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- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
Over a dozen years ago, HBS professors Ben Shapiro and Kash Rangan conducted research with colleague John J. Sviokla, focusing on the impact that a company's order management cycle (OMC) has on customers. Think of OMC as the process that manages the customer's order... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research
and Antoinette Schoar This paper documents that ventures that are funded by two successful angel groups experience superior outcomes to rejected ventures: they have improved survival, exits, employment, patenting, web traffic, and financing. We View Details
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
The sport of rodeo kayaking—the use of specialized kayaks to perform acrobatic tricks and maneuvers in rough white water—began around 1968 when an avid sportsman by the name of Walt Blackader developed techniques for entering waves... View Details
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Leadership Initiative - Leadership
cutting-edge research and course development projects about leadership and leadership development, both within Harvard Business School and through collaborations with other organizations. We foster a global conversation that addresses the challenges of leadership in... View Details
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
with reusable grocery bags has been strongly promoted as environmentally and socially conscious. In parallel, firms have joined policy makers in using a variety of initiatives to reduce the use of plastic... View Details
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
products offered to customers—has recently been used as a competitive advantage for both brick-and-mortar and online retailers. Fast-fashion retailers have differentiated themselves by rotating their assortment multiple View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Death of the Global Manager
while confirming and further exploring some basic challenges that have, more or less, remained the same. "There are three core strategies that any MNC has to pursue to build layers of competitive advantage," Bartlett says. "The first is to View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
and to Tactics Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Joan Enric Ricart Abstract The notion of business model has been used by strategy scholars to refer to "the logic of the firm, the way it operates, and how it creates value for its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
even generate sufficient high quality capital-budget projects to use the available resources—and therefore go on merger-and-acquisition expeditions. The stock market is telling managers what the scarce strategic resource is. When it... View Details
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Develop Your Career Vision - Alumni
ideas for your criteria. We recommend using the archetypes introduced in Dr. Timothy Butler’s The Four Elements which are Identity, Community, Necessity, and Horizon and are always active in our lives and must be addressed during View Details
- 29 Nov 2010
- HBS Case
United Breaks Guitars
Tweets are in the air we breathe. Most of us know that "friend" can also be a verb. Social media are part of the public discourse now, whether or not we're active users of them. A new case coauthored by HBS marketing professor... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 23 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
After High-Profile Failures, Can Investors Still Trust Credit Ratings?
agencies are messing up all the time,” says Sikochi. “What we wanted to find out was, are there times that they actually do a good job? Do we find they provide ratings that are accurate? Do they provide ratings that are relevant? Are they... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
with us and explained more about the drivers of The Story of American Business and the book's implications for managers and leaders. Martha Lagace: Please give us a bit of backstory to this project. Nancy F.... View Details
- 06 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful
financed them—declared such brick-and-mortar businesses were dinosaurs on their way to extinction. The success of Bluemercury proved the critics wrong. “We’ve always had a hard time being able to identify the skills and behaviors of... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge
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Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center | About
she embodied the spirit of the love of learning in this university community.” Also at the time of the gift, the Honorable Elaine L. Chao (MBA 1979), US Secretary of Labor from 2001 to 2009, subsequently... View Details
- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Your Crisis Response Plan: The Ten Effective Elements
organizations, which are so good at helping promote innovation in normal times, prove to be woefully inadequate in times of crisis. Crisis demands a rapid centralized response and this, in turn, requires a very clear line of command and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- 14 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide
failed to meet them. Last year, the company dropped from Fortune’s best companies to work for list for the first time in two decades. What went wrong? The question that Campbell and Sandino ask in their case is: Given the pressures Amazon... View Details
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
get "more bang for their buck" from their board members' time? The answer to all three questions is yes—if what a company expects of its board members is redefined and if the meeting process is redesigned so that the board's View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
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Bulletin Submit Class Notes Faculty In The News Mapping the Salt Tax That Helped Shatter a Monarchy Re: Marco Tabellini 17 JUL 2025 | HBS Working Knowledge The Economy Seems Healthy. Were the Warnings About Tariffs Overblown? Re: Alberto Cavallo 16 JUL 2025 | New York... View Details
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ハーバード - Global
Launched in 2002 as non-membership service, the NP Atobarai product has given Japanese consumers an alternative to paying with their credit cards when using ecommerce (EC) websites. Despite having strong adoption and industry low... View Details