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12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 07 Oct 2015
Webinars: Career

Stand Out: How to Develop your Breakthrough Idea

Too many people believe that if they keep their heads down and work hard, they'll succeed. But that's simply not true anymore. In an increasingly competitive marketplace, ideas matterand it's become essential for both companies and individuals to innovate. In this... View Details

April 2022 (Revised May 2022)
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Mastercard Labs (A)

By: Linda A. Hill, Sunil Gupta, Emily Tedards and Julia Kelley

When Ajaypal (Ajay) Banga became the CEO of Mastercard in 2010, he shifted the company’s competitive focus from card networks to cash itself. Mastercard’s new vision of a “World Beyond Cash” distilled into a three-pronged framework: Grow the core business, Diversify... View Details

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11 Jan 2016
News

Guiding Students to Out-of-School Programs and Resources

about. “In 2003, my family moved to Boston. My children were in middle school and I felt that they weren’t getting the kind of experiential learning I had had as a child. Where could my kids go during the... View Details

15 Dec 2015
Blog Post

One MBA's Path to Boston Consulting Group

mean we would be more successful as a firm, but selfishly, I would learn that much more as well. My learning would be quite limited if the process was to deploy existing... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products / Retail

02 Jun 2015
News

Pointing the Way to a Better World

problems and how people are coming up with solutions,” WuDunn says. “We invite everyone to learn and act in some way.” WuDunn, also a former New York Times reporter, and Kristof won a Pulitzer Prize for... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two

decades mixing and selling skin care formulas before she undertook to build a national market for her products. Howard Schultz did not grow up drinking specialty coffee, but as soon as he was introduced to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 May 2016
Research & Ideas

When Mass Shootings Lead to Looser Gun Restrictions

More broadly, “The Impact of Mass Shootings on Gun Policy” raises the general question of what factors drive policy changes—and what factors don’t. “Our findings suggest that while much attention has been rightfully devoted to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2004
News

Take 2: From Ad Copy to Cuneiform

even clay envelopes,” she explains. “What we can learn from the tablets is that not very much has changed. People still have the same yearnings, the same emotions, and the same little things in life to... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; archaeology; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment

01 Dec 2012
News

Chao Family Donates $40 Million to HBS

Chu Chao. The Chaos, émigrés from Taiwan and a remarkable immigrant success story, are the only family ever to have four daughters attend HBS. "Because Ruth devoted her life to promoting excellence in... View Details

19 Mar 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’

second phase involved bringing in lecturers to discuss with employees how to study and manage learning the language. The last phase was encouraging workers View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

19 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Here Comes Internet2—Time to Shed Dot Vertigo

inroads in important ways in collaborative learning and R&D. When privatization and business applications start to enter the picture, which he predicted would happen by the year 2005, managers will have... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2015
News

Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow

polarizing barrier to collaboration,” Neeley says. “But no one was looking at that, even as global organizations were rapidly moving toward making English their lingua franca.” Since joining the HBS Organizational Behavior Unit nearly... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

April 12, 2023
Article

Using AI to Adjust Your Marketing and Sales in a Volatile World

By: Das Narayandas and Arijit Sengupta

Why are some firms better and faster than others at adapting their use of customer data to respond to changing or uncertain marketing conditions? A common thread across faster-acting firms is the use of AI models to predict outcomes at various stages of the customer... View Details

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; AI and Machine Learning; Consumer Behavior; Technology Adoption; Competitive Advantage

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06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

managing through the pandemic. The topics: people and personal management, strategy, marketing, and organizational design. PEOPLE AND PERSONAL MANAGEMENT Tip: Guide your team to create new norms, protocols, and purpose. Leaders need View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

16 Dec 2021
News

A Global Alumni Response to the Pandemic

fill the gaps in the production of personal protective equipment (PPE). Many stepped in to fight hunger, provide support for health professionals and frontline workers, deploy technology in new ways that helped communities thrive, and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2018
News

Research Brief: A Path to Moral Management

people with good intentions do things that look, for a lack of a better word, stupid,” he says. Finally, Soltes suggests creating opportunities for norm reinforcement throughout careers, allowing people to really live what they View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

15 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Calderón: Economic Arguments Needed to Fight Climate Change

What do Chinese coal plants and the American legislative branch have in common? They are both major adversaries in the fight against climate change, according to former President of Mexico Felipe Calderón. "The most serious problem is in the United States... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2017
News

A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup

sector, taking what we had learned about name selection and availability and making it accessible inexpensively to everyone, everywhere,” says Master. Say you have a name in mind for a financial planning... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

18 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Have a Better Idea To Improve Health Care?

system, while 20 percent felt "strongly negative." The feedback resulted in a call to arms, a report that detailed five imperatives to improve the situation. Among these imperatives: the need View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

20 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind

get replacement coverage since any new insurer would learn the reason for the drop.” Thus, it makes practical sense for drivers to lie to their personal insurers, saying they... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Transportation; Insurance

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