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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2024 Commencement Remarks | About
increase the trust that society places on your business. I would also urge you to focus on a core principle of design thinking, which is “and” rather than “or” thinking—in other words, searching expansively for creative and novel... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
at a white-tablecloth restaurant. This year is looking a little different. On May 8, as some states loosened dining-in restrictions and others maintained strict guidelines for takeout and delivery only, the Bulletin held a virtual roundtable on the View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
“I’ve given Bill autonomy in what he does, which enables me to focus on other areas of the business,” says DeWitt Jr. “I think we have a very good relationship.” His son agrees, noting that there’s been much to learn from how his father... View Details
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
develop the concept of interconnectedness as four conditions of an internal supply chain: a focus on system-rather than individual department-performance; routines within departments that are connected to current customers' needs;... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
Unilever Sustainable Living Project, including a goal to halve the waste associated with the disposal of its products. Unilever's chief supply chain officer Pier Luigi Sigismondi and his team were working towards this goal and had chosen to first View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
smaller, more concentrated advertising markets where fewer competitor firms are advertising. They focus their advertisement spikes specifically toward jury trials and, in fact, specifically toward the most likely jury pool. Lastly, we... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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HBS - Financials | From the CFO
relevant issues such as advancing racial equity, teaching in hybrid and virtual environments, and the impact of the pandemic on the future of work. The group's flagship publication, Harvard Business Review (HBR), continued to generate... View Details
- 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
future at the same time. It is like changing the engine of a plane while it is flying. Based on almost ten years of research, this book provides a framework for companies to reimagine their business. Using rich case studies and rigorous... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
company, with a focus on changing relationships between manufacturing technology and R&D between the mid-1940s and the mid-1960s. Pfizer first moved into pharmaceuticals through participation in the U.S. government's penicillin effort... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
both in school and the work she’s doing at Xbox is shaping their future worlds. In a recent survey of Gen Z teens, around 30 percent list video games as their preferred entertainment, ahead of social media, television, and movies. And the... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
million in cash and $5 million in media assets, will focus on six areas identified with the help of community leaders and Celtics players: equity in education, economic opportunity and empowerment, equity in health care, criminal and law... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
system of multinational megafarms won't be enough—the hope for the future lies not in mass production, but in production by the masses. And that's where Nigeria comes in. With only 40 percent of its arable land currently used by farmers,... View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7
future performance and cost of capital and (ii) to critically assess the implied assumptions underlying the market's expectations. The case is best suited for a course on business valuation at all levels (undergraduate, MBA, executive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009
decide whether they want to try to restructure the nature of the engagement to better fit the firm's service model. Although young and small, the firm has grown successfully and is optimistic about its future prospects. Kutchins and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007
which are tested using data gathered from firms in Italian industrial districts. Because of this paper's focus on governance rather than price-setting, electronic hierarchies are contrasted not with electronic markets, but instead with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
led the way in developing computers, atom smashers, medical devices, and new machines that desalinated brackish water. Doriot even backed George H.W. Bush’s first company, Zapata Off-Shore Company. “He was very important because he was the first one to believe there... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
through collaboration. While business is key to the successful revitalization of urban areas, Austin notes that other alliances are also important. He sees a future in which leaders from all sectors build relationships that will improve... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
children to another area and starting my post-HBS career while my husband looked for a job in the area. I added that it would all be so easy if I could look into the future and KNOW. He, of course, needed no magic foresight. Took one look... View Details
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
and from other institutions with the goal of creating strategies to reignite America's economic future in the global economy. Porter is the Lawrence University Professor, and Rivkin the Rauner professor of business administration and head... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
should deploy the radio to communicate with rural dwellers, since it has 99 percent reach in India,” he advised in a letter to the editor of theFinancial Times on Sept. 10. In a Sept. 3 letter in The National, he advised “governments should View Details