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- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
would not be successful without the buy-in and cooperation of both individual examiners as well as the union. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/617027-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-025 Financing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
to take that first step.” Then one of the most successful investors in Silicon Valley—all 6'4" of him—plunges into the water clothed in suit and tie. The students follow hesitantly, until the water is teeming with hooting 20-somethings... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
defines an explicitly formulated "strategy" as the smallest set of choices and decisions sufficient to guide all other choices and decisions, which formally captures the idea of strategy as a plan boiled down to its most... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
manner of Dell and Cisco. Because the majority of these transformations are ongoing, the ultimate success or failure of these undertakings is difficult to evaluate. General Motors, for example, is attempting to rehaul its business in four... View Details
- 24 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?
them to perform a series of tasks on one of four devices, each successively larger than the next: an iPod Touch (which looks like an iPhone), an iPad, a MacBook Pro laptop, or an iMac desktop computer. Each participant sat alone in a room... View Details
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Studying Japan from the Inside
their strengths to produce in-depth, state-of-the-art research. Q: What are some of your plans and goals for the office in the next two to four years? How do you see business in Japan developing in the years ahead? What trends are you... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- Profile
Ruzwana Bashir
decision to head to San Francisco with little more than an impressive resume and an idea. The idea for Peek came to Bashir after she had been planning a trip to Istanbul for her birthday. “I spent 20 hours looking up things to do... View Details
- 20 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)
out of racial unrest, now a shining example of equitable entrepreneurship! Above all else, I am grateful I was able to learn from many on the ground who are working hard every day to help ensure our city’s prosperity reaches all. How did your MBA skillset prepare you... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
global emergencies. His work included the planning and delivery of humanitarian aid during the war in Afghanistan—an experience he found both powerful and frustrating. When a US town raised money to donate an ambulance to the Afghan... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
draft FY 2010 plans that together added up to firm-wide revenues of only $53 million, a growth rate of negative 10.2%. The preceding years of rapid growth had been successful but challenging, and a thorough... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
development of the U.S. railroad industry in the latter half of the 19th century. Al went straight to the sources and expanded upon them in a series of important articles in the Business History Review. That work developed into his pathbreaking book Strategy and... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
the prospects for implementation in the field. We present the decision process and competition design considerations that lead to these successful outcomes as a model for researchers who want to use competitions and non-domain crowds as... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
underlying framework that compels such partnerships as between a food bank in Mexico and a supermarket in the United States, providing insights into the DNA of a successful collaboration that are broadly applicable. Our excerpt from the... View Details
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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
“Distinguished Scholar” honored for leadership on top of academic excellence; and a BS in Electronic Engineering from ESPOL in Ecuador. Dr. Condo also works as an independent consultant in strategic planning and global strategy for firms... View Details
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
plans they have presented with a 5 percent cutback still doesn't get us to cash-flow positive. This is one of the points, too, that came out of both projects which is, you have to be aware of the receptors in people's minds, their... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
Willums' plane was flying along the Greenland coastline on his way back to Norway after intense discussions with several prominent U.S. venture capital investors, among them Kleiner Perkins and Rockport Capital Partners, about investing in a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
deeply interests me in this space. But let’s talk about pricing. Snigdha, the price point you chose was about $3.99 a month, correct? SS: Yes, if you’re on the annual plan it’s a little less than $1 a week. BA: And Michael, yours is $5.99... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
Porter: HBS alumni are in leadership positions all over the world, and they are making critical choices that determine the ultimate success of the US economy. The ability to get this in-depth information from our alumni and to have so... View Details
- 18 Oct 2024
- News
My Worst Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell host of Skydeck. When I was in high school, I worked as a dishwasher at a steakhouse chain in upstate New York. It was not glamorous work. I would clock out covered in a... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
brother-in-law. Gordon works with partners like Benedetti and the Kempinski to plan events and conferences at the hotel; today, they are discussing a joint US road show to sell Cuba as a travel destination to luxury and corporate travel... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North