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- 02 Dec 2019
- News
Championing the HBS Fund
ways to the broader alumni community. “The leverage and flexibility the School gets from the Fund is invaluable,” he adds. Fittingly, they are particularly inspired by the concept of One Harvard, as they believe that the best way to tackle society’s problems is to... View Details
- 06 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or Die
Corporations, Wells collects case studies from companies that have learned this lesson—some of them the hard way—and explains how all companies can strategize more intelligently. Michael Blanding: Why did you decide to write a book about strategy? John R. Wells: We... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Sebastian Velasco
offers: an incredible group of peers with diverse backgrounds, interactions with experienced faculty and world leaders, and the ability to further develop a network of friendships that will be very important... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 05 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software
and everybody can use the same types of technology, gaining these kinds of edges and increasing your competitive advantage is pretty important,” Nagle says. Examples of other crowdsourced public goods in the digital world include... View Details
- 01 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
and motion pictures. However, instead of a rating board, I'd let the users of YouTube determine the ratings. I'd want YouTube to develop a system for age-checking so that children were not exposed to (XXX) content rated that way. Of... View Details
- 03 Jul 2008
- What Do You Think?
Are Followers About to Get Their Due?
difference between a great leader and a great follower in the business world is the opportunities they have had to better themselves." Eric Johnson Wildbear concurred, saying that "Followership ends up being the same as... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Building a Better Brazil
industrial company committed to both the natural world and the growth of the Brazilian communities where it operated. Lorentzen served as chairman of Aracruz until 2004; under his leadership, the company built a world-class research... View Details
- 09 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government
remembers. "Eventually, the IRS found a way to grant the status." Innovation Laboratories In the past five years, cities around the world have increasingly become laboratories in innovation, producing idea labs that partner with... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
good at associational thinking, or simply associating. They make connections between seemingly unrelated problems and ideas and synthesize new ideas. I would frame associational thinking by asking this question: Has somebody else in the View Details
- 22 May 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders
prices. Promote periodic price mark-up events. And, eventually, start a conversation about truly rationalized pricing, tied to the actual cost of input for the producers, including the labor of impoverished women in developing countries.... View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
hagiographies. Alfred Chandler Jr. Chandler developed for business history a coherent theoretical framework built around his "3-pronged investment" in manufacturing, marketing, and management, and the notion of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Organizations Create Social Value
companies, the researchers found that rich opportunities for mutual learning exist between the business world and nonprofits. They found that no matter what type of organization they were looking at, strategy and leadership were the two... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
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Mireya Iglesias Ayala
gained. This map doesn't make my compass obsolete; instead, it complements it, providing a richer understanding of the terrain ahead and equipping me to navigate the complexities of the business world with confidence and agility. How have... View Details
- 29 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The History and Influence of Andy Grove
Americans don't know how lucky they are." Q: You explore in detail his early years growing up a Hungarian Jew who was threatened not only by the Nazis but also by the Soviet invasion of his country. What do you think this upbringing contributed to his View Details
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
second largest equipment rental company in the world and URI's largest competitor. The meeting would mark the triumph of a new governance model and company strategy whose development and implementation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2020
- News
Clayton M. Christensen Dies at 67
importantly, Clayton had a passion for helping others be their best selves that permeated every aspect of his life. His loss will be felt deeply by many in our community and his legacy will be long-lasting.” A gifted teacher across all of Harvard Business School's... View Details
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
spirit, and insight—simply breaks the mold. Youngme Moon's DIFFERENT is that kind of book, a book for "people who don't read business books...," a book that feels like an intimate conversation with a friend who has thought deeply about how the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2010
a world economic order that combined Chinese export-led development with U.S. overconsumption. In this paper, economic historians Niall Ferguson of HBS and Moritz Schularick of Freie Universität Berlin... View Details
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- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
Goodyear introduced its first belted-bias tire in 1967, Firestone's Research and Development group responded with a matching product in a matter of months and provided a second generation belted bias tire within a year.8 Belted bias tires... View Details
- 24 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software
communicate with each other on the large-scale—particularly, the global scale—necessary to share such information.” Security of individual accounts. Of the 10 most-used software packages in the analysis, the CII team found that seven were hosted under individual View Details