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- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
remains mysterious because of the company's obsession with secrecy. This note considers the ingredients of Apple's success and its quest to develop, in the words of CEO Steve Jobs, insanely great products.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
operations traditionally specialize in portions of the planning activities, which results in conflicts over expectations, preferences, and priorities. We report findings from a detailed case analysis of a successful supply chain planning... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
CEO and the senior management team believe the firm should focus on. The second is bottom-up, "emergent" strategy, which is established by the actual decisions and behaviors in the organization. Directed strategy is what... View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
and allowing them to make riskier, more novel, investments. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-032.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsPatricia Gottesman at Crimson Hexagon Lena G. Goldberg and Mary Beth FindlayHarvard Business School Case 312-068... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
success made the question of how to balance the priorities of growth and the preservation of the culture that had made everything possible all the more important. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
first annual Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership to IBM CEO Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. (MBA '65) and Levi Strauss CEO Robert D. Haas (MBA '68). The two chief executives received the newly established award... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
Two case examples of successful internal/external agency collaboration are presented. Finally, recommendations are offered for advertisers seeking to bring their internal and external agency resources together and arrive at a more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
Eastern Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Dow Chemical made a major investment in the Halle-Leipzig region, one of the largest chemical industry sites in Europe. The executive in charge of Dow's operations in the region, Bart Groot, increasingly felt that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
becoming CEO of Slim Jim manufacturer GoodMark Foods, this book shares the stories and lessons learned of an ordinary man who achieved extraordinary success by believing in himself. Despite nearly losing his... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
make it reality. Dan: And the central goal of all of this crucible leadership work is as you've written a life of significance. Can you define that for me? Warwick: Yeah. I think all human beings inherently want their life to count. There are very few people that... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
greatest investment successes is Vistaar, a financing firm that offers funding to small- and medium-sized businesses in India that fall into the “missing middle”: too small for commercial bank loans, too big for microfinance. Since its... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
honesty and sincere devotion. He’s not inclined to—or even capable of—sugarcoating the truth. At the same time, everyone close to him completely relies on his unwavering support. It is no surprise that this combination of traits has enabled him to become one of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
increase in employee retention,” she observes. Makarov says Apli is currently working with its corporate partners to expand internationally and developing selection models for an increasing variety of job types. Etienne Lacroix (MBA 2011) Founder & View Details
- 13 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis
overhead often causes support function employees to go on the defensive, attempting to prove their worth by becoming corporate bureaucrats who enforce sometimes meaningless rules in an attempt to affect the bottom line. This unfortunately leads them to regress into... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Profile
Sheila Lirio Marcelo
When most entrepreneurs are seeking inspiration, they study Steve Jobs or Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg. Sheila Lirio Marcelo, founder, chairwoman and CEO of Care.com and a self-proclaimed lover of superheroes, finds her muse in the likes... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
Professor Karim R. Lakhani and Vladimir Jacimovic (MBA 1992) Karim R. Lakhani, the Dorothy and Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration, started his career at General Electric in the 1990s. At that time, he recalls, a young MBA graduate could be View Details
Keywords: April White
- 19 May 2021
- News
Alumni Convene to Support Nonprofit Boards; Seven Clubs Mix It Up Online
Executive Solutions, a firm that guides nonprofits through successful leadership transitions. “More and more, HBS alumni are engaged in philanthropy and the nonprofit world, and the school itself is doing so much more than even 10 or 15... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
Cadre Late in 2017, CEO Ryan Williams and his team debated whether Cadre should become not only a technology-enabled investment manager, but also an online trading exchange providing high levels of liquidity for investors in commercial... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
emergent online investing market, we construct a theory to explain how a firm becomes a cognitive referent in a nascent market and other firms' failure to do so. Successful firms conceptualize market creation as problem solving; they... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne