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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details
- 27 Feb 2024
- Cold Call Podcast
How Could Harvard Decarbonize Its Supply Chain?
- June 2020 (Revised August 2020)
- Case
Majid Al Futtaim Retail Geographic Expansion: Brick or Click?
By: Juan Alcácer and Alpana Thapar
This case illustrates the challenges that retailers face when they aggressively pursue geographical growth by expanding both their physical store network and their online presence. It features Majid Al Futtaim (MAF) Retail, a franchisee of Carrefour hypermarkets in the... View Details
Keywords: Stores; Ecommerce; Strategy; Expansion; Geographic Location; Decision Making; Internet and the Web; Digital Transformation; E-commerce; Retail Industry; Middle East
Alcácer, Juan, and Alpana Thapar. "Majid Al Futtaim Retail Geographic Expansion: Brick or Click?" Harvard Business School Case 720-482, June 2020. (Revised August 2020.)
- August 2002
- Article
Creativity Under the Gun
By: Teresa Amabile, Constance N. Hadley and Steven J. Kramer
If you're like most managers, you've worked with people who swear they do their most creative work under tight deadlines. You may use pressure as a management technique, believing it will spur people on to great leaps of insight. You may even manage yourself this way.... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Innovation and Invention; Time Management; Working Conditions; Performance Evaluation
Amabile, Teresa, Constance N. Hadley, and Steven J. Kramer. "Creativity Under the Gun." Special Issue on The Innovative Enterprise: Turning Ideas into Profits. Harvard Business Review 80, no. 8 (August 2002): 52–61.
- 01 Feb 2022
- Book
Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed
team. She reshaped the vision to make it a personal quest to create a computing environment to transform medicine and set a target, which many regarded as crazy, of building a one-billion-dollar business within three years. That she... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 16 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.
environment has resulted in volatility in purchases and productivity across idiosyncratic product categories, resulting in a net economic crisis of a type that has not been witnessed by anyone alive today. Government-imposed quarantines,... View Details
- 2011
- Book
I Moved Your Cheese: For Those Who Refuse to Live as Mice in Someone Else's Maze
By: Deepak Malhotra
Now a Wall Street Journal Best-seller! If you were a mouse trapped in a maze and someone kept moving the cheese, what would you do? Over a decade ago, the best-selling business fable Who Moved My Cheese? offered its answer to the question: accept that change is... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Success; Personal Development and Career; Problems and Challenges; Opportunities; Creativity
Malhotra, Deepak. I Moved Your Cheese: For Those Who Refuse to Live as Mice in Someone Else's Maze. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2011. (Wall Street Journal Best-Seller; Translated in ~20 languages.)
- 27 May 2022
- Blog Post
Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023
has your military experience set you apart from your non-military classmates? Being in the military makes you adaptable to any environment or challenges that you may face and helps put things into perspective. When you are accountable for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Venturing Forth
Illustration by Adam McCauley Venture capital is a heady industry: Big bets mean big checks when the deals hit right. And for most of the last decade, those taking part in the funds were riding high: Capital was abundant, valuations were soaring, and the stock market... View Details
- 21 Jun 2017
- Book
Meet the Oddball Entrepreneurs Who Invented Green Businesses
- Profile
Brandon Graves
Coming to HBS is like Entering a new world in which the words “not possible” or “no” don’t exist. HBS fosters an environment that constructively challenges my self-imposed limits and assumptions. Conversations with section mates and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
position—traumatized by a toxic environment that diminished her ability to achieve professionally—Dixon fled, this time for good. HBS became her refuge. Sectionmate Anne Morriss (MBA 2004) remembers meeting Dixon that fall and connecting... View Details
- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Future of IT Consulting
addition, networking and the Internet moved the IT infrastructure for the IBM standard to an emerging environment characterized by open standards. Accordingly, the IT infrastructure became simpler and more complex at the same time through... View Details
- 30 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?
also "to provide a work environment of openness built on trust where every member of the team feels free to express their views/opinions without fear of ridicule or reprisal." Debbe Kennedy called for management to insure... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
risk, but also enhances shareholder value. The law isn't just for lawyers, either, she says. Managers must become more astute about the legal environment around them, and be willing to challenge and work with counsel to achieve best... View Details
- 22 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees
in-office and remote, and we’ve entered a gray zone in which people are asking, ‘What will permanent look like?’ It’s comfortable to think of our remote work environment as temporary; it’s much more difficult to think about what long term... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
with local actors and having a foreign state attempt a wholesale transformation of society. Firms operating in unstable environments can try to persuade their home governments to protect their property rights. No need to promote democracy... View Details
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Online Management Course | HBS Online
from HBS Online. What you earn . Overview Syllabus Enrollment Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Design, direct, and shape organizational processes to your advantage Influence the context and environment in which decisions get made... View Details
- 11 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK
likely to be seen “coming from a genuine place because this is something that is now done in this work environment versus if a manager sort of does this out of nowhere.” Ignoring the problem won’t make it go away Of course, a manager... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- Blog
Eight Steps to Board Success for Female Executives
history, and then dig deeper to explore the firm’s market position and challenges. As you would in any job interview, you should show that you’ve done your homework and understand the organization. If the company is in a different country, learn about the nuances of... View Details