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- 24 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?
COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
Illustration by Fernando Cobelo To help people visualize what a circular economy could look like and bring the challenges down to a closet-sized scale, Emily Bolon (MBA/MPA 2007) recommends the following exercise. First, make a mental tally of the number of garments... View Details
- 10 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Technology and COVID Upended Tipping Norms. Will Consumers Keep Paying?
If you’ve recently ordered food or coffee on an app, you’re probably familiar with the prompt to tip your barista, delivery driver, or sandwich maker. Or even more commonly, when ordering at a casual dining counter, you’ve been asked to leave a tip on the screen used... View Details
Keywords: by Anna Lamb, Harvard Gazette
- 22 Nov 2023
- News
So You Want to Join a Startup
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: At age 29, Gus Bessalel (MBA 1988) decided to leave consulting for a decidedly less glamorous life as an entrepreneur, working out of a storage room in the bowels of an underground hotel... View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping
mail carrier to supplement the family's income. Even so, when young Malcolm graduated from high school in 1931, the country was in the midst of the Depression and further schooling was simply not an option. Pumping gas at a service station near his hometown, McLean... View Details
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
John H. Patterson and the Sales Strategy of the National Cash Register Company, 1884 to 1922
answer his objections and again prepare him for signature.... Make the merchant feel that he is buying because of his own good judgement ... find out the real reason why and your chances are that that is the very reason why he should... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
- June 2018 (Revised February 2019)
- Teaching Note
Home Nursing of North Carolina
By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld
In 2011, immediately after graduating HBS, Ari Medoff began a self-funded search for a small firm to buy and run as its CEO. After just three month of searching, he identified Home Nursing of North Carolina (HNNC), a home care agency based in Greensboro, NC, as a... View Details
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 1996, she was overwhelmed. It was the pre-Internet era, with limited available information, but... View Details
- 13 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
Picture This: Why Online Image Searches Drive Purchases
In a visual world, most online retailers still rely on consumers to define and enter their own search keywords. But using images to help shoppers sharpen their queries could push them to buy more, spend more, and feel happier about their... View Details
Roy D. Shapiro
Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration. He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- Book
Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations
buying Alstom, GE’s chief energy competitor, but ignored warnings from wary board directors and senior executives who claimed Alstom had made bad deals and otherwise performed poorly. Since the acquisition, Alstom has struggled—and today... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 23
note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711087-PDF-ENG Oddo Securities—ESG Integration George Serafeim, Paul M. Healy, and Aldo SesiaHarvard Business School Case 111-085 The case describes the process of integrating environmental,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
March 2019 Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Thin Slices of Workgroups By: Satterstrom, Patricia, Jeffrey T. Polzer, Lisa Kwan, Oliver P. Hauser, Wannawiruch Wiruchnipawan, and Marina Burke Abstract—In this paper, we... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Oct 2022
- Op-Ed
Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup
many times your cofounding team will disagree on things—from product and hiring decisions to operating procedures and a fundraising strategy—and how you process these decisions together is fundamental to a healthy cofounding relationship.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 31 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies
suppliers in as many countries before it lands in the hands of the final assembler. "The sequential, multicountry production model is what dominates now, and it's a model where little bits of value get added here or there and it's hard to see country of origin. It... View Details
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
strategy. Salesmen pushed customers to buy products or services that they might not have otherwise purchased. They were particularly good at introducing new products to customers. For instance, the cost of selling the first electric... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 02 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters
resources-processes-values framework. Resources refer to tangible and intangible assets, processes deal with activities that turn resources into goods and services, and values underpin decisions employees make and how they make them. (See... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower
- Web
Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
of the entrepreneurial process – starting companies with technical teams, providing and raising capital with venture capitalists, buying and selling companies, or taking them public and closing down... View Details
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
PublicationsHappy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending Authors:Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton Publication:Simon & Schuster, forthcoming Abstract If you think money can't buy happiness, you're not spending it right. Two rising... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
a lot of information out there—particularly in the business press. If these aren't familiar terms, and if one doesn't have a way of putting it all together, then you can't process all of this information as effectively as possible. I... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne