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- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’
through gifts when they ask their friends to buy from eBay Consider the key features of this strategy. First, the social engagement eBay facilitates is directly related to strategic goals of the company—increased sales or lower cost. The View Details
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Minal Mehta
biggest lesson from HBS that keeps coming back to me is the power of being a good manager. I keep thinking back to Professor Clay Christensen's Best of EC reflection when he called being a manager the most 'noble' profession, because you can have a View Details
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Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
with programs related to strengthening education, the parliamentary system, job creation, and investment. But as the top part of society is going one way, things can still slip in the other direction if problems on the Moroccan street... View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
sense that we didn't even have an income tax until 1913. It was viewed as unconstitutional and we needed an amendment to allow us to have a direct income tax. Around the same time, the corporate income tax was introduced. So, some of the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
one disagrees with the fact that the United States faces a severe fiscal challenge. Anger with S&P, therefore, is much like anger directed toward a referee who has made a difficult call—frustration with the result expressed as... View Details
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- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
institutional entrepreneurship. Finally, the paper highlights future directions for research on this topic. Researchers are encouraged to use this paper to build sophisticated, targeted research designs that will add value to the growing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
business together and so are willing to invest resources in building a highly functional link, especially one that allows their information systems to interact on routine tasks without human intervention. This intervention is costly and... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 11 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
7 Lessons from My Time at HBS
initially certain my way of thinking was the right one. Yet at the end of the project, I realized often that a specific point I had not understood led the project to new directions and ways of thinking. Post-MBA I will seek out diverse... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right
lives, forcing incumbent brands to reinvent themselves to match the experiences that Apple, Nike, Google, Warby Parker, and the rest of the brands they love have taught them to expect. It’s not enough today for brands to look across their categories at what their View Details
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55802 forthcoming Journal of Medical Economics Time-Driven Activity-Based Cost Analysis for Outpatient Anticoagulation Therapy: Direct Costs in a Primary Care... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
MBA courses on Investment Management and Capital Markets. Later in the decade, he took a two-year leave of absence to serve as director of investment and financial policies for the Ford Foundation, returning... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
up the child of immigrants with language school on weekends, or it meant foreign tourist, in town for a few years for a job or degree. As someone who was raised in Hong Kong, but has enjoyed over ten years in the US, where did I belong?... View Details
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
penicillin for Canada's armed forces, provided American Home Products with a learning base in the antibiotic revolution at its very beginning. Early in the postwar era, American Home Products moved out of chemicals but continued to expand its other lines, both by... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
levers that politicians pull to spring the trap, including appointment of favored regulators, control of budget appropriations, and direct arm bending of regulators on behalf of companies they favor. In all these models, the cycle of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 03 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains
accessible to your entire organization This will need to happen both in structured and unstructured ways as much as you can. Create open office hours or lunch-and-learns for team members other than your direct reports to get time with... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
thinking back to Professor Clay Christensen's Best of EC reflection when he called being a manager the most 'noble' profession, because you can have a direct and real impact on building a person's self-esteem. That insight impacts the way... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
Three important events happened at the end of the 1970s. First, there were changes in ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act) legislation that allowed pension funds to invest in private equity; second, the growth of the... View Details
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
Effects, and Investment Strategy Willy ShihHarvard Business School Note 611-082 This technical note discusses scale economies and direct and indirect network effects in the context of building better... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
that, it immediately professionalizes teaching to be on a par with medicine or law because in principle it’s at least as important to society. Beyond brick and mortar, where is the Internet taking Khan Academy? Via the Internet, today and even more so in the near... View Details