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  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Every Trick in the Book

bookstore, but really what I’m selling is a unique experience.” But though technology has challenged the brick-and-mortar bookstore, says Grantham, it has also helped it. The Black Bird Bookstore model works... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 04 Jul 2005
  • What Do You Think?

How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?

of the graduates." Lisa Marks Dolan, a business school dean, feels that much of the problem lies in the way teachers are trained. She writes, "We're being asked to produce graduates who can integrate, adapt, manage global diversity, View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 13 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)

When Rory M. McDonald was working on his PhD at Stanford University in 2007, it was the heyday of the lean startup in Silicon Valley. “It seemed like pretty much every week there was some new market category being touted as the next big... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Aerospace; Food & Beverage; Retail
  • Profile

Kiran Gandhi

Berklee, HBS, and MIT students together to discuss problems in the music industry. We’ve modeled our meetings on the Socratic method seen in the HBS classroom: Everyone gets reading material in advance so they can make informed... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment/Media
  • 16 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 16

after the team scaffolds were implemented and showed a 40% improvement in patient throughput time. Working Papers Transition to Clean Technology By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, Douglas Hanley, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We develop a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 10

growing evidence of pollution and resulting political pressures. The variety of capitalism literature has suggested that the German coordinated market economy model was more conducive to green corporate strategies than liberal market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Globalization: The Strategy of Differences

model and extending it geographically, with necessary modifications, to maximize the firm's economies of scale. From this perspective, the key strategic challenge is simply to determine how much to adapt the business model—how much to... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 24 May 2017
  • News

Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973

and helped take the company public. Along the way, she developed policies that enabled women to thrive at work—telecommuting (before it had a name) and flexible scheduling, among others. “There were no models for how to manage View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • Web

Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online

strategies Gain insights into the climate risk inherent in investment opportunities Discover how to integrate risks into financial models Think critically about how and where to add value while avoiding “impact washing” Who Will Benefit... View Details
  • 28 Apr 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Can You Buy Creativity in the Gig Economy?

Writers may lament the uncertainties of the digital age, as many turn to online markets to distribute their work with no promises of fame or fortune. But when authors are guaranteed a cut of their own book sales, they tend to View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 10 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Do You Have Change Fatigue?

Chances are you've got a story like Andrea Zintz's. Now president of Andrea Zintz & Associates, a consulting firm in Pennington, N.J., she was working for a health-care concern in 1997 when the firm's executive committee decided to... View Details
Keywords: by Nick Morgan
  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

Through a working agreement with the PGA TOUR, we have obtained access to proprietary "ShotLink" data that pinpoints the location of every shot taken on the PGA TOUR. Using these data, we develop distance-based View Details
  • 12 Nov 2021
  • News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

global and a series of regional B Climate Collectives designed to support businesses to share what they are learning on topics such as how to move to a regenerative business model. How might you explore ways to reimagine your business View Details
  • 01 Aug 2001
  • News

Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)

Stanley as a powerful presence in the world of global finance. After graduating from Princeton in 1957 at the age of 20, Fisher worked for a time in the university's admissions office and as a trainee at the Insurance Company of North... View Details
Keywords: Richard B. Fisher; Warren A. Law; Alumni Achievement Award; Finance; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • February 2024
  • Case

More than Optics: Olympus's Vision to Become a Leading Global MedTech Company

By: David J. Collis and Haisley Wert
In August 2022, CEO Yasuo Takeuchi reflected on Olympus Corporation’s recent transformation from being known as a Japanese consumer camera company to becoming a leading global medical technology (MedTech) company. Over the past dozen years, Takeuchi and prior... View Details
Keywords: Global Human Resource Management; Medical Technology; Corporate Strategy; Transformation; Globalization; Business Model; Leading Change; Organizational Structure; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Japan; United States
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  • 12 Jan 2023
  • News

‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data

lending process driven solely by data. Working for Amazon in Seattle at the time, he went to some data-scientist friends armed with 1.2 million Small Business Association (SBA) loan records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
  • 24 Jan 2020
  • News

Clayton M. Christensen Dies at 67

students and colleagues,” says Dean Nitin Nohria. “His research and writings transformed the way aspiring MBAs, industries, and companies look at management. He was a beloved professor and role model whose brilliant teaching and wisdom... View Details
  • 11 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 11, 2006

  Working PapersGlobalizing the Beauty Business Before 1980 Geoffrey G. Jones This working paper examines the globalization of the beauty industry before 1980. This industry, which had emerged in its modern... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online

This course is part of the Strategy track. Introduction to Economics for Managers ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! Economics for Managers $1,850 Next 8-week session starts August 6th Enroll Now Gain economic... View Details
  • 19 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 19

fundamentals are significantly lower only in low precision countries. Publisher's link: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1160416   Working Papers Path-Breakers: How Does Women's Political Participation Respond to Electoral Success? By: Bhalotra,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne