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- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
morning with guns drawn. They seized every server and desktop computer. They are telling us nothing. Not only is our website down—it is in federal custody.” Holy s#$@. With no clue as to what was going on, the company was toast. Why would any investor, business... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
high-skilled migration. We highlight some key recent findings and outline major gaps that we hope will be tackled in the near future. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51997 Henry Kissinger:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
Olympic Committee, the host country and city, its businesses, and local residents, and can serve to illustrate the key tensions as well as best practices in social marketing initiatives. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
Based on surveys gathered from 140 employees in a division of a global chemical company, we found that direct knowledge and reflected knowledge enhanced trust differentially. While both enhanced feelings of closeness with others, results... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
weapon called life experience. Just Change: How to Collaborate for Lasting Impact by Tynesia Boyea-Robinson (MBA 2005) (Advantage Media Group) Equal access to opportunities for all citizens is the key to a sustainable national economy. To... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
In the course of their outstanding professional careers, this year’s five recipients of the Alumni Achievement Award — the School’s highest honor — have had an enormous impact on the world of business. A surprising key to their success?... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
laptops, cases of champagne, and other kinds of recognition to individuals who in some way had distinguished themselves. When a faculty secretary finally made a long-anticipated visit to her ancestral home in Italy, he gave her a camera and asked her to bring back... View Details
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
in late 2005. He thought the evaluation program was critical for permeating the vision and values throughout the bank and was eager to roll out the program to a larger number of employees next year. Pedersen wondered how he should improve... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
years required to bring a drug to market—and the potential for failure looming every step of the way—the business of biotech is one of managing uncertainty over time. HBS professor Gary P. Pisano, a longtime observer of the industry, points to two View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
supplement: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208125 China's Financial Markets: 2007 Harvard Business School Note 208-147 Provides an overview of capital markets in mainland China in 2007, evaluating the up-to-date... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
mind-set and will be expected to offer your CEO deep insights on key business decisions. This article explores those developments in more detail and explains other findings about the latest requirements in each of seven C-level jobs: CIO,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
HBS professor Richard S. Tedlow draws on hours of in-depth interviews with Grove, other key Intel employees, and numerous high-technology entrepreneurs to craft a revealing, instructive portrait of a man and the company he built into one... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
employees of international firms, Neeley’s research also looks at how distant workers collaborate with colleagues through various means of communication—electronic, voice, or in person—to advance work and relationship goals. Such contacts... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
working internationally and to seek ways to have a bigger impact,” she says. “One of the key components of my career has always been how to make an impact.” Logging more frequent flier miles than Carmen Sandiego, Brooks continued to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
the conception, development, and implementation of the Corporate Services Corps (CSC), an international community service assignment for high-potential IBM employees. The year 2008 was the pilot year of the CSC program, and 100 of IBM's best global View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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skill-building exercises. Those without prior negotiation coursework should read 3D Negotiation by Lax and Sebenius in its entirety before class begins to become familiar with key concepts and terminology that others who have taken an... View Details
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
in 2001 with Alec Machiels (MBA '01) at the helm, its plan hinged on a mechanism created by a team of Harvard and MIT scientists that used atomic force microscopy in drug research. "A number of the scientists decided that being part of a start-up wasn't for them, but... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
of a start-up wasn’t for them, but one key person stayed,” Machiels recalls. “The Internet bubble had just burst, but we were still able to secure a funding commitment. Unfortunately at the same time I started to realize that the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
What is it about HBS that has produced such a steady stream of remarkable entrepreneurs whose endeavors have changed American life in the postwar decades? The creative impact of the case method, as noted earlier, should not be underestimated. But in addition to that... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
battling among themselves, were willing to pay ever-increasing sums for the rights to broadcast sports. Charles G. "Chase" Carey (MBA '81), chairman and CEO of Fox Television, was the driving force behind Fox's broadcast agreements with... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons