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- 22 Feb 2021
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Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
my experience as well. Price-testing via A/B tests, different online and offline proposals, and other means is more easily done, but many firms remain unnecessarily passive in this area. Senz: Why is sales hiring so difficult and... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 17 Aug 2021
- Op-Ed
Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally
neighborhoods. Communities with flourishing illicit cannabis markets suffer a host of associated problems, including high incarceration rates (often exacerbated by prosecutorial bias), violence as the primary means of dispute resolution... View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson
- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
steps create the probability that you will not be controlled by your fears," DeLong writes. "It means that as you begin a new behavior, begin a new relationship, take on a new job, or start on a challenging new assignment, you... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 18 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?
rapidly, and there was so much attention and pressure from the boom cycle. When all of that slows down, it washes out a lot of the projects that in one way or another weren’t sustainable. That means there has been lost value—there have... View Details
- 20 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Riddle of How Companies Grow Over Time
leaders answer such important questions as: Why do some companies grow while others stagnate? Why do some firms grow in spurts while others grow steadily over time? Does a lack of growth mean failure? Should a company judge itself against... View Details
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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online
Online. Participants are expected to fully complete all coursework in a thoughtful and timely manner. This will mean meeting each week’s course module deadlines and fully answering questions posed therein. This helps ensure participants... View Details
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
on Innovation and Management (Honolulu, Hawaii, 15-18 July 2014) for “Taking a Meaning Perspective: A Third Dimension of Innovation,” with Åsa Öberg. Feng Zhu : Winner of the Inaugural ISS Practical Impacts Award from the Institute for... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
that we are passionate about and that we can’t avoid discussing!” What are the best parts of working for a family business? And what do you find most challenging? “Working as a promoter of a family business means that you get to wear all... View Details
- 24 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
People Have an Irrational Need to Complete 'Sets' of Things
the idea of completing a set, even if it means working harder or spending more money—with no additional reward other than the satisfaction of completion and the relief of avoiding an incomplete set. Imagine arriving at your boss’s summer... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Portrait Project
Srivatsa Krishna
make each year equals what the poorest 57 percent make. What's chilling are not the figures by themselves but the fact that by and large they don't shock us anymore. I believe my life would have meaning if I manage to contribute to... View Details
- 01 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault
job is self-contained, meaning a person sits at a desk all day without interactions with others, whereas the span of influence will be wide if the person must touch many people, especially others outside the unit, to succeed. A manager at... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Nov 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Carbon Tariffs: Impacts on Technology Choice, Regional Competitiveness, and Global Emissions
The Money of Invention: How Venture Capital Creates New Wealth
When the economy was booming and dot-coms were flying high, venture capitalists were admired as impresarios of innovation. Then the market tanked, start-ups fizzled, and those same deal-makers were rebuked as predators out for a quick score. So... View Details
- 13 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Career Journey: Karan Khimji, Co-Founder of 44.01
Australia. The beauty of peridotite is that it has a very high olivine content, which means it can soak up more carbon than any comparable rock. That’s the theory, but we need to confirm how it works in practice. We're currently at pilot... View Details
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Digital Innovation - Alumni
like digitalization and data science and artificial intelligence are deployed as management and business tools. And that means HBS needs to think differently, too. ” Karim Lakhani Dorothy and Michael Hintze Professor of Business... View Details
- 24 Jan 2011
- HBS Case
Terror at the Taj
I grew up there. So the Taj is part of my memories, too. As one of the interview subjects said, the Taj is their Taj, meaning anyone who has ever walked through its doors. It's a place that means many things... View Details
- 11 Apr 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy
we're learning in the course is that pivoting is really hard." Of course, in carving a path to the PMF, startups may find that they have to shift the company in a completely new direction. In lean startup lingo, it's a process known as "pivoting."... View Details
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Poor’s Manual: The Rise of Business Analysts - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
maintenance managers to freight and purchasing agents. Accounting operations were centralized through a company treasurer, and daily accounting figures were fed into weekly, monthly, and annual reports. The deepening granularity of data produced statistics that... View Details
- 08 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Recalling My First Cold Call: A Conversation with Second-Year Students
at you through a screen. Since my first cold call, I have seen a massive difference in how I respond. This will be useful later in life when I’m unexpectedly asked for my opinion and can deliver a clear and concise message. Being caught off guard shouldn’t View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Toward a Life Well Lived
with an advisory group that included staff members from External Relations and Harvard Business Publishing. They all worked together to conceive the outline, materials, and questions that form the basis of the course. The considerations included, What does it View Details