York City in 2012. TV and Off Broadway followed, and in 2022 Qarnain was cast as Mrs. Biology-Kumar and a Muslim cleric, Zaida Khan, in Life of Pi.... View Details
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
the making of the global world over the last two centuries. Individual entrepreneurs and managers invented new products and shaped consumer demand. Firms created and diffused technologies and products, alongside the values in which they... View Details
- 16 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta
qualifications, while expanding new apprenticeship and professional development programs. Now, three years later, Delta is making progress toward hiring and developing more Black talent, with and without college degrees, says Linda Hill,... View Details
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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research
the probabilities of success are low, extremely skewed, and unknowable until an investment is made. At a macro level, experimentation by new firms underlies the Schumpeterian notion of creative destruction. However, at a micro level,... View Details
- 17 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer
investors and employees outlining the economic justifications for their pay ratios, Rouen says. For example, firms can spell out whether a simple factor like geography is creating pay diversity; clearly, an employee in New View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
is the defining issue of our times, and it is one that can only be addressed with the active participation of the private sector. However, persuading well-established organizations to act in new ways is never easy. This book is designed... View Details
- January 2025
- Case
Apax Partners: Deciding Whether to Bid for Trader Corp.
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Edward A. Meyer
Apax Partners’ investment committee was schedule to meet on March 21, 2011, to decide whether to invest in Trader Corporation, a Canadian classified advertising business for used automobiles with both print (magazines) and digital (website) distribution. What made this... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Network Effects; Private Equity; Growth Management; Digital Marketing; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; E-commerce; Valuation; Competition; Digital Platforms; Digital Strategy; Digital Transformation; Transition; Investment; Risk and Uncertainty; Advertising Industry; Auto Industry; Information Industry; Canada; United Kingdom; New York (state, US); New York (city, NY)
- 16 Nov 2021
- HBS Case
How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves
In 2009, a 51-year-old man killed himself in Marseille, a city in southern France, leaving behind a suicide note that blamed his employer for “overwork” and “management by terror.” “I am committing suicide because of my work at France... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter
In his new book, Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter, Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Gautam Mukunda addresses the question of whether leaders create history or are created by it. In this excerpt from Chapter One, he... View Details
- January 2003 (Revised March 2004)
- Case
Army Crew Team, The
By: Scott A. Snook and Jeffrey T. Polzer
The coach of the varsity Army crew team at West Point assembled his top eight rowers into the first crew team and the second tier of rowers into the second team using objective data on individual performance. As the second boat continually beat the first boat in races,... View Details
Snook, Scott A., and Jeffrey T. Polzer. "Army Crew Team, The." Harvard Business School Case 403-131, January 2003. (Revised March 2004.)
- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
reviews are actually the single most important input to our new product development process. We make sure that our new products start from the needs that customers express,” Yang said in an interview in... View Details
- February 2011
- Exercise
Pitch Your Project!
By: Thomas Steenburgh
No matter what you do later in your career, you are going to have to learn how to pitch ideas. Perhaps you will want to convince a venture capitalist to invest in your new business idea. Perhaps you will want to convince your company to develop an innovative product.... View Details
Keywords: Business Plan; Change; Venture Capital; Governing and Advisory Boards; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Marketing; Product Development; Interests; Complexity; Chicago; New York (state, US)
Steenburgh, Thomas. "Pitch Your Project!" Harvard Business School Exercise 511-116, February 2011.
- 05 Oct 2023
- News
On the Move: Massimo (Max) Magni (MBA 2003)
played in the marching band. The group was invited to participate in the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade in New York and had a private, after-hours tour of the store. “They showed us everything—the Christmas... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade
- 28 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
A Crash Course in Saving a Family Business
having a roaster on site and only serving organic coffee are what differentiated Bean&Bean from the many other coffee shops in New York when her family launched the company 12 years ago. While Han knows... View Details
- 07 Nov 2023
- News
Love and Money
improve their chances of finding a partner? Rachel Greenwald (MBA 1993) is a celebrity matchmaker, an executive fellow at HBS, and a New York Times bestselling author of two books about love and... View Details