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Understanding the Benefits of Our Virtual Programs

stories and painful lessons learned are worth their weight in gold. A great many of these would have been missing on campus. NO: The virtual classroom was amazing! It felt like you were engaging in a genuine... View Details

06 Dec 2022
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Meet the Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA) Club

Acquisition (ETA) is a great career path. Club Mission The Club’s mission is two-fold. First, we intend to provide potential searchers with the network and resources needed to... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

2020
Book

Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company's Capabilities Are the Key to a Winning Strategy

By: Michael Beer

Is Silence Killing Your Strategy?
In his thirty years of working in corporations, Harvard Business School professor Michael Beer has witnessed firsthand how organizational silence derails strategic objectives. When employees can't speak truth to power, senior... View Details

Keywords: Honesty; Communication; Organizational Culture; Trust; Strategy; Performance Effectiveness

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20 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular 'Cold Call' Podcasts

business practices. Professor Rebecca Henderson discusses what she calls the paradigmatic case: how Wal-mart takes huge risks, makes great strides, and demonstrates how companies are one of View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

26 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way to Go to Market

could possibly remember and convey. In other words, one should not jump to the conclusion that because the Internet appears cheaper it can solve a company's go-to-market problem. View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Introduction - The Medium - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

The Message The Product The Production The Worker The Audience Bibliography The... View Details

10 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table

In a new book, Breakthrough International Negotiation: How Great Negotiators Transformed the World's Toughest Post-Cold War Conflicts, Harvard Business School professor Michael Watkins dissects View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins

30 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: Preparing to Sell

great resources available to help with financial planning and asset management. Make the family strategic plan before you search for investment advisors. And before you do that, take View Details

Keywords: by Jonathan Pellegrin; Food & Beverage; Retail

09 Feb 2024
HBS Case

Slim Chance: Drugs Will Reshape the Weight Loss Industry, But Habit Change Might Be Elusive

to reduce appetite have become very popular. Lambert: Is this the American model for weight management: different programs for different needs and attitudes? Herzlinger: Yes. Employers have tried to offer successful fitness plans, and... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Health; Pharmaceutical

Anil Jain

Keywords: Agribusiness

31 May 2017
What Do You Think?

Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?

retailing? What do you think? References: James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser, Jr., and Leonard A. Schlesinger, “Leading for the Future of Services,” Chapter 8 in What Great Service Leaders Know & Do... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

09 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Education, Technology, and Business: What’s the Catch?

parents, students, and teachers are all invested in the company/school's success. Individualizing education, most likely via technology, is another important trend, said Fishman, pointing to research on the... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler; Education

29 Jul 2021
Blog Post

Exploring the Intersection of Business & Health Care: Summer Fellow Derek Soled (MD/MBA 2022)

obstacles have on health inequities has solidified my desire to work at the intersection of medicine and public health as a both a practicing physician and policymaker. Healthcare has the potential to... View Details

01 Sep 2018
News

In My Humble Opinion: In the Deal

to invest outside the core market, because there is less noise, great founders are sometimes overlooked when not in the Valley, and they often solve problems more applicable to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

23 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Will the “Long Tail” Work for Hollywood?

retailers trying to balance their stock. Future research should provide an even deeper look into how and why online channels drive a shift in sales toward the tail. Elberse sees great potential in studying... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation

15 Jul 2020
Blog Post

From Teacher to Student: The Important Ways HBS Professors Showed Me How to Lead

leadership. They both require being deeply committed to and supportive of the development of your people, making the extra effort to get to know them fully, and showing care even in View Details

26 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

Where is Home for the Global Firm?

in my MBA elective course International Financial Management, students are required to write a paper. Two really great students—Billy Rahm and Stefan Kowski (both MBA '06)—wrote a paper on the "repotting" of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Oct 2017
News

Radical Generosity for the Real World

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Growing up in a single parent household outside of Chicago, Ami Campbell's (MBA 1997) thoughts on money were mainly focused on scarcity. As she writes in the... View Details

2015
Working Paper

The Impact of Funds: An Evaluation of CDC 2004-12

By: Josh Lerner, Ann Leamon, Steve Dew and Dong Ik Lee

CDC was founded in 1948 as part of the U.K. government's efforts to develop the economic resources of Britain's remaining colonies. Since then, CDC has pursued a series of strategies to "do good without losing money," as its original mission was phrased. Its approach... View Details

Keywords: Investment Funds; Great Britain