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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
call positive inner work life,” says Teresa Amabile, the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration. “That makes it more likely that employees will be creative in their thinking and productive in their work. So you get this... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
protect and secure their supply chain. A second is to gain competitive advantage relative to other people in their industry. Another is to appeal to their customers, who are demanding more and more that businesses behave in a responsible... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Class of 1949 Gift Supports HBS Faculty Development
L. Gregory, Jr. (MBA '49), retired chairman of Rohm & Haas and chairman of the 45th Reunion campaign, noted, "Our class recognizes the importance of a superior faculty in maintaining the School's leadership position in management... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
the airport’s few runways. On the ground, there’s traffic congestion of an entirely different sort. Cars, trucks, three-wheelers, bicycles, rickshaws, and even a couple of horsemen jockey for position on a road far too small to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 30 Jun 2019
- News
Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo
maintain competitiveness in a situation where China essentially says: ‘First we will buy from you, but then we will do it ourselves.’ It gets very complicated.” Still, Shih added that the U.S. aerospace industry is strong enough to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
they see three options: First, they could double down on the D2C side, which helps get the brand out there quickly, although it is subject to more competition and acquisition costs. The second option is to integrate with real estate... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
customers, in other words — and its position vis-à-vis competitors. If an enterprise had different lines of business, it might view these in historical terms — “First we got into radio, which led us into television” — or as a capital... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Billion-Dollar Question
trip to all 54 African countries and set it all down in a third book, assuming a cute Masai doesn't convince me to become a herder. Travel, like HBS, is transformative. Both disrupt our lives—usually in positive ways. Yet after HBS, many... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
enable a competitive advantage, I recommend that the company should focus on establishing its brand. —Ngassam Ngnoumen (MBA 2002) I question whether vinyl is a cool trend or a sustainable product line. Sure, it’s kind of cool. But if it’s... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
roughly 35 percent of its more than one million users and its $45 million in gross merchandise sales. "The biggest challenge for us is increasing market penetration from 4 percent to 15 percent, where the Internet reaches a critical mass," says CEO Oxenford. A View Details
- 20 Oct 2022
- News
Lebanon Alumni Host US Ambassador for Dinner and Discussion
preeminent position in the semiconductor industry; how the US, Europe, and China are attempting to build self-reliance through their own semiconductor industries; and what lies ahead for the future of the global economy. A brief Q&A... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
emission reductions than the current regulatory approach. To keep the United States competitive with other countries, the plan would include a simple provision to impose the fee at the border on any energy intensive goods imported into... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
reCommerce market grew significantly in 2013 due to the influx of new devices. Although the market opportunity is enormous (estimated to reach $14B in the United States by 2015), the companies entering the proverbial playing field are massive, with deep pockets. The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
happens on the mat.” Rohit Deshpandé, the Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing and an expert in global branding, believes that Lululemon’s biggest accomplishment has been positioning itself as an upscale athletic leisure brand akin... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
discussed China's inclusion in the World Trade Organization (WTO). As a member of the WTO, Barshefsky said, China is moving from a protectionist position to a more active, strategic role, an international function it hasn't played for the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
services they produce more expensive, which in turn makes the overall economy less competitive in a global business environment." Where the Heart Is Along with food, shelter is perhaps the most basic human need. In modern society, stable,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
themselves with social causes or wish to bring about positive change in the world. Beyond the income these artists are receiving, the confidence and hope it instills within them touches every part of their lives. A lot of these artists... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
newfound commitment to employee training resulted in E Ink University, with courses offered in Six Sigma, lean manufacturing, and project management. “We absolutely expect that others will figure out ways to create a competitive product,”... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
based upon international cooperation; the opposite extreme, Haass said, would be a modern Dark Ages of failed states and disharmony. But he speculated that the most likely scenario would be the rise of a Cold War–style competition between... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
stakeholder value, although people didn’t call it that 200 years ago.” “This is a model that was designed for stakeholder value, although people didn’t call it that 200 years ago.” On the deposit side of the ledger, people who open an online savings account at Walden... View Details