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    Coming Through When It Matters Most

    All teams would like to think they do their best work when the stakes are highest—when the company’s future or their own rests on the outcome of their projects. But too often something else happens. In extensive studies of teams at professional service firms,... View Details

    • 27 Mar 2017
    • Blog Post

    Should Entrepreneurs Get an MBA?

    In his encouraging entrepreneurs not to go to business school, PayPal co-Founder and Gawker toppler Peter Thiel faults MBA programs for producing “extremely herd-like thinking.” He’s not alone – Elon Musk also rails against View Details
    • 12 Apr 2022
    • Blog Post

    The Many Languages of Medicine to Impact Care Delivery

    Ted Obi (MS/MBA 2023) is a current MBA student at HBS and a third year medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. His previous experiences include co-founding Melanin Doc, a non-profit supporting the next generation... View Details
    • 12 Feb 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: February 12, 2007

    for other world regions. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708421 General Mills (A) Harvard Business School Case 608-004 View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 15 Dec 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2021

    surprisingly, the 10 most-read articles on Harvard Business School Working Knowledge reflected the mood swings of another challenging, complex year for managers and employees everywhere. The 10 most popular articles 1. COVID Killed the... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost
    • 24 Nov 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: Nov. 24

    Management Accounting and Control: Lessons for and from the World's Tiniest Businesses Authors:Srikant M. Datar, Marc J. Epstein, and Kristi Yuthas Publication:Strategic Finance (November 2009) Abstract The article discusses skills... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 11 Feb 2020
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI

    generalized toolkits to business users or get bogged down in custom software consulting engagements that solve nonrepeatable use cases. There are more opportunities today for entrepreneurs to focus on... View Details
    Keywords: by Rocio Wu
    • 27 Oct 2008
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits

    of the same form that are not social-mission-driven. Q: What are some of the critical issues facing nonprofit boards and their leaders today? A: The biggest challenge is keeping focused on key goals; developing a strategy for accomplishing them; and View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • September 2022
    • Case

    ROI vs. ROI: The Grupo Baobá Family Office

    By: Lauren Cohen, Hao Gao, Jiawei Ye and Grace Headinger
    Fernando Scodro, a third-generation member of his family, mulled over the next step in integrating an ESG strategy into his family office’s investment portfolio. While his family office, Grupo Baobá, had made excellent progress in incorporating his family’s values into... View Details
    Keywords: Impact Investing; ESG; Green Building; Family; Partnership; Latin America; Brazil; Buildings and Facilities; Green Buildings; Family Business; Family and Family Relationships; Financial Management; Partners and Partnerships; Financial Services Industry; Brazil; Latin America
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    • 20 Nov 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh

    my god,” replied the lawyer, finally noticing the bloody left shoulder where his arm once was. “Where's my Rolex?!” Do you think your friends would find that joke amusing—well, maybe those who aren’t lawyers? A research team led by Harvard View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 18 Nov 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Payout Taxes and the Allocation of Investment

    Keywords: by Bo Becker, Marcus Jacob & Martin Jacob
    • November 2017 (Revised July 2018)
    • Case

    Royal Philips: Designing Toward Profound Change

    By: Srikant M. Datar, Rajiv Lal and Caitlin N. Bowler
    This case explores Royal Philips CEO Frans van Houten's bold use of design research to inform a critical strategic decision: Should Philips leave its storied lighting business behind in favor of complete focus on health technology and consumer lifestyle products?... View Details
    Keywords: Design Research; Health Technology; Innovation; Design; Research; Decision Choices and Conditions; Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Transformation
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    • 31 Mar 2008
    • HBS Case

    JetBlue’s Valentine’s Day Crisis

    of February 13, independent of this event. Do they think the elements of the structure and systems within the JetBlue operation are internally consistent with one another and externally consistent with the organization's overall business... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Air Transportation
    • 19 Jan 2010
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    Sharpening Your Skills: Managing the Economic Crisis

    Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered: How do I lead in a crisis? What roles does the Board play? What are the... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • 19 Oct 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?

    wiped out a lot of smaller community stores, and Dollar General is wiping out a lot of others. Gazette: Businesses are struggling to fill vacancies, with workers quitting jobs at a historic clip. Retail, a... View Details
    Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Retail
    • 21 Mar 2014
    • Blog Post

    East Asia MBA Market Update

    retail, consumer goods, and technology companies. Private equity opportunities have generally decreased and although a lot of money has been raised in Asia, much has yet to be invested. According to Private Equity International there’s... View Details
    Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products / Retail

      The Reference Wars: Encyclopedia Britannica's Decline and Encarta's Emergence

      The experience of Encyclopædia Britannica provides the canonical example of the decline of an established firm at the outset of the digital age. Competition from Microsoft's Encarta in 1993 led to sharp declines in the sales of books, which led to the distressed... View Details

        Regulatory Uncertainty and Corporate Responses to Environmental Protection in China

        This article analyzes the closing gap between regulation and enforcement of environmental protection in China and explores its implications for doing business there. It identifies three major dimensions that characterize change in regulatory systems: priorities and... View Details
        • February 1976 (Revised November 1983)
        • Case

        EG&G, Inc. (B)

        By: Michael E. Porter
        Raises the dilemmas of making strategic decisions within an organizational construct. The divestment of a division of the company raises not only strategic issues but organizational and interpersonal ones as well. The decision is framed through the strategic planning... View Details
        Keywords: Business Divisions; Decisions; Business or Company Management; Organizations; Strategic Planning; Strategy; Service Industry
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        • 06 Apr 2023
        • Blog Post

        Bringing Music to the HBS Classroom: My Journey as a Nontraditional Student in the Summer Venture in Management Program

        Business School in general to better grasp what the program would entail. During this process, I found a video that would change my life forever: the illustrious “Take A Seat in the Harvard MBA Classroom.”... View Details