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01 Jun 2002
News

Up to the Challenge: Martin Gonzalez - Quiet Courage

listed volleyball as an interest on their class cards!” “Everyone here has a powerful story to tell.” “Everyone here has a powerful story to tell.” Elated, from the start, at View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; courage; sports; illness; cancer; international students; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

Career Coach

Phillip Andrews

Phillip (MPA, New Hampshire ’06; JD, Suffolk Law ’09) is formerly a Corporate Relations Director in HBS Career & Professional Development responsible for employer relations in Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Education; Emerging Markets; Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Government; Social Enterprise; Clean Technology; Energy; Telecommunications; Impact Investing; Financial Services (All); Manufacturing; Auto/Transportation/Logistics

03 Oct 2017
News

Can Bezos’s Ties to Boston—and HBS—Seal the Deal?

In the battle to land Amazon’s second American headquarters, Boston may have an historical advantage with CEO Jeff Bezos. A recent Boston Globe article details Bezos ties to the area, which began with a... View Details

Keywords: Retail Trade

01 Aug 2008
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Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?

stretch goal would be a turnover of 10 in five years, with improvements toward that goal recognized and rewarded on a year-to-year basis. One goal of this philosophy was to eliminate the time-wasting annual budgeting game in which View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

12 Jul 2019
News

The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster

collar and a sketch on a Palo Alto bar napkin helped launch a tech giant. READ MORE Jen Flint: I wondered if the two of you could go back and tell us the story of how you wound up writing this business plan... View Details

19 Dec 2016
News

Harvard Students Help Mom-and-Pop Shops Get off the Ground

Along the way, the students are learning lessons that their classroom experience has perhaps only hinted at. “It’s one thing to learn in a case study environment,” said senior lecturer Kristin W. Mugford,... View Details

Keywords: retail

29 Feb 2016
HBS Case

Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can

cities” field. “I wanted to explore the opportunities and challenges of selling to government in a company that is moving from selling hardware in big chunks to selling software as a service,” says Weiss, View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy

12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 08 Apr 2015
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Closing The Middle-Skills Gap: How Business Leaders Can Help

In this session, Professor Fuller will discuss research on the role of businesses in closing middle-skills gaps. He will explain why the traditional definition of middle skills is inadequate and present a unique view of jobs data. He will argue that by adopting a... View Details

July 2010 (Revised March 2013)
Case

One Firm One Future at Davis Langdon (A)

By: Robert G. Eccles and Kaitlyn A. Simpson

Senior Partner Rob Smith just led construction consultancy firm Davis Langdon through a major organizational change in Europe and the Middle East. In the past, compensation arrangements had not incentivized partners to collaborate across the firm to serve clients'... View Details

Keywords: Profit Sharing; Global Strategy; Compensation and Benefits; Leading Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Partners and Partnerships; Cooperation; Expansion; Consulting Industry; Europe; Middle East

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March 2019 (Revised May 2019)
Case

Fetchr: A New Way of Last Mile Delivery

By: V.G. Narayanan and Eren Kuzucu

By mid-2016, five years of aggressive growth had transformed Fetchr from a small logistics startup to a 1,000-employee, full-fledged last-mile delivery company operating across four countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Already beneficiaries of the... View Details

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31 Mar 2023
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How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?

complain are lacking in the applicants that come into their recruiting processes? MDP: I believe that anything can be learned, but the way we go about it, I think is completely backwards. And it comes back... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

21 Nov 2019
Blog Post

Finding My North Star at the Crossroads of Profit and Purpose

factory in the middle of the city, and it is probably the only city in India where you can drink clean water straight out of View Details

10 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table

or a framework for detailed bargaining, a negotiator can make reversal more costly. Principle 7: Breakthrough Negotiators Lead From The Middle Great leaders are often great negotiators, but View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins

15 Mar 2021
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Commencement 2021 Update Webinar, 3/15/21

12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

re-read Khalil Gibran Muhammad’s The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, which I assigned to a class a few years ago and had... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

04 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

The Right Way to Restructure Conglomerates in Emerging Markets

handle. It also poses practical problems. For instance, how easy is it to estimate a reliable breakup value for a business group in the middle of a fire sale and in the absence... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna & Krishna Palepu

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan

Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace, Deighton explains how it continues to carve out territory in the marketplace.Lagace: Were you surprised that Webvan failed? Deighton: No. The purpose of writing View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail

24 May 2018
News

Harvard Business School Honors Five Graduates with Alumni Achievement Award

23 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far

shift slightly in mindset to optimize for their work more often. Related Reading: Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All Why You Are... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein

March 2012
Case

Fighting Corruption at Siemens

By: Paul Healy and Djordjija Petkoski

On November 15, 2006, German prosecutors raided offices and homes of Siemens AG staff as part of an ongoing investigation into bribery. The subsequent investigations covered business representing 60% of Siemens' revenues and spanned operations in Asia, Africa, Europe,... View Details

Keywords: White-collar Crime; Crime and Corruption; Organizational Culture; Ethics

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