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- 16 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
My HBS Journey
gave the class day speech at graduation in front of thousands of people. Most surprisingly, I learnt how to be truly happy, after realizing that many times happiness is a choice that only depends on you—and not on how perfectly everything... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
To Market, to Market
which depends on the merging of breakthrough scientific ideas and great business leadership," said Dean Nitin Nohria. By focusing on technologies that have great potential to impact human lives and by enabling business leaders to take... View Details
- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream
of 2009 alone, Mills points out that 1.8 million small business jobs were lost. Heavily dependent on credit, small businesses were unable to access capital markets as banks reeled from the crisis and lending froze. With half of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Feedback
am, however, looking forward to the Chao Center’s opening day! —James Hsieh (PLD 2015) via alumni.hbs.edu 2014 Alumni Achievement Awards Re: Sheila Lirio Marcelo (MBA 1998/JD 1999) My own family has depended on Care.com with great... View Details
Keywords: feedback
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
wrong answer unless one takes into account the different ways in which firms compete (that is, their business strategy). Because macro-level shocks reverberate differently at the firm level depending on whether a firm has a cost structure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
What I Didn't Know About HBS Faculty
can go it alone and all great leaders depend on teams. It is a lesson I would take with me as I began to build my community here at HBS and a philosophy I will carry into my future careers. I learned that there are no limits but the ones... View Details
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Bringing a Taste of Japan to the World - Global Activities 2020
we can make this work. ” Yasu Sasago MBA 2020 Alleviating Debt Concerns Sasago studied commerce at Waseda University in Tokyo and the University of Sydney in Australia prior to attending HBS. His ability to pursue a graduate school education View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
rolling. We are seeing that change can happen at the school level. Now the challenge is at the system level.” —Wendy Kopp, CEO & Founder, Teach For America “The mix of government and private industry responsibility really depends on the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
New Releases
in the highly competitive pharmaceutical industry, challenging the widely held view that firms tend to emphasize either product or process innovation, depending upon their stage of development. Rather, Pisano argues, product and process... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
utilizes the one asset that exists in abundance in even the poorest and most fragile social sectors - people's self-initiative. It increases the productivity of the person engaged in economic activity, thereby creating new wealth, rather than View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Corruption 101
increasing number of red flags, he had to consider not only his US employer and his HBS position, but also his local client, his client's employees and their families, customers throughout the region, and all the suppliers for the client's business including struggling... View Details
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
recall leads to a one-month reduction in time to major innovation. Our results suggest that product failures influence subsequent innovation but that their impact is dependent upon recall source, proximity, and severity. The strategic and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
which job assignment is based on comparative advantage. Crucially, and consistent with almost all realistic hiring contexts, being hired and assigned to a job depends not only on one’s own skill but also on the skill of other applicants.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
entrant—should know. From a management perspective, net neutrality rules could have major consequences on the business models of content providers, ISPs, and other businesses that depend on the transfer of data across the Internet.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
fixed costs of changing prices. The latter predict unrealistically large responses of price changes to inflation for firms that do not frequently reduce their prices. Adjustment costs that depend on the size of price changes also raise... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
Abstract In the continuing quest for business growth, many CEOs are turning to their CIOs and IT organizations because technology is absolutely essential to two compelling sources of growth: innovation and enterprise integration. The speed of innovation often View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
Palvia, and Albert L. Harris, 207-224. Marietta, Ga.: Ivy League Publishing, Limited, 2007 Abstract In the early 21st century, IT has become more important than ever. Technology evolution, the creation of new channels to global resource pools, increased corporate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
Agencies then often stumble when the founder leaves. I was interested in understanding how firms, whose chief competitive assets are their founders' talents or skills, scale their operations and grow. Heavy dependence on individuals'... View Details
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
management policy, which aimed at assuring a more secure environment for business. By the early twentieth century, however, the focus had shifted, from business to labor. As a result of industrialization, a great many workers had moved from the farm to the city and had... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
strategy that was explicitly based on the perceived strengths and weaknesses of its competitor, Ford.2 In the 1930s, Chester Barnard, a top executive with AT&T, argued that managers should pay especially close attention to "strategic factors," which View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat