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- 11 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Meet the MBA Class of 2020
Design Club Mollie Breen “I WENT TO AN MBA PROGRAM BECAUSE I WAS KICKED OFF A REALITY TV SHOW!” HOME REGION Washington, D.C. UNDERGRAD EDUCATION Duke University, Computer Science/Mathematics, 2015 PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Department of Defense... View Details
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
creating psychological safety, and overcoming defensive interpersonal dynamics that inhibit the sharing of ideas. Further, they can use practical management strategies to help organizations realize the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
Fragmented upstream and downstream channels instead persist, with strong odds against upstream suppliers waging a successful defense of material interests. Such distinctive industrial structures, we show, were a direct result of whether... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
strategies and their importance for globalization have been scarce. In The Language of Global Success, Tsedal Neeley provides an in-depth look at a single organization—the high-tech giant Rakuten—in the five years following its English... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
done. Nor was he the elegant Robert E. Lee, fending off superior forces through ingenious defensive maneuvers. Instead he was the relentless Ulysses S. Grant—grinding out a series of costly victories at Shiloh, Vicksburg, and finally in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
behavior of others. In his book Complicit, Professor Max Bazerman offers strategies for recognizing and avoiding the psychological and other traps that lead us to ignore, condone, or actively support wrongdoing in our businesses,... View Details
Carissa Bryce Christensen
security strategy for the US and allies. Carissa guest lectures at Harvard Business School, Georgetown School of Foreign Service, The Wharton School, and the National Defense University. She is frequently... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Defending Your Brand: How Smart Companies Use Defensive Strategy to Deal with Competitive Attacks by Tim Calkins (MBA 1991) (Palgrave Macmillan) Calkins, a professor at the Kellogg School of Management,... View Details
- 16 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist
Several best practices, as explained by past and current masters of judo strategy, can help you reach the top of your game. While there are no substitutes for mastering the concepts of judo strategy and carefully studying your industry... View Details
Keywords: by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak
- 04 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Does Speed Trump Intellectual Property?
there appears to be no legal defense against the knockoff game in women's fashion, network TV executives are apparently helpless to defend against it regardless of how much time they spend deploring the practice. One victim of the Fox... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online
challenges associated with developing, overseeing, or interacting with a platform business Explore strategies for transitioning a product or service into a platform Build offensive and defensive plans to... View Details
- 20 May 2013
- Op-Ed
Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again
As part of his administration's strategy to rejuvenate American manufacturing, President Obama has called for the creation of a National Network of Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI) to advance and diffuse novel manufacturing technologies.... View Details
- Student-Profile
Kala Viswanathan
advocate for clean energy policy at the National Resources Defense Council, Kala came to appreciate the ways that businesses can act as change agents to help advance sustainability. “I started to shift my focus somewhat, which led me to... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Marketing Muscle
marketing experience. Branding, Edwards believes, is the best defense against competition. "It's not technology, because you can leapfrog that or acquire it," she said. "At the end of the day, consumers are loyal to brands, not feature... View Details
- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
its peak in 2017. Over the years, Ping An implemented its finance plus ecosystem strategy through three steps. First, it used technology to enable and increase the competitiveness of its core business of financial services. Second, it... View Details
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
levels, will affect structural conditions." 2 Porter integrated the impact of government into strategy development by focusing on how it affected his "five-forces" analysis of rivals, potential entrants, suppliers,... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is This a Golden Era for Marketing Productivity?
Summing Up Questions raised in this month's column about the possibility of an era of marketing productivity based on innovative research techniques evoked a number of skeptical comments. However, in defense of such techniques, B. V.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
encountered at a subsequent role in Raytheon’s missile defense program. Highly technical specifications were often tracked in low-tech Excel spreadsheets, which meant engineers lost considerable time to paperwork. That was frustrating,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A reformed fiscal policy is vital to renewing US productivity
It would be far better to do so now, rather than at some future date, under duress, when our creditors have begun to lose faith,” Vietor says. He advocates a 2 percent VAT, new taxes on gasoline and carbon emissions, and spending cuts in View Details