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- 09 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Starbucks’ Lessons for Premium Brands
Starbucks' announcement that it will close 600 stores in the United States is a long-overdue admission that there are limits to growth. In February 2007, a leaked internal memo written by founder Howard Schultz showed that he recognized... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)
I'll Have the Ice Cream Soon and the Vegetables Later: Decreasing Impatience over Time in Online Grocery Orders by Todd Rogers, Katherine L. Milkman, and Max H. Bazerman. If you have resolved to exercise more, try ignoring what your peers... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?
continues to be most-served market in Europe for private equity, said Allen Haight, a partner in Permira. "When I arrived in 1989, people were saying that there was too much money chasing too few deals. And people are still saying... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- Op-Ed
4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World
harness the power of business to address some of society’s most significant problems, not as a separate part of employees’ lives—businessperson by day, volunteer by night—but as an integrated whole, working... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 15 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2021
by Cynthia Montgomery and Ashley Whillans show how mistreating workers can have deadly consequences. 6. Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner A study of General Electric employees by Tom... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?
global challenges on their responses. Sudip Bose put it this way: "Venerated works of Milton Friedman have influenced government policies. . . . But, his shadow will be relentlessly chased primarily by... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Jul 2004
- What Do You Think?
Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?
of work is going to ... increase morale." Faisal Shaheen takes the matter one step further by asserting that "If not supported and recharged, households will not be able to add productive talent to the future labor force."... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Nov 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms
acquisition, development, and retention is a key topic for financial firms that Groysberg raises in his new book, Chasing Stars: the fact that stars often suffer a decrease in performance when they move from one firm to another. Too... View Details
- 17 Jul 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence
not only changed how Yoffie designed the course, called Strategy and Technology, but it's also changing how managers in tech-intensive companies are dealing with this issue on the front lines. Yoffie begins the course by exploring the... View Details
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
social services have to be provided, and those costs tend to offset any tax-base revenues gained from housing. By contrast, with light industry, towns get the tax base without having to add a lot of social services. So communities that... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The VC Quandary: Too Much Money
and Russia. Too Many Deals? HBS professor William A. Sahlman, the panel's moderator, noted: "One of the historical factors in the venture capital industry…wasn't too much money chasing too few deals. It was too much money going... View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
came to this country chasing the American dream. I never thought I would be Dean of Harvard Business School." When Harvard President Drew Faust called on May 4 to inform him that he was her choice, Nohria, drawing on his years of... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
Property), lured by the prospect of exciting careers in a hot market. But the question arises: After several boom years, is commercial real estate ripe for another fall? I don't see risks that you would associate with a bubble.—Stephen... View Details
Invested in Detroit
April 11, 2018 - Karen Mills leads a discussion between Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan and JPMorgan Chase's President and CEO Jamie Dimon and Head of Corporate Responsibility Peter Scher for a discussion on cross-sector collaboration to drive economic opportunity in... View Details
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
for cadavers. Anteby's current research examines the morality of markets by focusing on the U.S. supply and demand of cadavers for medical research and education.) Anyone who has been trained as a physician—or is close to someone who has... View Details
- 11 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Committing to Work and Family: Allison Boxer (MBA 2012)
back to work, and I knew right away I wanted more time at home with him. I thought I would fall back into work, but I found that it wasn’t what I wanted. As someone who was used to chasing career goals, it was an unexpected discovery.... View Details
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- 11 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Committing to Work and Family: Allison Boxer (MBA 2012)
generation of impact leaders. Along the way, my husband and I had a son. Three months after becoming a mom, I went back to work, and I knew right away I wanted more time at home with him. I thought I would fall back into work, but I found that it wasn’t what I wanted.... View Details
- 19 Feb 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Amazoned: Is Any Industry Safe?
announced earlier this month intention to join megapartners Warren Buffett and JPMorgan Chase on some still mysterious project in the fastest-growing market of them all, health care. These stories from our archive suggest the great impact... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age
doctoral candidate Lisa R. Klein and MIT professor Ernst R. Berndt, offer some important insights. The researchers begin by identifying forces both inside and outside the media industry that are influencing... View Details