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- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
the ways that firms have sought to "game" the system. We explore why the system is breaking down and propose a way in which standard setting could be redesigned to address these problems. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
at speeds reaching more than 2,000 miles per hour. By the time it glided to a landing two hours later the ship had won the coveted Ansari X PRIZE, a $10 million award for the first privately funded manned spacecraft to break through the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
Rate Mechanism (ERM) would break down. Designed to pave the way for a full-scale European Monetary Union, the ERM was a system of fixed exchange rates linking together twelve members of the European Union, including Britain, France,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
she says. No matter. In breaking new ground, without a map, Whitman is in her comfort zone. Her first step at Quibi was to “put meat on the bones of the business plan,” she says: defining the content and tech strategies and figuring out... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
go the tour route." Given the influence of radio in making or breaking an artist, cases of corruption and the "buying" of airtime are legendary in the music industry. Today, however, notes Boberg, things are different. "That may have... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
start in butcher scales and time clocks and movement through virtually every aspect of technological development of the 20th century. While IBM doesn’t break out Watson’s revenue, the unit falls within IBM’s “strategic imperatives”: the... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
workday events can make or break employees' inner work lives. But it's forward momentum in meaningful work—progress that creates the best inner work lives. Through rigorous analysis of nearly 12,000 diary entries provided by 238 employees... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
"November Agreement." Since then, Michael has found an angel investor and has worked non-stop on the business, while one co-founder was off enjoying the winter break with his family and the other worked on lucrative consulting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites
actually doing this? Are they getting the information themselves? The press was actually generating the idea that there was an issue. That doesn't mean that they break into a company overnight and figure it out; but a lot of the evidence... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
manage it, and give it direction? That's what our new book, From Resource Allocation to Strategy, is about. People have studied the process in various ways, first to understand how it works and then to understand how it breaks down; and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
note: This article was updated to include additional advice related to CEO compensation policies. You Might Also Like: When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners Rapport: The Hidden Advantage That Women Managers Bring to Teams Want to... View Details
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Credential of Digital Innovation and Strategy | HBS Online
Featured Exercises During project weeks, apply course frameworks to an innovation problem of your choosing or provided scenario Reframe problems to identify new pain points and solutions Divide an existing product, service, model, or strategy into components and... View Details
- 02 Dec 2016
- News
The Story Behind the Stories
in news, still, and my friend at CBS had a fixer, who she recommended for me to work with on the ground in Afghanistan. I just bought a ticket and went. White: What was that first experience in Afghanistan? And how did you go about View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
on what we said we’d deliver.” The goal is to break even by mid-2010. Analysts differ on the viability of the air-taxi business. Whether it will be an exciting, profitable new entry in the aviation business or a “dot-com with wings,” as... View Details
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
Several rounds of negotiations and international arbitration failed to resolve the conflict, leading to a progressive breach of trust. Was there anything Klesyk could do to break this international and multilateral stalemate? Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
which company politics should improve government, from breaking up entrenched old boys' networks to leveraging a company's existing organizational expertise. Private firms have realized efficiency and performance gains in areas such as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Commencement 2011 Address | About
easy to feel secure about your character. We all know it is wrong, for example, to lie, cheat, steal, or break the law. Yet I trust you have learned — through courses like LCA and through scenarios like the scandals you read about in the... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/518038-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 419-048 Associação Saúde Criança: Trying to Break the Cycle of Poverty and Illness at Scale Dr. Vera Cordeiro founded the NGO Associação Saúde Criança in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
Rogers breaks in. “OK, guys, let’s try and keep the rest of these to about a minute.” He has other calls to make. On the next call, travel options are weighed (Toulouse? Berlin? Paris?) for meetings with a potential European collaborator.... View Details