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- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
targets, but a tactical tool that’s rarely part of strategy formulation. Develop the best product, and let the sales department figure out the best way to get it to the customer, they think. And many sales leaders like it that way.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
increasing lifespans—and why companies needed a more thoughtful strategy for addressing these consumers. Today, Golden is an expert on innovation and entrepreneurial opportunities created by the new longevity and teaches this at the... View Details
- Profile
Tafadzwa Samushonga
people’s lives, she initially kept this separate from her professional ambitions. In university, Tafadzwa the community service leader, lived a parallel and independent life from Tafadzwa the actuarial student. Tafadzwa finally realized how to View Details
Keywords: Consulting
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Rachel Silverstein
classical training in corporate finance could bring a lot of value – in structure and strategy – to a startup." Rachel's hunch was right, and she proceeded to work for two different startups in the food and beverage and vacation... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Innovation Imperative
for HBS: curriculum innovation, internationalization, intellectual ambition, inclusion (diversity), and integration with Harvard. “The capacity to innovate was vital to the success of American universities in the 20th century,” Nohria... View Details
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
corporate managers use information provision to encourage subsidiaries' adoption of advanced management practices. Focusing on the distribution of expertise across subsidiaries, we propose that corporate managers elect an information provision View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
variation in payout patterns over time than the traditional motives. The most recent evidence suggests that further insights can be gained from viewing payout decisions as an integral part of a firm's larger financial ecosystem, with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
are now beginning to treat genetic analysis as an integral element in a patient’s diagnosis and treatment plan. But it cannot stop there. Since most currently practicing physicians have not been trained in this new field, there is a need... View Details
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
failure tolerance has an equilibrium price—in terms of an investor's required share of equity—that increases in the level of radical innovation. Financiers with investment strategies that tolerate early failure will endogenously choose to... View Details
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
division integrating product development and marketing, but without significant research capability. For all but chemicals and prescription drugs, the corporate focus was on marketing, especially advertising.24 In prescription drugs, the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
recommendations for developing a strategy for alumni lifelong learning. The group is building on work begun three years ago, as well as gathering current input - including data from the executive education program and the HBS Publishing... View Details
Keywords: Cathy Connett
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies
Look beyond the United States and Great Britain and you are likely to find networks of companies — ranging from Latin America’s grupos to India’s business houses to Japan’s keiretsu — that are integral parts of the global economy. For HBS... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
enterprising companies, the current threats to market capitalism present vital opportunities. Drawing on discussions with business leaders around the world, the authors argue that companies must stop seeing themselves as bystanders and instead develop innovative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
that participants who chose by mind wandering would evaluate their outcome as inferior to participants who deliberated (Experiment 1), participants who used mind wandering as a decision strategy evaluated their choice just as positively... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: CVS Health
prescriptions annually, and has supported 28 million patient visits through MinuteClinic since its inception. Ultimately, this one-of-a-kind, integrated business model is focused on creating superior value for patients, payers and... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
Be Flexible In today's competitive and volatile business environment, depending on forecasting as the basis for planning and strategy has become a particularly risky way to operate. Especially vulnerable are manufacturing projects that... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 14 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Embracing Activism for Social Change
Partnership, a pilot program implemented with the county’s mental health authority, Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network (DWIHN), designed to create better outcomes in emergencies involving first responders and citizens with mental or... View Details
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
Words and Pictures
photograph and provide editorial (and life) advice to the authors of the selected essays. The project has been integrated into the MBA curriculum: New students view and respond to a Portrait Project exhibit as part of START during their... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- October 2010
- Teaching Note
Whole Foods: Balancing Social Mission and Growth (TN)
By: Christopher Marquis and Bobbi Thomason
Teaching Note for 410023. View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Alumnae Chart Career Choices and Transitions
develop effective strategies for building new leadership roles in business and nonprofit organizations. Many participants, whose careers had diverged from more traditional business paths when their family-related responsibilities... View Details